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SMTV Live became notable for various elements including a sketch based on Pokémon, the phone competition of "Wonkey Donkey", and the late morning edition of CD:UK that the presenters of the programme were involved in towards the end of the morning schedule. The programme was regularly popular with its audiences, attracting around 2.5 million ...
The meat of SM:TV was a run of regular features, games and skits. Wonky Donkey was a poetry game where a caller had to rhyme a soft toy animal – often in a mood – with a characteristic.
The Wonky Donkey is a 2009 children's book by New Zealander Craig Smith. [1] It is illustrated by British-born Katz Cowley, who has a degree in Illustration from the University of Northumbria. [2] The book is based upon a song that Smith wrote in 2005 after hearing the joke: "What do you call a donkey with three legs? – A wonky donkey".
CD:UK (CountDown:United Kingdom), stylised as cd:uk, was a music television programme that ran in the United Kingdom from 29 August 1998 to 1 April 2006.Originally run in conjunction with SMTV Live, the programme aired on ITV as a rival to the BBC's Live & Kicking and was the replacement for The Chart Show, which had been airing on the network for nine years.
In 1995, he composed the music for The Ant & Dec Show on Children's BBC, and later worked on their SMTV Live programme, for which he wrote the 'Wonky Donkey' jingle, among other themes. He continued to work extensively as a jingle writer for their ITV show Saturday Night Takeaway .
The programme's success was the mix of games such as Eat My Goal, Wonkey Donkey and Challenge Ant, sketches such as "Dec Says" and the "Secret of My Success", and the chemistry between Ant, Dec, and Deeley. Two SMTV VHS cassettes, compiling highlights from both shows, were released in 2000 and 2001.
The Wonky Donkey This page was last edited on 21 May 2023, at 23:21 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
The phone-in game "Wonkey Donkey" first appeared on SMTV Live from 1998. Also see: The Return Of Wonkey Donkey on Saturday Night Takeaway (2015): here. I am surprised there is no mention of this in the article, given that it pre-dated Smith's song and book by many years. 205.239.40.3 16:56, 4 November 2022 (UTC)