Milkshake! is a television programming block on Channel 5, aimed at children 2 to 7 years old. The strand debuted in 1997 and is broadcast on weekdays from 06:00 to 09:00, and from 07:00 to 10:00 on weekends. Sunday and Monday Mornings its broadcast 05:00 to 09:15/10:00. It used to air on 5* between 09:00 and 13:00 each day until April 2011 when it was replaced by teleshopping. Presentation links for Milkshake! are broadcast live from Channel 5's headquarters in London.

Milkshake! is also available on demand via BT Vision

BT Vision

BT Vision is a hybrid IPTV-digital terrestrial television service provided by BT Group in the United Kingdom which was launched in December 2006...

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Current programmes

• The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky
  The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky
  The Adventures Of Bottle Top Bill And His Best Friend Corky is an Australian children's animated television program that was first screened on ABC2 in 2006. The animation is a mixture of CGI, 2D and stop motion.-Series Synopsis:...
  
  
• Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps
  Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps
  Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps is a British and American CGI animated television series premiered on September 5, 2009, Nick Jr. in 2009, and Discovery Kids Latin America in 2010. A continuation of the Angelina Ballerina series of children's books by Katharine Holabird, the author and Helen...
  
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• Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom
  Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom
  Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom is an animated pre-school children's show set in an enchanted magical kingdom with fairies, elves and insects....
  
  
• Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures
  Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures
  Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures is an animated series developed by Sesame Workshop in which clay-animated versions of Bert and Ernie use their imaginations to travel to strange places and into entertaining situations. The shorts are shown in the United States as inserts on Sesame Street...
  
  
• Castle Farm
• Elmo's World
  Elmo's World
  "Elmo's World" is a segment of the children's television show Sesame Street featuring Elmo, a small, three and a half year old, bright red monster. It debuted on November 16, 1998. Since then, it has been regularly shown during the last fifteen minutes of every Sesame Street episode...
  
  
• Fifi and the Flowertots
• Fireman Sam
  Fireman Sam
  Fireman Sam is a Welsh animated children's television series about a fireman called Sam, his fellow firefighters, and other townspeople in the Welsh town of Pontypandy . The original idea for the show came from two ex-firemen from Kent...
  
  
• Hana's Helpline
• Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs
  Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs
  Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs is a series of children's books written and drawn by Ian Whybrow and Adrian Reynolds. The series is about a 5-year-old boy named Harry, who has a bucket full of dinosaurs. In the books the dinosaurs talk to Harry but seem to be toys to the other characters...
  
  
• Igam Ogam
• Jellikins (coming soon)
• Little Lodgers
• Little Princess
  Little Princess (animated series)
  Little Princess is a children's animated television series. Directed by Edward Foster it debuted in the UK in 2006 and is currently shown there as part of Channel Five's Milkshake! and – as Y Dywysoges Fach – in the children's programming strand Cyw on the Welsh-language channel S4C.In English the...
  
  
• Make Way for Noddy
  Make Way for Noddy
  Make Way for Noddy is an English CGI-animated series for children, produced by Chorion of the United Kingdom in conjunction with SD Entertainment and Shari Lewis Enterprises in the United States...
  
  
• Milkshake! Bop Box
• Milkshake! Monkey
• Milkshake! Music Box
• Milkshake! Show Songs
• The Milky and Shake Show
• Mio Mao
  Mio Mao
  Mio Mao , also known as Mio and Mao, is an Italian children's TV show produced by Misseri Studios , L+H Films , and Channel 5...
  
  
• Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends
  Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends
  Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends is an animated program based on the children's books by David Kirk, which airs on Nick Jr. in the United States, on Treehouse TV in Canada, and on Discovery Kids in Brazil...
  
  
• Mr. Men
  The Mr. Men Show
  The Mr. Men Show is an animated television series based on the original Mr. Men and Little Miss books created in the 1970s, 80s and 90s by British author Roger Hargreaves and his son Adam Hargreaves. Adapted from the published source material into a television variety program, The Mr...
  
  
• Olive the Ostrich (coming soon)
• Olivia
  Olivia (TV series)
  Olivia is a British-American children's animated television series produced by media company Chorion and based on Ian Falconer's books. It is seen on Nick Jr. in the US, Milkshake!, Nick Jr. in the UK and Ireland, and Disney Junior in Latin America and Brazil, Treehouse TV in Canada...
  
  
• Peppa Pig
  Peppa Pig
  Peppa Pig is a British animated television series created directed and produced by Astley Baker Davies and distributed by eOne Entertainment. To date, three series have been aired. It is shown in 180 territories.-Background:...
  
