Blinky Bill series for Seven
Aussie icon gets the Kid's TV greenlight with 26 episodes to air on Seven in 2016.
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Seven has co-commissioned 26 episodes of a new kid’s series The Wild Adventures of Blinky Bill, to bring his trademark mischief, mayhem, and humour to life.
The new series from Flying Bark Productions will be set a few years after a feature film to be released in September, with a slightly older Blinky taking on the role as defender of his outback home, Greenpatch.
It will include familiar faces and new characters including Blinky’s best mate and sidekick, Jacko.
Barbara Stephen, Managing Director of Flying Bark Productions said: “We’re really excited that Channel Seven has commissioned the series so that we can bring Blinky Bill to a new generation of Aussie fans. The series will be an Australian production, in association with Telegael (Ireland) and Giant Wheel (India), featuring an all-Australian cast.”
“The Blinky Bill stories of today continue to celebrate Australia’s vibrant flora and fauna, classic iconography and cultural values first introduced in the original stories that so many people grew up with, but we have an added modern feel to engage the next generation of Blinky fans.”
It will air in 2016.
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I have a real problem with computer generated animation…there is little of it I like…TV series or movies…
That ‘thing’ in the above picture, looks like a nightmarish rubber blow up, to me….certainly not cute and cuddly……….
I agree with JamesJ …Bananas..Angelina and so on..just awful now…sort of flat…
As long as they don’t refer to him as a “bear”.
yep i remember watching the puppet version. So much better than the cartoon way. They have wrecked bananas in pyjamas.
Anyone remember the puppet version of Blinky Bill? I’d be glad if they’d play that again.
Babar, Bananas, Blinky Bill – they keep ruining my childhood series!
Glad to read about this. Be nice to sell overseas. I’m just curious as to what the timeslot will be. 7 have to had much in the way of children’s television in recent years. They used to have something on at 4pm weekdays and Saturday morning cartoons but that has long since disappeared. Why don’t commercial networks need to show kids TV like they used to? Has the ABC picked up all children’s TV rights David?
7 Network currently airs children’s programming 7-8.30am weekdays on 7two, 7-11.30ish am on 7mate weekdays. Saturday Disney is on 6-9am Sat from memory across 7/7two. I imagine Blinky Bill will air in there somewhere.
The Saturday cartoons and the kids programming in the 4pm slot hasn’t disappeared but is on multichannel.
@Elizabeth H: 7/9/10 have been shifting childrens content to multichannels in the last few years.
Thanks everyone for your comments. Glad to know 7/9/10 have continued to air children’s shows – I didn’t realise they had moved them to their mutli-channels. I’m surprised that some programs don’t appear on the primary channel anymore and are replaced by Weekend Sunrise and the hours of news in the afternoons!
Yes regulation allowed for networks to screen kid’s content on multichannels and still be counted. They reportedly did backflips of joy at the news.
Have a look at the Go! schedule Elizabeth. They show roughly 18 hours of children’s programming of some description these days!