| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Num Seasons: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 26 (plus 2 specials) |
| Executive Producer: | Bernadette O'Mahoney |
| Company: | Gristmill Productions |
| Network: | ABC Me |
Little Lunch is an Australian children's mockumentary television series that first aired on ABC Me in 2015. The 26-part, 12 minute series is based on the books written by Danny Katz and illustrated by Mitch Vane. The series was adapted for television by Robyn Butler and Wayne Hope. The stories are set in the primary school playground at snack time and unfold through six children whose names are Atticus, Debra Jo, Rory, Melanie, Tamara and Battie as well as their teacher Mrs. Gonsha.[1]
Two additional specials were filmed and screened in 2016: "The Halloween Horror Story"[2] and "The Nightmare Before Graduation".[3] The series was filmed at St Kilda Primary School in Melbourne, Australia.
Little Lunch is set in a suburban primary school in Australia and follows the adventures of six Grade 5 students (listed below). In each episode, set at little lunch (or morning recess), the children tell stories about a scenario that happened at little lunch or events that happened outside class for example, a walk-a-thon, two pupils competing for who gets to go on the monkey bars or celebrating a birthday.
This show airs in the United States on Universal Kids and in Canada on TVO. The first season is still available on Netflix in the UK.However, the US only had these until March 15, 2020.
In Vietnam, it was broadcast on VTV7 (Vietnam Television) from December 2019.
A two-disc DVD (PAL, Region 4) collection of the 26 episodes was published by the Australian Children's Television Foundation in 2017. The series and two specials were available for digital download from ACTF.
In addition to the original series of books, Katz and Vane also wrote and illustrated a number of novelisations, themselves based on specific episodes of the TV series. The novelisations were published in collections of three by Black Dog Books, an imprint of Walker Books. Each collection included a handful of greyscale stills from the series.