The late 90's early 2000's really were a magical time

I think my favourite thing about watching this, besides being reminded of the hilarity, is how much everyone wanted to be there. You have these insanely wealthy, busy guests, who wanted nothing better than to make ridiculous sketches with a couple of geordie lads and a brummie lass. It's a rare thing where something on mainstream TV makes everyone come together on a similar good vibe, kids, parents, celebrities, presenters, production crew, even the executives appreciated it was something to celebrate. That in itself is special. My thanks to everyone involved for being a bright spot on many families' Saturday mornings across the country.

This show really was lightning captured in a bottle

I love that they thought Misty was this throw away character in Pokemon and Gary was one of the main characters.

I remembered "SM TV Live" on the TV 📺 when we watched it when we were children, a history and a memory forever.

SM: TV was one of my main reasons for getting up early every Saturday morning, it was such a magical time to be a child

I wasn't even a young kid when this show started, I was 16, and I would give my right arm to watch just one more episode ❤️

This was my reason for waking up on a Saturday as a young teen. This made me smile remembering those days again but a little sad that the energy and excitement of those days have passed.

I remember applying to be on Challenge Ant and getting a rejection letter in the post. Good times.

Still the greatest thing these 2 ever did

I'm not crying, you are 😢😢😢 Love this so much, I don't know how they kept their emotions in check for most of the time, I would have been crying the whole time. The friendship between all three of them is impecible 💗

The fact that the presenters and the producers had absolutely no idea what Pokemon was or what the hell they were doing when they were making the sketches just makes it even more hilarious and brilliant.

SM:TV truly was everything they say it was and more and it's nice to read the comments from the younger generation who can appreciate how amazing it was, even though they were not yet born. My Nephew was shocked when he realised I knew what Pokemon was and that I watched and played it myself as a kid. I'd have been 9 years old when the show first started and no other TV show has made me feel the same way as this one did. So sad that it ended way before it should have done, but at least it was on a high and we can remember it for the brilliance that it was. Never have stopped crushing on Dec. So happy I grew up in the 90's.

I'm glad ant, Dec and cat all have successful careers and still have a strong bond with each other and are still great friends

The pokemon sketches were legend. It was awesome to not have cable and be able to watch it.

Oh man, miss growing up in the 90's. My birthday is December 6th and I had just joined year 8. Used to prefer watching this to live and kicking. Ant and Dec and Cat were great together. They were great at ad-libbing and their impromptu jokes.

They should have shown a montage of the Postbag clips where they would receive some disgusting food from one of their viewers and the crowd enthusiastically demanding them to eat the said item. Everyone in the studio would chant "EAT IT!!! EAT IT!!! EAT IT!!!..." and so on, and when they eventually DID eat it, the hosts and the audience' disgusting reactions are priceless

This and Soccer AM were my favorite weekend morning shows through my childhood and early-mid teen years

Loved SM:TV Live was a part of our Childhoods in the 1990s :D every Saturday was worth getting up for

I grew up with this show loved Cat the Dog from Birmingham

Still to this day get that nostalgic feeling of watching this show as a kid every Saturday morning, no worries no stress, just turning on my 14inch box tv in my bedroom to lay back and soak up the entertainment on offer from these three!! Still gutted it finished now n I’m 36😆😆

I was 11 when this first came on tv. Tv worth getting up for on a Saturday morning. Nothing like it since

I never watched this as a kid because I wasn’t born yet, but I can tell this show was an amazing thing to watch ❤️

SM:TV was so amazing and definitely the best Saturday morning kids show ever made. To this day I still laugh my head off at sketches and bits from the show the same as I did as a 10 year old boy when it first came on. It's a shame that kids today don't have something like this to enjoy. Also, I love that the security guard during the Jerry Springer clip is non other than WWE legend Kurt Angle. Oh it's true, it's damn true!

Between 1998 and 2001 was the best ever. You'll never have anything this amazing on TV again. The last shot of the lights being switched off was the end of an era and the end TV as we knew it.

I think around November 7 or 14, 1998, the ACTUAL format of SMTV Live started to kick in they had ACTUAL variety with a studio audience, comedy sketches and the guest stars constantly visiting the studio like every other Saturday morning kids sketch comedy shows ever made

Loved it so much as a kid.

