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False or True

Children's TV programme, 1993–1996

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estimated reading 2
complete sections 7.42
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585 characters
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Overview

False or True (also known as FoT) is a children's TV programme broadcast from 1993 to 1996 in the UK on CBBC. Some years later it returned as a completely revised show as part of the Saturday morning show Live & Kicking from 2000 to 2001. Its premise was a series of videos in the style of news reports or features which the viewer had to guess whether they were true or false. Mairi McHaffie & Stephen Caro (also Gordon Inglis in 1993) presented the original 1990s show.

See also

*Banzai *The Day Today *Brass Eye *The Lowdown (British TV series) *Would I Lie to You? (TV series) *Call My Bluff

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