page_title: Littlest Pet Shop (2012 TV series)
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hierarchical_section_title: Littlest Pet Shop (2012 TV series) / Origin
caption_attribution_description: English: 2950 Hollywood Way, Burbank, California. As of 2014, this office building is home to the Hub Network and Hasbro Studios. Photographed by user Coolcaesar on 1 June 2014.
context_page_description: Littlest Pet Shop is an American–Canadian children's animated television series produced by DHX Media for The Hub. Based on the Littlest Pet Shop and Blythe toyline by Hasbro, the show centers on Blythe Baxter, a pre-teen girl who, after moving into an apartment in a city, gains the ability to communicate with animals. Located below her apartment is the eponymous pet store where Blythe works and talks to a group of pets who regularly reside at a day care in the shop. Worried that a corrupt rival business will drive their shop out of business, the pets depend on Blythe to drive business into the store with her pet fashion designs.
  Produced by Hasbro Studios and DHX Media, the series premiered on The Hub on November 10, 2012 and ended on June 4, 2016, totaling four seasons and 104 episodes. Animated using Adobe Flash animation, completion of a single episode took roughly one year with several in production at once. While it mostly received praise from reviewers for its writing and characters, the show was criticized for its embedded marketing. Several crew members have additionally received accolades for their work on the show.
context_section_description: Hasbro owns the rights of both Blythe and Littlest Pet Shop, toy lines respectively introduced in 1972 and 1992. Both lines were originally manufactured by Cincinnati-based Kenner Products. Kenner became a part of Hasbro when the Pawtucket-based company acquired Tonka (the parent company of Kenner back then) in 1991. Hasbro sold Littlest Pet Shop toys under the name of this division until they closed down Kenner's original Cincinnati headquarters in 2000. Claster Television, Hasbro's television arm at the time, had produced an earlier animated show based on Littlest Pet Shop in 1995 for Hasbro, but the 2012 Littlest Pet Shop series marked the first adaptation of the Blythe doll to a character on television. A prior incarnation of such a character is the protagonist of Littlest Pet Shop Presents, an unrelated animated miniseries produced by Cosmic Toast Studios and released by Hasbro exclusively on the internet.
  Julie McNally-Cahill and Tim Cahill, the creators of Cartoon Network's My Gym Partner's a Monkey, developed Littlest Pet Shop upon joining Hasbro Studios in September 2011. The two serve as both executive producers and story editors on the show; also working as executive producers are Chris Bartleman and Kirsten Newman. The show was announced in March 2011, based on Hasbro's 2010 introduction of the Blythe Loves Littlest Pet Shop toy line. Margaret Loesch, then-CEO of the Hub Network—a network partly owned by Hasbro and Discovery Communications—commissioned the series.
caption: The developers Cahills joined Hasbro Studios (headquarters pictured) in 2011
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