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23 Mar 2012 07:01

RNS Number : 9235Z
DCD Media PLC
23 March 2012
 

Embargoed: 23 March 2012

 

DCD Media plc

 

("DCD Media" or the "Group")

 

New Commissions

 

DCD Media plc, the independent TV production and distribution group, is pleased to announce that Rize USA, the new factual company headed by Sheldon Lazarus, and operating under the DCD umbrella, has already won over £2 million (over USD$3million) worth of new business.

 

The new commissions are for UK and US broadcasters and notably include two Channel 4 documentary specials My Social Network Stalker: True Stories and Accused: The 74-Stone Babysitter (a co-production with Megalomedia UK) which both delivered top ratings in January and February 2012, several non fiction projects for Channel 4, a new factual series for the BBC, as well as a number of factual projects for American cable networks.

 

David Green, Executive Chairman, DCD Media, said "We are delighted that Rize and its rainmaker-in-chief, Sheldon Lazarus, have made such a fantastic start. The current strong pipeline of projects bodes well on both sides of the Atlantic and Rize's output is totally in line with DCD's powerful portfolio of non-fiction offerings which will continue to generate valuable IP to be exploited worldwide".

 

Sheldon Lazarus, Creative Director, Rize USA, commented: "We have had an exciting start and are pleased with the number and variety of new projects already in production. We will continue our efforts to grow the company into a key player in popular factual programmes with universal appeal that can be sold worldwide"

 

Rize Television Ltd (trading under the brand name Rize USA) is a recently launched co-venture with DCD Media. The joint venture agreement includes a provision enabling Sheldon Lazarus to acquire the majority of the issued share capital of Rize Television Ltd in the event of a change of control in DCD Media.

 

 

For further information please contact:

 

Sammy Nourmand, Chief Executive

DCD Media plc

Tel. 020 8 563 6976

 

Stuart Andrews/Charlotte Stranner/Rose Herbert

finnCap

Tel: 020 7220 0500

 

 

Notes:

 

About DCD Media plc

 

DCD Media is a large group of production and distribution companies making and delivering high quality content for Television, DVD and new media worldwide.

 

The group's production arm comprises a number of high profile content producers active in all non fiction programming genres in the UK and US, including:

 

- September Films, a leading international producer of reality television, entertainment and formats based in Los Angeles and London

- Factual producers Prospect Pictures, Welsh based Prospect Cymru in Wales; Matchlight, a Joint Venture with some of Scotland's leading programme makers; Rize USA the London and Los Angeles based production company led by Creative Director Sheldon Lazarus

- London based post production company Sequence

 

The group's intellectual property arm comprises a number of distribution companies including:

- International TV distributor DCD Rights; publishing, licensing and merchandising division DCD Publishing; and DVD label Digital Classics.

For further details see www.dcdmedia.co.uk

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