Three Aussie children’s TV shows nominated for the International Emmy Kids Awards
ROBERT Irwin’s Wild But True is one of three Australian children’s TV shows nominated for the International Emmy Kids Awards.
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THREE Australian children’s TV shows have been nominated for Emmy Awards.
The nominees for the International Emmy Kids Awards were announced today by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences at the MIPCOM entertainment trade fair in Cannes, France.
Doodles, a multiplatform, interactive, animated comedy series, was nominated in the Kids: Digital section. It faces competition from Japan, Canada and Brazil.
In the series, real children’s drawings are brought to life in animated micro movies on TV and other platforms. It is now in Season 3 on ABC3.
It comes from Ludo Studio, ABC3 Australia, Screen Australia and Screen Queensland.
Ludo Studio has already won an International Emmy Award for #7DaysLater, an interactive comedy series featuring an ensemble cast of YouTube celebrities.
Wild But True, shown on Discovery Kids, has been nominated in the Kids: Factual section. It explores how nature and wildlife have influenced our modern day lives. It has competition from the UK, Netherlands, Singapore and Chile.
The show features Australia Zoo’s Robert Irwin — who follows in his father Steve’s footsteps — along with co-star Isabel Yamazaki.
It has been shot largely at Australia Zoo on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, with a theme of how billions of years of nature’s solutions are dramatically changing human lives.
Ready For This follows five indigenous teenagers who venture across the country to Sydney to pursue their dreams. It has been nominated in the Kids: Series section and faces competition from the UK, Netherlands and Argentina.
The 14-part series, shown on ABC 3, was written by Liz Doran, Jon Bell, Nakkiah Lui, Josh Mapleston and Kristen Dunphy. It is a joint venture between Werner Film Productions and Blackfella Films and was produced by Big Chance Films for the ABC, in association with the Australian Children’s Television Foundation.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony at MIPTV in Cannes, in April next year.
There were 28 nominees in seven categories. Nominations span 13 countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Academy president Bruce Paisner said nothing in television was more important than what children watched everyday.
“The Academy is proud to be the pre-eminent platform for remarkable and notable kids programming,” he said.
The Academy also announced that it will be recognising short-form series in the awards at the Iemmy gala in New York next year.
Original fiction and nonfiction programs with episodes under a half-hour will be eligible with entries open from December 8 to February 16, next year.
Mr Paisner said Iemmy categories changed as media changed.
“We felt we needed to give special recognition to the rapid and important growth of short form in the industry,” he said.
Disclaimer: The writer is a member of the Academy.
Originally published as Three Aussie children’s TV shows nominated for the International Emmy Kids Awards
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