Actual childhood. The only reason to wake up at 9am on a saturday

SM:TV live will eternally hold a special place in my heart and soul.it was always what got me up on a Saturday and it was just crazy fun chaotic mental madness.it is my childhood and always will be.it was the best of the best.❤

23:18 The Pokemon Rap is Ant & Cat's worst nightmare not gonna lie

Ant + Dec it has been over 30 years you been on TV not 30! Lovd this show and CD:UK! Also said Andi Peters Children's TV Presenter 1989-1996, ummm you mean 1988!

Why did things like this have to end. The 90s and early 2000s was the best time to live in. 🤔😢

I consider myself extremely lucky for growing up in those times

"Center partings were very fashionable in the 90's" Blissfully unaware that they're also very fashionable now

The way the TV and internet streaming is now, we will never get another show like this again. A great shame.

Nigel Pickard was a veteran of Saturday Mornings himself being the producer of earlier hit ITV shows Number 73, MotorMouth and What’s Up Doc? There were two pivotal moments that propelled SMTV to the show it became, the first was that ITV poached Live and Kickings script writers and then soon after Jamie Theakston and Zoe Ball left the show.

Gosh, I remember that last episode of SM:TV almost like it was yesterday.

What date episodes are these archived SMTV Live clips from? The only ones I know the dates for are: 1st episode - 29th August 1998 Eggy Pumps in the Cookie Jar - 19th June 1999 Ant hates Dec's Sabrina poems - 4th September 1999 CHUMS: S Club 7 - 4th September 1999 CHUMS: Sting - 11th September 1999 First Sabrina's Novel - 18th September 1999 CHUMS: Sir Tom Jones - 18th September 1999 First Pokefight - 23rd October 1999 Sabrina's Novel: Kylie Minogue - 23rd October 1999 Pokefight: Cake-Azor - 30th October 1999 Monkey Donkey: Jolly Colly - 27th November 1999 Challenge Ant: Ant vs. Thomas Drake - 4th December 1999 Pokerap: Sol Campbell - 29th January 2000 Pokerap: Kim from the Vengaboys - 5th February 2000 Pokefight: Let's go for a kebab - 12th February 2000 Dec Says: Dec and Geri Haliwell at the Movie Theater - 4th March 2000 Robbie vs. Liam Fight - 11th March 2000 Pokefight: Dec starstruck by Bryan from Westlife - 18th March 2000 Cat Chat hotline - 23rd and 30th September 2000 Final Pokerap - 25th November 2000 Monkey Donkey: Twee Bee - 25th November, 2nd December and 9th December 2000 The Beautiful Corrs - 20th October 2001 The Secret of My Success: Baker Grove Tribute - 1st December 2001 CHUMS: The One with the Wedding - 1st December 2001 Series Finale - 27th December 2003

Kurt Angle having a cameo in the Jerry Springer episode

Thank you so much for uploading this, plus the transcript for the mute part.

i never missed an episode of sm:tv.it was what Saturday morning was all about.

If Bryan McFadden EVER reunited with the other four members of Westlife, I can imagine Dec yelling in starstruck inside my brain

It's amazing that Warner Bros never sued them over chums.

Live & Kicking (1993-2001) SMTV Live (1998-2003) CD UK (1998-2006) The Saturday Show (2001-2006) Ministry of Mayhem (2004-2006) The five TRUE kids' sketch comedy programs to emphasize your Saturday morning weekends

This was amazing, I love it memories forever

watching this just takes me back

I want to hear interviews of Ant, Dec & Cat's other successors Brian, Tess, Des and Shavaughn and some behind the scenes secrets they didn't notice during that era.

Disappointed they didn't play the Ant Aid CHUMS from the 100th Episode (July 22, 2000)

Live & Kicking could never compare or compete

Never get away with any of this now. Us 90's kids were hardcore we knew how to have fun and not take offence. Calling a kid stupid or thick live on air, cancel culture would be all over it. I feel sorry kids today. SMTV was a modern day Tiswas.

Nice touch, Len - Steal My Sunshine.

Chums gained weekday repeats during CITV

This was great, but I was a bit disappointed they didn't cover Ant's Song. It would have been great to have heard them singing 'We All Love Cat Deeley' again. Also, I was surprised that they didn't show the 'Ant Aid' episode of Chums. They talked about all the celebrities getting involved, but that episode I recall was ridiculous as they packed out the set with celebrities (not Mariah Carey stature, but it was still ridiculous) singing 'Blink For Ant', Band Aid-style to help Ant who was faking an eye problem.

we all miss it

I've watched this a hundred times and I still cried at the part where they kissed at their wedding :') My GoD ThIs GoT EmOtInAL ReAllY QuIcK!!! (p.s I wasn't born when the show was published but just by watching this, I know SM:TV was brilliant!)

