Tiny Pop is a free-to-air

Free-to-air

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 television channel

Television channel

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 in the UK. It is owned by CSC Media Group, and launched on 24 July 2004, and broadcasts cartoons and pop music

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 videos for pre-schoolers.

Its sister channel is Pop which was launched on 29 May 2003. Tiny Pop is a replacement for the now-defunct Pop Plus

Pop Plus

Pop Plus was a free-to-air British satellite television channel owned by CSC Media Group. It was licensed to air animation and music, and operated as a sister channel to the already-existing Pop...

, which was originally a secondary channel of Pop, but Tiny Pop is aimed at a younger audience (similar to CBeebies

CBeebies

CBeebies is the brand used by the BBC for programming aimed at children 6 years and under. It is used as a themed strand in the UK on terrestrial television, as a separate free-to-air domestic British channel and used for international varients supported by advertising, subscription or both...

). Tiny Pop's second sister channel is called Pop Girl

Pop Girl

Pop Girl is a free-to-air television channel owned by CSC Media Group, showing cartoons, live action and pop music videos for girls aged 6 to 16...

 and it was launched on 6 August 2007. Its third sister channel, Kix! was launched on 19 May 2008, and replaced Pop +1, the 1-Hour timeshift of Pop.

Tiny Pop broadcasts on Sky channel 617 and Virgin Media

Virgin Media

Virgin Media Inc. is a company which provides fixed and mobile telephone, television and broadband internet services to businesses and consumers in the United Kingdom...

 channel 737.

Programmes are introduced through the channels to animated monkeys, known as the Cheeky Monkeys, who talk about cartoons, read out jokes from viewers and show artwork. from the end of June 2009, they were replaced with 3 new hosts, Molly, Leo and Pip.

On October 11, 2007, Tiny Pop was launched on Virgin Media

Virgin Media

Virgin Media Inc. is a company which provides fixed and mobile telephone, television and broadband internet services to businesses and consumers in the United Kingdom...

, along with its sister channel Pop.

Current programmes

• Aesop's Theatre
• Billy
  Billy (TV series)
  Billy is an American situation comedy that aired on ABC for half a season from January to May 1992. A spin-off of Head of the Class, the series stars Billy Connolly as Billy MacGregor, a Scottish teacher who moves to America in order to build a new life for himself.-Synopsis:Following the end of...
  
  
• Bindi the Jungle Girl
• Hurray for Huckle!
  Busytown Mysteries
  Busytown Mysteries, also known as Hurray for Huckle!, is a Canadian animated television series created by Cookie Jar Entertainment. Currently the series airs in Canada as part of the Kids' CBC block on CBC Television, in the United Kingdom on the Tiny Pop channel and in the United States as part of...
  
  
• Captain Mack
  Captain Mack
  Captain Mack is a British children's television show set in the town of Sunshine City. It was created and developed by John Lomas-Bullivant at Fireback Entertainment and was first broadcast in February 2008. The series currently runs on the CITV Channel's pre-school slot Mini CITV and Tiny Pop. In...
  
  
• Doodlebops
• Kipper the Dog
  Kipper the Dog
  Kipper the Dog is a character in a series of books for preschool age children by a British writer, Mick Inkpen. The books consist of 34 titles which have sold over 8 million copies and have been translated into over 20 languages. The books have also won many awards.Kipper is also the name of a...
  
  
• Learn to Dance
• Little Bear
  Little Bear (TV series)
  Maurice Sendak's Little Bear is a Canadian children's television series starring a Little Bear voiced by Kristin Fairlie. Originally produced by Nelvana for Nickelodeon, it currently airs on Treehouse TV in Canada and Nick Jr. in the United States. A direct-to-video full-length feature film was...
  
  
• Milly, Molly
• Monkey See Monkey Do
• Nelly and Caesar
• Noonbory and the Super Seven
  Noonbory and the Super Seven
  Noonbory and the Super Seven is an Canadian-South Korean animated television series produced by Daewon Media, and Cookie Jar Entertainment for Nickelodeon.-Summary:...
  
  
• Rubbadubbers
  Rubbadubbers
  The Rubbadubbers is a British stop motion animation children's show from Hot Animation which is owned by HIT Entertainment.-Plot:The television show features characters who are animated bath toys. They often excitedly announce that the children are about to take a bath.-Format:Each episode begins...
  
