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List of BBC children's television programmes

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ3254968 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a list of CBBC programmes that are currently and formerly being broadcast on the children's television strand of the BBC in the United Kingdom.

Current programming

Live action

Animation

Upcoming

Adventure Time

Andy and the Band - Rock Star School

Anisha, Accidental Detective

Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!

Children Vs Battle SuperStars

Dungeons & Kittens

Little Lunch: New Class

My Life is a Manga

Regular Show

Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?

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This entry incorporates text from “List of BBC children's television programmes” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.