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Guess How Much I Love You (TV series)

An Australian animated series based on Sam McBratney's beloved picture books.

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The series is an Australian children's animated television adaptation of Sam McBratney's picture book series.[1] It follows the adventures of a hare family and their woodland friends in a forest home.[2][3] The show's central theme is love, which is explored through Little Nutbrown Hare's bond with his father.[3]

Making and release

SLR Productions acquired the rights to adapt the picture book into a television series in 2010.[4] Scrawl Studios joined as a co-producer with funding from the Media Development Authority of Singapore.[5] The first season consisted of 52 episodes each 11 minutes long.[6] ABC4Kids commissioned a second season of 26 episodes in 2014.[7]

KiKa and Hessischer Rundfunk returned as co-producers for the second season.[7] 9 Story Media Group handled worldwide distribution for the second season after acquiring CCI's library.[8] Top Draw Animation provided animation services for the second season.[9] CCI Entertainment secured the rights to distribute the series globally, with the exception of Australia, New Zealand, and South East Asia.[10]

What the cited sources add

The Common Sense Media review describes the series as an endearing preschool show based on the picture book.[3] It notes that the series stays true to the book's watercolor-style animation.[3] C21Media stated that the picture book had sold 22 million copies worldwide before the adaptation.[2] The review highlights Big Nutbrown Hare as a wonderful role model for his son.[3]

The Media Development Authority's Chief Executive Officer, Dr Christopher Chia, stated that this was the first animated series co-produced under the Australia-Singapore Co-production Agreement.[5]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Guess How Much I Love You (TV series)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Meade, "Classic kids' tale to become animated series", The Australian, September 27, 2010 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. "SLR splits Hare with partners", C21Media, 4 October 2010. facts only, no text reused. c21media.net
  3. "Review: Guess How Much I Love You", Common Sense Media, 2012-03-21. facts only, no text reused. commonsensemedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Guess How Much I Love You (TV series)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "SLR loves KiKa", C21Media, 16 September 2010; "CCI loves SLR", C21Media, 20 September 2010; "SLR splits Hare with partners", C21Media, 4 October 2010 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  5. "Co-producer announced on SLR Productions' preschool animated series, Guess How Much I Love You – The Adventures Of Little Nutbrown Hare", Television Asia Plus, 11 October 2010. facts only, no text reused. tva.onscreenasia.com
  6. "SLR loves KiKa", C21Media, 16 September 2010. facts only, no text reused. c21media.net
  7. Smitherman, "ABC4Kids still devoted to SLR toon", C21Media, 2 April 2014. facts only, no text reused. c21media.net
  8. Wikipedia, "Guess How Much I Love You (TV series)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Smitherman, "ABC4Kids still devoted to SLR toon", C21Media, 2 April 2014 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Guess How Much I Love You (TV series)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Co-producer announced on SLR Productions' preschool animated series, Guess How Much I Love You – The Adventures Of Little Nutbrown Hare", Television Asia Plus, 11 October 2010; "SLR Productions wins three Gold Pixie Awards", Mediaweek, 15 December 2015 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  10. "CCI loves SLR", C21Media, 20 September 2010. facts only, no text reused. c21media.net

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Guess How Much I Love You (TV series) (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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