CBC/RADIO-CANADA and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) announced today two projects from the Kindred ABC/CBC Animation Collaboration, launched in March, have been given co-production development deals with CBC Kids and ABC Kids.
One of the projects is My Shadow is Pink, “a preschool series for kids ages 3 to 7, from Headspinner/Sticky Pictures and created by Scott Stuart and Ken Cuperus, based on Stuart’s best-selling book,” reads a description in a CBC press release.
The other project is The Eerie Chapters of Chhaya, “a series for tweens ages 10 to 14, created by Suren Perera, Georgina Love and Thomas Duncan-Watt,” the release says.
These projects were chosen from among more than 180 submissions to the Kindred Animation initiative, according to the release.
The two national public broadcasters also announced they are renewing their memorandum of understanding (MOU), which they originally signed in June 2019, allowing CBC/Radio-Canada and ABC “to continue co-developing dramas, comedies, factual content, children’s programs, and podcasts, and to increase the reach and impact of this content,” the release says.
The six-part TV series Stuff the British Stole announced in March is among the programming commissioned under the broadcasters’ original MOU.
“I am pleased to continue our successful partnership with the CBC/Radio-Canada, which has already delivered a range of valuable content to our audiences,” said David Anderson, ABC managing director, in the release. “In an increasingly crowded international content market, it is vital for public broadcasters to find new ways to deliver our national stories to audiences at home and abroad.”
“This is such a great partnership,” said Catherine Tait, CBC/Radio-Canada president and CEO. “CBC/Radio-Canada and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation are leveraging their resources to support more Canadian and Australian creators so that their stories shine on the world stage. Building on the success of our past co-productions we will continue to show how essential public media is to arts and culture and democracy in both our countries.”
The broadcasters made their announcements in Tokyo at the Embassy of Canada to Japan, ahead of the Public Broadcasters International conference, PBI Tokyo 2022, an annual international gathering of public media executives, the release explains.
Tait and Anderson are scheduled to speak at PBI on Nov. 17 during a session “addressing how public media are positioning themselves in a media ecosystem dominated by the so-called ‘digital giants’,” the release says.
They will also participate in the first in-person meeting of the Global Task Force for public media on Nov. 16. The task force, established in 2020 and chaired by Tait, comprises the leaders of eight major public service media, including ABC (Australia), BBC, CBC/Radio-Canada, France Télévisions, KBS (South Korea), RNZ (New Zealand), SVT (Sweden) and ZDF (Germany).
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Image borrowed from CBC/Radio-Canada’s press release.
