Question: What company produced the show Up Series in 1998?
About the article "Up Series", section "Creation".

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Morrell-Gunn worked as an executive producer for TVNZ's Children's Unit while it was based in Christchurch, New Zealand.
When the Unit moved to Wellington's Avalon studios, in 1998, Morrell-Gunn remained in Christchurch to start her own company, Whitebait Productions.
Whitebait's first commission was "Bumble", a preschool series about a bee and his friends.
The first actor to wear the Bumble suit was her husband, Jason Gunn.
Whitebait Productions has also produced the "Jessie.com" series for What Now TV (which sold to Disney Australia, and English programmes for Japan), the interactive pop talent quest "Wannabes" for TV3, and the series "Tuhono", a youth hip-hop show, for Maori Television.
The show Animal Academy was produced by Whitebait also for TVNZ and is screened regularly on TV2Whitebait Productions has produced "What Now?"
since the shows relaunch.
In April 2009, Whitebait's newest show "The Erin Simpson Show" came on air.
The show was originally planned as a three year series, the show went from strength to strength securing an additional two years of New Zealand on Air funding.
On 6 December 2013, The Erin Simpson Show aired its last episode. 
The show wound up at the Axelrod/Widdoes production company, which had previously produced another "Odd Couple" variation titled "Brother's Keeper" in the 1998-99 season.
It was there that Vitale was paired with gay sitcom veteran Marc Cherry, with whom he began developing the show. 
Localized versions of You Are What You Eat were produced by Viasat and aired in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Hungary and the Czech Republic.
Viasat was the first company in the world to adapt the format locally.
MTV3 also produced a local version of the show in Finland.
The show was a success and it was the frequently most viewed show in Finland when it was aired. 
"Dexter's Laboratory" was the most popular short series according to a vote held in 1995 and eventually became the first spin-off of "What a Cartoon!"
in 1996.
Two more series based on shorts, "Johnny Bravo" and "Cow and Chicken", premiered in 1997, and "The Powerpuff Girls" became a weekly half-hour show in 1998.
"Courage the Cowardly Dog" (spun-off from the Oscar-nominated short "The Chicken from Outer Space") followed as the final spin-off in 1999.
In addition, the "Cow and Chicken" short "I Am Weasel"eventually was also spun-off into a separate series: in all, six cartoon series were ultimately launched by the "What a Cartoon!"
project, any one of which earned enough money for the company to pay for the whole program.
In addition to the eventual spin-offs, the "What a Cartoon!"
short "Larry and Steve" by Seth MacFarlane featured prototypes of characters that would later go on to become MacFarlane's massively successful "Family Guy".
The "What a Cartoon!"
project and its assorted spin-offs brought Cartoon Network more commercial and critical success, and the network became an animation industry leader as the 1990s drew to a close.
In 2001, coinciding with the death of William Hanna, Hanna-Barbera merged with Warner Bros.
Animation and Cartoon Network opened its own production arm, Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank, as the rightful H-B successor to produce original programming for the network and future projects.
Two "What a Cartoon!"
shorts, "Windup Wolf" and "Hard Luck Duck", were the last cartoon shorts directed and produced by William Hanna, co-founder of Hanna-Barbera.
In addition, "The What a Cartoon!
Show" and spin-offs were the final original productions released by Hanna-Barbera.
Creator of "The What a Cartoon!
Show", Fred Seibert, left Hanna-Barbera in late 1996 to open up his own studio, Frederator Studios, and to produce Nickelodeon's own version of "What a Cartoon!
", titled "Oh Yeah!
Cartoons".
The showcase contained familiar "What a Cartoon!"
alumni (Butch Hartman, Rob Renzetti) and launched several successful Nickelodeon series, including "The Fairly OddParents", "ChalkZone" and "My Life as a Teenage Robot".
Frederator Studios launched another animation showcase in 2006, titled "Random!
Cartoons", which in turn produced Nickelodeon's "Fanboy and Chum Chum" in 2009 and Cartoon Network's "Adventure Time" in 2010.
A sequel-of-sorts to the "What a Cartoon!"
project, a Cartoon Network project titled "The Cartoonstitute" was announced in April 2008.
Created by Cartoon Network executive Rob Sorcher and headed by "The Powerpuff Girls" creator Craig McCracken, the project was to "establish a think tank and create an environment in which animators can create characters and stories", and also create new possible Cartoon Network series.
However, the project was eventually scrapped as a result of the late 2000s recession and only 14 of the 39 planned were completed.
Nevertheless, J.G.
Quintel's "Regular Show" short and Pete Browngardt's "Secret Mountain Fort Awesome" were greenlit to become full series. 
He later set up a production company with his "Ramayan" co-star Sunil Lahiri.
He produced and acted in "Mashaal", a TV series based on the Indian independence movement.
His wife Shrileikha acted and co-produced the show as well.