Sixth Sense MD, Sallyann Keizer, and Series Producer Ruth Mills are off to Sheffield to take part in The Children’s Media Conference, the only gathering in the UK for everyone involved in developing, producing and distributing content to kids. Sallyann will be moderating a panel exploring the extent to which broadcasters [...]
We’re delighted to announce that Series Producer Ruth Mills is returning to the Sixth Sense family to head up our new commission, Time For School. She’ll also be overseeing our exciting projects in development – we’ll reveal more as soon as we can!
The Sixth Sense team is delighted to announce that our CBeebies series, Our Family, has won the prestigious honour of being a finalist in the Prix Jeuenesse International Festival. MD, Sallyann Keizer will be flying out to Munich in May, to find out the results and watch a wealth of acclaimed [...]
We’re delighted to share the news that our new shorts, Our Family Fun, was the most watched programme across all UK Children’s Channel. According to Broadcast, the episode was watched by 226,100 4-15 year olds. Our Family Fun features the most memorable moments from series 1 – 4 in short, bite-sized [...]
We’re thrilled to share that CBeebies have commissioned a third series of our top rating pre-school observational documentary Time For School! The 20-part series will be shot in a new (still to be cast) school, capturing the first term of a class of reception children as they embark on the biggest [...]
The world premiere of the Our Family Christmas special took place on Sunday 10th December 2017 as part of the first BAFTA Kids Christmas Celebration in central London. Guests of honour were the stars of the episode - Nathan, Josh and Zach along with their parents and Grandad.The event was hosted by [...]
Sixth Sense MD Sallyann Keizer and Founder of Intelligencer Jacky Parsons headed to the Children’s Global Media Summit in Manchester to share their initial findings from our study using facial recognition software to learn about how young children engage with live-action content as viewers. The presentation revealed some surprising results, challenging [...]
Sixth Sense MD Sallyann Keizer has been invited to speak at the Children’s Global Media Summit to share initial findings from the child engagement study we carried out earlier in the year. She will be joining other leading media industry figures, and we’ve just heard that the Duke of Cambridge will [...]
On Sunday 26th November 2017 Our Family was awarded the BAFTA for Pre-School Live Action at the British Academy Children’s Awards 2017 and we are all so very thrilled (take a look at the announcement here to see our reaction!) First and foremost thank you so much to all of our [...]
We’re thrilled that our shows have taken the top two spots – especially as they’re repeats! Our Family continues to be topping the charts and a Time For School Diwali special took the second spot. Thanks to both teams, our fantastic families and super schools for making such awesome shows that [...]
