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My Place and Dance Academy win international awards

ABC3 programmes have been awarded at the KidScreen Awards, part of a children's television conference in New York.

ABC3 programmes My Place and Dance Academy have been awarded at the KidScreen Awards, part of a children’s television conference in New York.

My Place, based on book by Nadia Wheatley, won the award ‘Best Non-Animated or Mixed Series Award’ in the family category.

Dance Academy won ‘Best Companion Website’ in the teen/tween category.

ABC3 also picked up the Best Interstitial Campaign Award was given to ABC3 for its “Meet the Hosts” talent search.

My Place producer, Penny Chapman said “I’m thrilled that My Place has received international recognition. It’s a program like no other in the world.”

ABC3 Channel Controller Tim Brooke-Hunt said “All of us in ABC Children’s TV are proud that ABC3 has, in its first year, been acknowledged internationally for our landmark dramas both on-air and on-line, and for our channel branding. These awards recognise the skill and dedication of the talented producers and other partners with whom we are privileged to collaborate.”

Both dramas will have second seasons.

14 Responses

  1. It was ‘Me On 3’ not ‘Meet The Hosts’ David. For a professional website, there are a lot of errors around. Perhaps you should hire a proofreader.

  2. @napdav I agree – Australia has a terrible track record for producing sci-fi programming (Farscape is the only other series that I can recall being locally produced). K9 certainly did look a bit creaky around the edges but the overall storylines and aim had enormous merit. I’d love to see a second series.

  3. I can’t be the only person who thinks Dance Academy and My Place were well produced, written, acted and directed kids’ programs, can I? I thought they were both wonderful, and served different aspects of a wide genre. And besides, they’re both going into second series so it can’t be all bad.

  4. I thought it was pretty gutsy for TEN to put money into a full-on scifi like K9. Some of the eps weren’t as good as they could have been but he VFX were great and it had a bit of a Dr Who vibe about it. It’s a lot harder to do scifi on a Dance Academy budget – no special effects needed for a bunch of teenagers in tights. I for one found DA and My Place very bland TV.

    And rumour has it K9 is about to get a second season, bigger and better. Great to see some scifi being made in this country. It probably won’t get as much publicity as the ABC stuff as they like to make out theirs is somehow ‘better’ and more important than the rest.

  5. Degrassi: The Next Generation is much better than anything I have seen produced locally, in terms of drama for teens. But I find few live action TV series (for children) of any interest anymore.

    The Secret Saturdays and Sym-Bionic Titan are good recent examples, for animated series. The Legend of Enyo is the only recent local animated series I have seen that was decent, but it still pales in comparison to overseas cartoon series.

    @Anthony Mai: Most of those series are quite old, and many of those series were just as bad. To expand on a few:
    The last season of Blinky Bill (cartoon series) dropped the majority of the cast, and was very poor in comparison to the previous two seasons.

    Lil Elvis and the Truckstoppers is the perfect example of a terrible local production of a cartoon series.

    The last two series of Round the Twist were not even based on Paul Jenning’s stories, and the stories were horrible.

  6. Oh wait, there was Bananas in Pyjamas, Blinky Bill, Blue Water High (1st season was great), Cybergirl, Don’t Blame the Koalas (great show), Lil Elvis and the Truckstoppers, Magic Mountain, Minty, Mr. Squiggle, Round the Twist, The Saddle Club, The Sleepover Club…

    Pretty great actually 😉

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