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4 Apr 2011 07:00
4 April 2011 Talent Group plc ("Talent" or "the Company") New Series Commissioned
Talent Television Limited, ("TTV") a wholly owned subsidiary of Talent, has been commissioned by CiTV (ITV's Children's channel) and German television channel ZDF to co-produce a 26 episode series called My Phone Genie. Talent will earn production fees and will share in any future income arising from global exploitation of the series, format, licencing and merchandising.
My Phone Genie, which was developed by TTV, is aimed at international audiences. As well as a live action television series, the producers have developed the series as a multi-platform offering and plan to grow the brand via technology relevant to the target age group.
Talent Group plc 020 7822 3900 Tony Humphreys (Managing Director)
Merchant Securities Limited 020 7628 2200 John East/Simon Clements Notes to editors:
Talent Television (part of Talent Group plc) is a leading independent UK format creator and producer of innovative television and interactive programming.
Talent produces a wide range of entertainment and factual programming for a broad spectrum of terrestrial and cabsat broadcasters in the UK, US and worldwide. Credits include "Everybody Dance Now" for prime time ITV One, BBC live interactive series "Test the Nation" for prime time BBC One , CBBC's hit show "Best of Friends", "TV Scrabble" and "Casino Casino" co-produced with Gag Productions for Challenge?, reality documentary series "Corkscrewed", co-produced with LA-based Magic Pictures Inc for Sky One and Fox Reality, and controversial documentaries "The Man With 80 Wives" and "9/11: The Curse of Compensation" for Channel 4. Talent was also a pioneer in reality television with "The Villa", which was first produced in 1999 for Sky One.
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