SMarteenies


SMarteenies is a spin off of the children's art programme SMart designed for pre school viewers. It was broadcast on the CBeebies channel daily from the channel's launch in February 2002. The series remained repeated until its suspension in January 2008, following the death of presenter Mark Speight's fiancée Natasha Collins, and his subsequent suicide.
The programme started with the four presenters determining who was to do the first piece. After each piece, the programme returned to this screen to select the next presenter.

Presenters

The presenters were the same as those who presented the original SMart. The segments the presenters presented alternated every other episode.
Until its suspension, Speight and O'Brien were the only remaining presenters of the principal show SMart, as Burridge and Botham had left. SMarteenies premiered on February 2002 on CBeebies, and aired in 2006 on CBC Kids in Canada. It also aired on the Australian CBeebies, and is the only channel that still airs the show to this day.