Not so long ago, the only Australian TV shows imported by the UK and US were soaps and the odd kids’ series. Neighbours, Home & Away, Prisoner: Cell Block H, Heartbreak High, and child trauma factory Round the Twist went overseas, but not much else.
It didn’t make for a very complete picture. 30 years ago, if you’d asked a British person to conjure up Australia based solely on its available TV output, they’d have pictured a land of bait shops, haunted lighthouses, prison wings, and cul de sacs where good neighbours become good friends. Ask one now, and thanks to streaming, it’d be a much broader church, based on viewing comedies, thrillers, dramas, detective shows and more.
Here are some of the best Australian TV series currently available to stream in the UK and US. We’ll update this selection as new series arrive.
Mr Inbetween...
It didn’t make for a very complete picture. 30 years ago, if you’d asked a British person to conjure up Australia based solely on its available TV output, they’d have pictured a land of bait shops, haunted lighthouses, prison wings, and cul de sacs where good neighbours become good friends. Ask one now, and thanks to streaming, it’d be a much broader church, based on viewing comedies, thrillers, dramas, detective shows and more.
Here are some of the best Australian TV series currently available to stream in the UK and US. We’ll update this selection as new series arrive.
Mr Inbetween...
- 10/4/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
When it comes to spooky, the ’90s just did it best – and ’90s kids couldn’t get enough of it.
We grew up the last decade when being a witch was cool thanks to that “hippie witch” grunge aesthetic and the popularity of Twin Peaks. Bizarre puppet-driven movies like The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth and The Neverending Story seemed to endlessly play on TV, meanwhile, were you even a 90s kid if you didn’t have the full set of Goosebumps books and a few of the real scary ones… Point Horror!?
With the resurgence of slasher flicks thanks to Scream, television shows such as X-Files, Buffy and Charmed and “real stories” found on Strange But True in the UK and Unsolved Mysteries in the US, horror had gone mainstream and kids were more than aware of it – we were hooked on it. If you weren’t sharing urban legends at...
We grew up the last decade when being a witch was cool thanks to that “hippie witch” grunge aesthetic and the popularity of Twin Peaks. Bizarre puppet-driven movies like The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth and The Neverending Story seemed to endlessly play on TV, meanwhile, were you even a 90s kid if you didn’t have the full set of Goosebumps books and a few of the real scary ones… Point Horror!?
With the resurgence of slasher flicks thanks to Scream, television shows such as X-Files, Buffy and Charmed and “real stories” found on Strange But True in the UK and Unsolved Mysteries in the US, horror had gone mainstream and kids were more than aware of it – we were hooked on it. If you weren’t sharing urban legends at...
- 10/18/2022
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
Nakul Legha may have only been a member of the Netflix Anz content team for just under 12 months, but his enthusiasm for Australian storytelling goes well beyond that.
Having moved to Australia from Bhutan with his family at the age of nine, the streamer’s licensing and co-productions lead credited Aussie television with helping him settle into his new home.
“I didn’t speak any English and we didn’t have any family here, so it was really through TV that I got to understand my place in the community and understand Australia,” he said.
“Shows such as Playschool and The Dream with Roy and Hg really helped me find my feet, so I personally know the power of TV and film to change lives because it is seeing those stories that gave me an entry into the community.
“I’ve been looking for opportunities to be around that kind of storytelling all my life,...
Having moved to Australia from Bhutan with his family at the age of nine, the streamer’s licensing and co-productions lead credited Aussie television with helping him settle into his new home.
“I didn’t speak any English and we didn’t have any family here, so it was really through TV that I got to understand my place in the community and understand Australia,” he said.
“Shows such as Playschool and The Dream with Roy and Hg really helped me find my feet, so I personally know the power of TV and film to change lives because it is seeing those stories that gave me an entry into the community.
“I’ve been looking for opportunities to be around that kind of storytelling all my life,...
- 8/31/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Marlo Kelly has appeared in USA Network’s ‘Dare Me’, played the titular character in Aacta-nominated web series ‘Patricia Moore’ and starred as Skye Peters in ‘Home and Away’.
The biggest issue facing the Australian film or TV industry is: There’s a general fear to take risks, especially for independent creatives, due to a lack of support and funding. As a result we see a huge investment in reality TV programs and reliance on known formulas.
