SMTV:Live

[Trolleydollycoffeelover]

I used to watch Live & Kicking. But then SM.TV came a long and suddenly L&K seemed really twee and safe in comparison. Kids programmes on ITV were always a bit more edgier (Blue Peter or Fun House anybody? No comparison is it? ). I think Byker Grove was the only kids show on the BBC that no one felt embassed to admit that they watched. Interestingly after L&K ended the BBC tried to make their own edgier Saturday Morning shows to emulate the success of SM.TV. They just couldn’t compete with that winning formula.

Omg there was a group of stuck up kids in my school who LOVED Blue Peter and they had the nickname ‘the snob squad’ don’t know about your area but for us even BBC Radio 1 was uncool despite all the mags promoting it, was local stations all the way for us with the right mix of cheese, chart and club. The BBC kids mags were a bit vanilla too like Live and Kicking’s spinoff mag and the earlier Fast Forward, couldn’t compete with Big or TV Hits! Remember when Ant and Dec moved to Channel 4 and had a show called Unzipped, was targeted at kids but full of innuendo, I remember one episode with Jayne Middlemiss asking ‘do you want me to give you some head’ referring to a pig or some animal on a spit

 

[under the ivy]

Loved SM:TV as a kid, it was my childhood! Especially Pokémon (I was so obsessed) & the Pokérap I had such a crush on Dec as well... can’t stand Ant & Dec now

 

[~vix~83~]

Used to love this! remember when your fav band was on and you had to watch it all incase they featured in one of the sketches and you missed them

I used to record my bands bits hahah and If another band was on live n kickin it was a nightmare haha such a loser had certain vhs for certain bands

 

[BonBon27]

I used to record my bands bits hahah and If another band was on live n kickin it was a nightmare haha such a loser had certain vhs for certain bands

Oh it was so complicated those days! Honestly the kids today don’t know they’re born with their sky+ and YouTube and catch up tv

 

[Vee6]

Used to love this show. I remember I was in my mid teens and we watched it on New Year’s Day 2000 at my friends house where there has been a big party. And wonky donkey was on and the caller just wasn’t getting it and my friend little old gran (who was probably still pissed thinking about it now) shouted at the tv “it’s new year bloody deer!!”. We thought it was hilarious that she swore