Blue Peter - A program that never gets old.... (Blue Peter)

Member Name: ste231191

Product:	Blue Peter
Date:	26/09/05 (926 review reads)
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Advantages: Presenters, fund raisers, badges, documentaries

Disadvantages: boring documentries

The BBC has been going for years and has had a few good programs on it, for the little one’s (Cbeebies) for the youth (CBBC) and a few documentaries for the how can I put this…More mature members of the audience. But I am writing a review that is put on the youth viewers and this program is called Blue Peter, everyone who’s anyone has heard of Blue Peter it has been on TV all the time that I was living and from what I have heard from ‘them’ (my parents) it has been on for a long time.

-*-*- What is Blue Peter -*-*-

Blue Peter is a program that is run for the youth age but I’m sure a lot of other people watch it as well, it is not a program that is based on one thing. I’m sure you don’t get what I mean, well Top of the pops which I’m sure a lot of you have heard of concentrate on the music business, so Blue Peter is not based on any specific category because t hey do a lot of different things which I will mention in the next paragraph… Blue Peter does not have one presenter but a few and obviously these presenters have changed over the years, when I watched Blue Peter all the time the presenters were; Matt, Simon, Liz and Connie and just recently they have replaced Simon with a girl called Zoë and they have added another presenter called Declan.

-*-*- So what do they do? -*-*-

Well as I mentioned they are not in any specific category, because they do various activities;

Documentaries – Because they have so many Blue Peter presenters they usually send one or two of them out to do a child’s documentary. One of the recent one’s which I watched was Simon and he new person, Declan, went out to Japan and learnt the art of the ninja and samurai and normally they have to do a video diary and report back so that it can be shown to the audience. If one or two of them don’t do out to make a documentary then the whole group goes out and that was the case a few weeks ago when they all went to India. But they make a lot of documentary’s it could be teaching one of the presenters how to wing walk to checking out the poverty in Africa some of these documentaries can be quite interesting, but some and plain boring.

Special Guests – Most children’s shows have special guests for example on the Saturday now its Dick and Dom in the bungalow, what happened to the good old Ant and Dec SMTV? Anyway, that’s not the point, the point is that they normally have special guests on, and Blue Peter now have special guests but they are not necessarily famous they are normally a special group from Africa they never have any live ands on.

Fundraisers- Blue Peter is a bit of a charity show as well, they sometimes have funds for a specific cause and they send out things like the bring and buy sale. And another good thing that I like is that they sometimes have like a special machine that shows you how much they have raised and you have to pull a lever or something to get the ‘machine’ started, this gets people interested because they don’t know how much its going to be and they have a massive party when they have reached their target.
Competitions – Most shows which haven’t got a category have competitions but Blue Peter have serious competitions and they are quite good, they had a recent competition in which you were given the start of a story and you have to finish it off. The prizes were quite good.

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So Blue Peter has got its good parts but it’s also has a lot of memorable parts that people will remember for years to come…

The Theme Tune – This is probably the most memorable part of Blue Peter the theme tune, everyone knows it, its one of the best tunes ever. If you haven’t heard it… then where have you been living?? It is like a Scottish whistle theme, like you are at sea. And the logo of Blue Peter is a boat. So it fits quite well.

Badges – If you entered a competition on Blue Peter and you won, you will probably get one of these. This gives you a bit of power to get into a few places free, I think you can get in free into all the national trust places. There are other ways to get these special badges, like if you send in a piece of art work that they like. Even if it is rubbish you will still probably get one. Unfortunately I have not got one of these badges. But apparently if you do they are super cool and get your street cred to sky high!

The presenters – Most shows have favorite presenters, even the news you may have a special presenter like Trevor Mc Donald, but over the years the Blue Peter presenters have changed, drop me a note on the comments or my guestbook and I will updates this review and tell you which presenter most people like.

All In all I think that Blue Peter is a good program for young and old, it has its memorable bits its boring parts the great presenters, I think it’s a great and entertaining program. I would like to thank you for reading this review, it’s really appreciated.

Remember to drop me a note about presenters,

Thanks for reading

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Summary: This is a program that will never be old