History Series / ArtAttack

* {{Catchphrase}}: Neil developed many over the years:

A [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} British]] children's TV show on [[Creator/{{ITV}} CITV]] that ran [[LongRunners from 1990 to 2007]] (another series has started, but [[InNameOnly is almost completely unrelated aside from reusing the name]].) Presented by Neil Buchanan, its mission was to interest kids in art, and it achieved wild success both in the UK and overseas.

* WorldOfChaos: The live set, to some extent. Neil described the show as "Giving your eyeballs a shock!"

* ExcitedKidsShowHost: Neil was definitely a Type 3.

** "Use tissue paper, or..." ''[[FelonyMisdemeanor (furtive look, whispers)]]'' "...Loo roll;" ** "Slop it on"

Following ITV's cancellation of the series in 2007, the series was sold by HIT Entertainment to Disney, who then made a revamped version in 2010 aimed at a pre-school audience. The series was filmed in Argentina, and was presented by a selection of different presenters, with Emiliano Pandelo hosting the Latin American version for example. The revival
featured more Disney-focused makes, and used footage of an artist making them to save on costs. Local artist Alexiev Gandman was chosen to do the Big Art Attacks, while The Head was replaced with a new character - Vincent van Coconut.

* ParodyAssistance: Neil used to join Creator/AntAndDec for their ''Fart Attack'' sketches on ''[=SMTV=] Live''.

* DuelingShows: Attempted by Creator/TheBBC with "[=SMart=]," but it never achieved ''Art Attack'''s level of popularity. It did last 15 years though.

A recurring character was "The Head," an animated stone bust in a museum, who would pop up in his own short scene after each Art Attack to recap Neil's instructions and then present his own effort, which inevitably had gone amusingly wrong somehow. In terms of visuals, this show is definitely in {{Homage}} of TheSixties childrens' TV art show. ''Series/VisionOn'', which minimised the spoken word and emphasised the visual.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "And then you'll have something that looks like this;" "I'm just doing this quickly to show you, you can take a lot more time when you're doing it at home;" "PVA glue, which is the ordinary school glue that comes in the squidgy bottles;" "Use tissue paper, or..." ''[[FelonyMisdemeanor (furtive look, whispers)]]'' "...Loo roll;" "Slop it on;" "Try it yourself, a (name of art attack)" at the end of each segment, for the last one in the show it would be followed with "...And I'll see you next time, ta-ra."

* DuelingShows: Attempted by Creator/TheBBC with "[=SMart=]," but it never achieved ''Art Attack'''s level of popularity.

Between 1998 and 2005 Creator/{{Disney}} aired several different foreign language spin-offs of this show, also titled Art Attack, for various different countries. Each version had a different host (for example, Jordi Cruz hosted the Spanish version, and Rui Torres was the Latin American presenter). The projects shown were largely the same as in the original show; The Head was also retained, as were Neil Buchanan's Big Art Attacks.

In 2010, the series was revived by Disney, who now produced it in Argentina. Emiliano Pandelo hosted the Latin American version, and local artist Alexiev Gandman was chosen to do the Big Art Attacks.

A [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} British]] children's TV show on [[Creator/{{ITV}} CITV]] that ran [[LongRunners from 1990 to 2007]] (a new series has recently started, but [[InNameOnly is almost completely unrelated aside from reusing the name]].) Presented by Neil Buchanan, its mission was to interest kids in art, and it achieved wild success both in the UK and overseas.

A recurring character was "The Head," an animated stone bust in a museum, who would pop up in his own short scene after each Art Attack to recap Neil's instructions and then present his own effort, which inevitably had gone amusingly wrong somehow.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Whilst the original series saw several VHS releases, it has never been released on DVD, except in India.
** However, the German version did make it to DVD in 2008, and a DVD was also released in France; both releases are now out of print.

