Noah and Saskia

Noah and Saskia
From left to right: Noah, CGI and real Max Hammer, real and CGI Indy, Saskia
GenreTeen's
Created byPatricia Edgar
Chris Anastassiades
Paul Nichola
Directed byPino Amenta
StarringJack Blumenau
Hannah Greenwood
Cameron Nugent
Hayden Rathbone
Adrian Fergus Fuller
Emily Wheaton
Alex Yates
Maria Papas
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Australia
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes13
Production
Executive producersPatricia Edgar (ABC)
Elaine Sperber (BBC)
ProducerPatricia Edgar
Running time24 minutes
Original release
NetworkCBBC
ABC
Release4 May 2004 (2004-05-04)
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Noah and Saskia is a 13-episode TV program initiated, developed and produced by Patricia Edgar for the Australian Children's Television Foundation (ACTF) and the BBC as she stepped down after 20 years as Founding Director of the ACTF.[1] The 13 x 24-minute drama series involves an Australian teenage girl, Saskia, and her internet-based relationship with Noah, a teenage boy living in the United Kingdom.[2] The two characters project their ideal selves to each other in a virtual world, and in the process get a little closer to reaching their ideals in the real one.[2] The show is about the power of someone's essence and how someone can touch you from 10,000 miles away, and change your whole life.[3] Noah & Saskia speaks directly to today's young people about the technologies which are changing the way we communicate.[4]

"I wanted one more crack at producing the type of television I had always believed in; not a formulaic soap-style series; not a co-produced mid-Pacific blancmange, but something that really spoke to adolescents about the issues that were on their minds," Patricia Edgar, Bloodbath: a memoir of Australian Television, pg.399 .[1] "The Internet was the place to set much of the action as this allowed for a modern, contemporary story, which would be new territory for drama. The other appeal of online chat spaces was that they give the characters opportunities to express themselves in multiple ways. The Net is a space where young people are much more at home than their parents and increasingly it will be their world", Patricia Edgar.[5]

Noah and Saskia commenced production in May 2003.[6] It premiered and screened in Australia on the ABC and in the United Kingdom on the BBC in 2004.[6]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Australian Children's Television Foundation, (2001). Australian Children's Television Foundation Annual Report 2000-2001. A.C.T.F. Productions Limited. ISSN 0814-7280
  3. ^ Australian Children's Television Foundation, (2003). Care for kids: Television News, The newsletter of the Australian Children's Television Foundation, Issue No. 89, p. 1-4. ISSN 0813-3727
  4. ^ Australian Children's Television Foundation, (2004). Care for kids: Television News, The newsletter of the Australian Children's Television Foundation, Issue No. 96, p. 1-4. ISSN 0813-3727
  5. ^ Australian Children's Television Foundation, (2004). Care for kids: Television News, The newsletter of the Australian Children's Television Foundation, Issue No. 94, p. 1-4. ISSN 0813-3727
  6. ^ a b Australian Children's Television Foundation, (2003). Australian Children's Television Foundation Annual Report 2002-2003. A.C.T.F. Productions Limited. ISSN 0814-7280