CBBC
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CBBC - Children's BBC - started as a programming strand on BBC1 in 1985. From 1998 it also aired as CBBC Choice (later CBBC On Choice) on BBC Three forerunner BBC Choice.
2002 saw the launch of this dedicated channel, often referred to as 'the CBBC Channel' to distinguish it from the programming strands on BBC One and Two. In late 2012 those strands ended on One and Two for the last time.
Much of CBBC's programming is light drama, but comedies include the multi-award-winning sketch show Horrible Histories.
See also: BBC Asian Network, BBC Choice, BBC Four, BBC General Forces Programme, BBC HD, BBC Home Service, BBC Light Programme, BBC Local Radio, BBC National Programme, BBC One, BBC One HD, BBC One Scotland, BBC One Wales, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4 Extra, BBC Radio 5 (Old), BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio 7, BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Regional Programme, BBC Third Programme, BBC Three, BBC Three (online), BBC Two, BBC Two Scotland, BBC Two Wales, BBC World Service, CBeebies.
On CBBC today
Zig And Zag
Episode 3 - Jobsworth
Zig and Zag discover the joys of 'buying stuff', but to buy stuff you need money, and to get money you need a job!
Danger Mouse
Series 1, Episode 14 - Danger Fan
Shortly after Danger Mouse's biggest fan comes to visit members of the team start to disappear.
Hacker Time
Series 6, Episode 8 - Luis Troyano
Great British Bake Off finalist Luis Troyano joins Hacker, Derek, Lolly, Wilf, Herman, Larry and whoever the other ones are. Expect plenty of cake jokes, some of them funny! Plus Cel Spellman stars in Lost and Found (...& Lost Again) and another trip to The Accommodation Place.
4 O'Clock Club
Series 2, Episode 13 - Project Zenith
Dexter finds himself fronting Bell's new plan for Elmsbury - Project Zenith. But the plan has big, bad implications for the 4 O'Clock Club. Josh sets out defeat the scheme, with a little help from his friends and family.
Shaun The Sheep
Series 3, Episode 5 - The Crow
It's late in the day as Bitzer rounds up the Flock for bedtime. They prepare themselves for a good night's sleep. Alas, a noisy intruder scuppers their plans. The Flock just find an inventive way to get rid of the pest if they are ever going to get a good night's rest.
Shaun The Sheep
Series 3, Episode 6 - The Fugitive
Shaun is in serious trouble when the Farmer discovers he's the cake thief that has sabotaged his baked goods. When another Farmer arrives and begins negotiations with the Farmer, Shaun fears the worst. Is this the end of our hero's time on Mossybottom Farm?
Hacker Time
Series 6, Episode 8 - Luis Troyano
Great British Bake Off finalist Luis Troyano joins Hacker, Derek, Lolly, Wilf, Herman, Larry and whoever the other ones are. Expect plenty of cake jokes, some of them funny! Plus Cel Spellman stars in Lost and Found (...& Lost Again) and another trip to The Accommodation Place.
4 O'Clock Club
Series 2, Episode 13 - Project Zenith
Dexter finds himself fronting Bell's new plan for Elmsbury - Project Zenith. But the plan has big, bad implications for the 4 O'Clock Club. Josh sets out defeat the scheme, with a little help from his friends and family.
Zig And Zag
Episode 13 - Bitter Then You
Zig and Zag demonstrate how breaking a world record can be a bittersweet experience.
Danger Mouse
Series 2, Episode 15 - Gold Flinger
Quark tricks Danger Mouse into transporting a ticking timebomb back to earth. This device threatens to turn the entire world into gold within hours. Quark's face print is the key to deactivating the bomb, and while dragging the extra-mouthed extraterrestrial across space wouldn't usually pose much of a problem to DM, Quark aims to see his plan through by exploiting his captor's recently diagnosed 'Compulsive Challenge Disorder'.
Zig And Zag
Episode 24 - You Want Frights With That?
Zig and Zag stage their own haunting in a bid to get their video onto their favourite TV show Ghost Hunters Live, If They Weren't Dead 5.
Scream Street
Episode 8 - Banished!
Otto plots to build himself a luxury home, which would mean forcing the Scream Street residents to live in tents.
Horrible Histories
Series 6, Episode 1 - Awesome Alfred The Great
Watch King Alfred the Great argue with his older brothers, then defeat the Vikings using his cunning hit-and-run tactics, summoning the spirit of Ed Sheeran. Meanwhile, across the world, Ant and Dec host a very special Chinese edition of I'm A Celebrity, and the Egyptians tell us how healthcare should really be done.
Original programming
According to our database CBBC has premiered 46 original British comedy programmes.
Current formats
New shows in development
Recent news
Voice cast announced for new Dennis The Menace series
Monday 3rd July
CBBC has announced the voice cast for Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed, the new animated comedy series based around the famous Beano character.
CBBC orders Series 4 of school sitcom So Awkward
Wednesday 28th June
CBBC has ordered a fourth series of So Awkward, the sitcom about three school girls. The recommission has been made before Series 3 has been broadcast.
CBBC developing new panel show A Little Bird Told Me
Tuesday 14th February
CBBC is developing A Little Bird Told Me, a panel show hosted by double act Sam & Mark about the history of words and phrases.
CBBC to air CGI series starring Dennis The Menace
Tuesday 4th October 2016
CBBC is to air a new comedy series starring famous Beano character Dennis The Menace. Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed will see the character rendered in CGI for the first time.
CBBC to add comedy animation to zoo documentary series
Thursday 21st July 2016
CBBC is to air The Zoo, a documentary series in which animals from a zoo are given comedy voices and computer-generated moving mouths.