Best movie quote of all time: I don’t think that’s my call to make but I’m certain whatever Bill Murray whispered to Scarlett Johansson at the end of Lost in Translation was a real zinger.
Do you Google yourself? Sometimes! I think it’s pretty natural to be concerned about the way you’re being represented online. But in saying that I actively try not to and to recognise that...
The biggest issue facing the Australian film or TV industry is: There’s a general fear to take risks, especially for independent creatives, due to a lack of support and funding. As a result we see a huge investment in reality TV programs and reliance on known formulas.
Best movie quote of all time: I don’t think that’s my call to make but I’m certain whatever Bill Murray whispered to Scarlett Johansson at the end of Lost in Translation was a real zinger.
Do you Google yourself? Sometimes! I think it’s pretty natural to be concerned about the way you’re being represented online. But in saying that I actively try not to and to recognise that...
- 4/20/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Amazon’s “Lord of the Rings” television series is getting a casting shake-up as previously announced series regular Tom Budge is departing the big-budget Tolkien project because “Amazon has decided to go in another direction with the character” (via /Film). The actor broke the news on his Instagram page. Budge was announced as a cast member for “Lord of the Rings” at the 2020 TCA winter press tour, where Amazon unveiled the official acting roster. Budge was joined by the likes of Robert Aramayo, Owain Arthur, Nazanin Boniadi, Morfydd Clark, Ismael Cruz Córdova, and Ema Horvath, among others.
“Hello loves, it is with great sadness that I am writing to tell you I have departed Amazon’s ‘Lord Of The Rings’ television series,” Budge wrote on social media. “After recently seeing the first episodes shot over the last year Amazon has decided to go in another direction with the character I was portraying.
“Hello loves, it is with great sadness that I am writing to tell you I have departed Amazon’s ‘Lord Of The Rings’ television series,” Budge wrote on social media. “After recently seeing the first episodes shot over the last year Amazon has decided to go in another direction with the character I was portraying.
- 3/15/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
“Anchors, rigging, shackles,” lists Katy Wix down the phone, “poop deck, wheelhouse, three sheets to the wind…” The comedian and writer has had a productive year. Filming wrapped on Ghosts series two just as UK lockdown began. Since then, she’s finished one book – Delicacy: A Memoir – due out next April, is pitching another, writing a TV show, and thanks to a new-found obsession with Netflix yacht-based reality show Below Deck, has also managed to acquire an enviable grasp of nautical terminology.
Wix is an established UK comic actor, with credits across the board, starting with cult hit Time Trumpet and going mainstream as witless, lovable Daisy in BBC mega-sitcom Not Going Out. She’s currently part of Channel 4’s Stath Lets Flats, the hottest comedy around, fresh from multiple Bafta wins. She plays Fergie in royal satire The Windsors, and was among the comedian-contestants in series nine of Taskmaster.
Wix is an established UK comic actor, with credits across the board, starting with cult hit Time Trumpet and going mainstream as witless, lovable Daisy in BBC mega-sitcom Not Going Out. She’s currently part of Channel 4’s Stath Lets Flats, the hottest comedy around, fresh from multiple Bafta wins. She plays Fergie in royal satire The Windsors, and was among the comedian-contestants in series nine of Taskmaster.
- 9/18/2020
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Jenny Buckland addresses the Alea conference
Digital disruption is upending the media industry and creating enormous uncertainty. Audiences are fragmenting and going elsewhere and free to air television is struggling. So it’s relying, more than ever, on live event broadcasting like sport and reality TV contests, and less and less on drama.
This leaves Australian television drama in a very vulnerable position, and Australian children’s drama in an even more vulnerable position.
The children’s drama quota that the commercial broadcasters have to meet is responsible for a nearly 40 year legacy of Australian children’s drama, including programs like Winners, Round The Twist, Spellbinder, Blinky Bill, Lockie Leonard, Mortified and many more.
Right now, the commercial free to air broadcasters are arguing strenuously to the Federal Government, as they have always done, to be relieved of their obligations to the children’s audience.
And right now, they have...
Digital disruption is upending the media industry and creating enormous uncertainty. Audiences are fragmenting and going elsewhere and free to air television is struggling. So it’s relying, more than ever, on live event broadcasting like sport and reality TV contests, and less and less on drama.