Between 2002 and 2005 Creator/{{Disney}} aired a spinoff of this Show, also titled Art Attack, for Latin America and UsefulNotes/{{Spain}}. While they had their own hosts (Rui Torres for LA, Jordi Cruz for and Spain) who did different projects than in the original, they retained the character of The Head and the Big Art Attack segments of the original. On 2010, after years of airing a dubbed version of the British version, they made another revamp/spinoff, this time with host Emiliano Pandelo for LA and Guillermo Martínez for Spain, and a new artist for the giant art attacks, Alex Gandman.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Neil was supposedly inspired to make the 'giant pencilcase dropped on the floor with bits all over the place' set after doing just that to his own pencil case, and then got the producer around to lie on the floor to see it from the right perspective.

* ExcitedKids'ShowHost: Neil was definitely a Type 3.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "And then you'll have something that looks like this;" "I'm just doing this quickly to show you, you can take a lot more time when you're doing it at home;" "PVA glue, which is the ordinary school glue that comes in the squidgy bottles;" "Use tissue paper, or..." ''[[FelonyMisdemeanor (furtive look, whispers)]]'' "...Loo roll;" "Try it yourself, a (name of art attack)" at the end of each segment, for the last one in the show it would be followed with "...And I'll see you next time, ta-ra."

-> "''This is an art attack...'''This''' is an art attack...'''This is,''' [[TitleDrop Art Attack!]]''"
-->-- Opening narration

A British children's TV show on [[Creator/{{ITV}} CITV]] that ran [[LongRunners from 1990 to 2007]] (a new series has recently started, but [[InNameOnly is almost completely unrelated aside from reusing the name]]). Presented by Neil Buchanan, its mission was to interest kids in art, and it achieved wild success both in the UK and overseas.

The format of the half-hour show consisted of three segments in the studio, which took the form of a giant-size art set, in each of which Neil would do a short project (or "[[TitleDrop Art Attack]]") interspersed with shorter segments, [[OnceAnEpisode one of which was always]] Neil making a "Big Art Attack" consisting of arranging a huge number of everyday items on a background (usually the floor) to form a giant picture when viewed from above.

A recurring character was "The Head", an animated stone bust in a museum, who would pop up in his own short scene after each Art Attack to recap Neil's instructions and then present his own effort, which inevitably had gone amusingly wrong somehow.

Between 2002 and 2005 Disney aired a spinoff of this Show, also titled Art Attack, for Latin America and Spain. While they had their own hosts (Rui Torres for LA, Jordi Cruz for and Spain) who did different projects than in the original, they retained the character of The Head and the Big Art Attack segments of the original. On 2010, after years of airing a dubbed version of the British version, they made another revamp/spinoff, this time with host Emiliano Pandelo for LA and Guillermo Martínez for Spain, and a new artist for the giant art attacks, Alex Gandman.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "And then you'll have something that looks like this"; "I'm just doing this quickly to show you, you can take a lot more time when you're doing it at home"; "PVA glue, which is the ordinary school glue that comes in the squidgy bottles"; "Use tissue paper, or..." ''[[FelonyMisdemeanor (furtive look, whispers)]]'' "...loo roll"; "Try it yourself, a (name of art attack)" at the end of each segment, for the last one in the show it would be followed with "...and I'll see you next time, ta-ra".

* {{Crossover}}: In 1995, as part of CITV's anniversary celebrations, the crossover "[=CrazyHowBadAttack=]" was made, in which the presenters of CITV's four main factual programmes took over each others' jobs: ''How 2'' (science and history), ''Bad Influence'' (video game reviews), ''Animal Crazy'' (nature) and ''Art Attack''. Carol Vorderman ended up taking over ''Art Attack'' while Neil was one of the presenters of ''Animal Crazy'', and got bitten.
* DuelingShows: Attempted by Creator/TheBBC with "[=SMart=]", but it never achieved ''Art Attack''`s level of popularity.

* WorldOfChaos: The live set, to some extent. Neil described the show as "Giving your eyeballs a shock!"

* DuelingShows: Attempted by TheBBC with "[=SMart=]", but it never achieved ''Art Attack''`s level of popularity.