It may be a new year, but concerns remain for the future of children's television, with producers and creatives waiting to see how the sector will factor into the government's incoming streaming regulation.
One of the major but less recognised benefits of continuing to fund children's television in Australia is the long tail of overseas sales for multiple series, according to Jenny Buckland.
Screen Australia has announced more than $5.7 million in production funding for three features, two children’s TV series and two online projects.
‘First Day’. The BBC has snapped up the UK rights to Epic Films’ children’s series First Day, to be broadcast...
ABC Children’s and Screen Australia have partnered on The Kaleidoscope Project, a new funding initiative that will back the creation of up to four standalone films that capture what it’s like to be a young culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) Australian.
Children’s television has often been a place to push the boundaries of diverse representations onscreen. In particular, Australian children’s TV has been a global leader in screen diversity, including gender and queer representation, write Swinburne's Damien O'Meara and Liam Burke.
Australia is among the most represented countries in the field of international nominees for this year's Rockie Awards, with titles up in six categories.
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.