Effective support for local children’s content is more critical than ever, argues ACTF CEO Jenny Buckland.
International producers are being invited to apply to participate in MIPTV’s first pitching competition dedicated to programming targeted at kids aged from 6-12.
Screen Producers Australia (SPA) has commissioned a short film from Ludo Studio to further its campaign to protect children’s content.
By creating and distributing live action drama for a teenage audience, Netflix is targeting a demographic that Australian broadcasters have almost entirely abandoned.
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.
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.
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.
Australian kids are more than twice as likely to watch TV content on linear channels and DVRs than the global average.