Netflix has come onboard ABC’s new children’s sci-fi series The Unlisted. Initially commissioned by the public broadcaster, Netflix will become a co-commissioner and will distribute the show outside Australia after its broadcast on ABC later this year.
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ABC should look at doing more shows like this.
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It’s quite good. Some great laugh out loud moments. Good to see a smart show being made for kids.
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Interview with Ms Crapper. 
Emma! - Season 2
From Monday 20 May Daily 10:05am
Emma! series 2 opens up a whole new exciting, interactive and inclusive world to the pre-school viewer. There are brand new sets, a lush garden with ornate gates, a lovely dancing room and Emma’s ‘Bowtiful Room’ that will enchant the viewer and encourage descriptive discussion at home.
Emma ! stars Emma Watkins from the children’s entertainment group, The Wiggles. Whilst the immensely popular first series of Emm a ! was a solo TV Show, this series has an international cast helping Emma tell her stories and dance and sing! Emma now has a “bowtiful” plane and “bowmobile” car to transport her to visit her friends in the town. We see men and women, boys and girls from different cultures in occupations that he young viewer may recognise.
Emma! has music, dance and songs from many different cultures. Emma sings nursery rhymes and songs in different languages during the show including English, French, Spanish, Hebrew, Greek, Tamil, Dutch and Anindilyakwa Language from Groote Eyelandt (in Australia). Emma also describes an object, every episode, in sign language. The viewer will be immersed in colour, movement, music and language, having a very self-worth enhancing and educational eleven minutes along the way.
New animated series Spirit: Riding Free premieres tomorrow (Wednesday) at 7am.
this aired on netflix
The Inbestigators
From Friday 21 June daily at 5:00pm 20 episodes
When Maudie, a ten-year-old puzzle prodigy, forms a detective agency with her classmates Ezra, Ava and Kyle, no crime is left unsolved.
Ezra, Ava and Kyle are excited to meet the new girl in their class, especially after they discover that Maudie is no ordinary new girl. She’s a ten-year-old puzzle prodigy with odd social skills and freaky powers of observation. When Maudie outwits a thief on her first day at school, Ezra conjures a bold plan: they should all start a detective agency.
Calling themselves the Inbestigators, these four disparate kids set up shop in the granny flat in Ezra’s back yard and find that with Maudie’s intellect, Ezra’s tech savvy, Ava’s people skills and Kyle’s unbridled enthusiasm, they are soon solving one thorny mystery after another. Over the months they meet an eclectic array of clients - dancers, scientists, shop owners - and successfully retrieve missing turtles, recover stolen assignments, and work out why all the neighbourhood car alarms have stopped working. They also meet an eclectic array of culprits. Discovering how someone carried out a crime is interesting, but discovering why they did it is more interesting. Maudie, Ezra, Ava and Kyle are surprised that normal feelings they sometimes have, like loneliness or anxiety or jealousy, are most often the reason a person commits a crime. Determining the motive is not only the key to finding the culprit but also the key to understanding how other people think and feel.
Maudie, Ezra, Ava and Kyle record their adventures in a weekly vlog and it’s apparent that they take their job very seriously: there’s a lot at stake when people are counting on you to help them. It’s also apparent that, although fighting crime isn’t easy when you have to finish your homework first, being an Inbestigator is awesome. Not only are these Grade Five detectives making the world a safer place, they are having the best time doing it.
CREATORS: ROBYN BUTLER AND WAYNE HOPE
Will be seen on Netflix outside Australia and New Zealand.
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Giggle & Hoot 10th Birthday
Premieres Monday 24 June on ABC KIDS and ABC KIDS iview
It’s Giggle & Hoot ’s 10th birthday and everyone is invited to celebrate the Giggle Party on ABC KIDS!
Jimmy Giggle, Hoot, Hootabelle and friends are having a Giggle Party in the Giggle and Hoot house!
Sing and dance along to Giggle & Hoot ’s most iconic tunes: Five Steps to Bed, Twinklify, Giggle Galaxy, Go
Giggleosaurus, Hoot’s Lullaby and more.Everyone’s invited to party along with Giggle & Hoot ’s 10th birthday content… Also don’t miss The Giggle Party Special on ABC KIDS, Saturday June 29th at 10:20am. See you all there, hoot-hoot!