This leaves Australian television drama in a very vulnerable position, and Australian children’s drama in an even more vulnerable position.
The children’s drama quota that the commercial broadcasters have to meet is responsible for a nearly 40 year legacy of Australian children’s drama, including programs like Winners, Round The Twist, Spellbinder, Blinky Bill, Lockie Leonard, Mortified and many more.
Right now, the commercial free to air broadcasters are arguing strenuously to the Federal Government, as they have always done, to be relieved of their obligations to the children’s audience.
And right now, they have...
- 7/11/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Louisa Mellor Oct 31, 2017
A chat with the creators of Creeped Out, an eerie new thirteen-part collection of stories destined to be loved by geeks of all ages…
“The family who lose their mouths in The Twilight Zone.”
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“Oh! The candy-striper vampire one in Are You Afraid Of The Dark? And the clown, The Ghastly Grinner!”
“The magician one in Amazing Stories. Definitely.”
“There’s one about a pool and this horrible, fleshy skeleton came out of it and grabbed these kids. Still now, if you Google it, it’s one of the most horrifying things I’ve ever seen, I can’t believe it was ever on telly.”
“The Never-Ending Story had something called The Nothing, that was really nothing, literally and figuratively. It stuck with me and freaked me out as a kid, the idea that things were disappearing and nothing was in its place.
A chat with the creators of Creeped Out, an eerie new thirteen-part collection of stories destined to be loved by geeks of all ages…
“The family who lose their mouths in The Twilight Zone.”
See related 26 new TV shows to watch in 2017
“Oh! The candy-striper vampire one in Are You Afraid Of The Dark? And the clown, The Ghastly Grinner!”
“The magician one in Amazing Stories. Definitely.”
“There’s one about a pool and this horrible, fleshy skeleton came out of it and grabbed these kids. Still now, if you Google it, it’s one of the most horrifying things I’ve ever seen, I can’t believe it was ever on telly.”
“The Never-Ending Story had something called The Nothing, that was really nothing, literally and figuratively. It stuck with me and freaked me out as a kid, the idea that things were disappearing and nothing was in its place.
- 10/26/2017
- Den of Geek
Louisa Mellor Oct 26, 2017
Starting next week on Cbbc, Creeped Out is a brilliantly chilling new anthology series you won't want to miss...
Something wicked this way comes...
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Cbbc has an absolute treat in store for geeks of all ages. Starting next week on Halloween, Creeped Out is a thirteen-episode anthology of original eerie stories. Prepare to meet sinister puppets, 'harmless' old ladies, technology that takes a hold on your life, mysterious basement portals, and more.
Creeped Out was created by Bede Blake and Robert Butler for Cbbc and Dhx in Canada. Their plan was to make an Amazing Stories for young audiences today, with all the memorable storytelling, imagery and characters of The Twilight Zone. To judge by the episodes we've seen: job very much done.
Starting next week on Cbbc, Creeped Out is a brilliantly chilling new anthology series you won't want to miss...
Something wicked this way comes...
See related Quantum Leap: 10 greatest guest performances Quantum Leap: an episode roadmap for beginners Quantum Leap: revisiting the highs and lows
Cbbc has an absolute treat in store for geeks of all ages. Starting next week on Halloween, Creeped Out is a thirteen-episode anthology of original eerie stories. Prepare to meet sinister puppets, 'harmless' old ladies, technology that takes a hold on your life, mysterious basement portals, and more.
Creeped Out was created by Bede Blake and Robert Butler for Cbbc and Dhx in Canada. Their plan was to make an Amazing Stories for young audiences today, with all the memorable storytelling, imagery and characters of The Twilight Zone. To judge by the episodes we've seen: job very much done.
- 10/26/2017
- Den of Geek
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
That's Not Me.
Aussie indie comedy That.s Not Me,.director Gregory Erdstein's feature debut,.has wrapped principal photography and is currently in post.
Erdstein co-wrote.the film.with actor Alice Foulcher and shot it over the past nine months in Melbourne and Los Angeles.
It follows the story of Polly, whose dreams of making it as an actor are shattered when her identical twin sister Amy lands a plum role in an HBO show and starts dating Jared Leto.
