Bishop [Nigel] McCulloch said in a House of Lords debate on public service broadcasting: “The BBC insists that its plans for moving departments are on course, and that includes children’s programmes, but what children’s programmes?
“Many of us are dismayed about the diminution of quantity and quality in children’s television provision.”
He pointed to the quality in previous times of Blue Peter, Crackerjack and The Railway Children.
The best “children’s programming” is none at all. Children should be read to and encouraged to have imaginative play. Even “Sesame Street” and other “learning programs” are a form of “plug-in-drug” that should be avoided at all costs.