Bamzooki
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Host
Jake Humphrey (2004-6)
Barney Harwood and Gemma Hunt (2009-)
Co-host
Announcer/commentator: Richard Webb
Broadcast
CBBC Channel 8 March 2004 to present
Also repeated on BBC1, 2004 and BBC2 2005-6
Synopsis
In Bamzooki Kids design Pokemon-esque creatures which are then rendered by computer. Two teams then set their creatures against each other in a series of games in a virtual studio, hoping to earn a time advantage in the exciting relay end game. A FightBox Junior, if you must.
Typographic pedantry alert: the correct title is BAMZOOKi, as in iMAC, iPOD, iCARLY, iDONTCARE etc. but that makes our server's hard drive ache.
After three years off air, Bamzooki returned in 2009 with new presenters and enhanced graphics.
Inventor
Producer, Paul Tyler
Videos
Trivia
Here's something utterly obscure we found. Bamzooki has always been edited digitally, and was the first show to be made without a single handwritten note to say things like "use take 1 from 0:36:42" - these were all entered onto a computer system as the show went along. The BBC went on to enhance this production system, called it "Ingex", used it on such shows as Dragons' Den and Eastenders, and it won a Royal Television Society innovation award in 2009. The BBC's Research and Development blog explains further, with a video demonstration.
