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Recommissions
Recommissions.
About this update from Audioboom Group Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n RNS Number : 4913G Boomerang Plus PLC 23 October 2008 \n \nDate: 23 October 2008\nOn behalf of: Boomerang Plus plc (\"Boomerang\" or \"the Group\") \nEmbargoed until 0700hrs\n\n\nBoomerang Plus plc \nBranded Content and Lifestyle Commissions\n\nBoomerang Plus plc (AIM: BOOM.L), a profitable and vertically integrated, multi-genre, independent television production group operating within the Nations and Regions, today announces that its Branded Content and Lifestyle divisions have won significant new and returning commissions. \n\nBoomerang's Branded Content division, which includes its market leading Extreme Sports production, has won a tendered commission for the Sony Erikson Bboy Championships, an international break dancing competition, together with a commission for 4Sport, a 10 x 60 minute program for Channel 4, following UK hopefuls on the road to the 2012 Olympics. \n\nFflic, a subsidiary of Boomerang, has seen its long established and respected Welsh LIfestlye strands recommissioned for 2009. Cwpwrdd Dillad, a program that looks at an individual's life through their wardrobe, has been recommissioned for a fifth series. The 04 Wal brand has been extended to 04 Wal Gwestai and will look at hotels from around the world, and Y Dref Gymreig (translated \"The Welsh Town\") will investigate historical and vernacular house building. All three series are 12 x 30 minute episodes in length and will be transmitted on S4C in 2009.\n\nThe recommissions are significant and together with programming from this weekend's upcoming Freesports on 4 Freeze snow sports and music festival at Battersea Power Station, the Group expects these to contribute over £2 million of revenues for 2008/09.\n\n\nHuw Eurig Davies, Chief Executive Officer of Boomerang Plus, commented:\n\n\"We are delighted that ou...