Motive Television Plc Regulatory News (MTV)

26 Mar 2008 07:01

Motive Television PLC26 March 2008 MOTIVE TELEVISION PLC NEW PROGRAMME ORDERS Motive Television PLC ("Motive"), the AIM-quoted media investment companyspecialising in television rights and production, announces that its 50.6%-ownedManchester-based TV production subsidiary, Scarlet Television Ltd, ("Scarlet")has received 4 new orders from broadcasters. Sky Broadcasting has ordered 3 primetime documentaries including: "50 GreatestTV Endings", presented by entertainment doyenne Cilla Black, and "50 Ways ToLeave Your TV Lover", fronted by This Morning's Fern Britton. Both shows feature a gallery of stars from some of our best loved TV showsincluding, John Simm (Life on Mars), Chris Tarrant (Tiswas), Faye Ripley (ColdFeet), John Thomson (Cold Feet, The Fast Show), Tony Blackburn (Top of thePops), John Mahoney (Frasier) and Shelley Morrison (Will and Grace). "Britney: Speared by the Paps" was commissioned as a fast turnaround film bySKY's Director of Programmes, Richard Woolfe. Presented by Heat magazine's TVEditor, Boyd Hilton, this one hour documentary looks at the unique relationshipbetween Britney and the Paparazzi who follow her 24/7. It is anticipated that all three programmes will air on peak time on SKY One. ITV1 has also commissioned an undisclosed one hour documentary in theirSuperhuman strand to air in primetime in April 2008. Additional revenues of approximately £900,000 will accrue to Scarlet as a resultof the 4 new programme orders. All 4 programmes should be delivered by April2008. Scarlet Television's Managing Director, Paula Trafford, is Executive Producer onall 4 programmes. Paula said: 'I'm delighted Scarlet has started the year on a high with a raft of suchdiverse programmes with key talent attached!" Mick Pilsworth, executive chairman of Motive, said: "We are thrilled that Scarlet has got off to such an excellent start in 2008.Paula Trafford has once again shown that she has a sure touch in creating "noisy" peak-time network shows that are "must-haves" for broadcasters". --END-- For further information, please contact: MotiveMick Pilsworth T: 07968 008836 City Financial Associates Limited T: 020 7492 4777Nominated Adviser ScarletPaula Trafford T: 07710 347468 Bishopsgate Communications Ltd T: 020 7562 3350Jenni Herbert/ Nick Farmer motive@bishopsgatecommunications.com Notes for Editors Motive Television PLC (www.motivetelevision.co.uk) is a leading media investmentcompany, specialising in television rights owners. Based in London, it islisted on the AIM and is led by television industry experts Mick Pilsworth andIan Buckley, who between them have almost 50 years experience in the sector. Mick Pilsworth founded Chrysalis TV, Britain's first "super indie", which wassold to Bridgepoint Capital for £51 million in 2003. He and Ian Buckley firstworked together at USM-quoted independent tv production group SelecTV PLC, wherePilsworth was Managing Director and Buckley was Finance Director. SelecTV PLCwas sold to Pearson TV/United Business Media for £30m in 1996. Motive's investments include: • A 49.9% interest in comedy production company Brown Eyed Boy, whoselatest hit show, "Little Miss Jocelyn" is being broadcast on BBC2. It is inproduction on a new sitcom for BBC3, "How Not to Live Your Life", starring DanClark. Brown Eyed Boy is led by former Chrysalis TV executive Gary Reich. • A 50.6% interest in Manchester-based Scarlet Television, whose recentcredits include "Diana's Last Summer" for ITV 1; "What's Eating VictoriaBeckham?" for FIVE; Richard E. Grant's "Elementary My Dear Viewer" and "RoaldDahl's Revolting Rule Book", both for ITV3; and "Beefcake: A Very British SexSymbol", for BBC2. It is currently producing major programmes for ITV, Sky andCrime and Investigation Network. Scarlet TV is led by Paula Trafford. Motiveacquired its stake in August 2007. • A 50% interest in Luminous Productions, which is co-producing, withMotive TelevisionLtd in Dublin, a pilot for a new family entertainment show, "The Byrne Ultimatum", starring Jason Byrne, for RTE. Luminous is led by formerChrysalis TV executive Cillian de Buitlear. Luminous was established in July2007. • A 100% interest in Dublin-based production company Motive TelevisionLtd, which produced "No Place Like Home' for Irish broadcaster RTE, and iscurrently in production on a major history of Gaelic games for Setanta Sport, "Part of What We Are". • A 50% interest in London-based Rumble TV Productions Ltd, a factualentertainment production company. Rumble is led by Tony Moss and Ben Devlin. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange