Carrie and David's Popshop | |
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Genre | Children's Music |
Presented by | Carrie Grant and David Grant |
No. of episodes | 30 |
Production | |
Running time | 20 minutes |
Production company | BBC Scotland [1] |
Original release | |
Network | CBeebies |
Release | 18 February – 28 March 2008 |
Carrie and David's Popshop is a children's musical television series aired on CBeebies, originally broadcast in 2008. It is presented by celebrity vocal coaches Carrie Grant and David Grant, with their pet dog Riff, puppeteered by Dave Chapman, and produced by BBC Scotland. Repeats originally finished on 28 October 2011, but an episode was aired to celebrate the channel's tenth birthday on 11 February 2012. [2] Repeats returned on 7 September 2013 [3] and repeats ended again in 2015.
Carrie and David took off the show by acting out a music-related situation that usually ends in them giving the viewer (behind the camera) an object. Then a warm-up song is sung. A child or children would then come into the popshop and ask for a song for a certain purpose (e.g. to skip going to bed or to get their dad to dance) then Carrie and David would have an idea (We're getting the feeling!) and sing a song asking what genre of music they want their song to be sung in. The customer would then leave awaiting their pod (see below). Unlike most current CBeebies programmes, Carrie & David wear the same clothes in every episode.
Then Carrie and David's dog Riff would 'prepare the zone' and sing a song about setting the equipment up. Carrie and David would expand their idea, come up with lyrics and decide what instruments to use, during which the object that the viewer was given earlier usually comes into use. Carrie and David then perform the song they have come up with and Riff records it on a pod. Riff hands the pod to the viewer who gives the pod to the original customer. When they open the pod stars come out and the video of their song comes out. They dance and sing along. The actors were used to play other parts in other episodes (i.e. brothers, sisters or relatives.) This is why so few actors were used in the production of Series 1 and 2. Most of the actors were Scottish and sourced from auditions nationwide.
The show was produced by Nigel P Harris for BBC Scotland. The musical director is Andrew McCrorie-Shand who did the music for earlier programmes like Tots TV , and Teletubbies, and Rosie and Jim .
All songs are written by the Grants. In a typical programme, the following songs will feature:
Episode no. | Airdate | Total viewers |
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1 | 18 February 2008 | 441,000 |
2 | 19 February 2008 | 425,000 |
3 | 20 February 2008 | 330,000 |
4 | 21 February 2008 | 568,000 |
5 | 22 February 2008 | 410,000 |
6 | 25 February 2008 | 468,000 |
7 | 26 February 2008 | 342,000 |
8 | 27 February 2008 | 398,000 |
9 | 28 February 2008 | 440,000 |
10 | 29 February 2008 | 364,000 |
11 | 3 March 2008 | 345,000 |
12 | 4 March 2008 | 342,000 |
13 | 5 March 2008 | 459,000 |
14 | 6 March 2008 | 203,000 |
15 | 7 March 2008 | 315,000 |
16 | 10 March 2008 | 494,000 |
17 | 11 March 2008 | 523,000 |
18 | 12 March 2008 | 415,000 |
19 | 13 March 2008 | 479,000 |
20 | 14 March 2008 | 337,000 |
21 | 17 March 2008 | 390,000 |
22 | 18 March 2008 | 402,000 |
23 | 19 March 2008 | 425,000 |
24 | 20 March 2008 | 447,000 |
25 | 21 March 2008 | 316,000 |
26 | 24 March 2008 | 414,000 |
27 | 25 March 2008 | 426,000 |
28 | 26 March 2008 | 381,000 |
29 | 27 March 2008 | 375,000 |
30 | 28 March 2008 | 426,000 |
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