Bedtime hour

Between 6pm and 7pm, CBeebies has a bedtime hour to help prepare children for bed. The programmes are calm, often involving stories, such as 64 Zoo Lane, Step Inside, The Story Makers and The Roly Mo Show. In March 2007, a new programme In The Night Garden debuted in The Bedtime Hour. It also features a celebrity reading a bedtime story at the end, in the tradition of Jackanory. ^[9]

The bedtime hour ends with a pre-recorded film clip of the presenters singing a lullaby ("The Time has Come to Say Goodnight"). In the past a song clip was also used to start the bedtime hour ("Bye Bye Sun, Hello Moon"), but unlike the closing lullaby this clip was not re-filmed when the line-up of presenters changed in early 2006.^{[citation needed]}

Presenters

The core continuity presenters of CBeebies are:

• Pui Fan Lee ^[10]
• Chris Jarvis ^[10]
• Sidney Sloane ^[10]
• Sarah-Jane Honeywell ^[11]

Tikkabilla and Something Special presenter Justin Fletcher also occasionally provides links, and appeared in the presenters' Christmas song segment along with the four regulars. ^[12]

Previous presenters include:

• Sue Monroe (until March 2006) ^{[13] [14]}
• Nicole Davis (until February 2006) ^{[15] [14]}
• Eva Alexander (February to October 2006) ^[10]

Almost all the CBeebies presenters have appeared in children's programmes prior to presenting CBeebies — for instance, Pui Fan Lee originally played the Teletubbies character Po, and Sue Monroe voiced Tigs in The Shiny Show. ^{[16] [17]}

Prior to 2006, the links between programmes on weekend mornings featured not the regular presenters but rather a pair of animated characters called Bear And Butterfly (voiced by Chris Jarvis and Pui Fan Lee respectively).^{[citation needed]}

Songs

CBeebies presentation throughout the day is accompanied by songs sung by the presenters.

Regular songs

• What's the Day?: Originally each weekday was divided into five segments, each presented by one of the original five "core presenters" namely Chris, Nicole, Pui, Sid and Sue. The start of each segment was accompanied by the What's the Day? song. Each segment was themed (for instance Sid's segment included "building and making" programmes such as "Bob the Builder", Nicole's included animal programmes and so on). Latterly the segmentation was dispensed with, except for the Bedtime Hour discussed below.^{[citation needed]}
• The Birthday Song: sung before presenters show cards sent in on behalf of their young viewers who are celebrating a birthday that day. CBeebies does not use Happy Birthday to You which despite wide public performance is purportedly a copyrighted work. ^{[18] [19] [20]}
• It's time for Lunch: Broadcast at 12 noon includes Eva, Chris, Sid and Pui buying fruit and vegetables from market stalls, preparing food such as sandwiches and eating them. ^[20]
• Goodbye Sun, Hello Moon: Broadcast until February 2006 at 6pm to mark the beginning of the Bedtime Hour.
• Goodnight: Lullaby broadcast at 7pm to mark the end of the day's CBeebies broadcast. ^[20]

Occasional songs

• Sid Says: a rap-style presentation by Sid, who tells the audience to perform simple actions (such as "Sid says, Sid says, Sid says, Sid says, Sid says 'wave your hands'"). ^[20]
• Number Debut: This song was only ever sung 4 times in history by Sid & Sarah-Jane. It was a rap sung just before the Numberjacks about Sid getting his numbers in the wrong order.

Seasonal songs

• Happy Christmas: during the Christmas 2006 season, a segment was recorded featuring Chris, Sid, Pui, Justin and Sarah-Jane singing the 'Happy Christmas from CBeebies to you' song. ^[12]

Awards

• Charlie & Lola won the award for Best Children's Programme at the Broadcast Awards 2007 ^[21]

• CBeebies the Digital Channel was Highly Commended in the Best Children's Channel category at the Broadcast Digital Channel Awards 2006 ^[22]

• SpringWatch 2006 won Best Pre-school Live Action award at the BAFTA Children's Awards 2006 ^[23]

• Charlie & Lola was awarded Best TV Series for Children and Adults at the Bradford Animation Festival 2006 ^[24]

References

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