Feature Carley Tauchert 24 Oct 2013 - 06:44
Carly salutes early 90s children's show Round the Twist, in the first of a regular new series looking back at kids' TV...
“Have you ever, ever felt like this?”
You know you are getting old when you begin to feel that you have witnessed an end of an era, and that’s exactly what it feels like with children’s television in the UK. Back in the 80s and 90s it felt that kid’s TV was really going through a golden age in the UK, with home-grown talent producing some amazing shows along with an influx of quality series from all over the world and on top of that the two biggest players in terrestrial television dedicated their afternoons to showing them.
Now in the digital TV age, kids have now been shafted to the lower numbered regions of cable and satellite television...
Carly salutes early 90s children's show Round the Twist, in the first of a regular new series looking back at kids' TV...
“Have you ever, ever felt like this?”
You know you are getting old when you begin to feel that you have witnessed an end of an era, and that’s exactly what it feels like with children’s television in the UK. Back in the 80s and 90s it felt that kid’s TV was really going through a golden age in the UK, with home-grown talent producing some amazing shows along with an influx of quality series from all over the world and on top of that the two biggest players in terrestrial television dedicated their afternoons to showing them.
Now in the digital TV age, kids have now been shafted to the lower numbered regions of cable and satellite television...
- 10/23/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Australian filmmaker Esben Storm, who died last year, will be honoured with a new award in his name at the Australian Directors Guild Awards.
The award will be the Esben Storm Award for Best Direction in a Children’s Television Program.
It will be presented at the Adg Awards on May 11.
Storm passed away last March, aged 60.
The head of Storm Productions, which he established in 1978, Esben was particularly known for his work as a director of children’s TV including Round the Twist, Crash Zone, The Genie from Down Under and 2007′s Sbs series Kick) . he was also an actor with his last appearance on All Saints.
Storm directed the features 27A (1974), In Search of Anna (1978), With Prejudice (1982), Stanley (1984) , Deadly (1991) and Subterano (2003). He also made documentaries such as The Tasty Bust Reunion and America, and for many years tried, unsuccessfully, to adapt John Marsden’s novel Tomorrow, When the War Began.
The award will be the Esben Storm Award for Best Direction in a Children’s Television Program.
It will be presented at the Adg Awards on May 11.
Storm passed away last March, aged 60.
The head of Storm Productions, which he established in 1978, Esben was particularly known for his work as a director of children’s TV including Round the Twist, Crash Zone, The Genie from Down Under and 2007′s Sbs series Kick) . he was also an actor with his last appearance on All Saints.
Storm directed the features 27A (1974), In Search of Anna (1978), With Prejudice (1982), Stanley (1984) , Deadly (1991) and Subterano (2003). He also made documentaries such as The Tasty Bust Reunion and America, and for many years tried, unsuccessfully, to adapt John Marsden’s novel Tomorrow, When the War Began.
- 2/17/2012
- by Tim Burrowes
- Encore Magazine
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