BBC Four & CBBC to close

[Spencer]

Anyone who thinks CBBC and CBeebies could be merged has never had been a parent and felt the sneaky need to take 30-45 minutes for themselves and stick their toddler in front of Swashbuckle, Numberblocks, and the rather brilliant "Andy's (x) Adventures".

I don’t have children, so clearly you have a better insight, but any friends’ or relatives’ children who visit us have specific programmes they want to watch, whether it’s Hey Duggee, Paw Patrol, Peppa Pig or whatever. So they’ll watch exactly what they want on iPlayer or the relevant streaming service. The idea of putting a linear channel on, which may be showing something they’re not interested in, isn’t even a consideration.