Mistaken for her famous sister at every turn, Polly decides to use her sister.s celebrity for her own advantage — free clothes, free booze, casual sex. — with disastrous consequences for them both.
That.s Not Me stars Isabel Lucas and Offspring.s Richard Davies alongside newcomer Foulcher.
The ensemble cast also includes Andrew O.Keefe (Deal or No Deal, Weekend Sunrise), Andrew Gilbert (Kiss or Kill, Round the Twist...
Aussie indie comedy That.s Not Me,.director Gregory Erdstein's feature debut,.has wrapped principal photography and is currently in post.
Erdstein co-wrote.the film.with actor Alice Foulcher and shot it over the past nine months in Melbourne and Los Angeles.
It follows the story of Polly, whose dreams of making it as an actor are shattered when her identical twin sister Amy lands a plum role in an HBO show and starts dating Jared Leto.
Mistaken for her famous sister at every turn, Polly decides to use her sister.s celebrity for her own advantage — free clothes, free booze, casual sex. — with disastrous consequences for them both.
That.s Not Me stars Isabel Lucas and Offspring.s Richard Davies alongside newcomer Foulcher.
The ensemble cast also includes Andrew O.Keefe (Deal or No Deal, Weekend Sunrise), Andrew Gilbert (Kiss or Kill, Round the Twist...
- 7/18/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Film Victoria, the ABC and the Australian Children's Television Foundation have launched a new program to boost production of live-action children's drama.
Under the the Eureka program, Victorian screen content creators are invited to submit applications to create a .proof of concept. for a new short-form children.s live-action TV series.
The program seeks to stimulate more local live-action (nonanimation) narrative children.s content that can screen on multiple platforms.
Victorian teams with distinctive concepts that have the potential to become a series and are aimed at children aged 8-12 years will receive up to $30,000 to create a 3-5 minute proof of concept..
The concepts will screen on ABC iview, ABC3.s YouTube Channel and, possibly, ABC3.
The concepts will showcase the talents of Victorian teams and will give the public a chance to experience new program ideas in the earliest stage of development..
The proof of concepts will be...
Under the the Eureka program, Victorian screen content creators are invited to submit applications to create a .proof of concept. for a new short-form children.s live-action TV series.
The program seeks to stimulate more local live-action (nonanimation) narrative children.s content that can screen on multiple platforms.
Victorian teams with distinctive concepts that have the potential to become a series and are aimed at children aged 8-12 years will receive up to $30,000 to create a 3-5 minute proof of concept..
The concepts will screen on ABC iview, ABC3.s YouTube Channel and, possibly, ABC3.
The concepts will showcase the talents of Victorian teams and will give the public a chance to experience new program ideas in the earliest stage of development..
The proof of concepts will be...
- 11/4/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Jake Quickenden and Carl 'Foggy' Fogarty will take part in the next head-to-head Bushtucker Trial in I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.
As the second-half of the Two Tribes Challenge, each squad had to select one member to go forward in the next trial.
The Gallahs chose new member Jake and the Wombats put up Foggy when presenters Ant & Dec gave the teams 15 seconds to decide.
Jake and Foggy will go head-to-head in the Down the Chain challenge.
In tonight's (November 29) episode, Edwina Currie beat Foggy in the first Two Tribes challenge Round The Twist.
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! returns tomorrow night (November 30) on ITV.
As the second-half of the Two Tribes Challenge, each squad had to select one member to go forward in the next trial.
The Gallahs chose new member Jake and the Wombats put up Foggy when presenters Ant & Dec gave the teams 15 seconds to decide.
Jake and Foggy will go head-to-head in the Down the Chain challenge.
In tonight's (November 29) episode, Edwina Currie beat Foggy in the first Two Tribes challenge Round The Twist.
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! returns tomorrow night (November 30) on ITV.
- 11/29/2014
- Digital Spy
Edwina Currie has earned a victory over Carl 'Foggy' Fogarty in round one of the Two Tribes Challenge on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.
Edwina represented her tribe the Galahs in the Round The Twist challenge, while Foggy competed for the Wombats.
Round The Twist involved both competitors standing on a revolving pole and each keeping a finger on a central buzzer.
