Superbus (TVVC)

Superbus is a Kuboian children's television series. Broadcast live, the show ran for three series, with episodes running on Wednesday mornings from 8:30a.m. to 11:00a.m. on both Vision 1 and KT. A magazine show, it featured a variety of games and competitions with cartoons aired in between activities.

History
In late 1999, TVVC Children's Department chairman Arnoud Teuling suggested a weekday morning programme that would capture the charm of Harvy's House whilst modernising the premise to appeal to the current generation. In late 1999, Superbus was publicly announced on the TVVC website. Originally called Playbus, the show's name was changed for marketing purposes.

The first series of Superbus aired in 2000, and was hosted by Lottie Whilton and Blade Holter. A second series aired in 2001, with Holter returning as a co-host and Mina van Trease and Helen Duplooy replacing Whilton. The third and final series aired in 2003.

Format
Superbus was a magazine show. Its titular bus toured around Kuboia and ended up in a different part of the country each week. Events were broken up (and occasionally interrupted) by cartoons.

The show was broadcast live and featured a small audience of approximately ten children each week. In order to appear in the audience for one week, parents would have to apply their children for a chance to be in the audience about one or two months before a new series premiered.

Phone-in competitions
Each week had a phone-in competition in which children could win prizes by phoning the show. The first series invokved the child having to ask a question based on a KT programme, with a choice of three answers (revealed before lines opened). If the child got the question right, they won the prize and if they lost, a different child's call was answered.

The prize offered was usually a PlayStation 2 or a Nintendo GameCube console packaged with a controller and video game. Occasionally the prize would be something else such as a CD player bundled with a compilation CD or tickets to see a film in a Cinezone cinema.