Producing Childrens Television In The On Demand Age eBook

This book provides a detailed account of the creative, economic and regulatory processes underlying the production of childrens television in a multi-platform era. Its collection of integrated case studies includes extended interviews with leading producers whose programs are watched by children all over the world. These reveal the impact of digitization on the funding, distribution and consumption of childrens television, and the ways that producers have adapted their creative practice accordingly. In its comprehensive analysis of the production culture of childrens television, this book provides a valuable lens through which to view broader transformations in media industries in the on-demand age.

This original and engaging book explores the creative processes underlying the production of childrens television, with close attention to underlying economic and policy dynamics. It does so through a combination of detailed case studies and interviews with leading producers from across three English-language markets. In its examination of the impact of new streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime on the funding, production and distribution of childrens screen content, the book will reveal how producers successfully created content for these increasingly influential new services.

It offers important insights into the production of childrens screen content in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, and builds on previous research in the field. The addition of analysis, which provides the context of historical, regulatory and economic factors that shape production in all three countries, is important for situating the personal testimonies and providing some critical distance. The variety of productions chosen for analysis, including drama, factual productions and animation, represents the very different pressures on different genres. Previous studies have looked at childrens content as one genre, whereas this new study reveals childrens content to be as diverse in range as adult content.

The case studies show the pressures and opportunities emerging from different national and international context and offers its own unique take on matters such as diversity, gender representation and indeed the ethics of representing children from a producers perspective. As a contribution to industry studies, this volume represents a valuable addition to the literature and will no doubt be referenced by future studies.

The quantity and quality of original interview material goes far beyond interviews in the trade press. Combined with the rich detail of production case studies, the articulate interviews and Potters highly engaging mode of writing, this book is an invaluable additional to research in the area.

This book will provide a crucial analysis of success stories in the childrens screen production industries at a time of flux and adaptation as televisions distribution revolution takes place.

The book will be indispensable for scholars of childrens television and of UK, New Zealand and Australian media policy. It will also engage a wider audience interested in television production, production studies and digital distribution including those teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It will be a valuable library resource for courses that include screen media industries and television production culture as part of their content. It will be of interest to scholars beyond childrens television because of its analysis of success stories in screen production at a time of change and uncertainty.

It will also be of relevance to the international screen production sector and industry bodies, including screen organizations such as Screen Australia, and the UKs Childrens Media Foundation, for its analysis of success stories in the screen production industries. Also, of interest to the many groups with vested interests around children and childrens media i...