Bluey offers a ‘perfect’ illustration of good play for three- to six-year-olds, according to experts.
It’s Saturday morning when the much-anticipated call comes. I pick up the phone to hear the unhurried and unmistakably Australian tones of Joe Brumm, creator and writer of
Bluey, the hit ABC TV kids’ cartoon about a blue heeler family living in Brisbane. Then my heart sinks as it becomes clear this is the worst time to speak to the man who, according to experts, is producing some of the best parental role-modelling Australian TV audiences have ever seen. My children have turned into wild things. Approximately five seconds into the call, my then six-year-old arrives with news of her then two-year-old sister. “She’s knocked over her house, destroyed all the pencils, ruined the coffee table and drawn on her back!”
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Itâs Saturday morning when the much-anticipated call comes. I pick up the phone to hear the unhurried and unmistakably Australian tones
of Joe Brumm, creator and writer of
Bluey, the hit ABC TV kidsâ cartoon about a blue heeler family living in Brisbane. Then my heart sinks as it becomes clear this is the worst time to speak to the man who, according to experts, is producing some of the best parental role-modelling Australian TV audiences have ever seen.
My children have turned into wild things. Approximately five seconds into the call, my then six-year-old arrives with news of her then two-year-old sister. âSheâs knocked over her house, destroyed all the pencils, ruined the coffee table and drawn on her back!â
April 6th, 2021 By David Knox Make a commentFiled under: News,
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Bluey ‘quietly’ broke another record drawing its best ever numbers in Overnight metro viewers.
607,000 watched a new Easter special episode when it debuted in the morning -the highest entertainment audience all day on Sunday.
Another 137,000 watched a repeat later in the day.
The numbers climb higher still with regional audiences added in, and are yet to factor in Timeshifted figures.
The previous record in Overnight numbers was last November when a
Baby Race episode drew 459,000 viewers.
Across the entire Easter long weekend, it was only bettered by Monday’s