Genre: | Children's television series |
Creator: | Dick Bruna |
Director: | Adam Shaw Helen Arntsen Chris Drew |
Starring: | Arisha Choudhury Isla Gudgeon Duke Davis Teresa Gallagher |
Narrated: | Dan Chambers |
Theme Music Composer: | Tom van Beers |
Opentheme: | Miffy Theme |
Endtheme: | Miffy Theme (instrumental) |
Composer: | David Schweitzer |
Country: | Netherlands United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Num Seasons: | 9[1] |
Num Episodes: | 104 |
Executive Producer: | Frank Padberg Marja Kerkhof |
Editor: | Judith Allen |
Runtime: | 7 minutes |
Network: | NPO Zappelin (Netherlands) Tiny Pop (UK) |
First Aired: | [2] |
Related: | Miffy and Friends |
Company: | Blue-Zoo Animation Studio[3] Mercis BV |
Miffy's Adventures Big and Small is an animated television series based on the Miffy book series by Dutch artist Dick Bruna, and a continuation of Miffy and Friends (2003–07). The series first aired on October 2, 2015 on Tiny Pop in the UK and aired on NPO Zappelin in the Netherlands[4] and on the Nick Jr. Channel in the US. The series finale aired on June 16, 2019.
The series had six seasons,[5] each consisting of 13 seven-minute segments.
Production began in September 2014.[6] 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 fall 2015 to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the Miffy character.[7] 52 segments were ordered in 2014, with an additional 26 segments later in 2016.
Miffy's Adventures Big and Small first aired on October 2, 2015. The series aired on Sony's Tiny Pop network in the UK,[8] on ABC Kids in Australia,[9] on e-Junior in the United Arab Emirates, on Akili Kids! in Kenya, on the Nick Jr. Channel in the United States,[10] 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.[11]