When BBC announcer Simon Mayo wrote a short story for Joe, his then 10-year-old son, he had no agent or publisher and he could not imagine the book turning into a TV series half way across the world in Australia.
The third season of Matchbox Pictures' 'Nowhere Boys' has picked up the British Academy Children’s Award for International Live Action.
When Bridget Fair, the CEO of Free TV Australia, appeared before Senators on the Inquiry into Australian Content on Broadcast, Radio and Streaming Services in Sydney last week there was no deviation from the commercial broadcasters’ long held position that children’s television quotas should be scrapped.
The fourth and final series of 'Nowhere Boys', an observational documentary on teenagers who take charge of the family’s finances for a month, and an animated series about the adventures of a six-year-old cattle dog are among the highlights of the ABC’s children’s slate for 2018.
This week, some 200,000 Year 12 students will receive their Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR). Among them are 14 who documented their final year of school for upcoming ABC series 'My Year 12 Life'.
The new-look channel will premiere new programs News to Me, a weekly pop culture review show, sci-fi action animation series Prisoner Zero and short-form documentary series This Is Me, alongside returning series Nowhere Boys, You’re Skitting Me, Little