Professor Amanda Lotz (Queensland University of Technology), Associate Professor Anna Potter (University of the Sunshine Coast) and Professor Kevin Sanson (Queensland University of Technology), are the chief investigators of Making Australian TV in the 21st Century, a project funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant. This week, they released the Australian Television Drama Index, a report looking back at the last 20 years, tracing patterns in TV drama commissioning, production companies and attributes of drama produced. Here, they share some of their findings and the implications for policy.
We released the Australian Television Drama Index this week as part of a three-year project investigating the challenges of ‘Making Australian Television in the 21st Century.’ The index draws from a database constructed primarily from Screen Australia’s Drama Report, supplemented with Acma data and other information to build a comprehensive 20-year account of the root causes of what we see...
We released the Australian Television Drama Index this week as part of a three-year project investigating the challenges of ‘Making Australian Television in the 21st Century.’ The index draws from a database constructed primarily from Screen Australia’s Drama Report, supplemented with Acma data and other information to build a comprehensive 20-year account of the root causes of what we see...
- 8/24/2021
- by Amanda Lotz, Anna Potter and Kevin Sanson
- IF.com.au
Ebonnie Masini and Rian McLean in 'Round the Twist' (1989), Australian Children's Television Foundation
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.
Free-to-air TV networks have to commission certain amounts of children.s programs each year. But in recent years there.s been a dismaying lack of new live action shows, or recognisably Australian content. Instead, local children.s TV has become dominated by animation with little sense of place.
This is a shame, because Australia.s most fondly remembered children.s TV shows are live action productions such as Mortified, Playschool, Blue Water High, and Round the Twist. When asked in a 2015 survey to name their favourite childhood TV characters, most people chose Round the Twist siblings Linda and Bronson, followed by Mortified.s Taylor Fry.
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.
Free-to-air TV networks have to commission certain amounts of children.s programs each year. But in recent years there.s been a dismaying lack of new live action shows, or recognisably Australian content. Instead, local children.s TV has become dominated by animation with little sense of place.
This is a shame, because Australia.s most fondly remembered children.s TV shows are live action productions such as Mortified, Playschool, Blue Water High, and Round the Twist. When asked in a 2015 survey to name their favourite childhood TV characters, most people chose Round the Twist siblings Linda and Bronson, followed by Mortified.s Taylor Fry.
- 4/28/2017
- by Anna Potter and Huw Walmsley-Evans
- IF.com.au
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