Naman Ramachandran The pioneering Young Audiences Content Fund, funded by the U.K. government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), will conclude its three-year pilot program on Feb.
25.The fund offered up to 50% of the budget of programs aimed at children and young people from U.K. public service broadcasters such as ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5.
It supported 144 development projects and 55 productions, including “Teen First Dates” (Channel 4’s E4) “Makeaway Takeaway” (ITV’s CITV) and “The World According The Grandpa” (Channel 5’s Milkshake!) and new projects in indigenous languages including “Sol,” created for the Celtic languages Irish (TG4), Scottish Gaelic (BBC ALBA) and Welsh (S4C).
There are 24 projects in production still to air over the next two years. The decision to shut down the fund has met with resistance from an influential U.K.
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