The Dog Ate My Homework facts for kids

Quick facts for kids The Dog Ate My Homework
Genre	Children's Panel game
Developed by	Victoria Coker Ed Morrish
Directed by	Pati Marr
Presented by	Iain Stirling (2014–2019) Guest Presenters (2019–2020) Lauren Layfield (2020-)
Starring	Chris Lawrence Stephanie Fulton (2014) Susan Morrison (2015) Ian West (2015–) Adam B (2019–2020) Reis Daniel (2020-)
Narrated by	Charles Donnelly (2015–2016) Neil Macgillivray (2016–)
Composer(s)	Syncbox
Country of origin	Scotland
No. of series	7+1special
No. of episodes	50
Production
Executive producer(s)	Sara Harkins (2014–2015, 2016–) Yvonne Jennings (2016)
Producer(s)	Richard Grocock (2014) David Noble (2014) Margaret Anne Docherty (2014–2015) Chris Hulme (2016–present)
Running time	28 minutes
Production company(s)	CBBC Productions Scotland
Release
Original network	CBBC
Picture format	1080i
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	17 January 2014 (2014-01-17) – present

The Dog Ate My Homework is a British children's panel show hosted by Iain Stirling and stars Chris Lawrence as Mr Smash and Ian West, and previously Stephanie Fulton, as The Dog. The series previously starred Susan Morrison as a Dinner Lady and a School Nurse. The show is produced by CBBC Productions Scotland for CBBC that began on 17 January 2014. A panel of two celebrities who are comedians And CBBC stars and a child doing various games and tasks. Series 2 began on 23 January 2015, a Christmas special aired on 16 December 2015, series 3 began on 8 fanuary 2016 and series 4 began on 4 November 2016. A fifth series will be filmed from 17 November to 10 December 2017. Series 6 was the first not to be aired on Fridays, with it airing from 2 February 2019 at 8.30am for 12 weeks. After this series, it was announced that Stirling was leaving the show. In series 7, four different presenters will host three episodes each. Hacker T. Dog was the first of these confirmed, Lauren Layfield was the second. Suzi Ruffell and Darren Harriott also presented three episodes each, and it was later announced that Layfield would host the show permanently from Series 8 joined by Reis Daniel who will be playing the lovable Mr.Learner.

Format

The show features two teams, both with a CBBC star a comedian and a child. They compete in various games and tasks, and the winning team get a gold star. Stirling can take, or give, gold stars as whenever he wants. He usually gives them when an answer makes him laugh. Whoever Has The Most Gold Stars wins the game.

Episodes

Series 1 (2014)

Series 2 (2015)

Christmas Special (2015)

Series 3 (2016)

Series 4 (2016–2017)

Series 5 (2018)

Series 6 (2019)

Series 7 (2019–2020)

Series 8 (2020-present)

Guest appearances

The following have all appeared multiple times as one of the guest panelists on the show.

Susan Calman, Dan Wright and Dodge T. Dog are the only panelists to have featured in every series. However, none of them featured in the stand-alone Christmas special. As of April 2019^[update], Calman has not appeared in an episode of the show since Season 4.

The following have all made a single appearance as one of the guest panellists on the show: