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((Short description|British-American television programme))
((more citations needed|date=May 2020))
((Use dmy dates|date=May 2020))
((Infobox television
| image              = Big-Kids-logo.png
| caption            = ''Big Kids'' logo
| genre              = [[Children's]]<br>[[Comedy]]<br>[[Drama]]
| creator            = Lucy Daniel-Raby
| developer          = Elaine Sperber<ref name="sperber"/>
| director           = Baz Taylor
| starring           = [[Imogen Stubbs]]<br>[[Duncan Duff]]<br>Matt Adams<br>[[Kelly Salmon]]
| composer           = Tony Flynn
| country            = United Kingdom<br/>United States<ref name="sperber">((cite web|url=https://kidscreen.com/2001/01/01/30576-20010101/|title=International co-pros: A necessary evil for high-end kids shows|work=[[Kidscreen]]|date=January 1, 2001|last=Clarke|first=Steve|quote=''Big Kids'', billed as 'an educational series' and co-produced with the Nickelodeon- and Sesame Workshop-backed U.S. kids channel Noggin))</ref>
| language           = English
| num_series         = 1
| num_episodes       = 13
| executive_producer = Cas Lester
| producer           = Jacinta Peel<br>Janet Wray (assistant)
| editor             = Ian Williams
| camera             = Peter Woodley
| runtime            = 24 minutes
| network            = [[BBC One]] (UK)<br/>[[Noggin (brand)|Noggin]] (U.S.)
| first_aired        = ((start date|2000|9|27|df=y))
| last_aired         = ((end date|2000|12|20|df=y))
))

'''Big Kids''' is a 13-episode children's comedy television series created by Lucy Daniel-Raby. The series was a British-American<ref name="sperber"/> co-production<ref>((cite web|url=https://variety.com/2000/tv/news/noggin-adds-new-series-to-its-lineup-1117788758/|title=Noggin adds new series to its lineup|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=November 5, 2000|last=Bernstein|first=Paula))</ref> of the [[BBC]] and the US network [[Noggin (brand)|Noggin]].<ref name="latimes">((cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jan-29-ca-18377-story.html|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|last=Heffley|first=Lynne|title=New on Noggin: 'Team,' Yes, 'Big Kids,' No|date=January 29, 2001))</ref> It premiered on [[CBBC (TV channel)|CBBC on BBC One]] on 27 September 2000<ref>((Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/2000-09-27|title = Schedule - BBC Programme Index))</ref> and on the [[Noggin (brand)#TV channel|Noggin channel]] on 29 January 2001.<ref name="latimes"/> All 13 episodes were aired on Noggin's sister channel, [[Nickelodeon]], from 9 to 30 March 2001.

== History ==
According to the show's developer, Elaine Sperber, the writers "had to tread carefully"<ref name="sperber"/> to make sure that the content was relevant to both UK and U.S. children. She said, "We had a great relationship with Noggin ... but when you co-produce with North Americans, you always run into problems over British accents and language. We couldn’t use terms like 'snogging' in ''Big Kids'' because no one in the U.S. would have understood it."<ref name="sperber"/> The magazine ''[[Kidscreen]]'' wrote that "children start drinking far earlier in Britain than they do in North America, so a sequence showing booze being consumed at a school dance had to be watered down."<ref name="sperber"/>

On Noggin, the show was aired as part of a primetime programming block called "The Hubbub," which allowed viewers to submit comments through Noggin's website and see them live on-air.<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.nexttv.com/news/noggin-adds-interactive-series-135999|title=Noggin Adds Interactive Series|work=[[Multichannel News]]|last=Umstead|first=R. Thomas|date=June 11, 2001))</ref> Noggin grouped the final two episodes as an hour-long special, and they aired on 25 March 2001. Leading up to them, Noggin reran a marathon of the entire series, promoted as the ''Big Kids Big Marathon''. From April 2002 to January 2004, Noggin aired reruns of ''Big Kids'' during its overnight programming block, [[The N]].<ref name="educon">((cite web|url=https://kidscreen.com/2002/01/03/noggin-20020103/|title=Noggin has tween educon on the brain|work=[[Kidscreen]]|date=January 3, 2002|last=Connell|first=Mike))</ref><ref>((cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-apr-01-et-heffley1-story.html|title=Noggin Is Enrolling in Junior High|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|last=Heffley|first=Lynne|date=April 1, 2002))</ref><ref>((cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/358880853/?terms=%22Big%20Kids%22|title=Sunday, late night|work=[[Austin American-Statesman]]|date=January 25, 2004))</ref>

== Plot ==
The show follows the lives of the Spiller family: Simon, Kate, and their parents, Sarah, a piano teacher, and Geoff, a doctor. When the family attends a school charity event, a hypnotist and entertainer named Ming the Mind Master uses Sarah and Geoff in a performance. After the show is over, Kate and Simon realize that their parents have never been properly unhypnotized. At seemingly random moments, they black out and begin to act like children.

