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Saturday Live was the Bearlandian opt-out version of Live & Kicking. running from 1993 to 2002, outliving its British counterpart by over 5 months. The show ran similarly to Live & Kicking featuring phone-in competitions, games, sliming celebrities and showing various cartoons. the original 4 main presenters of the programme by Peter Crook, Emma Allen, Steve Buggly and Natasha Lannings. Only Crook and Allen stayed on the show for its entire run. the show had many contributors and presenters who hosted the many segments aired alongside the main presenters of the show. A Sunday companion show called Sunday Extra was also aired every Sunday morning as well, this edition was often shorter, was pre-recorded after the end of the saturday show(with the exception of the last 2 series where it aired live) and/or aired earlier than the saturday edition to comply with the BBC's requirement to broadcast political programming on a late Sunday morning.

History
Saturday Live was made as a bearland only version was conceived as a replacement for Going Live!, a successful Saturday morning programme that had been running for six years. It was first broadcast on 2 October 1993 at 8am on BBC1.