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Paul T Smith

Balamory celebrates 20th anniversary amid calls to bring back popular kids TV programme

Two decades since Balamory hit our TV screens there are now calls to remake the very popular kids TV programme - and to celebrate its 20th anniversary, every episode is now available to watch on the BBC iPlayer.

It means a new generation of children will be able to watch all 256 episodes which were produced by the BBC between 2002 and 2005, and based on a fictional small island community off the west coast called Balamory, or to you and I Tobermory on the Scottish Isle of Mull.

Two of the programme's most famous characters teacher Miss Hoolie, played by Julie Wilson Nimmo, and the local cop PC Plum played by Andrew Agnew, appeared on ITV's This morning earlier - with presenter Rochelle Humes starting off calls to bring them back into action.

Andrew Agnew (PC Plum) and Julie Nimmo (Miss Hoolie) in hit TV programme, Balamory. (This Morning / ITV)

Speaking about the shows success, Julie Wilson Nimmo said: "There was no-one on our show cutting about, thinking look, we've arrived on this show. We were one of the first shows on Cbeebies channel, which wasn't even a thing at the time.

"We just loved the script and we were just so excited - our producer and director Brian Jamieson, it was his baby and Helen Docherty they came up with this idea and we just all loved it. It sounds really cheesy but we all just fell in love with each other and all just got on like a house on fire."

Andrew Agnew added: "The structure of the show is why it was so popular I think, because we as characters always got there slightly after the kids, the idea is that the kids always worked out what happened before we did. So if there was a crime that I had to solve, or a problem or a mystery, they knew that I would do it.

The shows stars have since moved on to other things including panto and BBC Scotland comedy.

Later on in the interview, Rochelle Humes said that she was starting a petition for the show to be brought back.

Julie replied: "Please do."

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