The two siblings have to deal with keeping their parents under control in their hypnotized state, trying to get their parents to believe what happens when they black out, and trying to discover what triggers the change. Simon tries to keep his parents' hypnosis a secret from his best friend, Jake, who lives across the street and often visits at inopportune times. During trances, Sarah and Geoff engage in behaviour for which they would otherwise scold their children, while Kate and Simon are forced to act like mature adults. According to Noggin, the show was meant to explore "the complex and sometimes chaotic relationship between parent and child."<ref>((cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20011103232320/https://www.hotlink.mtvn.com/noggin/documents/progdesc_click_thru.html|archivedate=November 3, 2001|url=https://www.hotlink.mtvn.com/noggin/documents/progdesc_click_thru.html|url-status=dead|title=Welcome to Noggin: Noggin Programming|date=2001|work=[[MTV Networks]]))</ref>

Eventually, the children convince their parents by showing them filmed footage, and discover that the trigger is "ming", or any word with "ming" in it, just like the hypnotist's name. They finally track down Ming at a fête and convince him to 'unhypnotise' their parents, which appears to restore them to normal. However, their childish behaviour on a carousel leaves the children confused – whether Sarah and Geoff are acting like this deliberately, have fallen back into a state of hypnosis, or perhaps have always had the qualities of 'big kids' is left ambiguous.

== Episode list ==
# Performance by a Hypnotist
# Kate Avoids Friends
# Videotaping Mum and Dad
# Library/Shopping
# Restaurant
# New Car/Concert<ref name="ep6">((cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20010507130204/http://tv.excite.com/show/?title=Big+Kids&date=20010429&time=090000&station=NOGGIN|archivedate=May 7, 2001|url=http://tv.excite.com/show/?title=Big+Kids&date=20010429&time=090000&station=NOGGIN|title=''Big Kids'', episode #6 on NOGGIN|work=[[Excite (web portal)|Excite TV]]))</ref>
# Museum
# Aunt Muriel<ref name="ep8">((cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20010701200352/http://tv.excite.com/show/?title=Big+Kids&date=20010617&time=190000&station=NOGGIN|archivedate=July 1, 2001|url=http://tv.excite.com/show/?title=Big+Kids&date=20010617&time=190000&station=NOGGIN|title=''Big Kids'', episode #8 on NOGGIN|work=[[Excite (web portal)|Excite TV]]))</ref>
# Chicken Pox
# Puppy<ref name="ep10">((cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20010517035730/http://tv.excite.com/show/?title=Big+Kids&date=20010429&time=120000&station=NOGGIN|archivedate=May 17, 2001|url=http://tv.excite.com/show/?title=Big+Kids&date=20010429&time=120000&station=NOGGIN|title=''Big Kids'', episode #10 on NOGGIN|work=[[Excite (web portal)|Excite TV]]))</ref>
# Simon Pursues Melanie
# Trigger Revealed
# Finding Hypnotist

== Cast ==
* [[Duncan Duff]] as Dr. Geoffrey "Geoff" Spiller
* [[Imogen Stubbs]] as Sarah Spiller
* Matt Adams as Simon Spiller
* [[Kelly Salmon]] as Kate Spiller
* Sam Green as Jake Tyler
* [[Jasper Britton]] as Ming the Mind Master
* Amanda Fairbank-Hynes as Becky
* Barnaby Francis as Edward Bagley

== Awards and nominations ==
At the [[23rd Young Artist Awards]], held in April 2002 in Studio City, California, both Matt Adams and Kelly Salmon were nominated for their roles.<ref name="Young Artist Awards 3">((cite web|url=http://www.youngartistawards.org/noms23A.htm|title=23rd Annual Young Artist Awards|work=[[Young Artist Association]]|accessdate=2011-03-31|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160423085945/http://youngartistawards.org/noms23A.htm|archivedate=2016-04-23|quote=Matt Adams, 'Big Kids', Noggin ... Kelly Salmon, 'Big Kids', Noggin))</ref> At the ceremony, the series was counted as an American production, and the nominations were received on behalf of Noggin.<ref name="Young Artist Awards 3"/>
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Ceremony!!Award!!Nominee!!Result
|-
|rowspan=2|[[23rd Young Artist Awards]]||Best Performance in a TV Comedy Series: Supporting Young Actor||Matt Adams||((nom))
|-
|Best Performance in a TV Comedy Series: Supporting Young Actress||[[Kelly Salmon]]||((nom))
|}

==References==
((Reflist))

== External links ==
* ((BBC programme))
* ((IMDb title|0264225))

((Noggin shows))

[[Category:2000 British television series debuts]]
[[Category:2000 British television series endings]]
[[Category:2000s British children's television series]]
[[Category:2000s British comedy television series]]
[[Category:2000 American television series debuts]]
[[Category:2000 American television series endings]]
[[Category:2000s American children's comedy television series]]
[[Category:British children's comedy television series]]
[[Category:Noggin (brand) original programming]]
[[Category:The N original programming]]
[[Category:BBC children's television shows]]
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