BBC Talk

• Age 6-14 years (CBBC)
• Age 0-6 years (CBeebies)

They are looking to remake Dangermouse.

"All home grown content is shit"

They moved from London to Salford.

There are 34 TV channels dedicated to kids in the UK.

CBBC is the number one kids channel.

Average weekly 29.1% 10.1% share 196.4 million iplayer requests for CBBC.

Most audiences are watching on the tablet and smart phones. 

Miniscule, How to Train Your Dragon, Scooby Doo, Dennis and Gnasher, League of Super evil, Strange Hill High, Arthur, Sidekick, Shaun the Sheep, Scream Sheet - Mckinnon and Saunders are making the puppets, adult comedy.

Zig and Zag - 2D animation.

Sidekick - based on the old style cartoon network like Dexter.

Laugh out loud comedy is what they are looking for. 

Fits with existing shows.

Scripts and characters are very important.

Shawn the Sheep was voted the nations best loved BBC show.

"The Kids are your Boss"

Never talk down to kids, they are smarter than you think. They don't do "fighty" stuff on CBBC like Ben 10.

Tips for writers

• Premise
• Character
• Setting
• Stories

Could this story be in another medium.

Love your characters.

The wider the world, the simpler the story.

Storytelling

• 3 Act structure
• Character driven
• Coherent within the rules of the world

PACE! Ultra fast  - can eat up a lot of the story.

Tone - No guns, No knives, No punching in the face, No cynicism!

Visual Style -  Anything goes (CG, 2D, Stopmotion, Mixed media)

Writing Process

• Writer's conference
• Springboards - paragraph length
• Outline AKA Premise 2/3 Pages
• Scene by Scene 2/3 length script
• Draft up to 6 but varies
• Polishes and shooting scripts