  
• Roary the Racing Car
  Roary the Racing Car
  Roary the Racing Car is an animated children's television show that currently airs on Milkshake! on Five and Nick Jr. in the United Kingdom, PBS Kids Sprout in the United States, Treehouse TV in Canada, Discovery Kids in Latin America, and Nick Jr. and ABC2 in Australia...
  
  
• Roobarb and Custard Too
  Roobarb
  Roobarb is a British animated television programme for children, originally shown on BBC1 just before the evening news. Each cartoon, written by Grange Calveley and animated by Bob Godfrey, was about five minutes long. Thirty episodes were made, and the show was first shown on October 21, 1974...
  
  
• Rupert Bear
  Rupert Bear, Follow the Magic...
  Rupert Bear: Follow the Magic... is a children's television series based on the Mary Tourtel character, Rupert Bear. Aimed at pre-school children, the show is part animated, part computer-generated imagery. Rupert Bear still wears his trademark bright yellow plaid trousers and matching scarf, with...
  
  
• Thomas and Friends (Series 8 onwards)
• The WotWots
  The WotWots
  The WotWots is a New Zealand children's television show which debuted in 2009.The show features two aliens, named SpottyWot and DottyWot, who spend their days exploring a zoo where their steam-powered spaceship has landed.This show also plays on Canada's Treehouse TV which played in early 2010.-...
  
  

Past programmes

• The Adventures of Tintin
  The Adventures of Tintin (TV series)
  The Adventures of Tintin is an animated television series based on The Adventures of Tintin, a series of books by Hergé. It debuted in 1991, and 39 half-hour episodes were produced over the course of three seasons...
  
  
• A House That's Just Like Yours
• Angels of Jarm
• Animal Express
• Anytime Tales
• Babar
  Babar (TV series)
  Babar is an animated television series produced in Canada by Nelvana Limited and The Clifford Ross Company. It premiered in 1989 on CBC and HBO, subsequently was rerun on HBO Family and Qubo. The series is based on Jean de Brunhoff's original Babar books, and was Nelvana's first international...
  
  
• Bagpuss
  Bagpuss
  Bagpuss is a 1974 UK children's television series, made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate through their company Smallfilms. The title character is "an old, saggy cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams"...
  
  
• Beachcomber Bay
• Big School
• Bird Bath
• Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future
  Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future
  Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future is a 1987–88 science fiction/action television series, merging live action with animation based on computer-generated images, that ran for 22 episodes in Canadian/American syndication...
  
  
• Clangers
  Clangers
  Clangers is a popular British stop-motion animated children's television series of short stories about a family of mouse-like creatures who live on, and in, a small blue planet . They speak in whistles, and eat green soup supplied by the Soup Dragon...
  
  
• Collecting Things
• Cubez
• Dappledown Farm
  Dappledown Farm
  Dappledown Farm was a British children's television programme, starring Brian Cant and a series of puppets.-Puppet characters:Puppet characters in the show included: Dapple the Horse, Mabel the Cow, Stubble and Straw, the two mice, Columbus the Cockerel, Lucky Ducky, Colin the Coot, Millie the Moor...
  
  
• Demolition Dad
• Dig and Dug with Daisy
• Ebb and Flo
  Ebb and Flo
  Ebb and Flo is an animated children's television series. It currently airs on five in the United Kingdom. It can also be seen on Nick Jr. in the United States. Each episode is five minutes long.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Eric Carle Stories
• Family

• Fat Dog Mendoza
  Fat Dog Mendoza
  Fat Dog Mendoza is an animated children's show created by Scott Musgrove. The show follows a smart-mouthed dog who is incredibly obese, so much to the point that he is ball shaped with small, stubby legs. Other characters include Little Costumed Buddy, Piranha Mae, and Onion Boy...
  
  
• Funky Town
• Happy Monsters
• Havakazoo
• Hi-5 (Australian TV series)
  Hi-5 (Australian TV series)
  Hi-5, an Australian children's television program, was first shown on the Nine Network in 1999. Hi-5's new Australian cast was announced in Australian talk show Morning with Kerrie-Anne, in February 2009. Hi-5 is now shown in 83 countries. Hi-5 is known as a children's pop music group as well as...
  
  
• Ivor the Engine
  Ivor the Engine
  Ivor the Engine is a British children's animation by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's Smallfilms company. It is a children's television series relating the adventures of a small green locomotive who lived in the "top left-hand corner of Wales" and worked for The Merioneth and Llantisilly Railway...
  
