Australia's favourite Blue Heeler family is headed to the BBC, with Ludo Studio's 'Bluey' to launch on CBeebies next month.
Drama and children's programming remain the focus for a new look ABC in 2021 as the broadcaster aims for greater fluidity between its platforms, director of entertainment and specialist Michael Carrington says.
The selective appeal of theatrical cinema and the emergence of Queensland as a production hotspot was on the agenda as children's content creatives came together on Monday for an AACTA Screenfest 2020 Spotlight event.
ABC managing director David Anderson said today the broadcaster is farewelling 229 staff, a combination of voluntary and forced redundancies.
Australia's leading children's TV producers today called on the Federal Government to review its planned media reforms, warning that abolishish the free-to-air broadcasters' children content quotas will result in thousands of job losses.
A third season of Australia's most popular children's series, ABC/Ludo Studio's 'Bluey', is set to commence production in Brisbane later this year.
Ludo Studio's vertical comedy 'Content' and Endemol Shine Australia's documentary 'Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds', both ABC commissions, will fly the flag for Australia at this year's International Emmy Awards.
Co-founders Charlie Aspinwall and Daley Pearson have taken Ludo Studio from humble beginnings to a multi-Emmy Award winning powerhouse, with credits that include 'Bluey', 'Doodles', '#7DaysLater', 'The Strange Chores', 'Robbie Hood' and 'Content'. The Brisbane-based duo explain to IF how they met and how their working relationship developed.