Michael Carrington, Veteran TV Exec Instrumental In Creation Of ‘Bluey’, Announces Retirement

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Michael Carrington, the exec who first backed global kids smash Bluey, is retiring after a storied career. The former BBC Kids boss held numerous top level roles throughout from the early 1990s through to the 2020s, and had a reputation as one of the most knowledgable in the business, but is best known for supporting the development of Bluey while leading the ABC TV Children’s and Education department in Australia.

He announced his retirement on LinkedIn, saying, “The world of television has given me more than I could have ever imagined.” Having begun his career in Australia at Network Ten, he joined CBBC as a producer in 1993 before being whisked off to lead Lego’s TV and New Media department just before the millennium.

He returned to the Beeb four years later in an acquisitions role at BBC Children’s and rose to become the first Creative Director and Controller of CBeebies in 2007.

There he commissioned the likes of In the Night Garden and Charlie & Lola, both of which still play daily on the preschool network.