BBC vows multimillion cash injection for British-made children’s TV shows

Broadcaster’s annual children’s budget will rise from £110m to £124.4m by 2019-20, with pledge to spend £31.4m of that onlineThe BBC has pledged the biggest investment in homegrown children’s content in a generation to keep up with the shift to online viewing, and fight the influence of shows backed by US rivals such as Netflix and Amazon.Spending on British-made children’s programming by UK broadcasters such as the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 has plummeted i