Bluey first ever animated cover for TV Week
TV Week breaks from tradition for a superstar Aussie.
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It's a very happy Monday in the @TVWEEKmag office! We are on sale with our first ever animation cover in our 63 year history. @OfficialBlueyTV is a ratings success and we love celebrating Australian talent so it is pure joy to have the cheeky Blue Heeler on stands today. pic.twitter.com/OGfM6ft4q4
— Amber Giles (@amber_giles) November 1, 2020
Another milestone for ABC KIDS hit Bluey -the first ever animated character given a TV Week cover.
And why not? The Ludo Studios series is pulling eye-watering figures for the channel, at up to 437,000 on Saturday -the biggest audience all day outside of evening news bulletins.
Yesterday another 424,000 in the morning, and 228,000 in an early evening replay.
New Timeshifted numbers will be available tomorrow for the first new episode, and the series was also just nominated for an AACTA Award.
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And yet, according to the commercial networks, apparently no one watches children’s tv anymore
Editors only care what happens on their watch.
Based on TVweek covers I have seen at the supermarket recently, congratulations Bluey on joining Home & Away!
Will you be rushing out to buy one David
No but happy to file on it.
Full credit and congratulations to Bluey making the cover. Long overdue given the show’s popularity.
But TV Week’s claim for it to be their first animated character on the cover is not quite true. Donald Duck was on the cover one of the earliest TV Weeks back in the 1950s and there was also a Flintstones cover in the 1960s.
I’d be surprised, too, if there hasn’t been a Simpsons cover at some stage over its 30 years run.
Perhaps Bluey is the first “Australian” animated character to be on the cover?
Well deserved cover considering its popularity on television every day.
Don’t they mean feature cover though? They don’t say animated character, they say “animated cover” referring to the main cover and not a small box similar to what Neighbours gets.
The Donald Duck and Flintstones covers were both “full” covers – from the days before a dozen different things being on the cover.
I’m pretty sure Bart Simpson featured on the cover in the 90s. He may have been on it with several others, but was the main feature.
The cover that featured Bart was in 1995 however wasn’t a Simpsons feature, rather a Top 10 Shows feature, along with Seinfeld and others. Cannot find any evidence of Flintstones or Duck covers.
The Flintstones had a full cover of TV Times on the 10th July, 1963 edition. Perhaps it has taken TV Week a little time to catch up.
Aah, TV Times, I was trying to remember the name. I knew there were two guides and suspected it was other one with animated covers. Thanks for unravelling!