The person to keep their finger on the buzzer the longest would win the eight stars earned by Edwina in the earlier Cabin Fever Bushtucker Trial and the right to steal away someone from the opposing team.
"I've taken on some of the biggest names in motorcycle racing, but this is my biggest battle, against Edwina, for sure," Foggy said before the challenge.
She retorted: "If I defeated him, I don't think he's ever going to live it down in his entire life."
Foggy admitted...
Edwina represented her tribe the Galahs in the Round The Twist challenge, while Foggy competed for the Wombats.
Round The Twist involved both competitors standing on a revolving pole and each keeping a finger on a central buzzer.
The person to keep their finger on the buzzer the longest would win the eight stars earned by Edwina in the earlier Cabin Fever Bushtucker Trial and the right to steal away someone from the opposing team.
"I've taken on some of the biggest names in motorcycle racing, but this is my biggest battle, against Edwina, for sure," Foggy said before the challenge.
She retorted: "If I defeated him, I don't think he's ever going to live it down in his entire life."
Foggy admitted...
- 11/29/2014
- Digital Spy
Feature Carley Tauchert 11 Mar 2014 - 07:00
Carley's 90s kids TV look-back comes to a Melissa Joan Hart classic, Sabrina The Teenage Witch...
“Sabrina, we have something to tell you. You see there are two realms, the natural and the supernatural and it turns out the immutable laws of physics...You’re a witch”
1996 saw a revival of big action, big budget movies taking the top spots at the box office (Independence Day, Twister, Mission: Impossible and The Rock), the Spice Girls making their mark on the UK pop charts as another, Take That, decided to call it a day.
In the September of that year, ABC began to air a supernatural sitcom which would go on for seven seasons, span a series of merchandise and introduce the TV world's best talking cat ever.
What’s it About?
Sabrina Spellman (Melissa Joan Hart) finds out on her sixteenth birthday that she...
Carley's 90s kids TV look-back comes to a Melissa Joan Hart classic, Sabrina The Teenage Witch...
“Sabrina, we have something to tell you. You see there are two realms, the natural and the supernatural and it turns out the immutable laws of physics...You’re a witch”
1996 saw a revival of big action, big budget movies taking the top spots at the box office (Independence Day, Twister, Mission: Impossible and The Rock), the Spice Girls making their mark on the UK pop charts as another, Take That, decided to call it a day.
In the September of that year, ABC began to air a supernatural sitcom which would go on for seven seasons, span a series of merchandise and introduce the TV world's best talking cat ever.
What’s it About?
Sabrina Spellman (Melissa Joan Hart) finds out on her sixteenth birthday that she...
- 3/9/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Feature Carley Tauchert 13 Feb 2014 - 07:00
Now that it's finally coming to DVD, Carley continues her classic kids' TV look back with The Wonder Years...
“Things never turn out exactly the way you planned. I know they didn't with me. Still, like my father used to say, 'Traffic's traffic, you go where life takes you' and growing up happens in a heartbeat… And the thing is, after all these years I still look back in wonder.”
1988 saw the first Bush (George H. W to be precise) take power in America, three of the top ten movies of the year were laugh out loud comedies (Coming to America, Twins and The Naked Gun) and Roger Rabbit was being framed by a pretty scary Judge Doom.
Right at the beginning of the year ABC piloted a new series that would not only capture the hearts of the American viewing public...
Now that it's finally coming to DVD, Carley continues her classic kids' TV look back with The Wonder Years...
“Things never turn out exactly the way you planned. I know they didn't with me. Still, like my father used to say, 'Traffic's traffic, you go where life takes you' and growing up happens in a heartbeat… And the thing is, after all these years I still look back in wonder.”
1988 saw the first Bush (George H. W to be precise) take power in America, three of the top ten movies of the year were laugh out loud comedies (Coming to America, Twins and The Naked Gun) and Roger Rabbit was being framed by a pretty scary Judge Doom.
Right at the beginning of the year ABC piloted a new series that would not only capture the hearts of the American viewing public...
- 2/12/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Feature Carley Tauchert 7 Nov 2013 - 07:00
Carley's series looking back at 90s kids' TV continues with spooky Nickelodeon show, Are You Afraid Of The Dark?
“Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this story…”
1990 was a pretty busy year, Margaret Thatcher resigned, Germany knocked down its wall, Arnold was kicking butt in Total Recall and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were completing world domination with their first feature film.
October of 1990 also saw the start of what would become one of the staples of the Nickelodeon line up for the next decade, the creepy and kooky Are You Afraid of the Dark?
What’s it About?
Are You Afraid of the Dark? follows a group of teens called The Midnight Society who meet every week in the woods to tell scary stories round a campfire. The stories told are more paranormal thriller then horror, some were based...
Carley's series looking back at 90s kids' TV continues with spooky Nickelodeon show, Are You Afraid Of The Dark?
“Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this story…”
1990 was a pretty busy year, Margaret Thatcher resigned, Germany knocked down its wall, Arnold was kicking butt in Total Recall and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were completing world domination with their first feature film.
October of 1990 also saw the start of what would become one of the staples of the Nickelodeon line up for the next decade, the creepy and kooky Are You Afraid of the Dark?
What’s it About?
Are You Afraid of the Dark? follows a group of teens called The Midnight Society who meet every week in the woods to tell scary stories round a campfire. The stories told are more paranormal thriller then horror, some were based...
- 11/6/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Feature Carley Tauchert 24 Oct 2013 - 06:44
Carly salutes early 90s children's show Round the Twist, in the first of a regular new series looking back at kids' TV...
“Have you ever, ever felt like this?”
You know you are getting old when you begin to feel that you have witnessed an end of an era, and that’s exactly what it feels like with children’s television in the UK. Back in the 80s and 90s it felt that kid’s TV was really going through a golden age in the UK, with home-grown talent producing some amazing shows along with an influx of quality series from all over the world and on top of that the two biggest players in terrestrial television dedicated their afternoons to showing them.
Now in the digital TV age, kids have now been shafted to the lower numbered regions of cable and satellite television...
Carly salutes early 90s children's show Round the Twist, in the first of a regular new series looking back at kids' TV...
“Have you ever, ever felt like this?”
You know you are getting old when you begin to feel that you have witnessed an end of an era, and that’s exactly what it feels like with children’s television in the UK. Back in the 80s and 90s it felt that kid’s TV was really going through a golden age in the UK, with home-grown talent producing some amazing shows along with an influx of quality series from all over the world and on top of that the two biggest players in terrestrial television dedicated their afternoons to showing them.
Now in the digital TV age, kids have now been shafted to the lower numbered regions of cable and satellite television...
- 10/23/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
This past week, it's felt like we've been swimming in a warm nostalgia soup - Ant and Dec brought back Pj and Duncan, the Boy Meets World sequel brought back Mr Feeny (William Daniels) and the world of literature brought back Melissa Joan Hart's Clarissa...
All this harking back got us thinking - which other classic icons or shows from our childhood would we like to see revived on television? Here's just a few of the names that sprung to mind...
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Kenan & Kel
Awwww... here it goes! It'll never happen - the chucklesome pair are reportedly not on the best of terms these days - but we'd love to see this Nickelodeon teen sitcom return for a reunion special. Is Kenan still schemin'? Does Kel still love orange soda?...
All this harking back got us thinking - which other classic icons or shows from our childhood would we like to see revived on television? Here's just a few of the names that sprung to mind...
> Friday Fiver - Doctor Who: 5 reasons we're excited for the new series
> Veronica Mars movie: 5 more TV shows that need Kickstarter
Kenan & Kel
Awwww... here it goes! It'll never happen - the chucklesome pair are reportedly not on the best of terms these days - but we'd love to see this Nickelodeon teen sitcom return for a reunion special. Is Kenan still schemin'? Does Kel still love orange soda?...
- 3/29/2013
- Digital Spy
Family adventure film Nim's Island 2, starring Bindi Irwin, has begun shooting on the Gold Coast.
The film also stars Us actor Matthew Lillard (The Descendants, Scooby Doo), who plays marine scientist Jack, the father of Nim (Bindi Irwin), as well as local actors John Waters (Looking Through the Glass Onion, Offspring), Toby Wallace (Surviving Georgia, Neighbours), Nathan Derrick (Rush, Bed of Roses), Sebastian Gregory (Neighbours, Accidents Happen) and Jack Pearson (Winners & Losers).
