Guess With Jess
Guess with Jess is a British-Canadian animated television series for children. It features Jess the Cat from the television series Postman Pat.[1] The series follows Jess' adventures with his friends on Greendale Farm in London, England. It tells the stories of how they try to solve each other's problems with a Big Question. This question is answered by "asking, testing, find a way". Jess and his friends search for the answers to science and nature-based questions. The programme lets children learn about the world around them. 52 episodes of the series were made.
| Guess With Jess | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Children's Animation Educational |
| Based on | Jess the Cat from Postman Pat by |
| Written by | Tim Hastings Lane Leuras Gene Grillo |
| Directed by | Mike Shiell |
| Creative director | Donald Anderson |
| Voices of | Charlie George Miranda Montague Jo Wyatt Bailey Pepper Maria Darling Daniel Anthony Kyle Stanger Eleanor Webster |
| Theme music composer | Jonathan Evans |
| Opening theme | "Guess With Jess" |
| Ending theme | Various |
| Composer | Julian Nott |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom Canada |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 52 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Mandy Kamester Doug Murphy Chris Rose Scott Dyer Jane Smith Heather McGillivray Jo Wyatt |
| Producers | Ceri Barnes Annika Bluhm Tracey Dodokin Jocelyn Hamilton |
| Editor | Alan Simpson |
| Running time | 10 minutes |
| Production companies | Entertainment Rights (Earlier Season 1 episodes) Classic Media (Later Season 1 episodes and Season 2) Nelvana[a] |
| Original release | |
| Network | CBeebies (United Kingdom) Treehouse TV (Canada) |
| Release | 9 November 2009 – 7 March 2010 |
| Related | |
| Postman Pat | |
Unlike in Postman Pat, Jess in this series can talk to his friends on the farm.
New episodes of the series aired on the DreamWorks Channel in Thailand until 2020.[2]
International broadcast
changeCBeebies (UK) ABC (Australia) France 5 (France) Playhouse Disney (France Spain Italy and Latin America) Qubo (United States) Treehouse and Télé-Québec (Canada) TV12 (Singapore) EBS (Korea) Kids 1 (South Korea) M-Net (South Africa) Cartoon Network (India and Pan Asia) CyBC (Cyprus) MiniMini (Poland) POP TV (Slovenia) MBC E Vision and Al Jazeera (Middle East) YLE (Finland) NRK (Norway) Lativi (Indonesia)
Notes
change- ↑ As Refrain Productions for Season 1, and Guess with Jess Limited for Season 2
References
change- ↑ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 142. ISBN 9781476672939.
- ↑ Frater, Patrick (28 July 2015). "DreamWorks Animation Launches TV Channel in Thailand". Variety. Retrieved 27 October 2015.