Just off hand I can think of Nowhere Boys and Little Lunch on ABC. I imagine there are others.
OK great that they are still doing them.
I’m just thinking back to my era and most of the great Childrens dramas that stand out to me were all on Nine. That 4pm slot after school used to be where they would always be whereas ABC programming was a bit less consistent regarding dramas. ABC did make some good ones from my era though like Round the Twist, Genie from Down Under and Wayne’s Manifesto. I remember them airing a lot more british ones though and Nine airing only the Aussie ones they made. I know I’m going off the topic a bit going back but just feeling a bit nostalgic remembering all these shows. 
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Tomorrow When the War Began, but also on the ABC.
What about kids drama on commercial channels? I can’t think of any.
Eleven do one every year. They had the third season of Mako: Island of Secrets this year and the other two in previous years. Also Sam Fox: Extreme Adventures 2014-2015 and they did Lightning Point in 2012.
7two had In Your Dreams in 2013-2014. They are now producing Drop Dead Weird for 2017.
Last time Nine did one was Lockie Leonard and A Gurls World in 2011.
I had a feeling they weren’t doing them anymore but I can’t believe that it’s been that long since they did one. I remember back when Nine would almost always have a kids drama in the 4pm timeslot after school. They were always better than any on the other networks.
I just looked them up and they are all Jonathan M Shiff productions. I remember almost every children’s drama on Ten was by Jonathan M Shiff.
You would think that kids dramas would be cheap to make and generally seem to get distributed pretty widely worldwide which is a way to make money back on them. Plus they can be repeated a lot too.
Mako was big on Netflix and a lot of these are shown in a lot of markets overseas.
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Good to see Screen Australia has funded another children’s drama for the Ten Network/Eleven called “The Bureau of Magical Things”.
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Either desperate or the commercial networks have a real nerve trying to dump children’s tv quotas.
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A few years ago the commercial networks offered to give money to the ABC to make children’s programs rather than they be burdened with that task. Now they want nothing to do with it.
It’s disgraceful and if they do that, they will sign their own death certificates. If you abandon providing television for children and send them elsewhere, where will your future viewers come from?
It will be like they’ll be telling them to sign up to streaming service. Then the commercial networks can get ready to completely shut down their free to air channels in a couple of decades.
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Personally, I think commercial TV networks should have a responsibility to provide a comprehensive service to viewers as part of their agreement to use public airwaves. That includes providing entertaining and informative programing to their youngest viewers.
But I will ask a question…how often do the commercial networks even promote their children’s programing these days? It seems that unless you regularly watch the multichannels or are really in tune with what’s happening in the industry, the casual TV viewer could almost be forgiven for forgetting that the commercial networks even still produce children’s programing!
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Apologies for the double post and bumping a topic which hasn’t been used in over 12 months, but here’s a rather interesting article from TV Tonight:
Personally, I think the commercial TV networks don’t have their children’s programs in the most accessable timeslots for the target demographic.
OK, so we’re not going to see kids programs return to 4pm weekdays on the main channels because the local news bulletins during those timeslots are way too important for Seven & Nine these days. But even if they’re still on the multichannels, surely 4pm weekday afternoons would be a better timeslot than early in the mornings when kids are either getting ready for school or weekend sport?
At the moment, I reckon it’s a joke how the commercial networks are airing C classification programs in timeslots that many kids mightn’t be able to watch for their entirety.
Going by the online guides for some of the shows…8am weekdays when many kids probably aren’t able to watch a 30 minute show in full because they’re getting ready to go to school? Absolutely ridiculous, especially with the commute times in the major metropolitan markets these days although even in regional/remote areas, people there are generally early risers and can sometimes have longer travel times for school.
Weekend timeslots for C classification programs aren’t much better: 8.30am, 11am, 11.30am & 12pm Saturdays or 10am Sundays when many kids are probably at Sport? Give me a break…
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I love how that Bridget Fair (an ex-Seven executive) essentially said The Bachelor isn’t shown in a 7:30pk slot, Knoxy picked her up on it 
Somebody please fast-track Where’s Waldo 
Surely the perfect show for ABC Kids?
I loved the original series.
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Does anyone think Toasted TV should be taken off 10 Peach since a programming block which has recently taken off any show Nine is stealing ratings from doesn’t quite fit in with their new programming format? Possibly move it to a new multichannel?
Perhaps repeat the question in English?
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I personally think Toasted TV is fine where it is.
One point of interest from this morning’s edition - or at least the final/closing segment that I caught - is that Callan Warner (who is apparently a presenter on Crocamole, if the information I can find elsewhere online is anything to go by) co-hosted today’s edition alongside Olly Mac:
Remembering that Ten were recently on the look out for a new co-host for Toasted TV, I wonder if Callan could be a potential candidate for the role?
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