  
• Rolie Polie Olie
  Rolie Polie Olie
  Rolie Polie Olie is a children's television series produced by Nelvana and created by William Joyce. The show centers on a little boy who is composed of several spheres and other three-dimensional geometric shapes...
  
  
• SamSam
  SamSam
  SamSam is a television program created by Serge Bloch in association with Bayard Presse. His son inspired him to base the program's eponymous character on him....
  
  
• Strawberry Shortcake
  Strawberry Shortcake
  Strawberry Shortcake is a licensed character owned by American Greetings, originally used in greeting cards and expanded to include dolls, posters, and other products...
  
  
• Toybox
  Toybox (TV series)
  Toybox is an Australian children's television series first screened on the Seven Network in 2010. The series is created by Beyond, produced and directed by Ian Munro, with 75 half-hour episodes for pre-school children....
  
  
• This is Daniel Cook
  This is Daniel Cook
  This is Daniel Cook is a children's television series created by J.J. Johnson and Blair Powers and produced by Toronto's marblemedia and Sinking Ship Productions in association with Treehouse TV and TVO, and is shown in Canada on Treehouse TV, TVOkids, Access, Knowledge Network, and SCN...
  
  
• This is Emily Yeung
  This is Emily Yeung
  This is Emily Yeung is a 2006 Canadian children's television series created by J.J. Johnson and Blair Powers and produced by Toronto's marblemedia and Sinking Ship Productions in association with Treehouse TV and is the follow-up to their previous award-winning series, This is Daniel Cook.This...
  
  
• The New Adventures of Madeline
  The New Adventures Of Madeline
  The New Adventures Of Madeline is the new series of Madeline also adapted to a television show. It shows the same characters from the old series of books. As always they are all created by Ludwig Bemelmans.-Characters:* Madeline: ....
  
  
• Toopy and Binoo
  Toopy and Binoo
  Toopy and Binoo is a Canadian children's television series created by Treehouse TV, Classic Media, and Spectra Animation. The original characters were created by French Canadian author Dominique Jolin.-Format:...
  
  
• Wild Animal Baby Explorers
  Wild Animal Baby Explorers
  Wild Animal Baby Explorers is a television show designed to introduce preschoolers to the world of animals and help them develop important observation, problem-solving and listening skills. The series combines 3D animated characters and wildlife footage to introduce animal facts and nurture young...
  
  
• Will & Dewitt

Coming Soon

• Brambly Hedge
  Brambly Hedge
  Brambly Hedge is a series of illustrated books for children written by Jill Barklem.The Brambly Hedge series is based around a community of self-sufficient mice who live together in the tranquil surroundings of the English countryside. The books are written and illustrated by Jill Barklem, with...
  
  
• Firehouse Tales
  Firehouse Tales
  Firehouse Tales is an animated television series, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, which premiered on Cartoon Network's Tickle-U preschool television programming block in the United States on March 4, 2005...
  
  
• Doodlebops Rockin' Road Show
• Art Attack
  Art Attack
  Art Attack is a British children's television series revolving around art. The original series was one of ITV's longest running programmes, running from 1990 to 2007, and was presented throughout by Neil Buchanan. The brand new series launched on Disney Junior on June 6 2011 and is presented by...
  
   
• Super Mario Bros.
  Super Mario Bros.
  is a 1985 platform video game developed by Nintendo, published for the Nintendo Entertainment System as a sequel to the 1983 game Mario Bros. In Super Mario Bros., the player controls Mario as he travels through the Mushroom Kingdom in order to rescue Princess Toadstool from the antagonist...
  
   
• Sonic Underground
  Sonic Underground
  Sonic Underground is an animated series that follows the adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and his siblings, Sonia and Manic. The cartoon follows a main plot similar to, but heavily reconcepted from, main plot of Sonic the Hedgehog: The Animated Series...
  
   

Former programmes

• Ava Riko Teo
• The Adventures of Paddington Bear
  The Adventures of Paddington Bear
  The Adventures of Paddington Bear was a Canadian/French animated childrens television series. It was based on the book Paddington Bear by Michael Bond and written by Bruce Robb. It was produced by Cinar and Protecrea. The show had 117 episodes....
  
