Saturday Mash-Up! is a British Saturday morning children's magazine entertainment programme on CBBC and BBC Two, first broadcast on 30 September 2017. It is currently presented by Joe Tasker, Shereen Cutkelvin and a puppet monster called Stanley performed by Dave Chapman.
History
It is CBBC's first series in this genre since TMi moved to Fridays in 2010. It is said to "continue the tradition of iconic Saturday morning programmes such as Live & Kicking, Going Live!, Saturday Superstore, Dick & Dom in da Bungalow and Multi-Coloured Swap Shop".
A second series aired from 29 September 2018 on CBBC. A third series started on 1 February 2020. However, due to the 2019–2020 Coronavirus pandemic, the show was presented from Tasker, Kaur, and Chapman's houses via video-link under the name Saturday Mash-Up! House Party, from 4 April until the end of the series on 30 May. The 3rd series resumed on 7 November to broadcast the remaining episodes in the series.
A new series began on 23 January 2021 although it is still listed as series 3.
Spin-off series Summer Mash-Up aired during the 2020 summer holidays in a 30-minute Thursday afternoon slot (temporarily replacing Blue Peter). In 2018 and 2019, special programmes were also produced as part of the CBBC Summer Social TV coverage. Every week, the series broadcasts live from BBC Pacific Quay Studios, in Glasgow. The show includes celebrity guests, games, sketches and CBBC shows, and focuses on live chat with children across the United Kingdom, either on the phone or via the web. The show originally aired until 11am but was expanded to 11:30am in Series 3. In the Christmas 2020 episode Part 1 aired from 9am-9:30am with a 45 minute break at 09:30 due to 2 Christmas specials on CBBC and CBeebies. Guests picked what they were going to watch and the 2nd part began at 10:15 and ended at 12:15. It is also the first time a Saturday morning kids show has run into the afternoon since 1993.
Up until the COVID-19 pandemic, the show was filmed in front of a studio audience who are children. When the show resumed production after quarantine, to follow the health guidelines, the episodes were filmed without the kid audience, and all celebrity guests practiced social distancing.
As of 2022, the show brought back its kid audience in future episodes, with the current COVID-19 vaccine available to all under the age of 5.
On 10 and 17 September 2022 the show was off air due to the UK national period of mourning for the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Segments
How Many Things in the Thing? A number of an object (for example, footballs) are placed into another object (for example, a phonebox). Viewers at home on the phone must guess what number of an object is in the other object.
Make Me Viral
Viewers are asked to send in a picture of themselves doing something different each week (for example, throwing away their homework).
Britain's Silliest Face
Viewers are asked to pull silly faces and send in pictures. Joe and Harpz then rate them out of five.
Mash-Up Monarch
Each week, a viewer watching at home is chosen to make various decisions. These include choosing what episode of a programme to show and choosing who does a task like tidying up the studio or eating a gross item.
Push Off
Two celebrities must push a shopping trolley into a pyramid of 800 toilet rolls to see how many they can collect. Each toilet roll is worth a point, with the golden toilet roll being worth 10 points and the brown toilet roll causing them to lose 5 points. They can choose between 3 trollies, which change each week. While the crew count the rolls, Johnny Nelson played a game with the contestant called "Jonny's random supermarket item pricing game while we count the toilet rolls". This was changed for later series and replaced with "How Much?" and "Whose Shop?", both led by Joe Tasker. The celebrity loser is then asked to pie themself.
Stars Behind Bars
A celebrity is 'locked up in jail' and answers as many questions they can in 100 seconds.
Detention Seekers
A/two celebrity/s is put in detention and has to answer questions about themselves until the school bell rings. On one occasion, instead of a celebrity, Penfold from Danger Mouse was used.