The O-Zone was a weekly music magazine show broadcast on BBC from 1989 to 2000 made by BBC Children's Presentation. The first series was presented by Andy Crane on BBC One as a ten-minute filler each weekday morning during the summer school holidays, before switching to a Sunday morning slot from that September onwards. The series continued as a five to 15 minute filler shown during school holidays and Sunday mornings on CBBC throughout the year, hosted by CBBC presenters Andi Peters, Philippa Forrester, Toby Anstis and Zoë Ball.
The show was given an overhaul and makeover from 13 January 1995, with Jayne Middlemiss and Jamie Theakston as the new dual presenters. The series was moved to Friday evening with Sunday repeat. The series was extended to 20 minutes from September 1996.
There was also a spin-off series, The Pop Zone shown in 1998.
In October 2000, the show was replaced by Top of the Pops Plus, which had already been on UK Play. That programme was axed in 2001.
Links to Peel[]
India Five-0 Concert - The Ozone feature, 1997
Peel appears between 1:03 and 1:15 of the video
Peel appeared on the programme, broadcast on 26th August 1997 on BBC2, where the show linked up with Radio 1 for the India independence celebrations, India Five-0, from Birmingham, with Talvin Singh, Cornershop and Black Star Liner performing. He talked on the show about the latter group.