This was my childhood, I miss it so much, kids don’t want tv shows to be safe that’s why smtv worked.

I DEMAND SMTV FULLON REBOOT

I loved this show so much. Not a care in the world during these times.😎

Did anyone else have the volume cut out about thirty minutes in?

Saturday mornings was worth watching back then

Great stuff.

36:14/36:15 That look on Ant's face He KNOWS what's coming lol

🤣🤣🤣 Westfield trying to pretend their singing live while laughing their heads off 😆

Some things like that will never happen again as broadcast tv is on the way out witch in a way is sad but still if itv could do smtv live on internet am sure it might gane traction

They didn't point out that the prizes would be sent to the fans watching at home if the child lost Challenge Ant and received the tissue/hankerchief as the consolation prize.

42:40-43:12 what is the background song the one used for the opening of the dec says secret if my success sketch

I'm shocked that they didn't show the Live Aid parody episode of Chums You know the one from the 100th broadcast on July 22, 2000 That episode was pretty funny. Also, the "Blink for Ant" song was I considered as the crowning moment of the show's entire run.

Best thing to come out of itv since the early days of number 73 and tiswas. In the case of nunber 73 it was the Sandi toksvig era.

Only bad thing about smtv was that I wasn't born in the time of the show 😂

They should have played clip of the later Pokemon Rap skits where Ant and Cat would try to escape doing the rap by working at another Pokemon-related job and insulting Dec on how terrible the raps were but Donnely was not having any of it. He would then start on an angry tirade of how terrible they are at doing this sketch and yelling stuff like "GET OUT OF MY SUPERDUPER MARKET!!!!!!!!" "GET OUT OF MY NOT VERY GOOD POKEMON SHOPPING CHANNEL STUDIO!!!!!!" "GET OUT OF MY POKEBLOCKBUSTER VIDEO STORE!!!!!!!!" "GET OUT OF MY RESTAURANT!!!!!!" etc. and destroying the set. Ant then asks Dec why he just did that massive destruction and Dec insults Ant and Cat on how terrible they are at doing this sketch "YOU WAZZACKS BUZZ BUZZ BUZZING AWAY YOU WOULDN'T KNOW THE MEANING OF THE WORD "POKEMON RAP" IF IT CAME UP AND BROKE YOUR NOSES!!!!!!" then Ant asks about the other job that Dec just trashed and what they were gonna do next and Dec yells at them that the other Pokemon-related jobs were shut down and the other two hosts would be forced to sing the rap. Ant would then yell "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!" and the camera would zoom in on him (occasionally the "BIG NO" trope would be cut short when one of the camera operators' cameras accidentally dropped into hitting Ant's face and McPartlin would collapse to the ground) and another rap would begin. The sketch would then end with Dec forcing everyone to do a round of "PIKACHU!!!! PIKACHU!!! PIKACHU!!!..." and the first half of that week's Pokemon episode would start.

I'm disappointed they didn't show the Ant's Song sketch where they would perform songs about the program that were sent in by their fanbase. I could have wanted loved to heard them singing "We All Love Cat Deeley, She Smiles On My TV..." again. Also I'm shocked that when they talked about Chums, they didn't show the Big Idiot House scenario or the Ant Aid story from the 100th episode of SMTV Live on 22nd July 2000 where they parodied Live Aid and were singing "BLINK FOR ANT! CLOSE YOUR EYES AND OPEN THEM!" when they were trying to help Ant when he was faking an eye jammed opening problem which costed $15 pounds to get fixed. The studio that day was packed with celebrities (the Ant Aid one, not the wedding on 1st December 2001 when Ant & Dec quit) Also where's the cat chat ingle "Cat Chat, chat to the Cat, 1898 MEOW!" Also when they talked about Chums: No, Tom Jones making jokes about his song titles was the second one, the first Chums storyline had S Club 7 on.

I loved smtv. I even won splatoon and won a PlayStation.

NO NO NO you don't understand the pokemon thing. They did a sketch directly before the anime. Gary in the anime was an antagonist - and then to see every week Ant's absolutely insane version of Gary just before the next episode of the anime was iconic. Like the sketch, I'm not explaining it well.

