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Tikkabilla
''Tikkabilla'' is a UK children's television programme, shown on CBeebies. The programme aims to educate pre-school children in an entertaining manner. The title "Tikkabilla" comes from the Hindi word meaning " Hopscotch", a popular children's game. Format The show features two different presenters and a small dragon puppet named Tamba, who resembles Spyro the Dragon in colouration. Tamba serves as the programme's naive child; the programme's educational content is introduced as the presenters explain things to Tamba. Whilst Tamba appears in every episode, a team of presenters take it in turns to pair-up in each show. These presenters include Justin Fletcher, Sarah-Jane Honeywell, Simon Davies, Lorna Laidlaw, Paul Ewing, Veejay Kaur (series 3–4), Toni Fruitin and Amit Sharma (both series 4 only) and Beverly Hills (series 1–2 only). Tamba is performed by puppeteers Sue Eves (series 1 to 4) who created the voice for Tamba; Alison McGowan (series 2 and 3) and Katherine Smee (s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBeebies
CBeebies is a British free-to-air public broadcast children's television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is also the brand used for all BBC content for children aged 6 years and under. Its sister channel CBBC is aimed at older children ages 6–12. It broadcasts every day from 6:00 am to 7:00 pm, timesharing with BBC Four. History On November 20, 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 pre-school block and a digital channel. The CBeebies channel officially launched on 11 February 2002 alongside the CBBC channel, as a spinoff from the BBC's children's television strand. The first four shows to air on the channel were ''Teletubbies'', ''Binka'', '' Step Inside'', and ''Pingu''. CBeebies domestically broadcasts from 6 am to 6:58 pm, broadcasting 7 days per week, and as a result, it timeshares with fellow BBC channel BBC Four, which is on air after this channel goes off air for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorna Laidlaw
Lorna Laidlaw (born 1 February 1963) is an English actress. She has appeared on television as Mrs Tembe in the BBC One, BBC medical soap opera ''Doctors (2000 TV series), Doctors'' and Aggie Bailey in the ITV (TV channel), ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street''. Laidlaw won the Royal Television Society#Awards, Royal Television Society award for Best Actress and Best Daytime Star at the Inside Soap Awards, ''Inside Soap'' Awards for her role in ''Doctors''. Career Laidlaw began her television career in 1994, with various guest appearances in series such as ''Blue Heaven (1994 TV series), Blue Heaven'', ''Playing the Field'', ''Emmerdale'' and ''The Afternoon Play''. In 2009, Laidlaw began portraying the recurring role of Miss Smiley in the CBBC (TV channel), CBBC series ''Grandpa in My Pocket''. Laidlaw left the series in 2014. Alongside these acting roles, she was also a co-presenter on the BBC children's series ''Tikkabilla'' from 2002 to 2007. From 2011 to 2019, Laidlaw portra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Davies (Welsh TV Presenter)
Simon Davies (born 7 May 1957) is a Welsh television presenter actor and writer, hailing from Cardiff, South Wales. He is married to Laura Jeffery. He presented the BBC television programme ''Tikkabilla'', has been on '' Corners'' (1989) television series as himself, and narrated the second series of ''Our Planet'' shown on CBeebies in 2006. Before that he presented '' Play School'' and was a bus driver in the series ''Playdays''. He also did the KS2 National Tests Revise Wise. Davies played The Sheriff of Nottingham in the Christmas 2007 (7 December 2007 – 6 January 2008) pantomime 'Robin Hood' at the Connaught Theatre in Worthing, West Sussex West Sussex is a county in South East England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the shire districts of Adur, Arun, Chichester, Horsham, and Mid Sussex, and the boroughs of Crawley and Worthing. Covering an ar .... He can sometimes be seen presenting on Speedauction TV. Davies also wrote for a bunc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Fletcher
Justin Fletcher (born 15 June 1970) is an English actor, comedian, singer and television presenter on the BBC pre-school television channel CBeebies. Speaking and performing in various, often self-created, roles, he specialises in slapstick comedy and works with children with special needs through his show '' Something Special''. Fletcher also appears as the award-winning comedian Mr Tumble. Biography Fletcher was born on 15 June 1970 in Reading, Berkshire, the son of Guy Fletcher. He has three sisters and one brother. He attended Theale Green School. He currently lives in Winnersh, Wokingham, Berkshire. Career Fletcher worked for Sounds Good in Theale as a cassette duplicating machine operator and generally amused his co-workers with his characterisations. While in his final year studying drama at the Guildford School of Acting, Fletcher started to regularly watch Phillip Schofield in the BBC One broom cupboard with Gordon the Gopher and decided that a career in children's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summerton Mill
''Summerton Mill'' is a British children's television series created by Pete Bryden and Ed Cookson. It was first shown on the CBeebies channel in 2005 as a segment of the BBC's Tikkabilla. It has subsequently been repeated both within Tikkabilla and as a standalone show on CBeebies and BBC2. It is a stop-motion animated series featuring the characters Dan, his companion Fluffa, Dr and Mrs Naybhur who live up on the hill, Francoise the cow, Mousey-Tongue the cat, two "yellow-spinner" chickens and the "millfreaks", tiny creatures which appear to resemble small, furry hedgehogs. In all, twenty-six episodes (and a pilot episode) have been produced, and the show has been broadcast in several European and Middle Eastern countries, including Iceland, Finland, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Iran. As at April 2021, the second series has not been seen on UK television, even though it has been broadcast in over 85 countries around the world. Additional information Pete Bryden and Ed Cookson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Play School (British TV Series)
