Comin' Atcha! (TV series)

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Comin' Atcha!
Starring Cleopatra
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
No. of episodes14
Production
Running time30 minutes
Production companyInitial
Release
Original network ITV (CITV) [1]
Original releaseFebruary 5, 1998 (1998-02-05) 
February 15, 2000 (2000-02-15)

Comin' Atcha! was a British television series first broadcast on the children's television channel CITV.

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In 1998 CITV premiered a one-hour Christmas special featuring the musical group Cleopatra, which went on to become a sitcom series. [2] [3] The show was twenty minutes per episode and followed the girls' lives on tour and at home with their family. [4] The girls' mother and younger sister were featured as themselves. [5] The show ran for two seasons.

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References

  1. "BBC News | Entertainment | Girl Power coming to Wembley". news.bbc.co.uk.
  2. "CLEO CARRY ON UP THE VATICAN". NME . 18 November 1998.
  3. Donnell, Alison, ed. (2001). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Taylor & Francis. p. 179. ISBN   9781134700240.
  4. MTV News Staff. "Cleopatra To Star In U.K. TV Series". MTV News.
  5. "BBC - Comedy Guide - Comin' Atcha / In The House With Cleopatra". 29 March 2005. Archived from the original on 29 March 2005.