Hi-de-Hi! complained that filming the TV series and doing the summer show limited their offers of acting jobs elsewhere. At the height of its popularity, the BBC had plans to make it into a feature film, but this did not come to fruition. In August 2009, a "Hi-de-Hi!" stage show toured in Torquay. In March 2010 the show was revived for a six-month national tour produced by Bruce James Productions Limited and written by Paul Carpenter and Ian Gower, adapting scenes and storylines from episodes of the television series including "A Night Not To Remember" and "Maplin Intercontinental". The audience were
Hi-5 (series 1) programs such as "Here's Humphrey", and discovered that most children learned from shows which incorporated movement and song. They saw the need for television which was "life affirming", and believed that a child's imagination could be activated by television of good quality. The name of the series was derived from the high five gesture. Harris and Graeme-Evans pitched "Hi-5" to the Nine Network through Kids Like Us, their joint independent production company. After auditions for the cast were held in June 1998, a pilot was produced, and shown to a test audience. No changes to the format were made after