Diggit/Diggin' It

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Diggit/Diggin' It
Genre	Children
Starring	Paul Ballard (1998-2002); Fearne Cotton (1998-2000); Victoria Hickson (2001-2002); Laura Jaye (2000-2002); Abbie Pethullis (2002-2005); Liam Dolan (2002-2005)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Production
Running time	2hr 15 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	GMTV (ITV)
Original run	1998 – 2005

Diggit/Diggin' It was a British children's TV show which began in 1998 & replaced Saturday Disney. It also replaced Disney Club on Sunday mornings too. It was broadcast on GMTV (ITV).

It aired from 7:10am to 9:25am on Saturdays and 8:00am to 9:25am on Sundays. On Bank Holidays/Summer Holidays it was on shown under the name Diggit Extra.

The show featured predominantly Disney programming including:

However, an exception to the rule was DiC series Sonic Underground in 1999.

Initially the show was presented by Paul Ballard (known on screen as Des) and Fearne Cotton.

In September 1998, they launched a search for a new presenter (similar to the one that discovered Fearne a few years earlier). Viewers had the chance to vote for a winner in December 1998 and the winner was Jack Stratton.

Jack co-presented with Des and Fearne on both shows for a time, before becoming a solo presenter of pre-recorded inserts on the Sunday show. He eventually left the show, and in 2000 Fearne also left to concentrate on her other CITV series, the reins being handed over to Laura Jaye and Victoria Hickson.

Des left the show in 2002 and GMTV relaunched the show as Diggin' It in January 2003, including a giant puppet named "It". Plus, for the very first time the show every weekend in the summer & autumn of the year. The presenters had a feature on CITV on a Friday on ITV just before CITV would finish. The show was dropped in 2005 because both Diggin'It & Up on The Roof both merged to make Toonattik a show where there would be a mix of cartoons from Diggin'It's range and Up on The Roof's cartoons for older kids.