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[{"type":"text","content":"\n Ten Alps PLC\n27 April 2006\n\n Ten Alps Plc TV Contract Gains\n\n\nTV company Ten Alps plc ('Ten Alps') announces more than 20 new TV and Radio\nproduction contracts with a total value of over £6.1m.\n\nOverall, Ten Alps therefore today has 13 docudramas, 6 factual series and 8\nfactual one-off programmes in production for TV channels in the UK and US. There\nare a further10 series in production for digital TV and 15 current radio\ncommissions.\n\nTen Alps' level of production today is a significant increase over the same\nperiod in 2005.\n\nTen Alps will aim to put its progress in TV production into broader context in a\ntrading statement attached to the annual results to March 31, 2006, due for\nrelease in mid-June. The company has two other main sources of revenue: digital\nTV channel activities (including Teachers' TV) and commercial activities\nincluding the newly-acquired McMilllan Scott, with its 300 magazine projects and\n40 or so websites.\n\nAmongst the new 20 or so new projects being produced by Ten Alps companies,\ndocudramas include coverage of the Gulf War (Blakeway for BBC2) 1970s armed\nrobbers (HDTV/BBC), the SAS rescue in Sierra Leone (3BM) Nazi leaders (HDTV) and\na Hollywood shoot-out (3BM).\n\nPreviously-announced docudramas now in production include Surviving Katrina\n(Discovery Channel/Brook Lapping) 9-11 (Blakeway in co-production with Dangerous\nFilms for BBC1) and Bali (Brook Lapping/Sky/Channel Ten Australia and other\nbroadcasters.)\n\nNew factual series include Clash of Worlds (Blakeway/BBC2) about the West and\nIslam, Summits (Blakeway/BBC4), Blair (Brook Lapping/Channel 4) and Medicine's\nStrangest Cases (Ten Alps TV/Five). Existing series in production include\nSummers (Blakeway/BBC2), Who Gets the Heart (HDTV/Channel 4), Politics Show\nopt-out (Ten Alps Midlands/BBC1) and The War of the World (Blakeway/Channel 4.)\n\nNew one-off commissions include Travels with the US Military (3BM/PBS), Phantom\nof the Opera (Brook Lapping/BBC1), Europe's 9-11 and the Neo-Con Case (Brook\nLapping/PBS), Stanley Goes to Europe (Brook Lapping/More4) and a Dispatches for\nChannel 4 (HDTV),\n\nIn other genres of TV, Ten Alps is investing in the development of a range of\ndrama projects, and has promising entertainment projects.\n\nIn radio, Ten Alps-owned production companies have 8 current projects for BBC\nRad...