schedules

This section is all about the broadcasts of Look and Read.

Look and Read is currently being shown in the UK on BBC2, and in Australia on ABC1.

UK

Autumn 2009

	Shadow Play Taking shelter from a storm in a desolate house, a boy discovers that he can witness a mystery from Victorian times unfold in the screen of his camcorder.
	BBC Two: Tuesdays 11:40am 11th October - 1st December 2009 (2 episodes from 11:20am on 1st December) 5 × 20 minute episodes

History

These quick-reference tables show the complete history of Look and Read broadcasts on BBC1 & BBC2, from the very beginning in 1967 right up to the present.

• History by academic year
• History by calendar year

These longer pages give the date and time of every broadcast of Look and Read programmes on the main BBC channels, ever. The only known omission is that Out of School broadcasts (previews for teachers and parents during the school holidays) are not currently covered. But all transmissions to schools are!

• The 1960s
• The 1970s
• The 1980s
• The 1990s
• The 2000s

• CBBC Channel - 2002
• CBBC Channel - 2003
• CBBC Channel - 2004
• CBBC Channel - 2005
• CBBC Channel - 2006
• CBBC Channel - 2007
• CBBC Channel - 2008

From February 2002 until March 2008 schools programmes were shown on the CBBC Channel in a block called "Class TV". However this has now stopped.

The latest "service licence" for CBBC, issued by the BBC Trust in April 2008, only requires that the Channel shows "factual programming", rather than "factual and schools programming"^[1]. The Channel therefore plans to show their own factual programmes rather than any schools programmes, which are owned and managed by a different department of the BBC.

CBBC's final schools programme was English Express: Own Goal episode 5, on 20th March 2008. Their final Look and Read story was Through the Dragon's Eye, in February 2008.

Australia

Second Term 2009

	Spelling with the Spellits (Programmes 1 & 2 only) Cartoon characters the Spellits give fun tips on spelling, along with memorable comedy sketches and animations.
	ABC1: Mondays 10:20am 31st August - 7th September 2009 repeated 16th - 23rd November 2009 2 × 20 minute episodes (this will be the last run of these programmes on the ABC, and probably the last run of any Look and Read programmes full stop.)

Other Broadcasts

Other known broadcasts:

• Many Look and Read programmes were shown on the international channel BBC Prime when it decided to broadcast schools programmes from 2004 to 2006. The units shown were: Captain Crimson, The Legend of the Lost Keys, Sky Hunter II, Spelling Strategies, Spelling with the Spellits and Zzaap and the Word Master.

• Zzaap and the Word Master was shown several times on Teachers' TV in the UK. The first run was 25th July - 1st August 2005.

• TVIQ in Malaysia has shown several Look and Read stories. Most recently they showed Spelling Strategies on 16th - 18th May 2007, and from November 2007 there have been more stories including Sky Hunter II and Captain Crimson.

If you have details of any other broadcasts of Look and Read, please get in touch.

1. ↑ Changes to the CBBC Channel service licence - the BBC Trust "Service Licence reissue, April 2008 Explanatory note on the variations" pp.11-12 explains that "the Trust has agreed that CBBC may cease broadcast of schools programming."