The news earlier this month that ITV children's channel CITV is set to be axed after almost 20 years on the air has left a generation reminiscing about the carefree days when they watched it religiously after coming home from school.
The legendary kids channel, which first launched as a block on ITV and STV back in 1983, before becoming a channel in its own right in 2006, will be replaced by a new online streaming service called ITVX Kids later this year.
This development has got us thinking back through the decades and all of the many other children's television programmes that have come and gone along the way - and also the people who presented them.
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For a long time, children's telly has served as a springboard for budding actors and entertainers to build their careers, including a healthy number of Edinburgh-born personalities.
So, as an era comes to an end with the passing of CITV, we at Edinburgh Live thought it would be worthwhile doing a roundup of Edinburgh's many former stars of children's television and where they ended up.
Sally Gray
Edinburgh-born Sally Gray became a recognisable face on children's television in the 1990s, starring on a string of popular shows for CBBC, including 50/50, It'll Never Work and Record Breakers.
In the 2000s, Sally began presenting lifestyle shows for ITV and the BBC, such as Moving Day and Real Rooms. She also had a stint as a reporter on GMTV.
Sally gave up her television career in 2008. She got married the following year and now has two children.
Gail Porter
Our very own Gail Porter was making waves in the world of kids TV in the 1990s, with starring stints on a whole host of BBC and ITV shows, including Fully Booked, MegaMag, Up For It! Live & Kicking and Children in Need.
While also focusing on modelling for a spell, Gail's television presenting career continued into the 2000s. However, on screen offers sadly became thin on the ground for the former Portobello High School pupil in the wake of her well-publicised battle with alopecia.
She has thankfully made a bit of a comeback on both television and radio in recent years and is is due to launch her stand-up comedy career at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer.
Grant Stott
He's so well-known as an active soap actor, radio DJ and panto star these days, it's easy to forget that Grant Stott was once a mainstay on kids telly back in the 1990s.
Stott, who is the brother of fellow former TV presenter John Leslie, began in children's television in 1992 and would go on to host shows for both the BBC and STV. He is remembered most fondly during this time perhaps for his stint on the weekend children's show Fully Booked which appeared on BBC Scotland between 1995 and 1997.
Romana D'annunzio
In 1996, Italo-Scot Romana D'annunzio became only the second Edinburgh host of Blue Peter when she replaced the outgoing Diane-Louise Jordan.
Romana co-presented the show for two years alongside Tim Vincent, Stuart Miles, Katy Hill, Richard Bacon and Konnie Huq.
She left the world of television for good in the 2000s, retraining to become a teacher of English.
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John Leslie
John Leslie was for a spell one of the UK's most popular TV presenters - but his career was in tatters after finding himself in the middle of a media storm.
During his rise to stardom in the 1990s he had a succession of glamorous celebrity girlfriends, became the first Scottish host of children's favourite Blue Peter and later hosted Wheel of Fortune and This Morning alongside Fern Britton.
Things began to unravel for the television star in 2002 when he was wrongly named by fellow TV host Matthew Wright as the alleged rapist of Ulrika Jonsson. The allegations proved to be unfounded and Leslie was never charged for the offence.
In the years since, Leslie has faced other allegations of sexual assault and misconduct, but has been cleared on each occasion.
The former children's TV star now leads a very private life. In recent years he has hosted a radio show on local Edinburgh station Castle FM and has DJ'd at city nightclubs.
Iain Stirling
In 2009, as a fresh-faced 21-year-old, Edinburgh comic Iain Stirling got his big break when he was chosen for a presenting role for the CBBC Channel after being spotted at a gig. Over the next few years, Iain built up a memorable rapport with his CBBC canine sidekick 'Hacker'.
Iain left CBBC in 2013 but returned two years later for the programme's 30th anniversary. He went on present shows like The Dog Ate My Homework and Love Island and in 2021 he created sitcom Buffering, which aired on ITV2.
In the past few years, Iain has built up a following of more than 66,000 people on Twitch and regularly streams on the service.
He is married to former Love Island presenter Laura Whitmore and the pair have a young daughter together.
Douglas Rae
We're going a wee bit further time with this one, but it would be remiss of us not to mention Edinburgh's own Douglas Rae, who made a name for himself as one of the presenters of the long-running Thames Television kids' series Magpie.
After leaving Magpie in 1977, Douglas moved behind the camera, and quietly became a well-known producer in the UK TV and film industry.
Now aged 75, Douglas Rae has been the executive producer on an impressive list of successful shows, including the BBC's Monarch of the Glen, while the independent production company he founded has been responsible for box office smashes such as The Water Horse, Mrs Brown and John Lennon biographical drama Nowhere Boy.
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