Tik Tak

Tik Tak is a Belgian children's program that aired from 1981 to 1991 at the BRTN.

History

The program was conceived by Mil Lenssens when he saw a few kids watching the broadcast of a lotto draw fascinatedly. The predictable, repetitive mix of colors, movement and musical rhythms he processed with Clien De Vuyst in the program.

The show

There were 366 episodes included (good for one episode per day, with 1 extra episode for leap years). Each episode begins with sheep (and the occasional dog) at sunset on a rotating platform, and ends with a shadow figure (Ann Ricour), who has all kinds of adventures in five differently colored books.

The first broadcast of the program took place on 1 November 1981 by BRTN (originally called BRT). It was broadcast on Ketnet in Belgium until 2006.

The program was sold to about 30 countries, including, for example Australia , Netherlands (where the KRO , Kindernet and TROS aired), Israel , Saudi Arabia , BabyFirstTV in United States and South Africa . It is thus one of the biggest export products that Belgian television has ever known.

In 1999, Tik Tak was succeeded by Hopla. Though unrelated, Hopla was also made in Belgium, targeted the same infant demographics, and had little to no dialogue.

In July 2012 brought the German house duo Digitalism the song Falling from which the clip consisted of fragments of Tik Tak.