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Cbeebies, the BBC's channel for pre-school children, is to be moved out of BBC Television Centre in a move which it is claimed will save the corporation £500,000 a year. The channel will re-locate to Teddington Studios early in the new year.
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Muffin the Mule has gone straight in at number one in the viewing charts following its return to the CBeebies schedule with 337,000 viewers tuning in for the second episode of the repeat run. The show ... appears at number 6 in the channel’s top ten for the week ending 9th April. Muffin reached number one on CBeebies last Autumn when the series was first broadcast and these latest figures confirm that he is becoming a firm favourite of pre-schoolers everywhere. Muffin can be seen on the CBeebies Bedtime Hour every weekday until May 5th.
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The 52 x 10-minute series has already been pre-bought by CBeebies in the UK, and Aardman International is looking to secure further worldwide pre-sale deals at the market. Currently in pre-production, Timmy is scheduled for transmission in 2009. The series combines Aardman’s world-class stop-motion style with the colourful simplicity of classic pre-school animation. The character designs for Timmy are based on sketches by Academy award-winning Nick Park.
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Broadcast Now reports that it currently costs Cbeebies over £1million a year to hire studios from Television Centre. It is thought the cost of hiring studios at Teddington could half of that.
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At weekends on the CBeebies channel, cards are read out just before 7am, which are repeated just before 1pm. Then more cards are read out at just before 10am, which are repeated just before 4pm.
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CBeebies continuity presenters seemed to be talking in a manner appropriate to one-year-olds - very slowly - almost talking down to them. Great for the one-year-olds, but not so good for the three, four and five-year-olds. ergh!
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