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18 May 2010 11:21

18 May 2010 Talent Group plc ("Talent" or "the Company") Trading update

The board of Talent announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, Talent Television Limited, has completed negotiations and contractual terms have been agreed with ITV to produce a 90 minute television entertainment special based on a brand new event entitled A:3K Football, which brings together six of the worlds greatest footballers to compete in gladiatorial games of football skill at the O2 Arena on 17 July 2010. Completion of the legal documentation is expected shortly.

A:3K will be produced and directed by Hollywood movie and music legend Marc Brickman, most famous for his work with Pink Floyd, Cirque de Soleil, Running Man, AI, and Minority Report and will see the players competing head to head in a series of skills based challenges, which combine technology and theatre to create a spectacular event.

The television special is co-produced by Talent Television Limited and Aura Football and will have exclusive back-stage access to the players and bring all the entertainment and drama of the event to its television audience.

The Executive Producer for Talent Television is its Director of Entertainment, Jonathan Glazier.

Other projects are at advanced stages of negotiations and further announcements will be made in due course.

Tony Humphreys, Managing Director of Talent Television says: This really is a large scale and spectacular event. To see the world's best footballers challenged in such an exciting way is unique, so we are delighted to have received a major commission to produce this television programme for ITV"

Talent Group plc 020 7421 7800 Tony Humphreys (Managing Director) Merchant John East 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.