Blue Peter doesn't need to be "cool"

With all the fuss recently about the naming of its cat and the new arrangement of its theme, viewers might have missed the really shocking change to Blue Peter, which returned yesterday under a new editor, Tim Levell.

It has dumbed down! The camerawork is wobbly, Zoe and Konnie have become hyperactive, the film reports are split in two in a disjointed manner and there is irritating background music throughout virtually the whole show. How condescending to children (and adults who probably make up most of its audience)!

The new set in Studio 2 of Television Centre looks tiny, and is more like the original one for Sunday AM. I half-expected to see Andrew Marr wander on clutching the Sunday papers - which would have improved the show considerably!