  
• The Babaloos
  The Babaloos
  The Babaloos is a 1990s animated series produced by Cinar . Most of the male characters were voiced by Bruce Dinsmore-Series:...
  
  
• Babar
  Babar (TV series)
  Babar is an animated television series produced in Canada by Nelvana Limited and The Clifford Ross Company. It premiered in 1989 on CBC and HBO, subsequently was rerun on HBO Family and Qubo. The series is based on Jean de Brunhoff's original Babar books, and was Nelvana's first international...
  
  
• Benjamin The Elephant
  Benjamin the Elephant
  Benjamin the Elephant is an animated children's television show produced by Kiddinx Studios in Berlin. The show is based on audio stories by Elfie Donnelly. On the show, the eponymous main character resides at the Newtown Zoo, with friends Otto and Stella...
  
  
• Blinky Bill
  Blinky Bill
  Blinky Bill is an anthropomorphic koala and children's fictional character created by New Zealand-born Australian author Dorothy Wall. The character of Blinky first appeared in Brooke Nicholls' 1933 book, Jacko - the Broadcasting Kookaburra, which was illustrated by Wall...
  
  
• The Busy World of Richard Scarry
  The Busy World of Richard Scarry
  The Busy World of Richard Scarry is a Canadian/French animated children's television series, produced by CINAR Animation and France Animation in association with Paramount Television, which aired from 1994 to 1997, first on Showtime, later on Nickelodeon, and ran for 65 episodes...
  
  
• Corduroy
  Corduroy (TV series)
  Corduroy is a 1997 animated TV series based on Don Freeman's 1968 children's book Corduroy. The show was shown on PBS Kids' Bookworm Bunch until it was cancelled along with Elliot Moose. The show was set in New York City. It was directed by Louis Piche and Larry Jacobs...
  
  
• Cosy Corner
• Care Bears
  The Care Bears (TV series)
  The Care Bears is an animated television series based on the Care Bears franchise, which aired between 1985 and 1988 in syndication; on the ABC network in the United States; and on Global in Canada. The 1985 episodes were produced by DIC Entertainment; the ABC/Global episodes were made by...
  
   (Nelvana episodes only)
• Cushion Kids
  Cushion Kids
  Cushion Kids is a computer-animated television show produced by Endemol that is seen daily on Tiny Pop. It is created by Hi-5, and is about five kids who are cushions...
  
  
• Connie The Cow
• Dig and Dug With Daisy
• Dragon Tales
  Dragon Tales
  Dragon Tales is an American animated pre-school children's television series chronicling the adventures of two siblings, Max and Emmy and their dragon friends Cassie, Ord, Zak, Wheezie, and Quetzal...
  
  
• Dive Olly Dive!
• Elliot Moose
  Elliot Moose
  Elliot Moose is a Canadian children's live-action and animated series which was aired on TVOntario in Canada and PBS in the United States as part of the PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch until it was cancelled....
  
  
• Flipper and Lopaka
  Flipper and Lopaka
  Flipper and Lopaka is an animated series produced by the Australian production company Yoram Gross. It previously aired on Australia's Seven Network at various times. It currently airs on Australia's ABC3, a channel dedicated to children's television programs.- Setting :The series takes place on...
  
  
• Fraggle Rock
  Fraggle Rock
  Fraggle Rock is a children's live action puppet television program series created by Jim Henson. The central characters were a set of "Muppet" creatures called Fraggles. The show ran from January 10, 1983, to March 30, 1987, on CBC Television in Canada, ITV in the UK, HBO in the United States,...
  
  
• Franklin
  Franklin (TV series)
  Franklin is a Canadian animated television series, based on the Franklin the Turtle books by Brenda Clark and Paulette Bourgeois. The television series was named after its main character, Franklin the Turtle...
  
  
• George and Martha
  George and Martha
  George and Martha is an animated children's television show which comprises 26 episodes made in 1999. The program revolves around the lives of two hippos: George and Martha...
  
  
• Happy Valley
  Happy Valley
  -Canada:* Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador* Happy Valley, Greater Sudbury, Ontario* Happy Valley, King, Ontario* Happy Valley, British Columbia, in the Western Communities area of Greater Victoria, British Columbia* Happy Valley No...
  
