The Singing Kettle News

The Singing Kettle News
Created by Adrian Edwards
Opening theme Gary Coupland
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
Production
Producer(s) Kettle Productions
Running time 10-15 minutes
Production company(s) CITV for STV
Distributor STV
Release
Original network ITV
Original release 11 September 1995 (1995-09-11) – 4 December 2000 (2000-12-04)
External links
Website

The Singing Kettle News was an award-winning children's series that run on CITV. The show starred The Singing Kettle, a children's group who were well known for performing traditional children's songs with a distinctly Scottish flair.

About The Series

In total Four series were created lasting of 37 x 10 min episodes. The aim of the show was to meet the deadline set by 'Mr Editor' and create front page news. The Singing Kettle had to find lead stories for 'kettle News' by singing songs and telling stories. Each episode contained Two songs, from series Two onwards, the series was performed in front of an audience of children. In series One, the famous rhyme was used at the end shortly before the closing credits in each episode, to retrieve the newspapers that had been put together that episode. In series Two, the opening theme was shortened and the rhyme was re-introduced, panning across the audience.

From Series Three the series title was shortened to just The Singing Kettle, with new music and theme to the show.

In 2016, the series produced for Scottish Television began airing on STV Glasgow and STV Edinburgh as part of their 'Wean's World' children's programming strand.

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