New Prime-Time Series Commission from BBC One

5 Mar 2009 07:00

Embargoed: 0700hrs, 5 March 2009

DCD Media plc

("DCD" or the "Company)

DCD Wins New Prime-Time Series Commission from BBC One

DCD Media, the independent TV production and distribution group, has been commissioned by BBC One to produce Children's Emergency (working title), a new character-led observational series which exclusively follows the work of the mobile intensive care teams dedicated to taking critically ill children to the UK's specialist children's hospitals.

The 8x30 minute series, to be produced by DCD-owned September Films, has an estimated value to DCD of circa £1 million after the initial commission and subsequent near-term secondary distribution which will be exclusively handled by DCD's own distributor, DCD Rights, as part of its slate for the forthcoming MIPTV market in Cannes, France. 

David Green, Chief Creative Officer and Acting CEO of DCD, said,

"This is another important step in DCD's continued diversification into new programme genres and onto prime-time BBC One. 

It is also a further string to our bow as we go to the most important TV market later this month armed both with a great slate of programmes, particularly in the documentary or docu-series genre, and a war chest of cash to spend on third party programmes for distribution."

Enquiries:

David Green

Chief Creative Office and Acting CEO DCD Media plc

Tel. 020 7297 8000

Ben Simons

M: Communications

Tel. 020 7153 1540

Tom Price or Jeremy Ellis

Evolution Securities

Tel. 020 7071 4300

Notes to Editors:

About Children's Emergency (working title)

Each time a seriously ill child needs to be moved for life-saving treatment, the highly specialised retrieval teams from CATS (The Children's Acute Transport Service) will respond 24/7 and transport the child to hospital for emergency care.

Executive Producer for DCD-owned September Films, Shaun Gilmartin, has won exclusive access to these exceptional teams - staffed by consultants and specialist nurses and carrying high-tech life saving equipment to take care of young patients on the spot.

The series follows a group of individuals who often make the crucial difference between life or death for critically ill children. 

About DCD Media plc 

DCD Media plc is one of the UK's 'super-indies', a large group of production and distribution companies specialising in factual, entertainment, drama, music and arts programming for TV, DVD and new media markets. DCD Media comprises a number of high profile content producers - Box TV, a drama specialist; arts and entertainment producer Iambic Productions; music and staged event specialist Done and Dusted; factual and lifestyle producer Prospect Pictures; primetime factual entertainment, reality, formats and documentaries producer September Films; documentary specialist West Park Pictures. The group also comprises its wholly owned international distributor DCD Rights, the international video download site and DVD label Digital Classics, and publishing division DCD Publishing. 

 For further details see www.dcdmedia.co.uk