Toonattik

Toonattik is the flagship children's strand of the British breakfast television station, GMTV (known on-air as CITV at weekends), which started from the 5 February 2005. The strand airs on weekend mornings from 06:00 until GMTV's closedown at 09:25, featuring a selection of both British and imported cartoons, mainly from Nickelodeon. It's presented by Jamie Rickers and Anna Williamson.
== History ==
Toonattik launched on 5 February 2005 as the new children's weekend morning slot on GMTV, featuring a mix of imported cartoons for ages 4–12. The slot was originally split into two, with the first half featuring pre-school programming with out-of-vision continuity, and the second half featuring shows for older children, which featured in-vision continuity links provided by Jamie Rickers and Anna Williamson. Initially the show relied heavily on phone-in competitions. After a few months on-air the slot was split into two, each adopting their own individual branding to separate the age categories. The relaunch focused more on audience participation, with the presenters showcasing drawings and letters sent in by the viewers.
Four months later, when Toonattik was revamped, each week Rickers and Williamson would lead teams of boys and girls in a battle of the sexes, playing various games to earn as much points as they could, a format later adopted by Holly and Stephen's Saturday Showdown in 2006. Viewers had the chance to send in suggestions for games, these were pulled from a special chest named the "Challenge Chest". Then the final game would be randomly chosen by the "Golden Wheel of Twizzle", and a spin of the "Toonattik Twizzler" would determine which of the two presenters would be playing that game. At the end of each show the losing team would receive a 'pie in the face' from the winners.
A new Toonattik website was created by 4T2 and launched in late January 2006, allowing viewers to play virtual versions of their favourite "Toonattik Twizzler" games, as well as send emails to Rickers and Williamson, read about their favourite cartoons and unlock bonus content by entering a secret code word revealed at the end of each show.
On 12 March 2006, ITV began simulcasting Toonattik on the CITV Channel, allowing younger Sky Digital, Virgin Media and Freeview viewers to access the show through the children's section of the EPG for the first time. Also, the EPG showed details for the programmes broadcast during the Toonattik time slot, instead of merely saying Toonattik.
== Programmes ==
* Aaron Stone
* All Grown Up!
* The Amazing Spiez!
* American Dragon: Jake Long
* The Angry Beavers
* Avatar: The Last Airbender
* A.T.O.M.
* Back at the Barnyard
* Barney & Friends
* Batman: The Brave and the Bold
* Ben 10
* Ben 10: Alien Force
* Biker Mice from Mars
* Boohbah (until the launch of Wakey! Wakey!)
* The Buzz on Maggie
* Camp Lazlo
* Captain Flamingo
* Chop Socky Chooks
* Code Lyoko
* Combo Niños
* Danny Phantom
* Dave the Barbarian
* Dora the Explorer (until the launch of Wakey! Wakey!)
* The Emperor's New School
* Fantastic Four (two different adaptations)
* Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
* Horrid Henry
* House of Mouse
* He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
* Hey Arnold!
* Iggy Arbuckle
* Jimmy Two-Shoes
* Jim Jam and Sunny
* JoJo's Circus (until the launch of Wakey! Wakey!)
* Kid vs. Kat
* Kim Possible
* The Legend of Tarzan
* Lilo & Stitch: The Series
* Monster Buster Club
* My Goldfish Is Evil
* My Gym Partner's a Monkey
* My Life as a Teenage Robot
* My Parents Are Aliens
* Ōban Star-Racers
* The Penguins of Madagascar
* Pet Alien
* Phineas and Ferb
* Planet Sketch
* Power Rangers (from Dino Thunder to RPM)
* Pucca
* Recess
* The Replacements
* Robotboy (rights of showing acquired from Cartoon Network)[citation needed]
* Rugrats
* Sabrina: The Animated Series
* Sabrina's Secret Life
* The Secret Saturdays
* Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!
* Sitting Ducks
* Sonic Underground
* Spider-Man
* SpongeBob SquarePants
* Stanley (until the launch of Wakey! Wakey!)
* The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
* Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!
* Tak and the Power of Juju
* Team Galaxy
* Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
* Tiny Planets (until the launch of Wakey! Wakey!)
* Tom & Jerry Tales
* Tootuff
* Totally Spies!
* Yin Yang Yo!
* Yu-Gi-Oh!
== Action Stations! ==
Action Stations! was the flagship children's strand of the British breakfast television station, GMTV2 (branded as part of CITV). The slot aired between 06:00 and 08:40 on the CITV channel.
It began broadcasting on 13 March 2006 and was simulcast on both the CITV channel and ITV2; however, it moved to ITV4 on 17 March 2008, meaning that ITV2 could broadcast 24 hours a day. From June 7, 2010, ITV4 ceased simulcasting, meaning that from early June 2010, GMTV2 could only been seen on the CITV channel, again allowing ITV4 to broadcast 24 hours a day.
Originally, Action Stations featured the voices of Toonattik presenters Jamie Rickers and Anna Williamson in the form of robots with pre-recorded links in between cartoons, and was later voiced by Mike Rance as a spaceship captain. Between September 2009 and May 2010, the slot had the presenters presenting links from the Action Station's 'space base'.
Action Stations featured characters Commander Action (David Kangas), Boogaloo (Serial #80064100) (Simon Fielding), Gribulous Bertnarg "Bert" Pimplewicks (Mike Rance) and Princess Akira, the ship's mechanic (Anna Singleton). These characters travelled the galaxy transmitting cartoons 'free to air' to the children of earth whilst trying to keep them from the clutches of the evil Dr Poopanski (James Hunt) who wanted to keep the cartoons for himself.