Glenn Kinsey

Glenn Kinsey is a former presenter of Children's ITV, which is the brand name used for the majority of children's television output on ITV in the United Kingdom. He is also a magician. He is now a successful presentation and communication skills coach in the UK.^[1]

Children's ITV

Kinsey first appeared on Children's ITV in July 1991, to present their summer mornings service, which ran from 9:25 am to 12:30 pm each weekday throughout July and August. One of the programmes that were aired on the Children's ITV summer morning block for 1991 include The Riddlers, the final series of Rod, Jane and Freddy, Good Morning, Miss Bliss (an original TV series that later became Saved by the Bell), Allsorts, three Australian television programs which were Adventures on Kythera, The Haunted School and Just for the Record, the animated series of Ben Hur, Vicky the Viking, Rosie and Jim, Rainbow, Ox Tales, Adventures of the Gummi Bears and various original classic animated shorts from The Walt Disney Company. He also stood in for the Children's ITV afternoons service presenter, Tommy Boyd on several occasions, one of which was the week before Christmas in 1991. There was no Children's ITV summer mornings service from 1992 onwards, so Kinsey didn't return to Children's ITV until late 1992, following Boyd's departure. Kinsey took over presenting in the afternoons from December 1992 to February 1993. The programmes that were aired on Children's ITV in the afternoons at his time of presenting include continuing episodes of Brill, Scooby-Doo, Wowser, The Raggy Dolls, Rolf's Cartoon Club, Children's Ward, Victor and Hugo, Captain Zed and the Zee Zone, Beetlejuice, Knightmare, Astro Farm and Bad Influence!, a few reruns of The Sooty Show, a few episodes of the last two series of T-Bag, debuts of Harry's Mad, ZZZap!, Eye of the Storm, Where's Wally?, Runaway Bay, Oasis and Wizadora, new series of Grotbags, Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, Fun House, Mike and Angelo and Count Duckula, a number of Warner Bros. cartoons and reruns of Garfield and Friends, Toucan Tecs, The Ratties, the first five or six episodes of the third series of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, Rod 'n' Emu and TaleSpin. He left Children's ITV in February 1993 though, after the new Children's ITV controller, Dawn Airey abolished in-vision continuity in favour of an out-of-vision service, with voice-over links provided by Steven Ryde instead. Kinsey was a big fan of the Children's ITV programme, Knightmare and was the first honorary member of the Knightmare Adventurer's Club.

Other work

Following Children's ITV, Kinsey moved behind-the-scenes to become a full-time presentation and communication skills consultant and coach. He is also a successful author, with 3 books to his name so far. His first book, Tricky Business, was published in 1990, when he was only 19 years old. This book was all about magic and accompanied the BBC TV series of the same name. He has worked on other TV shows for the BBC, ITV & Sky Television too.

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