Live & Kicking

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For the Australian series, see Live And Kicking.

Live & Kicking
Live & Kicking Logo
Genre	Children's
Running time	3 hours 15 minutes
Executive producer(s)	Claire Mundell
Starring
Narrated by	Mitch Johnson
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
Original channel	BBC One
Original run	September 1, 1993–September 15, 2001
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TV.com summary

Live & Kicking was a BBC Saturday morning variety programme, running from 1993 to 2001.

1 Features
2 Presenters
3 Axing after eight series
4 Replacement
5 External links

[edit] Features

It was aimed at young people and it included a mix of competitions, comedy, music and cartoons such as the Rugrats, The Wild Thornberries and The Simpsons. From 1993 until 1999, there was a showbiz segment called the Electric Circus and was presented by people such as John Barrowman, Dannii Minogue and Gail Porter.

As well as being a Saturday morning children's show, Live and Kicking launched a music CD, comprising of the best music that artists had sung live on the programme. A spin-off CD-ROM game called Live and Kicking: Make Your Own Show was also created, where the user could combine elements of the show to create their own television production on a small scale.

For series 5 and 6, there was a short version of the show that aired on Friday afternoons called L & K Friday, but this was cancelled after two series. The regular Saturday presenters, Jamie Theakston and Zoe Ball did the first series.

One of the last features was L & K Castaway, which was similar to the BBC reality show Castaway.

Live & Kicking Friday was an edition that appeared on Friday afternoons as part of CBBC on BBC One, during the peak of Live and Kicking's popularity.

[edit] Presenters

John Barrowman Series 1 (1993-1994)
Emma Forbes Series 1-3 (1993-1996)
Andi Peters Series 1-3 (1993-1996)
Zoe Ball Series 4-6 (1996-1999)
Jamie Theakston Series 4-6 (1996-1999)
Emma Ledden Series 7 (1999-2000)
Steve Wilson Series 7 (1999-2000)
Sarah Cawood Series 8 (2000-2001)
Ortis Deley Series 8 (2000-2001)
Trey Farley Series 8 (2000-2001)
Katy Hill Series 8 (2000 - April 2001)
Heather Suttie Series 8 (April-September 2001)

[edit] Axing after eight series

The reason for the axing was blamed on an increasing loss of viewers to ITV's SMTV Live but another contributing factor was the sheer number of viewers lost during the summer period before the re-launch of the programme with the show FBi (Fully Booked Interactive), which filled in the Saturday slot as a replacement to the BBC Scotland programme Fully Booked ^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Replacement

The show was replaced by The Saturday Show, fronted by Dani Behr and Joe Mace, which was shown all year round until September 2003 when it began an Autumn/Winter-Spring/Summer loop with Dick and Dom In Da Bungalow.