About Giggle & Hoot
June 24 marks ten years on screen for Giggle & Hoot. Giggle & Hoot is a “wrapper” programme which airs daily on ABC KIDS. The show is aimed at 2-6 year olds and depicts the adventures of Jimmy Giggle (Jimmy Rees) with his best owl pals, puppets Hoot (David Simes) and Hootabelle (Jemma Armstrong). Jimmy Giggle introduces preschoolers to ABC shows, chats with his owl pals and interacts with young viewers.
Jimmy Giggle loves playing and singing with his best owl pals Hoot and Hootabelle in the land of Giggle & Hoot.
During the day Jimmy Giggle and his owl pals have lots of fun with hootastic songs, awesome adventures and
games. Every night as the sun sets in the land of Giggle & Hoot Jimmy Giggle prepares for sleepy time with nighty night songs while Hootabelle twinklifies the stars and Hoot goes on the Night Watch flight to make sure everyone is tucked up in bed. In between their fun you’ll see some super awesome ABC KIDS shows!The executive producer of Giggle & Hoot is Jan Stradling and the series producer is Natalie Robinson-Hurst.
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ABC and Screen Australia announce DisRupted Films
ABC and Screen Australia are pleased to announce the three successful films selected for DisRupted following a nation-wide call out in October 2018.
The films are all led by young Australian creatives with disability and supported by some of Australia’s best production companies with the broadcast on ABC ME set to premiere on the International Day of People with Disability, 3rd December 2019. Australian kids will be drawn into the funny and clever stories that are full of heart and capture what it’s like to be a young person with disability in Australia.
DisRupted provides these talented emerging filmmakers a career changing opportunity to devise and lead the creative authorship of their film, empowering them to develop their skills as storytellers and deliver authentic stories for audiences. The films provide the filmmakers with the opportunity to disrupt and reframe how disability is understood.
All three films explore universal themes through unique perspectives: newly discovered independence, finding your own voice, the power of friendship and your relationship to the world around you. Creator and director Johanna Garvin draws on her own experiences in Rocky and Me , a dramatized telling of when eleven-year-old Stella gets her first wheelchair “Rocky” and with it a new sense of freedom. And Then Something Changed , created by Eliza Hull, tells the story of a happy-go-lucky eight-year-old Louis who has Achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism, and wakes up to what he thinks will be just another normal school day but for some strange reason the world around him just isn’t working! The Legend of Burnout Barry , created and directed by Isaac Elliot, follows speed demon and record holder Josh “Wheely” Wilson who learns that there’s someone in town faster than him, setting him on a course to challenge the elusive and legendary Burnout Barry to a race.
“The ABC is so proud to be working with these talented creators who bring fresh perspectives, enthusiasm in spades and a love of filmmaking to their stellar projects. The films are not only imaginative and entertaining but also promise to challenge young Australians to reflect on the experience of disability and how it is understood. We can’t wait to share and celebrate these films with kids on December 3, the International Day of People with Disability” said Libbie Doherty, ABC Head of Children’s Content.
Nerida Moore, Head of Development at Screen Australia said, “What makes this initiative so important is that it gives creatives with disability the opportunity to tell their stories in their own way. These films are insightful and address themes of empowerment, accessibility, friendship and inclusion. It’s vital that stories on our screens reflect the diversity of the world around us and we are proud to partner with the ABC to support these filmmakers to tell these powerful stories.”
DisRupted is an ABC and Screen Australia initiated content program, the creators are supported by experienced industry filmmakers CJZ, Sticky Pictures and LateNite Films to realise their creative vision. ABC and Screen Australia Executives will provide editorial guidance and support including Jan Stradling, Anna Allbury and Natalie Robinson-Hurst for ABC Children’s and Ester Harding from Screen Australia.
As part of the ABC’s International Day of People with Disability celebrations DisRupted Films will premiere 3rd December on ABC ME and the ABC ME app.
