Miffy's Adventures Big and Small
| Miffy's Adventures Big and Small | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Animated television series |
| Created by | Dick Bruna |
| Written by | Ciaran Murtagh Andrew Jones |
| Directed by | Adam Shaw Helen Arntsen Chris Drew |
| Starring | Arisha Choudhury Isla Gudgeon Duke Davis Teresa Gallagher |
| Narrated by | Dan Chambers |
| Theme music composer | Tom van Beers |
| Opening theme | Miffy Theme |
| Ending theme | Miffy Theme (instrumental) |
| Composer | David Schweitzer |
| Country of origin | Netherlands United Kingdom |
| Original languages | Dutch English |
| No. of seasons | 3[2] |
| No. of episodes | 104 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Frank Padberg Marja Kerkhof |
| Editor | Judith Allen |
| Running time | 7 minutes |
| Production companies | Blue-Zoo Animation Studio[3] Mercis BV |
| Original release | |
| Network | KRO-NCRV (Netherlands) Tiny Pop (UK) |
| Release | 2 October 2015[1] – 16 June 2019 |
| Related | |
| Miffy and Friends | |
Miffy's Adventures Big and Small[a] is a Dutch-British animated television series based on the Miffy book series by Dutch artist Dick Bruna, and the continuation of Miffy and Friends (2003–07). The series first aired on 2 October 2015 on Tiny Pop in the UK[4] and aired on KRO-NCRV in the Netherlands[5] and on the Nick Jr. Channel in the US. The series finale aired on 16 June 2019.
Cast
- Sophie Goldstein as Miffy
- Ziggy Badans as Dan
- George Woolford as Grunty
- Bob Golding as Poppy
- Teresa Gallagher as Melanie
- Rasmus Hardiker as Boris
- Esther Coles as Barbara
- Arisha Choudhury as Miffy's Mom
- Dan Chambers as Miffy's Dad
- Jonell Elliot as Aunt Alice
- Peter Dickson as Uncle Pilot
- Shanti Deen-Ellis as Miffy's Grandma
- Leon Williams as Miffy's Grandpa
- Isla Gudgeon as the School Teacher
- Caron Pascoe as Snuffy
Episodes
The series had three seasons,[6] each consisting of 13 seven-minute segments.
Production
Production began in April 2014, when Mercis BV announced a new reboot series that would bring its famous Miffy franchise into CGI for the first time with Mercis BV had appointed London-based British animation production studio Blue Zoo Animation Studio to produce a new CGI animated series featuring its character Miffy with scripts being developed by Blue Zoo's British writing team and would be completed for a 2015 release as German media management company M4E and its Dutch distribution subsidiary Telescreen alongside Mercis BV would jointly distribute the series.[7] The series was publicly announced in October of the same year, at the MIPCOM trade show in Cannes, France. At the convention, the series' launch date was announced for autumn 2015 to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the Miffy character.[8] 52 segments were ordered in 2014, with an additional 26 segments later in 2016.[2]
One year later in August 2015 during the 60th anniversay of the Miffy franchise, it was announced that Sony Pictures Television through its British children's channel Tiny Pop had picked up the upcoming CGI animated series now entitled Miffy’s Adventures Big and Small from Mercis BV.[9]
Broadcast
Miffy's Adventures Big and Small first aired on 2 October 2015. The series aired on Sony's Tiny Pop network in the UK,[10] on ABC Kids in Australia,[11] on e-Junior in the United Arab Emirates, on Akili TV in Kenya, on the Nick Jr. Channel in the United States,[12] on NET25 in the Philippines, on Tooniverse in South Korea, and on TVOKids in Canada. ABC released the series in Australia and PBS Distribution released the first two seasons in the US.[13]
Notes
References
- ^ "Miffy's Adventures Big and Small to debut on Tiny Pop in October". Licensing.biz.
- ^ a b "Mercis Commissions Third Season of 'Miffy'". Animation World Network. 13 June 2016.
- ^ "Mercis Taps Blue-Zoo for Miffy". Animation Magazine. 4 April 2014.
- ^ Miffy's Adventures Big and Small, October 2015, retrieved 3 June 2024
- ^ "Australian and Dutch Stations Buy Miffy". licensemag.com. Archived from the original on 31 July 2017. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
- ^ "Miffy's Adventures Big and Small".
- ^ Franks, Nico (9 April 2014). "Miffy gets CGI reboot". C21Media.
- ^ Milligan, Mercedes (11 September 2014). "MIP Bytes: 'Miffy,' 'Hullabalooba,' 'Pikkuli'". Animation Magazine.
- ^ "'Miffy' Heads to Sony's Tiny Pop". License Global. 6 April 2018.
- ^ "Tiny Pop - Miffy's Adventures Big and Small". Tiny Pop.
- ^ "Miffy's Adventures Big and Small on ABC KIDS". abc.net.au.
- ^ Foster, Elizabeth (19 September 2016). "Nickelodeon to premiere two Miffy series". Kidscreen.
- ^ "Shop PBS". shop.pbs.org. Archived from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 17 November 2017.