Guess How Much I Love You (TV series)
An Australian animated series based on Sam McBratney's beloved picture books.
Guess How Much I Love You: The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare is an Australian children's animated television series adapted from Sam McBratney's book series. The show takes place in a watercolour-inspired world of mossy forests, slow-moving rivers, and sunny meadows, where Little Nutbrown Hare lives with his father, Big Nutbrown Hare.
The first season was co-produced by SLR Productions and Scrawl Studios for Kika and Hessischer Rundfunk, with involvement from TVOKids, Knowledge Kids, YLE, and SVTB, as well as TFO, ABC Television, and The Walt Disney Company Australia. CCI Entertainment originally distributed the series until 9 Story Media Group acquired CCI's children's and family library in 2013. The second season was co-produced by SLR Productions, Kika, and Hessischer Rundfunk, in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
For the US dub, Home Plate Entertainment provided voice production services for 20 episodes. The series spans two seasons (2011–12 and 2015–16) and a set of specials in 2017.
Before the television adaptation, Walker Books partnered with King Rollo Films in 2005 to produce short films based on its picture books, including *Guess How Much I Love You*. In 2010, SLR Productions secured the rights to adapt the book into a TV series and partnered with Kika and Hessischer Rundfunk. CCI Entertainment and Scrawl Studios joined as co-producers, with CCI handling distribution outside Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia. ABC Kids renewed the series for a second season, with SLR Productions, Kika, and Hessischer Rundfunk returning, while 9 Story Media Group took over distribution and co-production after acquiring CCI's library.
Scrawl Studios handled animation for the first season, funded by Singapore's Media Development Authority. Top Draw Animation, which had worked on SLR's *Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs* and *The Skinner Boys*, handled animation for the second season.
The series aired on Kika in Germany, e-Junior in the UAE, TVOKids, Knowledge Kids, and TFO in Canada, ABC Kids in Australia, SVTB in Sweden, Disney Junior in the US, Nickelodeon in France and the UK, and YLE in Finland. In 2013, it was nominated for an AACTA Award for Best Children's Television Series.
- type
- Animated television series
- country
- Australia
- based_on
- Guess How Much I Love You book series by Sam McBratney
- seasons
- 2
- first_aired
- 2011
- last_aired
- 2016
- network
- ABC Kids (Australia), Kika (Germany), Disney Junior (United States)
Lore & Background
Before the series adaptation was made, the book's original publisher Walker Books partnered with British animation studio King Rollo Films in 2005 to produce short films based on Walker Books' picture books including Guess How Much I Love You. Five years later, in 2010, Australian animation studio SLR Productions acquired the rights to adapt Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram's picture book into a television adaptation. SLR Productions signed a co-production partnership with German children's channel Kika and Hessischer Rundfunk to co-produce the series. Canadian production & distribution studio CCI Entertainment and Singaporean company Scrawl Studios joined the production as co-producers, while CCI Entertainment acquired worldwide distribution outside of Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia.
Reader's Guide
The series was renewed for a second season by Australian broadcasting network ABC Kids. SLR Productions, Kika and Hessischer Rundfunk returned to co-produce, while 9 Story Media Group handled worldwide distribution and co-production following 9 Story's acquisition of CCI Entertainment's children's programming library. Co-producer Scrawl Studios handled animation production services for the first season with funding from Media Development Authority of Singapore, while Philippines animation studio Top Draw Animation took over animation services for the second season. The series was nominated for an AACTA Award for 'Best Children's Television Series' in 2013. It aired on Kika in Germany, e-Junior in the United Arab Emirates, TVOKids, Knowledge Kids and TFO in Canada, ABC Kids in Australia, SVTB in Sweden, Disney Junior in the United States, Nickelodeon in France and the United Kingdom, and YLE in Finland.
Did You Know?
- Season 1 was co-produced by SLR Productions and Scrawl Studios for Kika and Hessischer Rundfunk, in association with TVOKids, Knowledge Kids, YLE and SVTB.
- Home Plate Entertainment provided voice production services for the US dub for 20 episodes.
- Philippines animation studio Top Draw Animation handled animation services for the second season.
- The series was nominated for an AACTA Award for 'Best Children's Television Series' in 2013.
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