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''SMart'' was a British CBBC television programme based on art, which began in 1994 and ended in 2009. The programme was recorded at BBC Television Centre in London. Previously it had been recorded in Studio A at Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham. The format is similar to the Tony Hart programmes ''Take Hart'' and ''Hartbeat''. The show was revamped into an hour-long show in 2007; from 1994 to 2006 it was previously a 25-minute show. From 1994 to 2005, the show also featured Morph (character), Morph, originally from ''Take Hart''. The series run featured 199 episodes, last airing on 11 August 2011. Production The BBC noticed the success of ''Art Attack'' with Neil Buchanan for CITV which started in 1990 and decided to create their own art show that was accessible to children similar to ''Art Attack''. The original theme tune was composed by Kjartan Poskitt, famous for the ''Murderous Maths'' series of books. From 2003, a different tune was used, written by Steve Brown (composer) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Speight
Mark Warwick Fordham Speight (6 August 1965 – 7 April 2008) was an English television presenter and host of children's art programme ''SMart''. Speight was born in Seisdon, Staffordshire, and left school at 16 to become a cartoonist. He took a degree in Commercial art, commercial and graphic design, graphic art and, while working in television set construction, heard of auditions for a new children's art programme. Speight was successful in his audition and became one of the first presenters of ''SMart'', working on it for 14 years. Speight was also a presenter on ''See It Saw It'', where he met his future fiancée, actress and model Natasha Collins. He took part in live events, such as ''Rolf on Art'' and his own ''Speight of the Art'' workshops for children. He was involved in charity work; he became the president of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign's Young Pavement Artists Competition, and was a spokesperson for Childline. In January 2008, Speight found Collins's body i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Hart
Norman Antony Hart (15 October 1925 – 18 January 2009)Debrett's People of Today 2008, Debrett's Peerage Ltd, 2007. was an English artist best known for his work in educating children in art through his role as a children's television presenter. Hart initially served as an officer in a Gurkha regiment until the start of Indian independence. After this he became involved in children's television from the 1950s, working on the BBC's '' Blue Peter'' for a few years before fronting a series of children's art programmes, including '' Vision On'', '' Take Hart'' and '' Hartbeat''. Hart's contributions to children's television include the design of the ship logo used by ''Blue Peter'' and the show's badges, and the animated character of Morph, who appeared beside him on his programmes following his introduction in the 1970s. Early life Tony Hart was born in Hastings Road, Maidstone in Kent. He was interested in drawing from an early age. He attended All Saints, Margaret Street ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service has over 5,500 journalists working across its output including in 50 foreign news bureaus where more than 250 foreign correspondents are stationed. Deborah Turness has been the CEO of news and current affairs since September 2022. In 2019, it was reported in an Ofcom report that the BBC spent £136m on news during the period April 2018 to March 2019. BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in London. Through BBC English Regions, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBeebies
CBeebies is a British free-to-air Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast children's television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is also the brand used for all BBC content targeted for children aged six years and under. Its sister channel, CBBC, is intended for older children aged six to twelve. It broadcasts every day from 6:00 am to 7:00 pm, timesharing with BBC Four. History On 20 November 2001, the CBeebies name was officially revealed as part of the split of the already-existing CBBC block and would be used as both a children's block and a digital channel. The CBeebies channel launched on 11 February 2002 alongside the CBBC, CBBC channel, as a spinoff from BBC Children's and Education, the BBC's children's television strand. The first four shows to air on the channel were ''Teletubbies'', ''Binka'', ''Step Inside'' and ''Bits and Bobs''. CBeebies domestically broadcasts from 5:30 am to 7:00 pm, broadcasting six days ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natasha Collins
Natasha Louise Collins (7 September 1976 – 3 January 2008) was an English actress and model. Following a car crash that curtailed her career, she fatally overdosed on cocaine, which Mark Speight, her fiancé, was initially suspected of supplying, but he was not charged. He later committed suicide after experiencing severe depression brought on by her death. Career Educated at St Michael's Catholic Grammar School in Finchley, north London, Collins initially worked as a model, and was still represented by Ugly Rage Models at the time of her death. Collins first appeared on television in the ''Brechin Productions'' children's show '' See It Saw It'', in which she played See, one of two court jesters in the court of the King, played by Mark Speight. Trying to break into more adult television, she later appeared in Hallmark/ NBC's '' The 10th Kingdom'' and ITV1's ''Real Women''. She also featured in a small number of episodes of the BBC emergency services programme '' 999 Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zero 7
Zero 7 is an English musical duo consisting of Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker. Both of them began as studio engineers and in 1997 formed the group Zero 7. Their debut album, '' Simple Things'', was released in 2001; their song "Destiny" stayed in the top 100 of the UK Single Charts. Subsequent albums include ''When It Falls'', '' The Garden'', and '' Yeah Ghost''. After studying sound engineering, Binns and Hardaker began their careers in the music industry in the 1990s at Mickie Most's RAK Studios in London, engineering music for British groups like Pet Shop Boys, Young Disciples, and Robert Plant. In 1997 they created a remix of the song "Climbing Up the Walls" by Radiohead (which was also the first time the name 'Zero 7' was used), provided additional programming on "Meeting in the Aisle", a ''Karma Police'' B-side, and Binns received a credit for additional sampling on '' Kid A''. The pair also remixed Terry Callier's "Love Theme From Spartacus" and songs by Lenny Kravitz, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fairly OddParents
