Art Attack began as a British children's television programme first broadcast in 1990 and presented by Neil Buchanan, who showed young viewers how to create art from household objects and materials. Its best-known segments included step-by-step makes and the large-scale Big Art Attack, built on the ground from everyday items and revealed from above. The series was adapted in many countries, giving the format and its theme a wide international audience. Online, the music has survived as shorthand for creativity and childhood television, reused whenever a creator wants a reveal to feel playful and familiar.