Guess How Much I Love You (TV series)

America

The story

Guess How Much I Love You (full title: Guess How Much I Love You: The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare) is an Australian children's animated television series based on the series of books of the same name written by Sam McBratney.

Like in the original book, the series is set in the timeless watercolour landscape of mossy forests, lazy rivers and sunny meadows that is the idyllic home of Little Nutbrown Hare and his father, Big Nutbrown Hare.

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 and with the participation of TFO, ABC Television and The Walt Disney Company Australia, and distributed by CCI Entertainment until 9 Story Media Group acquired CCI's children's and family library in 2013.

Season 2 was a co-production with SLR Productions, Kika and Hessischer Rundfunk, in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Cast and characters

Home Plate Entertainment would do voice production services for the US dub, for 20 episodes.

Production

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 Guess How Much I Love You 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 to the production as a co-producers, while CCI Entertainment acquired worldwide distribution to the series outside of Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia.
The series was renewed for the second season by Australian broadcasting network ABC Kids. SLR Productions, German network Kika and Hessischer Rundfunk returned to co-produce the season while 9 Story Media Group handled worldwide distribution and co-production to the series following 9 Story's acquisition of CCI Entertainment's children's programming library.

Animation

Co-producer Scrawl Studios handled animation production services for the first season with funding from Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA), while Philippines animation studio Top Draw Animation (who handled animation services and co-produced SLR's fellow series Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs and The Skinner Boys: Guardians of the Lost Secrets) took over animation services for the second season.

Broadcast

The series was shown 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.

Reception

The series was nominated for an AACTA Award for "Best Children's Television Series" in 2013.