BSA303, Feedback on the Herald on kids tv schedules and The Moe Show, 7 April, 2017

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Not everyone has the data to watch to on demand. Looks like it's back to DVDs for us."

"[We are] angry with this change," said a third. "All my daughter's favourite shows are cancelled and there's pretty much no kids' shows for toddlers any more, so disappointing."

A fourth wrote: "Absolutely unbelievable!!! What are the kids going to watch now? Shouldn't have to use On Demand for our kids to watch a wee bit of telly in the morning while having breakfast!"

In a follow-up Facebook post, Bravo said some of Four's children's shows were being replayed - but in different time slots. "Teddy [Sticky TV] and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will be coming to TV3 weekday afternoons at 3.20pm in a new one-hour line-up. Throughout the year, we'll be rotating other kids' shows in place of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," it said.

"We'll also be playing Pukana at 6.30am on Saturdays on TV3, and will have Pukana, Sticky TV, and a number of other shows on 3Now - like The Wiggles, The Moe Show and Emma."

The network said it was "looking to move the children's programming over to TV3".

Citation:  (Ward, 2016)

Ward, R. (2016, July 5). Outrage as kids' shows vanish. NZ Herald, p. 1. Retrieved from http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11668634

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You might think The Moe Show is television that's strictly for the kids.

McKinney, the show's creator Jeremy Dillon and fellow writer/puppeteer Sarah Thomson, get regular feedback from adult fans who watch episodes without a child in sight.

"One mum said: 'On a Friday, there's nothing more that my husband and I like to do once the kids are in bed than to crack open a bottle of wine and watch all the Moe Shows'," Simon McKinney laughs.

"We love those emails but the parents don't quite know how to word it. They say, 'We all as a family love The Moe Show, it's just so watchable, we love the high level of comedy'."

That's thanks to the broad appeal and gentle humour of Moe and his funny forest friends, Fern the Forest Fairy, Gilbert the Gecko, and Frank the Fantail, who cram in plenty of laughs for the kids but make the occasional wry wink to anyone watching from an older demographic.

McKinney, who puppeteers Gilbert and Frank, says that's because they try to do "that Pixar thing ... we make the adults laugh too".

"We know that if there are kids present, chances are the adults are there too. We might as well entertain them as well."

Citation:  (Schulz, 2016)

Schulz, C. (2016, December 20). The Moe Show: The Kiwi show for kids that adults are falling in love with. NZ Herald, p. 1. Retrieved from http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11769554