dock10 welcomes BBC One’s new ‘Even Better Than The Real thing’ to The Studios
July 2017
August 2017
Blue Peter Boat Launched at Edinburgh International Television Festival
Family favourite Blue Peter, filmed at dock10, will be celebrating its 60th year of broadcasting in 2018. Ahead of its big birthday, the Edinburgh International Television Festival hosted a Blue Peter special where the audience had the opportunity to make their own origami Blue Peter boat.
The three-masted galleon was originally sketched by TV artist Tony Hart for a Humpty Dumpty story, but it was repurposed by the BBC as the nautical theme matched the title of Blue Peter – a maritime flag meaning ‘ready to set sail’ that symbolises a voyage of adventure and discovery. Hart gave the boat its final iconic form and colour for the first broadcast of Blue Peter on October 16th, 1958.
