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Michael Carrington, Veteran TV Exec Instrumental In Creation Of ‘Bluey’, Announces Retirement
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. 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. Named as pubcaster the ABC’s kids content boss, he saw an early stage pilot of Bluey at an industry pitch and backed it with development money.
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