Xchange (TV series)

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Xchange
Format Children's entertainment
Created by BBC
Presented by Holly Willoughby
Michael "Abs" Absalom
Ade Adepitan
Angellica Bell
Dave Chapman
Ortis Deley
Gemma Hunt
Rani Khanijau
Anna Kumble
Steve Wilson
Country of origin United Kingdom
No. of episodes 2012
Production
Running time 60 mins &
2 x 30 mins
Broadcast
Original channel CBBC Channel
Original run 1998 – 31 March 2006

Xchange was a factual entertainment BBC television programme for children. It was broadcast initially on BBC Two and later the CBBC Channel. The programme was (mostly) transmitted live from studio TC2 at BBC Television Centre. Towards the end of the show, it was recorded the day before broadcasting.

The first era of the programme came in 1998 when it was designed as a programme shown on BBC Two in the summer holidays. This format was repeated annually until the launch of the CBBC Channel in 2002. As a result, 1,040 episodes over two years were initially ordered. At that time, it was the BBC's biggest ever single in-house commission.[1] On the CBBC Channel, it was a continuous, daily, hour-long format broadcast from 7:30am. Although, by the time the programme ended in March 2006, it was being broadcast twice daily in thirty minute durations.

The show featured a website where users can sign-up to collect points, and also could gain points for being a caller on the show. People who obtained 1000 points could enter a draw to appear on the show and be a "Gold X-IDer" in the studio. In a later series, the 1000 points could also be traded in to have a presenter host a part of the show from an X-IDer's house for a week.

Xchange featured celebrities, music performances, comedy and games. Featured celebrities included Girls Aloud, Daniel Bedingfield, Hilary Duff and Verbalicious . A weekly discussion point, branded sequentially as "The Big One" / "Backchat" / "Sticky Situations", was where viewers gave their thoughts and opinions on a topic. The "Xperts" item featured viewers who reviewed new movies, games, books and music. The "Dream On" strand endeavoured to make the dreams or ambitions of some of the programme's viewers come true.

The last edition of Xchange was broadcast on 31 March 2006 ending with Vinnie J Ferret's (the "J" initial was also revealed to be "Jebadiah") own version of classic song "My Way" as "Our Way" with a little vocal help from the presenters of the show and Westlea Primary School, particularly Alix Clifford. Michael "Abs" Absalom, Ade Adepitan, Ortis Deley, Jez Edwards, Gemma Hunt and puppet "Vinnie" the ferret (Dave Chapman) were the show's last presenters. The programme was replaced by Sam and Mark's Level Up.

Games

Snot Me - two people go head to head picking hairs out of a gunge filled nose. The loser would get gunged if the trigger hair was pulled.
Quiche Lorraine - An elderly lady 'Lorraine' walked across a field whilst quiche tarts were catapulted at her from a medieval trebuchet.
Who's Bin Here? - A game played in the early episodes of the digital channel format, a bin was emptied of contents which alluded to a celebrity owner.

Merchandise

In 2001, three books published by BBC Education Publishing under the Xchange banner went on sale: Head Strong, Microbe Makes and Team Spirit.[2]

When children appeared on the show, the presenters of that show would sign a photo of themselves and personalise it to the child.

Also, the main game that would appear on the show would have the prize of an Xchange-branded alarm clock and a few more goodies were given away behind the scenes such as messenger bags, mousemats and keyrings.

Ratings(CBBC Channel)

Tuesday 19 February 2002- 50,000 (4th most watched on CBBC that week)
Sunday 3 March 2002 (08:31)- 90,000 (most watched on CBBC that week)
Sunday 3 March 2002 (11:59)- 80,000 (4th most watched on CBBC that week)
Friday 8 March 2002- 30,000 (9th most watched on CBBC that week)
Monday 25 March 2002- 30,000 (10th most watched on CBBC that week)
Saturday 13 April 2002- 20,000 (9th most watched on CBBC that week)
Friday 10 May 2002- 20,000 (7th most watched on CBBC that week)
Monday 13 May 2002- 40,000 (6th most watched on CBBC that week)
Friday 31 May 2002- 40,000 (5th most watched on CBBC that week)
Thursday 30 May 2002- 30,000 (9th most watched on CBBC that week)
Wednesday 5 June 2002 (Part 1)- 70,000 (3rd most watched on CBBC that week)
Friday 14 June 2002 (07:29)- 30,000 (4th most watched on CBBC that week)
Friday 14 June 2002 (07:31)- 30,000 (6th most watched on CBBC that week)
Friday 14 June 2002 (12:30)- 20,000 (10th most watched on CBBC that week)
Sunday 23 June 2002- 30,000 (7th most watched on CBBC that week)
Saturday 22 June 2002- 30,000 (8th most watched on CBBC that week)
Monday 17 June 2002- 30,000 (9th most watched on CBBC that week)
Saturday 29 June 2002- 30,000 (6th most watched on CBBC that week)
Tuesday 25 June 2002- 30,000 (8th most watched on CBBC that week)
Thursday 27 June 2002- 30,000 (10th most watched on CBBC that week)
Saturday 6 July 2002(07:27)- 50,000 (2nd most watched on CBBC that week)
Saturday 6 July 2002(12:24)- 20,000 (9th most watched on CBBC that week)

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References

  1. ↑ Deans, Jason (20 November 2001). "BBC christens children's digital channels". Media Guardian (London). Retrieved 12 November 2007. 
  2. ↑ Xchange books on amazon.co.uk Retrieved 4 January 2008
  3. ↑ http://www.barb.co.uk

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