''Play School'' was a British children's television series produced by the BBC which ran from 21 April 1964 until 11 March 1988. It was created by Joy Whitby and was aimed at preschool children. Each programme followed a broad theme and consisted of songs, stories and activities with presenters in the studio, along with a short film introduced through either the square, round or arched window in the set. The programme spawned numerous spin-offs in Britain and other countries and involved many presenters and musicians during its run. Despite a revamp in 1983, ''Play School'' maintained the same basic formula throughout its 24-year history, but changes to the BBC's children's output led to the programme's cancellation in 1988, when it was replaced by ''Playbus'', which soon became ''Playdays''. Broadcast history ''Play School'' originally appeared on weekdays at 11am on BBC2 and received holiday runs on BBC1 in Summer 1964 and 1965, later acquiring a mid-afternoon BBC1 repeat as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Hook
Jake Patrick Robert Hook is an English, million-seller songwriter, producer and arranger. Hook signed with EMI, in December 2009, on the strength of the single " Coming Home" by The Soldiers. Origins Jake Hook was born in the London Borough of Camden, and raised with his younger brother in Southgate, North London, by his Irish Catholic mother and English Protestant father. At age eight, he attended the Chickenshed Theatre. Inheriting his great grandmother's piano had inspired him to learn to play. Hook suffers from dyslexia, making him unable to read sheet music. He learned to play the piano by lying underneath the theatre's baby grand piano, memorising how chords were formed and sounded until he could play tunes in his head. Hook also plays flute, drums and acoustic guitar. He has participated in four London musicals. Hook appeared in BBC drama ''The Biz'', and sang backup for Meat Loaf. He appeared in the Top 15 hit "I'm in Love with the World" in 1997. Hook attended Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Higgledy House
''Higgledy House'' is a British children's television show on the CBeebies channel. The programme originally aired as a segment on ''Tikkabilla'' before the episodes were reformatted as a standalone series in 2006. Synopsis The series stars Justin Fletcher and Sarah-Jane Honeywell, as two adolescent friends who share a house and whose eccentric exploits are the subject of the show. The BBC described the show as "comedy, learning, and fun for pre school children." "Higgledy House" was filmed in a house in Fortis Green, London, which provides the main and only setting for each episode. (The only exception is the episode of ''Camcorder'', which was filmed in a different garden in London.) Sarah-Jane and Justin never speak in the episodes, instead using visual movement, grunts, and sound to communicate. Each episode is narrated by usually two children, and they would interact with the characters and explain what is happening. Standalone format In 2006, the series' episodes were e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beverly Hills (actress)
Beverly Hills (born 23 March 1966) is a British actress and television presenter. She is known for her many roles in BBC dramas and in children's TV. Career Drama From October 1987 to July 1991, Hills played Julia Brennan in BBC Radio 4's drama series ''Citizens''. Hills has played many roles across the BBC since the early 90s. She has played Kate Warren in ''Backup'', Tina in '' Knights & Emeralds'', Elaine Davies-Johnson in ''Brookside'', Liz Walton in ''Accused'', Monika Gaye in ''Peak Practice'', Shirley Slipman in ''The Bill'', Viv Kelly in ''Dalziel and Pascoe'' and she has also appeared in ''Casualty'', ''Holby City'', ''Silent Witness'', New Tricks and '' Waking the Dead''. Children's TV Hills has spent a lot of time in children's television, with a career of presenting and writing for Children's BBC. She started out on the long running series ''Magic Grandad'', a BBC schools programme for under-6s, on BBC2. In 1995, she began presenting the long running BB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah-Jane Honeywell
Sarah-Jane Honeywell (born 5 January 1974) is an English actress, writer, TV and radio presenter, blogger and singer. She is best known for her work on the CBeebies television channel. As well as appearing on pre-school TV, Honeywell is a supporter of Bristol City F.C. and writes a regular column in the Ashton Gate Stadium match day programme 'Well Red'. Honeywell is a vegan, and does charity work for Dogs Trust. Fairies being her website and personal symbol, she also has a fairy-wings tattoo. In December 2006, Honeywell released an EP titled ''Love and Magic''. The second track "Believe in Magic" was released as a single, and the music video was made at the annual Goose Fair in Nottingham, 2007. A Sarah-Jane plush doll was released to coincide with the EP. The songs from the EP featured in the CBeebies Live tour and the production of Peter Pan at the Capitol Theatre, Horsham. In April 2021, Sarah-Jane joined BBC Radio Lincolnshire, presenting a weekly music show every Sunda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Story Makers
''The Story Makers'' is an educational children's television programme that was broadcast on the BBC's pre-school digital television network, CBeebies as well as being one of the launch programmes for the channel. ''The Story Makers'' is set in a children's library, and encourages literacy and creativity. The programme The programme starts as the library shuts in the evening. At the stroke of midnight, Jackson and Jelly (pink and green puppets who live in the library and hide in the daytime) come out and are joined by a presenter, one of the members of the Wordsworth family, who recites "The sun is down, the stars are bright, Story Makers come out at night. "The Wordsworths together with Jelly and Jackson are the Story Makers. Objects found in the library or appear by magic are put into the top of the story machine (transformed from a desktop computer); Jelly, Jackson and the story maker then recite "Imagine, imagine, imagine a story!" and the story machine makes a book conta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
