http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1962 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 18 May 2013 23:04:53 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1962#post-5809 Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:07:01 +0000 The All New Jeni B 5809@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Perhaps there is an idea for a pitch there. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1962#post-5808 Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:05:38 +0000 nealdoran 5808@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Cheers Jeni! I'm sure Bob the Builder's boss's boss would get through as a new series... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1962#post-5803 Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:33:05 +0000 The All New Jeni B 5803@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Genius work once again Neal.<br /> And as the wife of the MD of a Construction Industry related business, I'd be watching along to pick up a few choice Eastern European phrases. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1962#post-5801 Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:14:55 +0000 nealdoran 5801@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Bob the Builder was the highest profile casualty as children’s TV channel Cbeebies responded to the demands of its aggressively guilt-ridden parent viewers to ditch the glamorisation of working- to lower-middle class job featuring members of the construction industry, postal workers, or ‘any job where there’s a chance their children could be unionised’. New shows are instead to feature characters pursuing careers ‘that make risking negative equity to get in the right school’s catchment area worthwhile’. </p> <p>Bob’s time on the nation’s screens is set to end this week in the first episode of ‘Bernard the Senior Partner in a Mid-Sized Provisional Insolvency Practitioners’, which sees Dizzy, Lofty, and Bob’s other mechanical friends sold for scrap with the proceeds paid to debtors at 2p in the pound, while Bernard arranges a £180 per hour fee for his time.</p> <p>Parental response to the decision has been overwhelmingly positive. ‘It’s about time children’s TV caught up with what parents want these days -- and that’s not for their offspring to wandering around in dress-up costumes suggesting they want to be working for the railways or non-professional grade emergency services,’ explained Jan Reeves of West Sussex, ‘I mean OK, Mr Reeves has been known to pop on a firemen’s uniform around the house from time to time, but he’s already a well-established finance director and local magistrate. If I wanted the same thing for young Joshua it would be a big step back for my family. And a bit icky’.</p> <p>‘I’m delighted to see the new shows’, confirmed Francis Whitley an investment banker with 20 years experience who is currently spending a lot more time at home, ‘to see my little Timmy’s face when I told him that just like his hero ‘Sebastian the Securities Trader’ I was on enforced gardening leave ahead of an opportunity to join a rival bank, and was cunningly poaching all my old clients using Facebook, well his eyes lit up at the stories he could tell his playschool pals’.</p> <p>Manual and emergency service workers are not expected to entirely leave the world of children’s television however, with news filtering through that Channel Five has commissioned a new series of 'Pawel the Plasterer'. The new show is garnering plaudits for encouraging kids to become bi-lingual, and is being made for a fraction of the cost of shows featuring British tradesmen. </p>