TV Mayhem was a replacement of Hey Hey It's Saturday

Hey Hey It's Saturday

Hey Hey It's Saturday was a long-running variety television program on Australian television. It initially ran for 27 years , debuting on the Nine Network on 9 October 1971 and broadcasting its last episode on 20 November 1999. Its host throughout its entire run was Daryl Somers, who would later...

, and aired from September 1991 for just six weeks, it was originally to run for 40 weeks. It starred Chris Evans, later to co-host The Big Breakfast

The Big Breakfast

The Big Breakfast was a British light entertainment television show shown on Channel 4 and S4C each weekday morning from 28 September 1992 until 29 March 2002 during which period 2,482 shows were produced. The Big Breakfast was produced by Planet 24, the production company co-owned by former...

in 1992 on Channel 4

Channel 4

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. It was cancelled after TV-am

TV-am

TV-am was a breakfast television station that broadcast to the United Kingdom from 1 February 1983 to 31 December 1992. It made history by being the first national operator of a commercial television franchise at breakfast-time , and broadcast every day of the week for most or all of the period...

 lost its licence to GMTV

GMTV

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 on October 16.

Neither Hey Hey It's Saturday or TV Mayhem ever enjoyed the success of the Wide Awake Club or WAC '90.

TV-am replaced TV Mayhem with Cartoon World, which as the name suggests showed just cartoons, which ran from November 1991, until TV-am's demise in December 1992.