Tricky

Country: United Kingdom
Length: 1 season, 16 episodes
Elsewhere: IMDb

The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This series was part of a block of children's shows on British television. It aired short segments between programs, featuring hosts who talked to the audience and introduced the next show.

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What happens

CITV (standing for Children's ITV) was a British children's brand of ITV plc, a free-to-air television channel, and the name of programming blocks on the ITV network and ITV2. CITV launched on 29 December 1980 as Watch It!, then later rebranded on 3 January 1983 as Children's ITV, as a late afternoon programming block on the ITV network for children aged 6 to 12. It replaced the earlier Watch It! branding and introduced networked in-vision continuity links between programmes. These links were originally pre-recorded from a small London studio until 1987, when Central won the contract to produce live links from their Birmingham studios. In 2004, presentation of CITV was relocated to Granada Television in Manchester, which saw the block's in-vision continuity being discontinued. In 2013, the operations moved to ITV Granada's MediaCityUK studios in Salford. In 2006, CITV launched as a digital channel on Freeview. The channel primarily ran repeated ITV content and acquisitions daily from 6am to 9pm. Following the removal of its original afternoon slot in late 2006, a CITV programming block on the ITV network continued to air on weekend mornings from 6am to 9:25am as part of the ITV Breakfast time slot. CITV did not have a +1 simulcast, unlike the rest of ITV's portfolio of channels, and was only simulcast in HD on Sky Glass. On 22 July 2023, ITV launched a new children's hub on the ITVX streaming service, ITVX Kids, as an eventual replacement for the CITV channel. At 9pm on 1 September 2023, the channel closed with a promotional loop informing viewers of the move to ITVX. On 2 September 2023, the children's block was moved to feature every morning on ITV2 during breakfast time, from 5am to 9am (later shortened). Shows broadcast and promoted during the block were sourced from the ITVX Kids streaming service. The block retained usage of the pre-existing CITV branding, following the channel's closure. The block, along with the last current vestige of CITV, wound down on 10 April 2026. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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