The Cracks in Quality on the Citv Channel were now becoming Chasms. Without any real incentive to make the shows they use to. And with ITV putting it's Focus on trashy Reality shows. Citv now Became the Grabby, clutching onto Its Precious Franchises like Gollum with the One ring, and Squeezing every bit of quality from it's Long running Repeats. (They were still showing Wolves Witches and Giants, More than ten years after Spike Milligan's Death!)
Now to remind of the Caveat set by myself, while Citv did still have shows exclusive to CITV, They were created by Those Animation Studios under Canada's YTV. You know the Shows, the once that I have Deemed as "Cheaply Made Fart Jokes!" As I said to make the list it had to be made By Itv and in Britain. House of Anubis disqualifies Itself as it was made in Britain....for Nickelodeon.
So What do we have left?
(Sigh.......)
Not A lot ...
2011
Bookaboo (UK version)
One of the last Preschools Show that was made despite the channel no longer having a Preschool block. In the following years The 6am Slot will be moved as Part of ITVbe's Little Be block. And would have nothing but the same Shows in a loop.
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Anyway The Canadian Show is Retooled to have the Drum playing Dog Puppet have British celebrities tell him a Story Otherwise he will noshow a concert.
Despite its weird Premise, Show had a Great idea, and it was Nice to see that in this Decade, Citv had some fight left in them, trying to compete with BBC's Bedtime stories with Celebrities also!
Factual Show that explained Hobbies and Controversially tried to Fence Products against Ofcom Regulations.
Still Going on YouTube, Olly and his friends learn to be more socially responsible in Animation that uses a lot more Rubberband Physics in what I thought was Stopmotion.
2001
WHY DID THIS NOT MAKE MORE MONEY IN TOY SALES?
Korean British Joint Animation about Just about the Most Adorable Idea For A Plushie ever! Disguised as Cans, The Characters pop into existence to interact with Real world objects. With no Dialogue whatsoever, the Show is easy to follow.
A cross between Mr Men and Horrid Henry, or perhaps A tone Down Garbage Pail kids. Irritating Kids with Alliterative names or Adjective of Flaw followed by Middle Class Name. Surprise but Something this Crap was Made to be Translated into Irish!
Day-Glo Murican Dude-Bro Matt Hatter, Protects the World via a Multiverse from Public Domain Monsters and thin references to Films. Some good Ideas, but it fails execution. The characters barely have Arcs and Motivation. Matt has one, to free his Grandfather. But Tenoroc doesn't, he want to be Free also, but why, what did he do that was so bad to be sealed away in a Ruin Dimension, In the First place? Roxie as the Action Girl, in one episode had to be cured by A kiss, which usually leads to Shipping, but is never Mentioned Again! Gomez, the Lovable Coward, finds his Courage in one Episode and is Never Mentioned Again! The 2 minute Glitch Sequences in every episode shows More Creativity and Creature Design, Beyond Humanoid and Cityscapes, in different times of Day. And they are handwaved like they never happened. Went to Nick toons to finish it's Run.
Look at this Ident. THAT'S WHAT THEY USED TO PROMOTE THIS SHOW, DOESN'T IT JUST LOOK STUPID AND OBNOXIOUS?
They couldn't even Bother to Dress the Genie (The Boy) in anything to Denote he's a Genie! No Full episodes exists on YouTube, only Seconds long Clips as this much cringe is too much for everyone!
Famously Booed During a Soccer Match, Poppy Cat Didn't need that Publicity. A Cute Paper Cut out Animation about A Little Girl reading her Cat a book about its make believe adventures with Other Animals. Because the World is Make Believe the Animals can Solve Problems by Using Imagination to change the world around them.
You thought Sooty was Slowing down in the last decade, prepare to see him Come to a Screeching Halt!
Now, I said that Sooty Heights would see the tired Jokes Done with Celebrities, but now in the final Show (That we know of!) Every Episode Some Former Contestants of I'm A Celebrity Not Doing Panto This Year, Or Dancing D-Listers or Frozen Failures, Would turn up each week for get their Names Dragged Further In mud, get a cream pie in the face and Collect a Cheque!
2012
Signed Stories
No you didn't glance at that Wrong, ITV generally made one Show to offset all the Money they saved buying Cheap Shows and 20 year old X-Men cartoons, and ad revenue, they could only make one show and only one, So that year Citv Did Something right for a Change, and Created Signed Stories, A Storybook Series that was read out and Signed and Subtitled for Deaf and Those who are hard of Hearing. A Win for everyone.
