Just want to start off by saying I hope everyone has been having a good Easter. Since I have been off for two weeks, I have had a lot of spare time of my hands and most if has been used to seeing friends or at work. But one of main things I have noticed over this Easter term is how awful TV is!
I know Easter is not exactly like Christmas where we are informed a month in advance of what our TV schedule will be and everyone has to vote between Chicken Run and the Queen's speech. But I feel there is nothing for the younger kids to watch if they have a day in at home and they become increasingly bored and irritating whilst the parents try to do housework.
This is a common complaint from my younger brother who instantly starts moaning that there is nothing to do when he switches off his Xbox, I started telling him about some of the shows I used to watch when I was his age and it made me think of how much I actually missed watching them shows and how me and other school friends used to reinact scenes and characters of popular shows and collect merchandise.
Flicking through Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon and seeing what they had to offer, I was shocked how almost none of the shows that was on nearly 10 years ago was no longer airing. Of course they need to bring in new ideas as trends of how popular shows grow and fade over time as the kid audience never stays the same age. Writers have to keep up on whats the favourite toy, hobbie and slang used among the youth culture in order to create some form of enterainment that gain their attention.
So I decided to dive back into my childhood programmes and created a list of my favourite top 20 animated kid shows of which I enjoyed as a child.
Let me know what your favourites shows were when you were younger and whether you agree with me that entertainment for children is not as wide of range as it used to be.
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