A world record for the number of dominoes toppled was set when 4.3m fell during a two-hour TV show. More than 85 people from 13 countries took part in the challenge, which took eight weeks to set up and was a year in the planning. Acrobat and former Miss Finland, Salima Peippo, toppled the first domino...

Popular music show, Top of The Pops will make a welcome return over Christmas The long-running show which ran from 1964 to 2006 will return for two shows over the festive period: a Top of the Pops Christmas Special and Top of the Pops New Year's Eve Special . Both shows will be hosted by Fearne Cotton...

Grange Hill finally comes to and end after 30 years. The final episode of Grange Hill will be shown on BBC One at 1635 BST Link to Grange Hill website

Exercise and limited TV time may keep kids trim. This is the finding of a study by the The American Academy of Pediatric. Talk about stating the obvious!... The report recommends that children devote no more than two hours per day to watching TV and playing video game. Experts encourage children to exercise...

The classic 60's and 70's TV show, The Banana Splits is to return to TV and the Web in September. Known and loved by a generation of kids, now in their 30's 40's and 50's, the hit Hanna-Barbera TV show featured a costumed rock band made up of Fleegle the dog, Drooper the lion, Bingo...

Star of 13 episodes in the mis 70's, that lovable pink stripey cat Bagpuss has been voted the favourites children's TV animal of all time in an online poll organised to mark the launch of the CBeebies Animals magazine. According to the poll, Bagpuss beat other firm favouries including Tom and...