2013
Not even listed on Wikipedia List of Citv shows, The Show that was put before Digimon Fusion. (Remember that show?) The Talented Standup Comedian Phil Jupitus is the Evil(?) Councilmen Chowdry who refuses to Make a Plot of vacant Land a City Farm ran by The Group of Heroes(?) There are good Jokes in this, And not even from just Jupitus, But they come from the cast being Self Aware About the Show and Writing!
For Instance, The Episode "The Diary Fairy" the Heroes open a Certain Brand of a Pot of Yoghurt with the Corners and find the Titular Character, A Wish Granting Fairy Who Has Oddly Specific Caveats to her Wishes. She can only Materialise things that are Dairy Products or Dairy Adjacent.
Now I know what you are thinking, you are saying "Well Surely the Fairy granted the heroes who are trying to set up a City Farm a few Animals" well you'd be wrong, not only did they forget the whole plot for this episode until it became a Brick Joke's Punchline, But they Pointed out that the Dairy Fairy kept saying Jam was a Dairy Product, Only for the Dairy Fairy to admit she was a Jam Fairy confided to the Corner of Compote! The Show was cancelled before the Plot was ever resolved!
2014
In an Attempt to Be Educational, This Show Showed the ins and Outs of Exciting Jobs.
2015
A Continuation of The Story of International Rescue after the Death of Jeff Tracey, which, like the New Captain Scarlet, is also CGI, A lot of Hype and money was put into this show's Publicity. After all this was 15 years after Frakes' Folly that was The Live Action Film. With The BBC Giving back the Rights to ITV, they would treat the New Alliteration with the same Revarance as the Beeb, Premiering the First Series on Prime time Television.
While it was Businesses as usual, some Changes where made.
1, Alan is now The Focus as the Teenage Rookie who feels he's not able to fill his late father's Shoes.
2. Granny plays a bigger Role as A Parent.
3. Tintin is now called Kayo ( Though her Uncle, The Hood, Calls her "Tintenya" when he is Confronted by her) is no longer the Live-in Load for Fanservice, and is now a Action Girl, With her Own Thunderbirds the Thunderbird Shadow or just S.
4. Brains is now Indian. Also as Someone who as a child had a Stutter, the new Brains Stutter is Subdued but still there and is not a Long String of consonants.
5. The Asian Representation is A whole lot Better, even if it means Retconning Tintin's....Sorry Kayo's Father out of existence. All I'm Saying is the Hood now longer uses "Chinese Voodoo". To Spy on International Rescue.
Naturally, the Anti Woke crowd was not Impressed by the NEEDED Changes to the Show. Personally, I like the Changes, Kayo has an Arc on whether to turn in her uncle, or lose all the Trust in her Adoptive Family, she gains Equal pegging by getting her own Thunderbird, Without becoming A Mary Sue. The remaining Series fell through with new villains, obviously Brains' Evil Twin Brother The Mechanic and the Very Flat Chaos Crew. The show is repeated on ITVX
2016
A Competition hosted by Failed 90's Singer and ITV Resident Thing that Didn't Leave, Peter Andre, This was a Creative writing Competition where Short Stories that Won Would become Animated....with all the Budget of A Change Jar!
2017
In the long Tradition of Gameshows like Knightmare were the Prize is just a proof of Winning. Actors took 2 "Junior Spies" to London Landmarks to Thwart Actors As Evil Versions of Celebrities or Just plain Trump. Apart from the Hokey Acting (The Trump "Lookalike" and I use that term loosely, had to say "Yuge!" And Fake News A few times for people to get who he's Suppose to be!) But the Puzzles and Obstacle course is exciting to watch, as win or lose will effect the Rest of the episode.
And that were we end it here. Not that there weren't Shows in 2018. No, any shows Beyond 2017 are repeated constantly til the end. One really annoying thing about compiling this List is that even the Shows on Wikipedia's list that have no pages of their own don't even have Year of Production beside it.
So next episode, the Channel dies Short of its 40th Birthday. We look at the Shows it was Showing before the End. Was it Quality that killed Children's TV on Mainstream ITV ? Or was it Abandoned?
Join me next week to find out when we Lower the Coffin and Finally say "Goodbye, CITV!"
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