BBC Two of competition since ITV's launch in 1955, and both had aimed for a populist approach in response. The 1962 Pilkington Report on the future of broadcasting noticed this, and that ITV lacked any serious programming. It therefore decided that Britain's third television station should be awarded to the BBC. Prior to its launch, the new BBC2 was promoted on the BBC Television Service: the soon to be renamed BBC1. The animated adverts featured the campaign mascots "Hullabaloo", a mother kangaroo, and "Custard", her joey. Prior to, and several years after, the channel's formal launch, the channel broadcast "Trade Test Transmissions",
Custard cream by amateur biscuit master Simon Morgan and chef Paul Thacker, at Chino Latino's restaurant in Park Plaza, Nottingham, England. It weighed and was long, wide and high. It was auctioned in aid of the Children in Need appeal, then donated to Nottingham homelessness charity Framework. A biscuit dispenser which includes custard creams appears in the Thirteenth Doctor's (Jodie Whittaker) TARDIS in the long-running British sci-fi show, "Doctor Who". Custard cream A custard cream is a type of biscuit popular in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Its structure is that of a sandwich, with a creamy, custard-flavoured centre between