It's odd isn't it - Teachers TV are showing proper schools programmes (including Maths Mansion last week too!) but they're basically showing them as entertainment programmes to keep kids happy in the holidays. If you tried to do that in the old days - showing schools programmes for anything but strictly educational purposes - you'd be breaking the law and would (in theory) get done by the BBC!
Spywatch will start at 9 and we'll get the first five episodes, then it'll stop while they show some Primary History (ie. Landmarks) programmes about Second World War evacuees. Spywatch will start again at 11:20 or thereabouts for its last five episodes.
In December, they'll start at 9 with a random literacy programme (Let's Write A Story or English Express), then go into Look & Read at 9:20 all the way through, then repeat the random literacy programme at 12:40.
I can't see why they're doing it that way in December, it doesn't overcome the problem of archive Look & Reads being longer than 20 minutes, and I don't think it'll help keep the signing away from Look & Read as the sign language is still likely to run at 11:00. In fact it'll cost them more doing it this way because they'll probably need to get sign language done for Earth Warp episode 6 that's due to run on Thursday at 11:00, I don't think that episode's been signed in the past that they can just repeat, unless it was signed back in the pre-archive repeat days on CBBC, I can't remember.
Did anyone catch Spywatch? I've been off on sick leave, so didn't get a look at the schedules when they came through, and my original video is kapputt! Can anyone help out? please pm me at caroline@stamp-dod.net
Sorry Mike - I've been completely not bothering with the site for about two years, and stopped updating it altogether last year. Now I literally can't update it (you need to be dialled-in to Freeserve to access their websites, and my modem broke!)
The thing is, I did move the site somewhere else in September. It is out there now, hidden but live on the internet, with up-to-date schedules and other new material - I just never quite did the finishing touches to it to formally 'relaunch'. I also do have material I want to use to do guides to other old schools programmes with clips etc, so the site can expand.
I was Christmas shopping at the weekend and found another new TV reference book that takes all it's Look & Read information on this website (uncredited of course). That made me feel important and prompted me to come back to the site again - if people are going to be using this as a reference point, it'd better be an accurate and updated reference point. So I'm going to really properly try & get the site 'working' again at a new address.
There's a promise on the home page that there will be an update in 2005 - I've got 11 days left to keep that promise!
You said about 8 days ago that there would be another update in 2005, and since then there has been no update, and now it's aboit 2 days until the promise is over and unless you would like to make a new Look and Read Site for Free, well check out : http://www.freewebs.com/
To make your website, it only takes a few mins to get your website up and running so, you can give it a try!
Also, last but not least I would like to wish Ben and everybody else who reads this a
Sorry - I forgot that I was going away over xmas so I didn't have time to do anything! Hoping, hoping, hoping it will be sorted by the end of today - Mark's right about where it's all moving to, I just need to update it with the 2006 schedules and change the front page then it will be all up to date and running again.