''The Fairly OddParents'' is an American animated television series created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon. The series follows the adventures of Timmy Turner, a 10-year-old boy with two Fairy godmother, fairy godparents named List of The Fairly OddParents characters#Cosmo and Wanda, Cosmo and Wanda who grant him wishes to solve his everyday problems. The series originated from shorts on Nickelodeon's animation showcase ''Oh Yeah! Cartoons'' that aired from 1998 to 2002. Due to their popularity, the shorts were greenlit to become a half-hour series, which premiered on March 30, 2001. Originally, the series ended on November 25, 2006, totaling five seasons and 80 episodes, but it was revived in 2008. Production of the series ceased again after Hartman left Nickelodeon in February 2018. It was Nickelodeon's second longest-running animated series, behind ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' (1999–present). On February 24, 2021, it was announced that a spin-off live-action series was in d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knowing Me Knowing You With Alan Partridge (TV Series)
''Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge'' (also known as ''Knowing Me, Knowing You'') is a BBC Television comedy series of six episodes (beginning 16 September 1994), and a Christmas special ''Knowing Me, Knowing Yule'' on 29 December 1995. It is named after the song "Knowing Me, Knowing You" by ABBA (the main character's favourite band), a rendition of which was used as the show's title music. Steve Coogan plays the incompetent but self-satisfied Norwich-based talk show host Alan Partridge, who often insults his guests and humiliates himself in the process. Alan was a spin-off character from the spoof radio show '' On the Hour'' (which later transferred to TV as '' The Day Today''). ''Knowing Me, Knowing You'' was written by Coogan, Armando Iannucci (who produced the radio version) and Patrick Marber (who also starred), with contributions from the regular supporting cast of Doon Mackichan, Rebecca Front and David Schneider, who played Alan's weekly guests. Steve Brown p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murderous Maths
Murderous Maths is a book series, series of United Kingdom, British educational books by author Kjartan Poskitt. Most of the books in the series are illustrated by illustrator Philip Reeve, with the exception of "The Secret Life of Codes", which is illustrated by Ian Baker, "Awesome Arithmetricks" illustrated by Daniel Postgate and Rob Davis, and "The Murderous Maths of Everything", also illustrated by Rob Davis. The ''Murderous Maths'' books have been published in over 25 countries. The books, which are aimed at children aged 8 and above, teach maths, spanning from basic arithmetic to relatively complex concepts such as the quadratic formula and trigonometry. The books are written in an informal similar style to the ''Horrible Histories'', ''Horrible Science'' and ''Horrible Geography'' series, involving evil geniuses, gangsters, and a generally comedic tone. Development The first two books of the series were originally part of "The Knowledge" (now "Totally") series, itself a spi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CITV
CITV is a British children's morning programming block on ITV2 and formerly a free-to-air channel owned by ITV plc. CITV, then Children's ITV, launched on 3 January 1983 as a late afternoon programming block on the ITV network for children aged 6–12.At this point, there was only one "ITV" channel in any given area - transmitter overlap and split weekday/weekend franchises aside - and "ITV" was solely a generic/collective name for the various regional commercial television stations. It replaced the earlier Watch It! branding and introduced networked in-vision continuity links between programmes. These links were originally pre-recorded from a small London studio up until 1987, when ITV Central, Central won the contract to produce live links from their Birmingham studios. In 2004, presentation of CITV was relocated to ITV Granada, Granada Television in Manchester, which saw the demise of in-vision continuity. Nine years later, the operations moved to ITV Granada's MediaCityUK stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Buchanan
Neil Buchanan (born October 1956) is an English artist, photographer, and musician, best known for his work on British children's television. During his tenure as a children's television presenter, he hosted the CITV programme '' Art Attack'', a television programme that he co-created, during its original run from 1990 to 2007, as well as '' Finders Keepers'' and '' It's a Mystery'', while he also produced and starred in CITV's '' ZZZap!''. Early life Buchanan was born in 1956 in Aintree, which was then in the county of Lancashire. He attended Barlows Lane Primary School and Liverpool Institute High School for Boys. Career Buchanan was in a heavy metal band called Marseille which formed in 1976: they were part of the new wave of British heavy metal scene, releasing four albums and six singles, touring America and performing with Judas Priest, Nazareth and Whitesnake. The band reformed in 2009 with a performance at The Cavern Club, Liverpool. Television Buchanan made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Attack
''Art Attack'' is a British children's television programme revolving around art, originally hosted by Neil Buchanan on CITV from 1990 to 2007, and subsequently hosted by Lloyd Warbey on Disney Junior from 2012 to 2015. The original programme aired on CITV between 15 June 1990 and 19 May 2007, and was presented by one of its creators, Neil Buchanan, throughout. Buchanan also wrote and produced the programme, and came up with a majority of the creative ideas. A new series launched on Disney Junior on 6 June 2011 and was presented by Jassa Ahluwalia. Each show involved Ahluwalia voicing-over footage of an artist producing three works of art, taking the viewer through the various stages of production step by step. Ahluwalia was later replaced with Lloyd Warbey at the start of the British second revived series. History The programme was originally a TVS production, devised by two TVS employees, Neil Buchanan and Tim Edmunds. Buchanan and Edmunds met each other at Southern Tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
