Hey, Hey, It's Saturday! (UK TV programme) Hey, Hey, It's Saturday! (UK TV programme) Hey Hey it's Saturday is a British children's Saturday morning television programme that aired on the breakfast television channel TV-am. Based on the Australian Saturday morning/night television programme of the same name, it ran from July 1990 until September 1991. The programme was produced by Clear Idea Productions. It was presented alternately by Tommy Boyd, Mike Brosnan and Michaela Strachan. It was a replacement for "WAC '90", which was previously known as the "Wide Awake Club", and it was replaced by "TV Mayhem". The programme includes several animated and live-action television series such
World in Action who became a key collaborator with the screenwriter Jimmy McGovern as a producer on the drama-documentaries "Hillsborough" (1996) and "Sunday" (2002). "WIA" was a starting point for several key programme-makers who went on to major roles in British broadcasting. John Birt became Director General of the BBC, having been programme controller of the ITV station London Weekend Television, where he created the current affairs flagship, "Weekend World". Several "WIA" staffers were promoted to significant roles in Granada Television, among them David Plowright, who became its chairman and later went on to become deputy chairman of Channel 4. Steve Morrison became