  
• Jane and the Dragon
  Jane and The Dragon (TV series)
  Jane and the Dragon is a CGI animated series based on the books of the same name by Martin Baynton. The show is directed by Mike Fallows and motion capture directed by Peter Salmon; it is co-produced by Weta Workshop in New Zealand and Nelvana Limited in Canada...
  
  
• Jay Jay the Jet Plane
  Jay Jay the Jet Plane
  Jay Jay the Jet Plane is an American CGI children's television series based at the fictional Tarrytown Airport. It has about 60 episodes and it is aimed at ages 2-6. The characters are talking airplanes, a helicopter, some humans, and two talking ground vehicles...
  
  
• Jellikins
• Loggerheads
  Loggerheads (TV series)
  The Loggerheads was an animated cartoon television series by Magma Films. It combined an old viking storylines with dark humour. It lasted only one season and was shown in Germany in 1997, on Britain's Channel Five in 1998 and later on the Pop TV channel, and in Italy TMC2 in 1999.The Story...
  
  
• Max Steel
  Max Steel
  Max Steel is a science fiction–action, CGI, animated series which originally aired from February 25, 2000 to January 15, 2002, based on the Mattel action-figure of the same name. Max Steel ran for three seasons, totaling thirty-five episodes with a predicted audience of young males from the ages of...
  
  
• MechaNick
• Mr. Men and Little Miss
  Mr. Men and Little Miss
  Mr Men and Little Miss aired in both the United Kingdom and the United States. In the United Kingdom, the program was fully animated, and the characters were voiced by British voice actors Geoffrey Palmer, Gordon Peters, Arnold Stang, and Jill Shilling. The show was narrated by Geoffrey Palmer...
  
  
• Muppet Babies
  Muppet Babies
  Jim Henson's Muppet Babies is an American animated television series that aired from September 15, 1984 to November 2, 1991 on CBS. The show portrayed childhood versions of the Muppets living together in a large nursery in the care of a human woman called Nanny...
  
  
• Noggin' the Nog
  Noggin the Nog
  Noggin the Nog is a popular British children's character appearing in his own TV series and series of illustrated books, the brainchild of Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin. The TV series is considered a 'cult classic' from the golden age of British children's television...
  
  
• Old Bear Stories
  Old Bear Stories
  Old Bear Stories was a BAFTA award winning stop frame animation television series for children based on the Old Bear and Friends books by Jane Hissey. Jane Hissey also created the television series, starting it in 1996, and creating 3 seasons, which ended in 1998 with a double-length Christmas...
  
  
• Oswald
  Oswald (TV series)
  Oswald is an American children's cartoon series on Nick Jr. about a blue octopus and his friends, that first aired August 20, 2001 and officially ended in early 2004. The show was created by Dan Yaccarino and was co-produced by HiT Entertainment. It was also shown on Noggin in reruns. The show...
  
  

• P.B Bear and Friends
• Play
• Pocoyo
  Pocoyo
  Pocoyo is a Spanish pre-school animated television series created by Guillermo García Carsí, Luis Gallego and David Cantolla, and is a co-production between Spanish producer Zinkia Entertainment, Cosgrove-Hall Films and Granada International. Two series have been produced, each consisting of 52...
  
  
• Professor Bubble
• Redwall
  Redwall (TV series)
  Redwall is a television series made by Canada-based Nelvana and France-based Alphanim and is based on the Redwall novels by Brian Jacques. The series currently spans three seasons, the first based on the first book Redwall, the second on Mattimeo and the third on Martin the Warrior...
  
  
• Rolie Polie Olie
  Rolie Polie Olie
  Rolie Polie Olie is a children's television series produced by Nelvana and created by William Joyce. The show centers on a little boy who is composed of several spheres and other three-dimensional geometric shapes...
  
  
• Roobarb
  Roobarb
  Roobarb is a British animated television programme for children, originally shown on BBC1 just before the evening news. Each cartoon, written by Grange Calveley and animated by Bob Godfrey, was about five minutes long. Thirty episodes were made, and the show was first shown on October 21, 1974...
  
  
• Sailor Sid
• Sandy and Mr Flapper
• The Save-Ums
  The Save-Ums
  The Save-Ums is a Canadian animated television series produced by DHX Media. It is broadcasted in the Kids' CBC programming block on CBC Television in Canada, in the Ready Set Learn block on Discovery Kids, and TLC in the United States, and Five in the United Kingdom.-Synopsis:The Save-Ums are a...
  
