SLR Preps Pair of Guess How Much I Love You Holiday Specials

SYDNEY: SLR Productions is producing two new holiday specials for the hit animated preschool series Guess How Much I Love You—The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare.

The 26-minute book-based productions are titled Little White Fawn—A Classic Animated Easter Special and The Long Journey Home—A Classic Animated Christmas Special. They newly commissioned specials have been acquired by ABC KIDS and ABC Commercial locally, with 9 Story Media Group on board as international distributor.

Little White Fawn and The Long Journey Home will be produced by SLR Productions’ team, which includes CEO and executive producer Suzanne Ryan, producer Yasmin Jones, director Jo Boag, script producer Melanie Alexander, and writers Melanie Alexander and David Evans. KiKA-Der Kinderkanal will serve as a co-pro partner with support from ARD’s Hessischer Rundfunk (HR).

Ryan stated: “I am incredibly proud of these two holiday specials and thrilled to be working together again with executive producer partners Sebastian Debertin and Tina Sicker of KiKA-Der Kinderkanal. The holiday specials represent the beauty and magic of Easter and Christmas, reminding us that being with family, friends and the ones you love is the greatest gift of all. Little White Fawn and The Long Journey Home are enchanting themed specials that are a delightful extension to seasons one and two of this classic preschool show.”

Sebastian Debertin, the head of fiction, acquisitions and co-productions for KiKA-Der Kinderkanal, noted: “Guess How Much I Love You is a huge success here in German-speaking Europe not only but especially because of the beautiful series SLR produced with KiKA. To enlarge the brand into a new dimension and the wish to have even more time to tell stories brought us to the idea of coming up with these two wonderful specials, allowing KiKA to also bring great and entertaining stories for bank holidays with Little Nutbrown Hare and his friends!”

“We are thrilled to be distributing the new Guess How Much I Love You holiday specials from SLR Productions and KiKA-Der Kinderkanal,” added Natalie Osborne, the chief strategy officer for 9 Story Media Group. “They are an absolutely beautiful complement to the series and will undoubtedly become cherished holiday traditions.”