Wednesday, October 02, 2013

Nick France Acquires Brand New Animated Preschool Series "Guess How Much I Love You – The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare" For Nickelodeon Junior

The Canadian production, broadcasting and interactive media business news website Playback Online is reporting the exciting Nick Jr. International news in the following article, via Kidscreen, that Nickelodeon France, the French version of the popular kids' channel, has picked up the broadcast rights to the popular preschool series "Guess How Much I Love You – The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare", locally titled "Devine combien je t'aime", from Toronto, Canada-based 9 Story Entertainment.

Produced by Australia's SLR Productions, Germany's KiKA and Singapore's Scrawl Studios, the series is adapted from the bestselling picture book by Sam McBratney and published by the Walker Books Group, and features the love-themed seasonal adventures of Nutbrown Hare's family and their friends, in which the father and son attempt to measure how much they love each other.

The series launched on recently on Nick Jr. UK and Ireland and in France, and continues to air in territories including Australia, Norway, Israel, Portugal and Estonia. GHMILY also airs on TVO in Canada.

SLR Productions, building on the series' popularity in international markets, also released interactive episodes of GHMILY for Apple's iPad earlier this year (2013).

Nickelodeon Junior, Nick France's preschool channel, has announced in the slider on the homepage of the channels official website, nickelodeonjunior.fr, that Nickelodeon Junior will be premiering brand new episodes of "Devine combien je t'aime" every Wednesday at 7:50pm (19h50), and to celebrate, has unveiled a exclusive online streaming video clip from the show!:
9 Story sells preschool series to Nickelodeon France

Toronto, Canada-based 9 Story Entertainment has sold preschool series Guess How Much I Love You – The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare to Nickelodeon France.


Produced by Australia’s SLR Productions, Germany’s KiKA and Singapore’s Scrawl Studios, the series is adapted from the bestselling picture book by Sam McBratney.

The series launched on recently on Nick Jr. in the UK and in France, and continues to air in territories including Australia, Norway, Israel, Portugal and Estonia. GHMILY also airs on TVO in Canada.

SLR Productions, building on the series’ popularity in international markets, also released interactive episodes of GHMILY for iPad earlier this year.

From Playback Online

Tags: 9 Story Entertainment, KiKA, Nickelodeon, Scrawl Studios, SLR Productions
Also, from Animation Magazine:
9 Story Sells ‘Guess How Much I Love You’ to Nick France

9 Story Entertainment has sold SLR/KI.KA/Scraw Studios’ preschool toon Guess How Much I Love You: The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare (52 x 11) to Nickelodeon France. The beautifully animated 2D series is the first adaptation of the much loved bestselling picture book which has sold more than 32 million copies worldwide. Guess How Much I Love You relates the adventures of the Nutbrown Hares family and their friends with the same endearing simplicity and love that has made the book a timeless classic.

The series continues to air on Disney Junior US, KI.KA Germany, ABC4Kids Australia, Nickelodeon UK, TV2 Norway, Hop! Israel, RTP Portugal, Disney Spain & Italy, ZAPP Netherlands, TRT Turkey, Mini Mini Poland, VRT Belgium and EESTI Estonia, TFO and TVO Canada and YLE Finland.

“We are thrilled to be partnering with Nickelodeon France on this evergreen property and look forward to seeing the series succeed for them,” said Natalie Osborne, Managing Director, 9 Story Entertainment. “They are the perfect home for Guess How Much I Love You in France, especially with Nick Jr. in the U.K. having just recently launched the series,” added Jill Keenleyside, Vice President Distribution, 9 Story Entertainment.”

“The series continues to be an exceptional success in the international and domestic markets,” says Suzanne Ryan, exec producer and CEO of SLR Productions. “With its universal themes and gentle stories, it has timeless appeal to audiences all over the world. Its popularity has grown so much so that we have released the Guess How Much I Love You – Interactive Episodes iPad game application which can be downloaded for the global market from ghmily.tv/ipad-app.”

9 Story Enterprises owns a growing catalogue of popular toons such as which Arthur, Wibbly Pig, Wild Kratts and Almost Naked Animals in addition to new series such as Numb Chucks, Camp Lakebottom, Cache Craze, Daniel Tiger's Neighbourhood and Nerds and Monsters. The company recently acquired distribution rights to CCI Kids, the family content division of CCI Entertainment, increasing 9 Story’s portfolio to over 1500 half hours of content with shows such as Guess How Much I Love You, Joe & Jack, Artzooka! and Extreme Babysitting. For more info, visit www.9story.com.



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