The Fairytaler

Later in April 2000, during production, the series became a Danish/Irish/German co-production when Munich-based German kids & family entertainment company EM.TV & Merchandising had joined to the production alongside Egmont Imagination and Magma Films with EM.TV sharing distribution rights to the series with Egmont Imagination.

I'm a Fish with Egmont Imagination) took over and handled the series' animation, while the broadcaster DR ordered the series to air on the network alongside German TV channel Super RTL.

Toon-A-Vision began broadcasting the series in Canada in 2022.

Development for the series began in December 1999, when Egmont's animation unit Egmont Imagination had collaborated with Irish animation company Magma Films to develop and produce a traditionally animated anthology TV series adaptation that would bring all of Hans Christian Andersen's works under one programme in order to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Hans Christian Andersen in 2005 with the former handling a distribution.