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Created by
  
The Foundation

Final episode date
  
14 December 2008

5/10
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Genre
  
Children's television

Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

Networks
  
ITV, CITV

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Written by
  
Nic AylingVanessa Amberleigh

Directed by
  
Michael KerriganJason Garbett

Theme music composer
  
Ian PorterPeter Miller

Presented by
  
Stephen Mulhern, Fearne Cotton, Naomi Wilkinson, Tim Dixon

Cast
  
Fearne Cotton, Stephen Mulhern, Naomi Wilkinson, Tim Dixon

Finger Tips is a British children's television series produced by RDF Media's children's production division, The Foundation. It was made primarily for CITV and was broadcast from 2 January 2001 to 14 December 2008. The logo design is very similar to the Hi-5 logo.

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The presenters were Stephen Mulhern and Fearne Cotton (later replaced by Naomi Wilkinson in series 4–5 and Tim Dixon for series 5). The show is about creating things out of household items and aimed at a child audience. The programme manager was Wendy Larkin. It was recorded at The Maidstone Studios in Kent, former home to TVS Television and countless other children's programming.

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Format

There are different categories:

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  • Finger Tips Top Make: A major project, normally at the start of the show
  • Food Finger Tips: Easy cooking and baking recipes
  • Fun Finger Tips: Self-made games
  • Little Finger Tips: Items made for making over odds and ends from around the home
  • Makeover Finger Tips: Basically the same as "Little Finger Tips"- replaced it in later shows

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    "Top Make" and "Little" or "Make-Over Finger Tips" featured in every show, and "Fun" and "Food Tips" were usually in alternate shows. There were also more specialised categories which ran briefly, they were:


  • Fizzics Finger-Tips: Fun science experiments
  • Cryptic Finger-Tips: A special series on code-breakers
  • Green Finger-Tips: Plant-related projects
  • Techno Finger-Tips: Projects using a computer
  • Let's get Finger-Tipping: Computer stuff

    • Special challenge is the "One-Minute-Make". In this game one of the presenters tries to make something with only a few things in less than 60 seconds. This featured in every show, with one presenter making the project, and the other timing it, alternating in each episode.

    2008 revival

    Although the programme was de-commissioned in 2004, when ITV axed children's programming, it was revived for 2008 and a new series of 30 programmes were aired from September to December 2008.

    Series guide

  • Series 1: 13 x 17′ (3 September 2001 – 26 November 2001)
  • Series 2: 20 x 15’ / 7 x 10’ / 3 x 5’ (2 September 2002 – 27 September 2002)
  • Series 3: 20 x 15’ / 5 x 12’ (2 June 2003 – 27 June 2003)
  • Series 4: 13 x 15’ / 7 x 5’ (10 June 2004 – 2 September 2004)
  • Series 5: 30 x 15’ / 30 x 11’ (6 September 2008 – 14 December 2008)

    • International broadcast

    The show has also been broadcast in Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany (Super RTL since September 2004), Greece, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Slovenia, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam and Romania.

    References

    Finger Tips Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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