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‘They shot the lights out and now we’re in the dark’: Writer Cleon Prineas reflects on the children’s TV landscape

Existential threats to the screenwriting profession have been making headlines lately with the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike, but Australian writers working in children's television have been facing their own less noisy, but equally momentous, disruption since the scrapping of quotas in October 2020, writes Cleon Prineas.

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Commercial broadcasters under fire over children’s TV quotas

Calls by the Seven, Nine and Ten networks to scrap the quotas for children’s and pre-school programming have been roundly condemned by key screen industry groups and guilds.

News TV & Streaming

Free-to-air broadcasters state their case to abolish children’s TV quotas

The chiefs of the Seven, Nine and Ten Networks today pressed their case to scrap the quotas for children’s and pre-school programming and to raise the TV producer offset to 40 per cent.

TV & Streaming

The slow death of Australian children’s TV drama

Australian children's TV may have recently picked up an Emmy Kids award for the ABCME animation 'Doodles', but otherwise kids' TV in this country is in a dire state.

TV & Streaming

Noel Price to depart Endemol

An era in Australian childrenâ€™s television comes to an end this Friday as Noel Price departs Endemol Australia after 17 years with Endemol and its predecessor Southern Star Entertainment.

PR Wire

Content the key to kids’ TV

The Australian Communications and Media Authority has released important research into the television viewing patterns of children tracking back to 2001 (when the ACMA conducted its first research in this series).

TV & Streaming

Bright outlook for children’s TV, with caveats

The production of children's TV in Australia has a more sustainable future than ever despite audience fragmentation and the squeeze on licence fees, according to a new book.

TV & Streaming

SPA calls on ABC to preserve drama, kids’ budgets

Screen Producers Australia executive director Matt Deaner has called on the ABC to preserve its commitments to adult and children's drama in the face of the efficiency audit ordered by Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

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