Exclusive: The biggest players in UK children’s TV are being asked to attend a summit early next year to try and resolve grave funding issues amidst existential questions over the genre’s future.
The Children’s Media Foundation (Cmf) has been preparing the summit for months including via a series of consultative meetings with all the major broadcasters, producer groups and lobbyists from August to October. The likes of Netflix and YouTube, which have been hugely influential in shaping the modern children’s TV sector, will also be invited to attend. Organizers are concerned about the outsized impact these global behemoths are having on the local children’s TV sector.
Local children’s TV in the UK is in hot water, according to Cmf boss and summit organizer Greg Childs, due to stiff competition, the difficulties in attracting young audiences to broadcast TV, a sharp rise in production costs...
The Children’s Media Foundation (Cmf) has been preparing the summit for months including via a series of consultative meetings with all the major broadcasters, producer groups and lobbyists from August to October. The likes of Netflix and YouTube, which have been hugely influential in shaping the modern children’s TV sector, will also be invited to attend. Organizers are concerned about the outsized impact these global behemoths are having on the local children’s TV sector.
Local children’s TV in the UK is in hot water, according to Cmf boss and summit organizer Greg Childs, due to stiff competition, the difficulties in attracting young audiences to broadcast TV, a sharp rise in production costs...
- 12/6/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
The pioneering BFI Young Audiences Content Fund, funded by the U.K. government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms), will conclude its three-year pilot program on Feb. 25.
The fund, launched with £57 million ($76.6 million), offered up to 50% of the budget of programs aimed at children and young people from U.K. public service broadcasters such as ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. It supported 144 development projects and 55 productions, including “Teen First Dates” (Channel 4’s E4), “Makeaway Takeaway” (ITV’s Citv) and “The World According The Grandpa” (Channel 5’s Milkshake!), as well as new projects in indigenous languages including “Sol,” created for the Celtic languages Irish (TG4), Scottish Gaelic (BBC Alba) and Welsh (S4C). There are 24 projects in production still to air over the next two years.
The decision to shut down the fund has been met with resistance from an influential U.K. organization. The Children’s Media...
The fund, launched with £57 million ($76.6 million), offered up to 50% of the budget of programs aimed at children and young people from U.K. public service broadcasters such as ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. It supported 144 development projects and 55 productions, including “Teen First Dates” (Channel 4’s E4), “Makeaway Takeaway” (ITV’s Citv) and “The World According The Grandpa” (Channel 5’s Milkshake!), as well as new projects in indigenous languages including “Sol,” created for the Celtic languages Irish (TG4), Scottish Gaelic (BBC Alba) and Welsh (S4C). There are 24 projects in production still to air over the next two years.
The decision to shut down the fund has been met with resistance from an influential U.K. organization. The Children’s Media...
- 1/24/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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