Smol updates

This Friday we look at a few things as one recovers.

The Adventures of Winnie The Pooh and Christopher Robin always held a fascination for me an recently there has been some news around that.

Winnie-the-Pooh: Tales from the Forest, a brand-new sequel is to be published by HarperCollins’ imprint Farshore on September 28.

Author Jane Riordan was inspired to introduce the little dog Carmen after discovering that Winnie-the-Pooh author A.A. Milne had taken a toy dog mascot called Carmen with him to the trenches in the First World War. 

In a rediscovered article from the Sunday Express in 1966, Daphne Milne, A.A. Milne’s wife, said: "My husband took a toy mascot, a dog called Carmen, to look after him in the First World War. He was saved from the Somme by trench fever.

"He wrote to say that Carmen had found a French germ in the trench and blown it on to him. Four years after that Christopher Robin was born."

WW1 had its challenges and to me this seems like a well thought through way of adding interest and making a connection between all that that conflict bought and the world A. A. Milne brought to life to inspire children.

Another is CITV, which was the children's arm of ITV that morphed into a seperate children's channel on the post digital tv switchover period has ceased to be with the majority of its content being put onto streamed services and a limited so-called Linear channel aka a run of programming in real time on ITV X within its own content.

ITV cite the popularity of streaming which is a more modern replacement for setting up the video cassette record to "tape" shows to watch when it suited us but I feel putting more children's content which prior to all this ITV had been opting out of despite the Public Broadcaster obligations on the main ITV 1 channel instead of the repetative adult series during the day would of been a better idea to try to bring audiences together.

Daytime adult tv is frankly a wasteland of quiz shows, makeovers and endless babbling by people who don't know terribly much.