''Cybernet'' (also known as Interactive) was a weekly

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magazine programme, originally broadcast overnight on the

ITV ITV or iTV may refer to: ITV *Independent Television (ITV), a British television network, consisting of: ** ITV (TV network), a free-to-air national commercial television network covering the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islan ...

network in the United Kingdom. The programme was commissioned by ''Yorkshire Television'' and produced by ''Capricorn Programmes''Capricorn Programmes Filmography
on BFI Retrieved on 2007.03.14 '' (who also produced the similar '' Movies, Games and Videos'') and also aired on

GBC TV GBC may refer to: * Global Business Coalition Broadcasting * Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation * Ghana Broadcasting Corporation * Granite Broadcasting, in the United States * Greek Business Channel, in Greece * Guyana Broadcasting Corporation ...

in Gibraltar. It was also broadcast on various television stations all around the world. The programme featured reviews, previews, tips and reports on video gaming and computer technology. It began airing on the former children's satellite and cable network

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(who also aired various television series based on video games and television series related to video games such as the ''

Earthworm Jim ''Earthworm Jim'' is a series of platform games featuring an earthworm named Jim who wears a robotic suit and battles the forces of evil. The series is noted for its platforming and shooting gameplay, surreal humor, and edgy art style. Four game ...

'', ''

Super Mario Bros. is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The successor to the 1983 arcade game '' Mario Bros.'' and the first game in the ''Super Mario'' series, it was first released in 1985 for ...

'' and ''

Sonic the Hedgehog is a Japanese video game series and media franchise created by Sega. The franchise follows Sonic, an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog who battles the evil Doctor Eggman, a mad scientist. The main ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' games are platformers mo ...

'' cartoons) in 1995, before airing on

on terrestrial television.

Broadcasting

Besides

and

(in the United Kingdom), ''Cybernet'' was broadcast all over the world, including: * 4 Channel+ТНТ (07.09.1996-15.02.1997)(Russia, Ekaterinburg) *

MAD TV ''Mad TV'' (stylized as ''MADtv'') is an American sketch comedy television series originally inspired by '' Mad'' magazine. In its initial run, it aired on Fox from 1995 to 2009. After a one-off reunion show in 2015 to celebrate the twentiet ...

(Greece) * Multishow (The Netherlands and Brazil) * OnceTV (Mexico) * Cablín (Argentina) * Canal 13 (Chile) * TG4 (Ireland) * SuperMax (The Czech Republic) * The Kids' Channel (Israel) * Premiere 12 and Mediacorp Channel 5 (Singapore) * TV3 (Estonia) * NS+ (Yugoslavia) * 2M TV (Morocco) *

CNBC-e CNBC-e was a Turkish free-to-air television channel operated in Turkey by CNBC Europe and the NTV (Turkey), NTV Group. The channel shares its name with a co-owned magazine about CNBC-e. The economy-related morning and afternoon programmes of CN ...

(Turkey) * Fox Kids (Australia) *

Fun Channel Fun Channel is a Bahraini television channel owned by the Orbit Network. Fun Channel contains cartoons for children from early morning to evening such as '' The Why Why Family'' and '' Dennis the Menace''. From late night to early morning, it co ...

, a defunct children's cable channel (Middle East) * Channel 33 (United Arab Emirates) * TV2 and Astro Ria (Malaysia) * IBC 3 and UBC (

Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...

) *

ATV Home ATV Home () was a free-to-air Cantonese television channel in Hong Kong, owned and operated by Asia Television. It was formed in September 1963 as a result of the split of the bilingual Rediffusion Television subscription service (which was pri ...

and

ATV World ATV World, was one of two free-to-air English language television channels in Hong Kong, the other being its arch-rival TVB Pearl. Its sister station, ATV Home, broadcast in Cantonese language. It is owned and operated by Asia Television, a ...

(

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

) * Bahrain TV Channel 55 (

Bahrain Bahrain ( ; ; ar, البحرين, al-Bahrayn, locally ), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, ' is an island country in Western Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf, and comprises a small archipelago made up of 50 natural islands and an ...

) * Bop TV and SABC2 (South Africa) * RTB (Brunei) * SkjárEinn and the 4 channel (Iceland) * MNCTV (Indonesia) * ATV Stavropol (Russia) * TVI (Portugal) * Chinese Television Network (Taiwan) * KTV2 (Kuwait)

Voice-overs

During its thirteen-year run, ''Cybernet'' was presented out-of-vision by a number of voiceover artists: *

Steve Priestly Steve Priestley is a British disc jockey, who used to work for Magic 105.4 in London. Career He first came to prominence in the early 1990s as the voice over for an ITV programme on Saturdays called Movies, Games and Videos. The show overvie ...

(1996, 1998) *Lucy Longhurst (1994–2002) *Steve Truitt (2002–2004) *Catherine Fox (2004–2008)

References

External links

Cybernet titles
* 1995 British television series debuts 2008 British television series endings British non-fiction television series ITV (TV network) original programming Television series by Yorkshire Television Television shows about video games Video game culture {{animation-tv-prog-stub