''TV Mayhem'' was a short-lived British children's Saturday morning television series that was originally a replacement for ''

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'' after it was cancelled and aired from September 1991 for just six weeks on the breakfast television channel

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. The show was presented by Chris Evans, who later went on to co-host ''

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'' in 1992 on

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. Cartoons that were aired included all the animated segments from ''

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'' (which were '' Fender Bender 500'' and '' Monster Tails'') and '' Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures''. It was due to last 40 weeks but was cancelled after

lost its licence to

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, then known as Sunrise Television, on 16 October. Neither ''Hey Hey It's Saturday'' nor ''TV Mayhem'' ever enjoyed the success of the ''

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'' or '' WAC '90''. Despite this, both shows are fondly remembered by those who watched them. After ''TV Mayhem'' got axed, TV-am replaced it with a new Saturday morning block programme for children called ''Cartoon World'', which as the name suggests, only showed cartoons. This ran from November 1991 to TV-am's demise in December 1992.

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