Surprised they didn't mention *THAT* controversial April Fools day episode.

take me back to then , Saturday mornings , breakfast in bed , tv brought upstairs to parents room , days before trolling , cancel culture cyber bullies and covid. where you wound hand write letters to a po box , ahhh nostalga

21:15-21:16 The text graphics in the box are wrong It's supposed to read "Go! Cake-Azor!"

Which Chums sketch around Christmas are they talking about scored big ratings smashes? The one from December 2000 where it ended with everyone thought Cat had a sister/daughter?

Ant, Dec and Cat: WHOS THAT POKEMON!!!!! (And His Name Is John Cena "The Time Is Now" meme intensifies)

I miss Ant and Dec

😢 i cant believe its been 2 decades ..

live and kicking was brilliant too

We won't ever get a children's show like this ever again because children's tv shies away from mature topics and generally sugar-coats programming. This was the late 90s, tv was at an all time high in general then. Anything went, partly because there wasn't a billion people crying I'm offended at any chance they get.

Bring it back

I remember seeing the first edition, back in '98. Even though they say that it was terrible at first, I could see that there was a recipe for a hit. Although the BBC had always dominated Saturday mornings, ITV's offerings were actually often very strong too. But then ITV hit an absolute black hole, from around 1993 to 1998.The decline was severe. The main reason why SM:tv Live was not an immediate hit was more to do with its predecessors basically handing the audience entirely to the BBC. But when SM:tv hit the scene, it stood out for being the first ITV show in years to have at least the right idea and the right amount of backing from the network to succeed. CD:UK was also a much welcomed improvement upon the stagnant and irritating ITV Chart Show (Remember how it used to fast forward through all the songs you wanted to hear? Yeah, the most annoying show ever.) Plus Ant & Dec had actually built up a bit of a profile by 1998, with some of their previous children's shows. The story of SM:tv's success is covered in this video, so no need to go over that again. But I would very much have liked them to cover the downfall after Ant, Dec & Cat moved on. Yeah, it's a tricky subject to approach and I can appreciate why they buried the matter entirely. It would bring a bit of a downer to a feelgood retrospective. But it's an interesting study and I'd have really liked to learn the thoughts of those involved. I admire Stephen Mulhern's honesty that the follow up Ministry Of Mayhem didn't recapture the heights of SM:tv, but I would say that he did himself a little injustice because there was still some excellent work done on that. But I do agree with him that we'll never see another Saturday morning kids' show as good as SM:tv Live. I've seen bits of the current BBC effort in Saturday Mashup, and whilst I appreciate that their hearts are in the right place by trying to recapture the genre, I don't think it's coming to life at all. Could an SM:tv Live revival work today? Hhmm, yes and no. I think the format could work for today's audience, I think it could be popular. But it would always be eclipsed by Ant, Dec & Cat and so I can understand why ITV have never revived it.

This was THE TIME 🤘🏽

Seriously that Westlife voicecrack over St. Patricks Day weekend 2000 is still something I rewatch to this day. "The ultimate girl Pokemon named BR-YANNNNN!!!!!

Is it that hard for ITV to add every episode of SM:TV and CD:UK to their website or app?

Ant's face at 28:04, he knows what's coming 😂😂 Man they don't make shows like this anymore!

If the documentary is about ESEM TEEVEE LIVE, then why is the names of the people being interviewed in The Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? text font?

SERIOUSLY??? When did Ant & Dec get the right to mention Care Bears?

Kids just don’t know nothing like back then, no wokeness, non of this crazy liberal left nonsense, jokes were not held back, sm tv live shaped many children including myself. The late 90s early 2000s were the best years for tv entertainment.

I miss u smtv

Does anyone have the chums episode for 50:07 please? Also thank you so much for uploading

I used to switch between SM:tv and Live and Kickin' but SM:tv is the one I actual remember. Can't remember anything about Live and Kickin

Unfortunately SMTV ratings flopped again and got cancelled in 2003 when the second year of CBBC The Saturday Show came out

"Get out, get out." "Ya Jerk."

Good documentary but I was slightly disappointed with the reconstruction of the set!

did you record this off free view with recorder box,

So? Other ITV Saturday morning kids shows (No. 73, Mashed, Whats Up Doc?) had no studio audience and nobody complained

Studio 2 of the TV Center London?