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, with Ericka Streets and Spy Fandel acting as occasional hosts.

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.

Gunge
A few of the events on Superbus involved gunge, typically during the final game played during each week. In series one, Whilton and Holter would normally have a bet each week, with whoever losing the bet having to compete in a game against a child contestant, which was usually a face-off where each contestant would take turns being asked questions and could play them or pass them to their rival. Whoever ran out of "lives" first would be covered in gunge, though sometimes the adult contestant was gunged anyway.

In series two and three, usually all three hosts and several of the children in the audience would take part in the final event, which was typically everybody having a race around the studio and/or filming ground and making it back first, typically collecting items along the way. Whoever finished in last placed was gunged in a similar fashion to series one. The children were normally given an advantage over the adults, such as being given a headstart or having other people assisting them.

The prizes for winning the game were similar to that of the phone-in competitions.

Programming
Several KT shows were aired on Superbus in between events.
 * Bill and Ben
 * Bob the Builder
 * Bubble and Tea
 * Cindi and Friends
 * Clifford the Big Red Dog
 * Engie Benjy
 * Ethelbert the Tiger
 * Lisa
 * Maisy
 * Mr. Men and Little Miss
 * Olly
 * Oswald
 * Pablo the Little Red Fox
 * Snailympics
 * The Hurly Whirlys
 * Wiggly Park