Inside Life

Inside Life 2009

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Inside Life is a BBC nature documentary series for children's television which aired on the CBBC Channel in autumn 2009. It is a companion to the BBC Natural History Unit's series, Life, which looks at the extraordinary lengths to which animals and plants go in order to survive and reproduce. The aim of Inside Life is to present this information in a way that is simple for children to understand. Each of the ten Inside Life programmes follows a lucky child as they accompany the Life filmmakers on expeditions around the world with the aim of capturing groundbreaking wildlife footage. The series is aimed at 7-9 year olds. In each 30-minute programme, the presenter first sets out on a fact-finding assignment in the UK to discover more about the animal they will be filming, before joining the Natural History Unit's expedition team to try and film the species in the wild. A hardback book, Inside Life by Doug Hope and Vanessa Coates was published 2 October 2009 to accompany the series. It is presented in the style of a scrapbook and gives an insight into the programme's creation, as well as providing educational material about the animals featured in the series.

2009

Meet the McQueens

Meet the McQueens 2023

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Omari and his big-hearted family of nine welcome you into their fun-filled home as they overcome life’s big and small challenges.

2023

No Sweat

No Sweat 1997

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No Sweat is a British television children's comedy show that went to air on the BBC's analogue channels in the late 1990s. The show followed the exploits of struggling boy band, North & South, consisting of Jimmy, Greg, Miles and Giles, who were a band in real life, scoring four United Kingdom Top 40 hits between 1997 and 1998 including a #7 debut single "I'm A Man Not A Boy" in May 1997.

1997

Backstage

Backstage 2009

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Backstage gives viewers a tantalising taste of some of CBBC's big series and lets them into the behind-the-scenes secrets of the shows, combining key interviews with the main cast and crew, with exclusive behind-the-scenes footage and clips, and narrated by Mackenzie Crook.

2009

Steve Backshall's Deadly Top 10

Steve Backshall's Deadly Top 10 2012

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Steve Backshall takes to the jungles, skies and forests on a mission to count down the most dangerous creatures on the planet.

2012

Deadly Predators

Deadly Predators 2022

7.00

Steve comes face to face with some of the biggest, baddest and most bizarre predators on the planet through stunts, experiments and CGI.

2022

Dick and Dom's Funny Business

Dick and Dom's Funny Business 2011

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Dick and Dom's Funny Business is a British comedy television series for children, hosted by comic presenting duo Richard McCourt and Dominic Wood. The series is broadcast in a Saturday morning slot on BBC Two and simulcast on the CBBC Channel, and is Dick and Dom's return to Saturday mornings following the success of Dick and Dom in da Bungalow, which ended in Spring 2006. Unlike ...da Bungalow, which was largely broadcast live and ran for up to three hours with inserted content, ...Funny Business is a pre-recorded, self-contained one-hour programme. The first series began in January 2011 and is due to run for 13 episodes. The format of the series is that Dick and Dom are the hosts of a comedy club-style event; external shots of the theatre which supposedly hosts the venue are seen as establishing shots during the programme. The theatre's American owner is not himself seen on screen, though his daughter Kelly-Anne Manhattan is part of the recurring cast. The duo introduce a range of guest comedy acts who each perform an on-stage sketch/stand-up routine, and between these the viewer sees behind-the-scenes skits involving the duo, recurring characters and guests, and also interwoven into the show are a number of separate recorded skits and sketches featuring additional cast members and characters not featured in the main show.

2011

Duck & Frog

Duck & Frog 2026

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Duck is just trying to make rent and is always accepting new jobs, but his dreams of keeping a job for longer than a day inevitably crumble before him thanks to overbearing Frog.

2026

Wild & Weird

Wild & Weird 2015

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Tim and Naomi uncover the weirdest wildlife tales that the planet has to offer.

2015

Super Human Challenge

Super Human Challenge 2013

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Tim Fitzhigham meets the humans who defy science and puts their powers to the test - against himself.

2013

Happy Families

Happy Families 1989

5.50

Happy Families is a children's television series made in the late 1980s based on the Happy Families series of books by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. Each tale is about a family of characters which in turn is based on the Happy Families card game. The cast played several different characters throughout the series with many recurring roles for the main cast including Milton Johns, Annette Badland and Elizabeth Estensen. Happy Families ran for two series, 24 episodes in all, and was shown on Children's BBC in 1989 and 1990.

1989

Gimme a Break

Gimme a Break 2008

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Gimme a Break is a British children's television game show. Three series have been made and were first aired on the CBBC Channel in 2008 and 2009. It has been presented by Jake Humphrey, Kirsten O'Brien and Joe Swash.

2008

Deadly Dinosaurs with Steve Backshall

Deadly Dinosaurs with Steve Backshall 2018

6.50

Steve Backshall is on the hunt for the deadliest animals to have ever walked the earth: Dinosaurs! Using modern technology to test their incredible abilities, he challenges everything we thought we knew about these creatures.

2018

Show Me What You're Made Of

Show Me What You're Made Of 2011

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Five children travel across the world to live and work alongside the people who make the everyday items they take for granted.

2011

The Adventures of Robin Robin

The Adventures of Robin Robin 1970

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Based on the 2021 short film, the further adventures of a bird raised by mice questioning where she belongs and sets off on a daring journey of self-discovery.

1970

Harry Batt

Harry Batt 2007

10.00

Harry Batt is a one-off BBC 1 comedy starring Ian Kirkby as the "Geordie copper" DI Harry Batt, following his pursuit of a soft furnishings bouncer gang.

2007

Codename Icarus

Codename Icarus 1981

5.00

Codename Icarus is a five-part British television serial produced by the BBC. Combinijg elements of teen drama and Cold War era conspiracy thriller, young prodigy Martin Smith is recruited by the mysterious Icarus Foundation, a shadowy organisation that exploits gifted children to develop advanced weapons, including a 'quark bomb'. The serial was broadcast twice-weekly, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, from 8-9 December, 15-16 December, and 22 December. It is well remembered for being intelligent and hard-hitting, respectful of its young audience, and tackling complex themes, primarily the militarisation of science.

1981

Gladiators: Epic Pranks

Gladiators: Epic Pranks 2025

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Nitro plays hilarious pranks on his fellow Gladiators, and join behind-the-scenes fun from Sheffield Arena with challenges and sneaky pranking on the audience!

2025

Barney

Barney 1988

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Barney is a short-lived CBBC television programme about an Old English Sheepdog called Barney who has many adventures with best friend Roger the mouse who is constantly seeking fame and fortune and always living on the top of Barney's head inside his hair. Despite attracting a cult following in the UK, it was considered a relative commercial failure and canceled after its first series.

1988

Absolute Genius with Dick and Dom

Absolute Genius with Dick and Dom 2013

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Absolute Genius with Dick and Dom is a British television series broadcast on CBBC and presented by Richard McCourt and Dominic Wood. In each episode the duo study the work of a genius and attempt to recreate one of their ideas, occasionally with some improvements using technology not available in the subject's lifetime. They are assisted by Fran Scott and experts in the field of what is being studied.

2013