The original Nim's Island grossed $US48 million in North America and almost $6.2 million at the Australian box office. While it was shot in Queensland, it did not qualify as an Australian production, unlike the sequel which is now underway.
Nim's Island was a far bigger production, starring Jodi Foster, and was distributed by Universal. The sequel will be distributed in Australia by Pinnacle Films, which has specialised in limited theatrical releases, while international distribution is being handled by Walden Entertainment.
The film also stars Us actor Matthew Lillard (The Descendants, Scooby Doo), who plays marine scientist Jack, the father of Nim (Bindi Irwin), as well as local actors John Waters (Looking Through the Glass Onion, Offspring), Toby Wallace (Surviving Georgia, Neighbours), Nathan Derrick (Rush, Bed of Roses), Sebastian Gregory (Neighbours, Accidents Happen) and Jack Pearson (Winners & Losers).
The original Nim's Island grossed $US48 million in North America and almost $6.2 million at the Australian box office. While it was shot in Queensland, it did not qualify as an Australian production, unlike the sequel which is now underway.
Nim's Island was a far bigger production, starring Jodi Foster, and was distributed by Universal. The sequel will be distributed in Australia by Pinnacle Films, which has specialised in limited theatrical releases, while international distribution is being handled by Walden Entertainment.
- 8/7/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
Australian filmmaker Esben Storm, who died last year, will be honoured with a new award in his name at the Australian Directors Guild Awards.
The award will be the Esben Storm Award for Best Direction in a Children’s Television Program.
It will be presented at the Adg Awards on May 11.
Storm passed away last March, aged 60.
The head of Storm Productions, which he established in 1978, Esben was particularly known for his work as a director of children’s TV including Round the Twist, Crash Zone, The Genie from Down Under and 2007′s Sbs series Kick) . he was also an actor with his last appearance on All Saints.
Storm directed the features 27A (1974), In Search of Anna (1978), With Prejudice (1982), Stanley (1984) , Deadly (1991) and Subterano (2003). He also made documentaries such as The Tasty Bust Reunion and America, and for many years tried, unsuccessfully, to adapt John Marsden’s novel Tomorrow, When the War Began.
The award will be the Esben Storm Award for Best Direction in a Children’s Television Program.
It will be presented at the Adg Awards on May 11.
Storm passed away last March, aged 60.
The head of Storm Productions, which he established in 1978, Esben was particularly known for his work as a director of children’s TV including Round the Twist, Crash Zone, The Genie from Down Under and 2007′s Sbs series Kick) . he was also an actor with his last appearance on All Saints.
Storm directed the features 27A (1974), In Search of Anna (1978), With Prejudice (1982), Stanley (1984) , Deadly (1991) and Subterano (2003). He also made documentaries such as The Tasty Bust Reunion and America, and for many years tried, unsuccessfully, to adapt John Marsden’s novel Tomorrow, When the War Began.
- 2/17/2012
- by Tim Burrowes
- Encore Magazine
Actor, producer and director Esben Storm has passed away in Sydney, aged 60.
The head of Storm Productions, which he established in 1978, Esben was known for his work on television, both as director (particularly in childrens’ programs such as Round the Twist, Crash Zone, The Genie from Down Under and 2007′s Sbs series Kick) and actor – his last appearance was on All Saints .
Storm directed the features 27A (1974), In Search of Anna (1978), With Prejudice (1982), Stanley (1984) , Deadly (1991) and Subterano (2003). He also made documentaries such as The Tasty Bust Reunion and America, and for many years tried, unsuccessfully, to adapt John Marsden’s novel Tomorrow, When the War Began.
The head of Storm Productions, which he established in 1978, Esben was known for his work on television, both as director (particularly in childrens’ programs such as Round the Twist, Crash Zone, The Genie from Down Under and 2007′s Sbs series Kick) and actor – his last appearance was on All Saints .
Storm directed the features 27A (1974), In Search of Anna (1978), With Prejudice (1982), Stanley (1984) , Deadly (1991) and Subterano (2003). He also made documentaries such as The Tasty Bust Reunion and America, and for many years tried, unsuccessfully, to adapt John Marsden’s novel Tomorrow, When the War Began.
- 3/29/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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