A week on the web: Blue Peter axed from BBC1
Seminal kids’ TV show Blue Peter will no longer be broadcast on BBC1, the BBC announced yesterday. Twitter went into a nostalgia-soaked meltdown
- It’s the end of an era, and no mistake: Blue Peter will is being ditched from BBC1. So no more sticky-backed plastic, cute kittens or incontinent elephants on the BBC's main channel.
Twitter users of a certain age were united in their grief, which was up there with the emotional outpouring caused by the death of George the tortoise in 2004.
CBBC Newsround | ANIMALS | Blue Peter's tortoise George diesBlue Peter pet George the tortoise has died at the age of 83.- However, an alarming number of people got the wrong end of the stick, as demonstrated by a rather tetchy sounding Tweet from the head of press and media relations for the BBC.
- You can’t get much clearer than that: the show isn’t being axed, merely moved exclusively on to CBBC. Tweet in haste, repent in leisure, as they might say one day.
- Indeed.
The deputy editor of trade publication Broadcast (et al) put the whole thing into perspective.
- But this does feel like the end of something significant for anyone in their late 30s and 40s.
- So wrote Krishnan Guru-Murthy, the Channel 4 News presenter, before contradicting himself slightly.
- Times columnist Caitlin Moran was less sanguine about the news and will no doubt be leading the march on Broadcasting House.
@Popjustice @mediaguardian I'm going to make a protest out of a loo roll tube and some pipe-cleaners- The big question now is: what will fill the whole in the BBC1 schedules vacated by Blue Peter's departure?
- But who would give them a Blue Peter badge for doing so? These remain a treasured item for many.
- Rumour has it that's how Charlie Brooker originally tried to woo Ms Huq.
- There’s no shortage of video highlights from the show’s 53-year history on YouTube. Here are just a few, leading, of course, with a naughty elephant.