  
• The Secret of Eel Island
• The Singing Kettle
  The Singing Kettle
  The Singing Kettle is a folk music group who are well known for performing traditional children's songs with a distinctly Scottish flair.-Career:...
  
  
• Softies
• Tickle, Patch and Friends
• Titch
  Titch
  Titch can refer to the following:*Titch , a 1990s television series shown on CITV*Little Tich, the stage name of Harry Relph*A nickname for short people...
  
  
• What-a-Mess!
  What-a-Mess
  What-a-Mess is a series of children's books written by British comedy writer Frank Muir and illustrated by Joseph Wright. It was later made into an animated series in the UK in 1990 and again in 1995 by DiC Entertainment and aired on ABC in the United States...
  
  
• Wimzie's House
  Wimzie's House
  Wimzie's House is a Canadian children's television program which ran on YTV from 1995 to 1996, and in the United States on Public Broadcasting Service from October 1, 1997 to August 31, 2001. The show has also aired at least as early as 1995 and through the late-1990s on CBC Television, and on...
  
  
• Wind in the Willows
  The Wind in the Willows (TV series)
  The Wind in the Willows is a 52-episode TV series that was originally broadcast between 1984 and 1987, based on characters from Kenneth Grahame's classic story The Wind in the Willows and following the 1983 film The Wind in the Willows. It was made by animation company Cosgrove Hall for Thames...
  
  

News bulletins

Between 1997 and 2000, the strand featured a news update from ITN's 5 News on weekdays at 08:00.

Presenters

In-vision continuity presenters have been utilised by Milkshake since the strand began in 1997. The original presenters were Konnie Huq

Konnie Huq

Kanak Asha "Konnie" Huq is a British television presenter, who is best known for being the longest-serving female presenter of Blue Peter, having presented it from 1 December 1997 until 23 January 2008...

 and Lucy Alexander

Lucy Alexander

Lucy Alexander is a British television presenter.Alexander graduated at the London Studio Centre in drama and dance. One of her friends there was actress Tamzin Outhwaite.-Presenting career:...

. Huq was replaced by former Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon (UK & Ireland)

Nickelodeon is a children's television channel available on Sky, Virgin Media, Smallworld Cable, TalkTalk TV and UPC Ireland in the United Kingdom and Ireland, including on demand on BT Vision. The channel was launched on 1 September 1993...

 presenter Eddie Matthews when she left the strand to join the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 as a Blue Peter

Blue Peter

Blue Peter is the world's longest-running children's television show, having first aired in 1958. It is shown on CBBC, both in its BBC One programming block and on the CBBC channel. During its history there have been many presenters, often consisting of two women and two men at a time...

 presenter.

The current presenting line up consists of:

• Kemi Majeks (1999–present)
• Derek Moran (2007-present)
• Jennifer Pringle
  Jen Pringle
  Jennifer Kathleen "Jen" Pringle is an English television presenter and actress.Pringle is also a continuity presenter on Milkshake!, the early-morning programming block for young children, and Shake!, the Sunday morning block for older children, on Channel 5.Pringle was born in York, grew up in...
  
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• Amy Thompson (2009-present)

Former presenters

• Naomi Wilkinson
  Naomi Wilkinson
  Naomi Valerie Wilkinson is an English television presenter, actress and producer.Wilkinson, a trained dancer, was the senior continuity presenter of Milkshake!, the early-morning programming block for young children on Channel 5...
  
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• Lucy Alexander
  Lucy Alexander
  Lucy Alexander is a British television presenter.Alexander graduated at the London Studio Centre in drama and dance. One of her friends there was actress Tamzin Outhwaite.-Presenting career:...
  
   (1997–1999)
• Emilia Coxe (2002)
• Philip Ercolano (2002)
• Beth Evans (2004-2010)
• Konnie Huq
  Konnie Huq
  Kanak Asha "Konnie" Huq is a British television presenter, who is best known for being the longest-serving female presenter of Blue Peter, having presented it from 1 December 1997 until 23 January 2008...
  
   (1997)
• Eddie Matthews (1998–2005)
• Andrew McEwan (2006–2007)
• Dave Payne (2007-2009)
• Hannah Williams (2006-2009)

Relief and freelance presenters have also anchored Milkshake continuity links including Quizmania devisor/producer Chuck Thomas and actress Casey-Lee Jolleys

Casey-Lee Jolleys

Casey-Lee Jolleys is a British actress, dancer and performer.Originally from Billinge in Wigan, Lancashire, Jolleys began performing at an early age and by the age of nine, had become a three-time World Champion in Ballet, Tap and Modern dance styles, making television appearances in the...

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