From Strictly to shelf stacking in Sainsbury's: What became of Greater Manchester's children's TV stars
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe news was announced last week that ITV is to axe its children's TV channel CITV after nearly two decades. A sign-of-the-times, perhaps, that ITV's children's TV channel is to make way for an online streaming service, ITVX Kids, in July 2023.
Children's ITV first launched as a block in the station's programming schedule in 1983 before ITV launched CITV as a channel in its own right in 2006.
Some of CITV's most popular shows through the years include Art Attack, The Worst Witch, Grange Hill and Thunderbirds Are Go.
And it was back in the '90s and early Noughties, children's TV on both CITV and its BBC rival, CBBC, served as springboards for some young actors to go on and have stellar careers. Read Now: The lost pictures that show how hard life could be in Greater Manchester's slums Read Now: 11 lost but not forgotten Manchester bars and nightclubs we loved in the 1990s Of course it wasn't just drama, budding presenters also had the chance to shine on both channels with sketch shows, news presenting, and Saturday morning shows such as Live and Kicking and SM:TV.
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