All Over the Place (TV programme)
All Over the Place is a children's television program produced by the BBC. It features the former CBBC links presenter Ed Petrie as lead presenter, joined across the series by various other CBBC hosts including Chris Johnson, Cel Spellman, Richard Wisker, Barney Harwood, Naomi Wilkinson, Sam & Mark, Michelle Ackerley, Lauren Layfield, 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 a new presenter Inel Tomlinson. The eighth series, All Over The Place Asia part 2, was broadcast on Saturday 6 January 2018, and every Saturday for 15 weeks.
Format
The show features the presenters traveling all over the place in the UK and finding strange places to visit. Almost every episode includes a song and a competition segment at the end of the show.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.
- Diggerland in Kent
- A World War II veteran pigeon named Paddy
- Dickens World
- Shakespeare's home town of Stratford-Upon-Avon
- Things that stick out of the
- 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
Episodes
Series 1 (UK)
; The songs featured in Series 1 include:- Storybook Glen
- Castle Ward
- The 8 Wonders of the Isle of Wight
- Do the Twisted Spire
- Chinese Arch
- Preston Bus Station
- Marsden Grotto
- Lost Gardens of Heligan
- Burning House
- House in the Clouds
- Rollercoaster
- Longest Train Station Name in the UK
Series 2 (UK)
;The songs featured in series 2 include:- Gold Panning
- Paddy the Pigeon
- Llandudno
- Shakespeare
- Can I Dig It?
- Hellfire
- Ayot St. Lawrence
- Penguin Face
- Rugby
- Fight For This Earth
- Dickensworld
- Funicular
Series 3 (USA)
Source: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 visited the United States.
Ed was joined by Naomi Wilkinson, Jonny Pitts, Cellach Spellman, Iain Stirling, Richard Wisker and Michelle Ackerley.
All Over the Place USA was executive produced by Louise Corbett and produced by Maria Stewart.
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- Tombstone Cowboys
- Nyberg
- Las Vegas Wedding
- Mall of America
- Troll Town
- They Built This White House Upside Down
- Petrified
- London Bridge Ain’t Falling Down
- Giant Christmas Store
- Heidelberg Project
- Party Shop
- Paul Bunyan Land
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 in Australia.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 them to attractions found in countries across Europe. Newcomers to the presenter lineup this series include Victoria Cook.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 and Lauren Layfield.Series 7 (Asia)
Ed Petrie confirmed on Twitter that All Over the Place Asia began filming in 2016 and would be broadcast in 2017. He 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 would be broadcast in 2018. He 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 and Johnny Cochrane from The Johnny and Inel Show. Johnny is also the other half of 'Johnny and Inel'.Series 8 Episode 1
Title: Supertrees, Laughter Yoga and Rockets
Start block: Gardeners of the Galaxy
Why have we stopped here? Because it's random
Song: Mepantigan Mud Games
Things that you munch, when you stop for your lunch
Ed vs Richard: The Main Event
Series 8 Episode 2
Title: Komodo Dragons, K-Pop and Songkran
Start block: Komodo Dragons
Things That Stick Out of the...
Song: Seoul fan fused with K-Pop Star
Things that you munch...when you stop for your lunch
Inel vs Johnny: The Main Event