Raven (game show)
British children's adventure game show first aired in 2002 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Raven is a BBC Scotland children's adventure game show. It originally aired on CBBC in the United Kingdom from 16 December 2002 to 11 March 2010, over the course of ten series, with three spin-offs. In the original release, the show was hosted by James Mackenzie who played the title role, and conducted a group of six children, known as warriors, over five days through a series of tasks and feats. At various stages in the adventure, the group loses the least successful warrior, until two go through to the final week to compete for the title of Ultimate Warrior.
Raven | |
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Genre | Children's game show |
Presented by | James Mackenzie (2002–2010) Aisha Toussaint (2017–2018) |
Starring | James Mackenzie |
Music by | David Brockett (Series 1-10) |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 15 (12 regular, 3 spin-offs) |
No. of episodes | 290 |
Production | |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company | BBC Scotland |
Original release | |
Network | CBBC |
Release | 16 December 2002 (2002-12-16) – 11 March 2010 (2010-03-11) |
Release | 4 December 2017 (2017-12-04) – 12 June 2018 (2018-06-12) |
Related | |
Raven: The Island Raven: The Secret Temple Raven: The Dragon's Eye |
The series returned in 2017 with Aisha Toussaint as the new Raven and host, with Mackenzie's character also appearing in the show, renamed as "Raven of Old".[1] Two series were commissioned and filming began in July 2017 with the eleventh series starting on 4 December 2017, and a twelfth series later airing on 4 June 2018. No further series were commissioned afterwards. The revived series sees Raven conducts four warriors over three days and one goes through to the final week to compete for the title of True Warrior.