  
• Jay Jay The Jet Plane
  Jay Jay the Jet Plane
  Jay Jay the Jet Plane is an American CGI children's television series based at the fictional Tarrytown Airport. It has about 60 episodes and it is aimed at ages 2-6. The characters are talking airplanes, a helicopter, some humans, and two talking ground vehicles...
  
  
• Jasper the Penguin
• Lazy Lucy
• Lapitch the Little Shoemaker
  Lapitch the Little Shoemaker (TV series)
  Lapitch the Little Shoemaker is an animated television series from Croatia Film and EM.TV/HaffaDiebold, with animation by Neptuno Films of Barcelona, Spain. It is a spin-off from the 1997 film of the same name....
  
  
• Letters From Felix
• Little Rosey
• Littlest Pet Shop
  Littlest Pet Shop
  Littlest Pet Shop is a toy franchise owned by Hasbro. The original toy series was produced by Kenner in the early 1990s. An animated television series by Sunbow Productions and Creativite et Developpement, based on the franchise, debuted in 1995. However, an updated version of Littlest Pet Shop was...
  
  
• Loopdidoo
• Marvin The Tap-Dancing Horse
  Marvin the Tap-Dancing Horse
  Marvin The Tap-Dancing Horse is a Canadian animated television show produced by Nelvana. It tells the stories of a young horse named Marvin who is part of a carnival. Among the Executive Producers are Michael Paraskevas and Betty Paraskevas, creators of Maggie and the Ferocious Beast who also...
  
  
• Mumble Bumble
  Mumble Bumble
  Mumble Bumble is a 67 x five-minute co-production between Egmont Imagination and Cinar. It follows the adventures of an imaginative blue hippopotamus and his best friends, Chic'o, the inquisitive chicken, and Greens, the busy frog who never looks before he leaps...
  
  
• My Little Pony
  My Little Pony (TV series)
  My Little Pony is an American animated television series based on the My Little Pony toys released by Hasbro. The series featured as the first segment of a program called My Little Pony 'n Friends. The second segment would be an unrelated cartoon based on another Hasbro franchise - either Glo...
  
   (My Little Pony 'n Friends episodes only)
• PB Bear and Friends
  PB Bear and Friends
  PB Bear and Friends is series of children's books that has also been made into a British children's television show. Like the Paddington Bear series, the characters are stuffed puppets that involve the use of stop-motion animation. In the UK, the series is shown on Tiny Pop and Tiny Pop...
  
  
• Pocket Dragon Adventures
  Pocket Dragon Adventures
  Pocket Dragon Adventures was a short-lived 1998 syndicated cartoon series, based on the Pocket Dragon character created by artist Real Musgrave, best known from Pocket Dragons figurines also based on his work. The cartoon was about the Pocket Dragons who live with a kindly old wizard, and their...
  
  
• Rupert
  Rupert (TV series)
  Rupert is an animated television series based on the Mary Tourtel character Rupert Bear, produced by Nelvana, Ellipse Programmé and TVS for the first season, with Scottish Television taken over control when TVS closed. Aired from 1991 to 1997 with 65 half-hour episodes produced. It was broadcast...
  
  
• Rainbow Fish
  Rainbow Fish
  The Rainbow Fish is an award-winning children's book drawn and written by Marcus Pfister, and translated into English by J. Alison James. The book is best known for its morals about the value of being an individual and for the distinctive shiny foil scales of the Rainbow Fish...
  
  
• Scruff
  Scruff (TV series)
  Scruff is a 2002 television series by D'ocon entertainment. It features the story of a puppy, Scruff, who is adopted by a farmworker named Peter. The show was directed by Antoni D'Ocon. The show was distributed in English by BKN...
  
  
• See How They Grow
• Timothy Goes to School
  Timothy Goes to School
  Timothy Goes to School is a cartoon series based on the books by Rosemary Wells.It features a young raccoon, Timothy, who attends a fictional primary school kindergarten. The series aired on PBS Kids as part of the PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch from 2000 until 2004. It was later broadcast on Discovery...
  
  
• Tractor Tom
  Tractor Tom
  Tractor Tom is an animated TV program, produced by Contender Entertainment and Hibbert Ralph Entertainment. There are two series of 26 eleven minute episodes produced in 2003 and 2004. There was also a stage show....
  
