Australian-made children’s TV all but gone from commercial free-to-air networks

Network Ten’s Totally Wild is one of the few Australian-made children’s programs on free-to-air commercial TV Photograph: Network 10

Locally made children’s programming has all but been abandoned by the commercial television networks after the effective abolition of the quota by the Morrison government.

The leading commercial network, Seven, screened just six and a half hours of children’s television last year and none of it was Australian-made. The single program was a live action show from New Zealand called Mystic.