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Cathy Derrick - Reflecting on Input CBBC

2004-10-29

Cathy is a children's television producer working in the CBBC Future TV Unit, where she is currently producing 'Input CBBC', a children's user-generated content project. Prior to this, she produced the CBBC Access System, an integrated phone/text/web system for the CBBC digital channel.

Paper - Cathy Derrick: Input CBBC Cathy is a children's television producer working in the CBBC Future TV Unit, where she is currently producing 'Input CBBC', a children's user-generated content project. Prior to this, she produced the CBBC Access System, an integrated phone/text/web system for the CBBC digital channel. Cathy has worked on a number of children's programmes for the BBC and ITV, including Blue Peter (she produced over 200 episodes and directed about 50). Another claim to fame is that she is the person who thought up the name 'Cbeebies' for the new pre-school channel. Cathy Derrick reflects on Input CBBC, an Ultralab (1990-2006) /CBBC collaboration project to explore the future of children's television. More about the project can be found on our Summer School website. Extracts from the paper include: "So we launched this research pilot last October – in collaboration with Ultralab (1990-2006), a research centre of Anglia Polytechnic University, who have a lot of experience in this sort of "loose touch" approach to filmmaking with children. We knew from the start that our project would be a tall order – and we wanted to test our ideas harshly – to see if any child, wit…

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