  
• The Wheels on the Bus
  The Wheels on the Bus (video series)
  The Wheels on the Bus is a video series by Our Happy Child Productions, LLC, of Simi Valley, California. The company produces programming for children ages 1-5 years, and develops content for TV, DVDs, CDs and licensing...
  
  
• Woolamaloo
• The Wombles
  The Wombles
  The Wombles are fictional pointy-nosed, furry creatures that live in burrows, where they help the environment by collecting and recycling rubbish in useful and ingenious ways. Wombles were created by author Elisabeth Beresford, originally appearing in a series of children's novels from 1968...
  
  
• Wiggly Park
  Wiggly park
  Originally a children's radio programme on BBC Radio 4, Wiggly Park was a British BBC children's television animated cartoon which was produced in 1997 and shown in 1998...
  
  

Current events

• Friday Night Special - back-to-back episodes of a particular show that changed each week. This showed from 5pm to 9pm. the main shows for this event are
  • Captain Mack
    Captain Mack
    Captain Mack is a British children's television show set in the town of Sunshine City. It was created and developed by John Lomas-Bullivant at Fireback Entertainment and was first broadcast in February 2008. The series currently runs on the CITV Channel's pre-school slot Mini CITV and Tiny Pop. In...
    
    
  • Little Bear (TV series)
    Little Bear (TV series)
    Maurice Sendak's Little Bear is a Canadian children's television series starring a Little Bear voiced by Kristin Fairlie. Originally produced by Nelvana for Nickelodeon, it currently airs on Treehouse TV in Canada and Nick Jr. in the United States. A direct-to-video full-length feature film was...
    
    
  • Milly, Molly
  • Rolie Polie Olie
    Rolie Polie Olie
    Rolie Polie Olie is a children's television series produced by Nelvana and created by William Joyce. The show centers on a little boy who is composed of several spheres and other three-dimensional geometric shapes...
    
    
• These same shows above also have a marathon every Saturday 6am-12pm.
• Every week between the hours of 1:45am and 6am, Tiny Pop airs a different program back-to-back, excluding their own continuity shown in between. These 3 programs currently are Timothy Goes to School
  Timothy Goes to School
  Timothy Goes to School is a cartoon series based on the books by Rosemary Wells.It features a young raccoon, Timothy, who attends a fictional primary school kindergarten. The series aired on PBS Kids as part of the PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch from 2000 until 2004. It was later broadcast on Discovery...
  
  , Corduroy
  Corduroy
  Corduroy is a textile composed of twisted fibers that, when woven, lie parallel to one another to form the cloth's distinct pattern, a "cord." Modern corduroy is most commonly composed of tufted cords, sometimes exhibiting a channel between the tufts...
  
   and Strawberry Shortcake
  Strawberry Shortcake
  Strawberry Shortcake is a licensed character owned by American Greetings, originally used in greeting cards and expanded to include dolls, posters, and other products...
  
  .

Music

As well as cartoons, the channel used to air music videos, in short slots. Named "Tiny Pops", they showed old and new songs from various artists. Originally, the music videos primarily aired, but that later changed to mainly being animated

Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

 music videos, or music videos that tie into popular family films.

Tiny Pop website

Tiny Pop recently had its website launched which includes TV listings, games, jokes, an art gallery, a colouring center and competitions. Shortly after Pop and Pop Girl

Pop Girl

Pop Girl is a free-to-air television channel owned by CSC Media Group, showing cartoons, live action and pop music videos for girls aged 6 to 16...

 had their websites developed.

See also

• Kix!
  Kix (TV channel)
  Kix! is a free-to-air children's and teen's television channel in the UK, broadcasting between 06:00 to 23:30, showing cartoons, extreme sports and music videos. It is owned by CSC Media Group, and was launched on 19 May 2008, replacing a one-hour timeshift of sister channel Pop. Kix! is aimed at...
  
  
• Pop
• Pop Girl
  Pop Girl
  Pop Girl is a free-to-air television channel owned by CSC Media Group, showing cartoons, live action and pop music videos for girls aged 6 to 16...
  
  
• CSC Media Group

External links

• Ofcom licence grant