# After-school game shows **URL:** \ **Category:** TV History\ **Created:** [June 22, 2019, 11:29pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/after-school-game-shows/9766 "2019-06-22T23:29:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![IanG](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/iang/32/3121_2.png) [@IanG](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/IanG)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2026, 12:15am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/after-school-game-shows/9766/144 "2026-06-03T00:15:42Z")
Plus how often was it touted that the major prize in those was “for your school”? ---
**Author:** ![Lachie](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/lachie/32/519307_2.png) [@Lachie](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Lachie)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2026, 7:52am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/after-school-game-shows/9766/145 "2026-07-02T07:52:08Z")
This is a episode of Pyramid on Channel Nine from Wednesday October 21st 2009. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/aRh9CWJJ4Y0/maxresdefault.jpg "Pyramid Channel Nine 21/10/2009") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRh9CWJJ4Y0&t=55s) ---
**Author:** ![BJT2](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/bjt2/32/381_2.png) [@BJT2](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/BJT2)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2026, 9:38am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/after-school-game-shows/9766/146 "2026-07-02T09:38:44Z")
Who was the host for this show again? From memory he did KidsWB? ---
**Author:** ![JBar](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/jbar/32/151177_2.png) [@JBar](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/JBar)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2026, 9:52am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/after-school-game-shows/9766/147 "2026-07-02T09:52:09Z")
Shura Taft ---
**Author:** ![BJT2](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/bjt2/32/381_2.png) [@BJT2](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/BJT2)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2026, 10:01am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/after-school-game-shows/9766/148 "2026-07-02T10:01:08Z")
> [@JBar](#): > > Shura Taft He really didn’t go onto much after? I think he may have done some Postcards specials. ---
**Author:** ![Avatar5991](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/avatar5991/32/310969_2.png) [@Avatar5991](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Avatar5991)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2026, 10:07am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/after-school-game-shows/9766/149 "2026-07-02T10:07:24Z")
> [@BJT2](#): > > He really didn’t go onto much after? He hosted Seven’s revival of _The Mole_, which premiered on this day in 2013. It flopped badly in the ratings to the point where it got shafted to a 10:30pm timeslot on Wednesday nights, and the season dragging out longer than desired. I think the idea was that there would be three episodes a week, with an elimination every third episode or so, until a final week of eliminations and the winner/Mole being revealed at the very end. ---
**Author:** ![JBar](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/jbar/32/151177_2.png) [@JBar](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/JBar)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2026, 11:10am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/after-school-game-shows/9766/150 "2026-07-02T11:10:11Z")
He also hosted a weekend music show Eclipse Music TV for a couple of years after Pyramid. ![MV5BZWZmZWQwN2MtNDRlYy00Y2M1LThmYzgtMDRiODAxMjUzNTIwXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_](https://mediaspy-org-s3.s3.dualstack.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/original/4X/c/1/d/c1dce60a41e19ce3c50f08087fef311e1aca5ee9.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Lachie](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/lachie/32/519307_2.png) [@Lachie](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Lachie)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2026, 10:05pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/after-school-game-shows/9766/151 "2026-07-02T22:05:03Z")
This is a episode of A\*mazing on Channel Seven from Monday January 15th 1996. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/99SKLgSdGwg/maxresdefault.jpg "A\*mazing Channel Seven 15/1/1996") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99SKLgSdGwg&t=21s) ---
**Author:** ![Lachie](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/lachie/32/519307_2.png) [@Lachie](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Lachie)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2026, 1:14am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/after-school-game-shows/9766/152 "2026-07-04T01:14:59Z")
This is a episode of A\*mazing on Channel Seven from Monday June 26th 1995. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/L2PE04VgPOI/maxresdefault.jpg "A\*mazing Channel Seven 26/6/1995") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2PE04VgPOI) ---
**Author:** ![jcb301176](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8edcca/32.png) [@jcb301176](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/jcb301176)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2026, 8:36am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/after-school-game-shows/9766/153 "2026-07-04T08:36:18Z")
Do the FTA stations commission Kids programs anymore? ---
**Author:** ![Lachie](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/lachie/32/519307_2.png) [@Lachie](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Lachie)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2026, 8:46am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/after-school-game-shows/9766/154 "2026-07-04T08:46:21Z")
Great question mate now days Kids Shows air on Multi Channels for the Free To Air Channels in Australia. ---
