Abc iview bluey series#
Abc iview bluey tv#

The show has been viewed more than 75 million times on ABC Kids and is the most viewed program on ABC iview, according to ABC Kids. Bluey debuted on ABC Kids and the kidcaster’s on-demand platform iview in 2018, followed by CBeebies Australia last year. It was co-commissioned by BBC Worldwide and ABC Kids the next year, with production investment from Screen Australia in association with Screen Queensland.

Abc iview bluey series#

BBC Studios and Penguin Random House have teamed up for a series of three books based on the show that will be available in Australian stores before Christmas.Ĭreated by Joe Brumm ( Tinga Tinga Tales), the 2D-animated preschool show first debuted at Asian Animation Summit in 2016 (where it was voted Best in Show by attendees). On top of the new season, Bluey is also getting its first consumer products. Production will start later this month on the 52 x seven-minute episodes, which will debut on ABC Kids and its VOD app ABC iview in 2020. “Flat Pack” is back on iView, while “Teasing” will return in September.BBC Studios and Australian broadcaster ABC Kids have co-commissioned a second season of Brisbane-based Ludo Studio’s animated series Bluey. The ABC said it would rework both episodes before they were broadcast again. “Oh dear god my children say it all the time thanks to show! I honestly believe, once you know, you do better!” said another. “Learn something every day, banning this word in our house now! Well done to OP/ABC/Bluey team for standing up and doing something about casual racism and educating us,” one parent wrote. That prompted a grateful response from other Bluey fans. “I personally balked at hearing it used in ‘Teasing’, but never said anything because I thought it was maybe just me.”

Abc iview bluey tv#

It was used in social circles, in movies or TV depicting black indigenous people as ‘uncivilised fools’. I’m in my 40s, and I well remember a time growing up in Western Sydney where the phrase ‘ooga boogas’ was used conversationally to describe a dark-skinned person. “I know to many you just see this word as ‘caveman speak’, or in the harmless way the writers clearly did too,” they wrote. “Can someone explain to me how ‘ooga booga’ is racist?” asked another fan on social media.īut at least one respondent to a Bluey fan page on Facebook backed the move. “Am I missing something? What is wrong with Ooga Booga? Disney is absolutely being ridiculous,” one fan wrote on Reddit. The ABC said both episodes that featured the offensive term – one called “Teasing” and the other “Flat Pack” – had been removed from iView.īut the move left some viewers mystified. Bluey won an International Kids Emmy earlier in 2020. In April, the Brisbane-made show won a prestigious International Emmy Kids Award.

It has also been picked up by Disney in the US (for the Disney Channel and Disney+), broadcasts in the UK and New Zealand and is set to screen in China (in Mandarin). Bluey, which shares the antics of two Blue Heeler sisters called Bluey and Bingo, and their hands-on parents Bandit and Chilli, has been a smash hit for the ABC since it debuted in October 2018.īy December 2019, it had had more downloads on ABC’s iView than any other TV series (150 million and rising).