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 | |
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Genre | Children's Animation Educational |
Based on | Jess the Cat from Postman Pat by
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Written by | Tim Hastings Lane Leuras Gene Grillo |
Directed by | Mike Shiell |
Creative director(s) | 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(s) | Julian Nott |
Country of origin | United Kingdom Canada |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 52 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Mandy Kamester Doug Murphy Chris Rose Scott Dyer Jane Smith Heather McGillivray Jo Wyatt |
Producer(s) | Ceri Barnes Annika Bluhm Tracey Dodokin Jocelyn Hamilton |
Editor(s) | Alan Simpson |
Running time | 10 minutes |
Production company(s) | Entertainment Rights (Earlier Season 1 episodes) Classic Media (Later Season 1 episodes and Season 2) Nelvana[lower-alpha 1] |
Distributor | Classic Media (International) Nelvana International (Canada) |
Release | |
Original network | CBeebies (United Kingdom) Treehouse TV (Canada) |
Original release | 9 November 2009 – 7 March 2010 |
Chronology | |
Related shows | Postman Pat |
Other websites | |
Website |
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
CBeebies (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
- As Refrain Productions for Season 1, and Guess with Jess Limited for Season 2
References
- 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.