**Author:** ![JBar](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/jbar/32/151177_2.png) [@JBar](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/JBar)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2026, 9:20am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/after-school-game-shows/9766/155 "2026-07-04T09:20:27Z")
Not really. > **[‘I give us 10 years’: The alarming collapse of Australian children’s TV](https://www.theage.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/i-give-us-10-years-the-alarming-collapse-of-australian-children-s-tv-20260521-p5zzcu.html)** > > Industry insiders feared what the removal of commercial quotas on children’s content in 2020 would mean for local content. Six years later, their worst fears seem to have been realised. > Nicholas Verso knows a thing or two about making children’s television. He’s won a Logie for his series Crazy Fun Park, and an Australian Directors’ Guild Award for his work on Grace Beside Me. More recently, Invisible Boys, though catering to a slightly older audience, made such waves at home and abroad that it earned a coveted Peabody nomination. > > Yet, even with this impressive resume, Verso’s new ideas are falling on deaf ears. “People don’t even want to hear the pitch,” he says. “The ABC is the only door you can really knock on … No other network or streamer is interested in [young] audiences. YA is a dirty word in Australian commissioning now.” > > In 2020, the then-Coalition government removed commercial quotas on children’s content. New research suggests that triggered a 97 per cent collapse in the total investment in commercial kids’ television. While mega-popular shows like _Bluey_ and _Play School_ continue building their empires, the commissioning of new shows has largely fallen by the wayside. ---
**Author:** ![Lachie](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/lachie/32/519307_2.png) [@Lachie](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Lachie)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2026, 10:55am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/after-school-game-shows/9766/156 "2026-07-04T10:55:11Z")
Thanks mate. ---
**Author:** ![yellow\_sock](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/34f0e0/32.png) [@yellow\_sock](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/yellow_sock)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2026, 3:20pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/after-school-game-shows/9766/157 "2026-07-04T15:20:21Z")
Children’s Programs in Australia these days is extremely low. Sadly, game shows for children is non-existent these days - outside of Hard Quiz Kids. And has been for i say, a decade? Which is a shame. At least It’s Academic repeats is still airing - even if it is on 7flix weekdays at an early timeslot. 10 is crazy not to have any game shows for children, given they have Nickelodeon. ---
**Author:** ![Lachie](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/lachie/32/519307_2.png) [@Lachie](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Lachie)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2026, 12:46am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/after-school-game-shows/9766/158 "2026-07-05T00:46:49Z")
This is a episode of Wipeout on Channel Seven from Wednesday April 19th 2000. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/0mZLPIqKoew/maxresdefault.jpg "Wipeout Channel Seven 19/4/2000") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mZLPIqKoew) ---
**Author:** ![Avatar5991](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/avatar5991/32/310969_2.png) [@Avatar5991](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Avatar5991)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2026, 7:02am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/after-school-game-shows/9766/159 "2026-07-05T07:02:50Z")
> [@yellow\_sock](#): > > Sadly, game shows for children is non-existent these days - outside of Hard Quiz Kids. And has been for i say, a decade? AFAIK, after-school children’s programming ceased either in 2012 or 2013; in the latter year, Seven premiered “The Daily Edition” in the middle of the year which initially aired at 3:00pm and went for 90 minutes, leading into Seven’s afternoon news. ---
**Author:** ![BJT2](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/bjt2/32/381_2.png) [@BJT2](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/BJT2)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2026, 10:02am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/after-school-game-shows/9766/160 "2026-07-05T10:02:42Z")
From memory “Wipeout” replaced “Amazing” at 4.00pm. Wipeout also screened in the mid morning time slot when school holidays were scheduled. Wipeout was then replaced by the Big Arvo, Girl TV and then its Academic. ---
**Author:** ![Avatar5991](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/avatar5991/32/310969_2.png) [@Avatar5991](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Avatar5991)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2026, 10:06am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/after-school-game-shows/9766/161 "2026-07-05T10:06:52Z")
> [@BJT2](#): > > Big Arvo This, I believe, was the show that launched James (Jesse) Tobin’s career. He would then host his own show at 4:00pm, “Go Go Stop”. ---
**Author:** ![Lachie](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/lachie/32/519307_2.png) [@Lachie](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Lachie)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2026, 10:08am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/after-school-game-shows/9766/162 "2026-07-05T10:08:18Z")
That’s correct mate. ---
**Author:** ![BJT2](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/bjt2/32/381_2.png) [@BJT2](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/BJT2)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2026, 10:20am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/after-school-game-shows/9766/163 "2026-07-05T10:20:27Z")
So it was the following 1994 Amazing 1999 Wipeout 2000 Big Arvo 2003 Girl TV 2004 Go Go Stop 2007 It’s Academic I vaguely remember some kids drama tv shows around 1999 / 2000 based on a paddle steamer with ghosts. [Previous page](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/after-school-game-shows/9766.md?page=7) [Next page](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/after-school-game-shows/9766.md?page=9)