For more information, please visit the website – www.abc.net.au/disrupted
DisRupted synopses
Rocky and Me
Brought to us by Johanna Garvin, Holly Lyons and CJZ, Rocky and Me follows the story of eleven-year-old Stella who gets her first wheelchair, and along with it, her independence. Stella names her first set of wheels “Rocky.”
This wheelchair means Stella can finally keep up with her mates – Rocky gives her a sense of freedom and confidence she’s never experienced before. Stella is a passionate swimmer, but until now she only swims in secret. The new lifeguard, Roxie, offers to coach her – and Stella feels like she has something to prove to her classmates. Based on the true misadventures of co-creator Johanna Garvin, Rocky and Me is an empowering story with a universal message – nothing is impossible!
Production Info
Creative Team: Johanna Garvin: Co-Creator, Co-Writer, Co-Producer, Director, Holly Lyons: Co-Writer, Co-Creator, Script Producer, Claire Tonkin: Executive Producer (CJZ), Toni Malone: Director of Production (CJZ) and Selina Forbes: Production Supervisor (CJZ).
And Then Something Changed
Eight-year-old Louis wakes up to what he thinks is going to be just another normal school day, but something has changed. Gone are the motorised backpacks, electric stairs, self-dressing clothes and elevating floors that Louis relies on. In this film we discover what it’s like to be a child with Achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism, and what it’s like to navigate a world that isn’t built for you. Portraying a realistic and un-sensationalised representation of a ‘day in the life’ of Louis – through his reflections – explores a present-day world where accessibility is still an issue.
Production Info
Main Cast: Theo Watson-Bonnice
Creative Team: Keiran Watson-Bonnice: Creator, Director, Writer, Eliza Hull: Creator, Producer, Additional Writing, Donna Andrews and Stu Connolly: Executive Producers, Hermione Merry: Additional Writing, Carly Myers: Script Consultant, Matthew Myers: Art Department Assistant.
The Legend of Burnout Barry
Wheely, Brent and Shay are an inseparable trio of teenagers, hell bent on having a good time and pushing the limits of whatʼs possible. When speed demon and record holder Josh “Wheely” Wilson learns that there might be someone in town faster than him, he sets about finding an elusive legend by the name of Burnout Barry – to challenge him to a race. But when his obsession with being the record holder becomes more important than his friends, Wheely risks losing more than just the title.
Production Info
Creative Team: Isaac Elliott: Creator, Director, Nicholas Colla: Creator, Producer, Nicolette Minster: Creator, Writer, Chris Hocking: Producer. From an original idea by Isaac Elliott. Production company: LateNite Films.
Get It Together!
Weeknights from 8 July at 7:00pm
Every family has bad habits…maybe even yours! Get it Together! host Kayne Tremills and his trusty drill sergeant have found Australia’s messiest, most disorganised, most forgetful families and are putting them to the ultimate test! To face a challenge designed to help them break their bad habit once and for all!
But how will they score on the series leader board? And who will be the two finalists competing to take the title of Get It Together Champions 2019?
Australia’s very own teenage trans hero Evie Macdonald is heading for the small screen, with four-part TV series First Day getting green-lit for funding by Screen Australia.
The series, which follows 12-year-old transgender girl Hannah (Macdonald) as she navigates the challenges of starting high school, has been commissioned by ABC Children and financed with additional support from the South Australian Film Corporation and the Australian Children’s Television Foundation.
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The Unlisted
Daily at 5:30pm from Sunday 15 September (15 x 25min)
Identical twins Dru and Kal Sharma discover that the world’s wealthiest individuals have formed a consortium named Infinity Group, which is working to impose global control over the world’s youth. Using high-tech electronic implants and a charitable front called the Global Child Initiative, Infinity Group plans to create an army of young soldiers who can be manipulated to obey any order. Dru and Kal, with the help of a group of underground vigilante kids – The Unlisted – will need to stop Infinity Group before it’s too late.
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This program started this afternoon and it is fantastic. ABC once again leading the way in Australian Children’s Television.
Can’t wait to see how the show progresses.
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