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[{"type":"text","content":"\n Ten Alps PLC\n13 June 2006\n\nRNS: Ten Alps Plc - Production News\n\n\nTen Alps Plc ('Ten Alps') announces its first entertainment commissions, a\ngroup-wide DVD deal and its plan to launch the public sector video website\nPublic TV.\n\nEntertainment commissions won & launch of formats business\n\nTen Alps TV has gone into production on a six-part entertainment series for\nChannel 4 called Get Your Act Together, and a ten-part entertainment series for\nAnimal Planet (Discovery Networks Europe) called Top Dog, for which it produced\nan on-air pilot in 2005.\n\nThe commissions represent Ten Alps' first significant step towards developing a\nTV entertainment formats business. Co-founder Bob Geldof was previously\nshareholder in Planet 24, the production company behind the Big Breakfast\nformat, and maintains a shareholding in the company behind the Survivor format,\none of the major US entertainment TV hits of the past 6 years.\n\nGroup-wide deal with major DVD distributor 2 entertain\n\nTen Alps plc has signed a group-wide DVD deal with 2 entertain, the UK's leading\nTV DVD distributor.\n\nThe deal links Ten Alps and 2 entertain in a publishing partnership for DVD\nexploitation of factual TV projects from Ten Alps-owned production companies\nBrook Lapping, 3BM TV, Blakeway Productions, Hart Davies TV and Ten Alps TV.\n\n2 entertain is the distributor of a wide range of DVDs across a number of\ngenres; TV Drama, Comedy, Natural History, Science, Sport, Fitness, Science\nFiction and Special Interest, including some of the UK's best-known programmes\nand brands, Little Britain, Dr Who, Pride and Prejudice, Thomas The Tank Engine\nand Manchester United to name but a few.\n\nAs well as targeting DVDs from new projects, Ten Alps and 2 entertain plan to\nmine Ten Alps' back catalogue for past programmes which can translate to DVD,\nparticularly those that definitively cover recent historical events such as the\nRoyals, peace efforts in Northern Ireland and the Middle East and terrorism - on\nall of which Ten Alps has a significant library.\n\n'The DVD market is very significant to us, in view of the depth and quality of\nsome of our catalogue,' said Alex Connock, Ten Alps Chief Executive. 'We\nbelieve that DVD is an excellent way to distribute documentaries to a\ngeographically disparate but committed, global audience, and we are ...