All Over the Place is a children's television programme produced by the BBC. It is similar in ways to the discontinued programme Wonderful World of Weird, however All Over the Place is not principally a game show. It features the former CBBC links presenter Ed Petrie as lead presenter, joined across the series by various other CBBC hosts including Chris Johnson, Ceallach Spellman, Richard Wisker, Barney Harwood, Naomi Wilkinson, Sam and Mark, Michelle Ackerley, Johny Pitts and Iain Stirling.
The first two series featured attractions and events primarily in the United Kingdom. The third took the same format but travelled around the USA; the fourth series was based in Australia and the fifth and sixth visited countries around Europe. The 7th and 8th series are about Asia. All Over the Place Asia Part 1 was broadcast on CBBC on Monday 16 January 2017. This new series included new presenter Inel Tomlinson. The eighth series, All Over The Place Asia part 2, was broadcast on Saturday 6 January 2017 and every Saturday for 15 weeks.
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Format
The show features the presenters travelling all over the place in the UK and finding strange and random places to visit. Most of the segments include a competition of some kind or a song. Places visited include:
- Air guitar world championships
- Bat hospital on the Isle of Wight
- The world's largest vacuum cleaner collection, whose owner could tell any vacuum cleaner from its sound alone
- Preston Bus Station
- The Alnwick Castle treehouse
- The Storybook Glen
- The Superlambanana in Liverpool.
The show also features different segments throughout each series including:
- Things that stick out of the (sea, river, ground etc.)
- Grown-ups collect stuff too
- Why have we stopped here....because it's random
- What are you thinking?
- Things that you see, when you stop for a...
- Things that you munch, when you stop for your lunch
- Bet you didn't know this about.....
- The Song
- The Main Event
Maps All Over the Place (TV series)
Presenters
Main presenter
Co-presenters
Episodes
Series 1 (UK)
Series 2 (UK)
Series 3 (USA)
A third series was confirmed at the end of Series 2, it was filmed in 2012 and aired in 2013. Instead of being set in the U.K, the presenters are going across the Atlantic to the USA. All Over the Place returns to CBBC for a third series, and this time Ed Petrie and his CBBC mates are off to the USA.
Ed is joined by Naomi Wilkinson, Jonny Pitts, Cellach Spellman, Iain Stirling, Richard Wisker and Michelle Ackerley on a bizarre quest to find the most unusual, strange and amazing places to visit in the United States of America.
All Over the Place USA is executive produced by Louise Corbett and produced by Maria Stewart.
Series 4 (Australia)
A fourth series, All Over the Place Australia, was broadcast from 2014. As the title indicates, this series focuses on events and attractions found Down Under.
Series 5 (Europe)
A fifth series, All Over the Place Europe, began airing on CBBC in early 2015. The show follows the usual AOTP format, including regular fixtures such as 'Grown Ups Collect Stuff Too', 'Things that Stick Out...', 'The Song' and 'The Main Event', and applies it to attractions found in countries across the continent of Europe. Newcomers to the presenter lineup this series include Victoria Cook (of DNN).
Series 6 (Europe)
A sixth series, All Over the Place Europe: Part 2, began airing on CBBC from 4-22 January 2016 with newcomers Ben Shires from Officially Amazing and Match of the Day Kickabout, Susan Calman (from Top Class) and Lauren Layfield (from CBBC HQ and The Dengineers)
Series 7 (Asia)
Ed Petrie confirmed on Twitter that All Over the Place Asia began filming in 2016 and will be broadcast in 2017. He then later announced that the new series would start on Monday 16 January 2017 at 7.45am, on CBBC with returning presenter, Cel Spellman , whose last All Over the Place series was series 4 in Australia, and new presenter Inel Tomlinson , known for being part of the comic duo, Johnny & Inel.
Series 8 (Asia Part 2 )
Ed Petrie confirmed on Facebook that All Over the Place Asia Part 2, began filming in 2017 and will be broadcast in 2018. He then later announced that the new series would start on Saturday 6 January 2018 at 9.00am, on CBBC. This series was also the first one to not have Ed Petrie appear in every section as some co-presenters doubled up, such as Chris Johnson with Lauren Layfield and Johnny Cochrane with Inel Tomlinson. The new series contained returning presenter Barney Harwood from Blue Peter, whose last All Over the Place series was Series 6 in Europe, and new presenters Ricky Martin from Art Ninja, Tee Cee from WHOOPS I MISSED THE BUS, Bobby Lockwood from Wolfblood, Richard David-Caine from Class Dismissed (TV series) and Johnny Cochrane from The Johnny and Inel Show. Johnny is also the other half of 'Johnny and Inel' (Inel already appears in the show).
Accolades
Spin-off
In 2016, a spin-off series titled All Over the Workplace premiered. The series is hosted by Alex Riley and is narrated by Ed Petrie. Two series have aired.
References
External links
- All Over the Place at BBC Online
- All Over the Place at BBC Programmes
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