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Ten Alps achieves critical su
Ten Alps achieves critical su.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n RNS Number : 3443N Ten Alps PLC 16 February 2009 \n \n16 February 2009\n \n\nTen Alps plc achieves critical success in factual TV \n \n\nTen Alps plc (AIM:TAL), the factual media company producing online, TV and print, began 2009 with its most creatively successful period ever in factual TV. \n\nTwelve new documentaries have aired so far in 2009, including the critically-acclaimed 'Iran and the West' (BBC2), made by Brook Lapping, a Ten Alps company.\n\nThe Spectator: 'Brilliant new documentary series.'\n\nThe Telegraph: 'As gripping as a Hollywood thriller.' \n\nThe Times: 'Brilliantly illuminated the shadow dance of international diplomacy.' \n\nThe Guardian: 'Proper, grown-up television; an extraordinary story, one that changed the world, told by the people who created it... It's humanised history, the best way for history to be'. \n\nOn Channel 4 tonight at 9pm is 'The Gangster and the Pervert Peer,' about the relationship between the Kray twins and Tory Lord Bob Boothby. \n\nThis follows three consecutive Dispatches investigations made by Ten Alps company Blakeway: 'Congo's Forgotten Children,' 'Unseen Gaza' and 'Too Old to Work.' \n \nBBC2 aired 'The Great Crash' about Wall Street in 1929, and Money Programme 'The Media Revolution - Title Fight.' \n\nOn ITV were 'Planning Wars' and 'Extreme Slimmers', followed by 'Teen Mum High' (BBC3), and the forthcoming 'Dog that Saved our Marriage,' will be aired on Sky.\n\nTen Alps-owned companies Blakeway, Films of Record and Brook Lapping each have a strong brand in a particular area of factual TV, and share production facilities in Kentish Town and Manchester. Last week Ten Alps added current affairs producer Below the Radar in Belfast to the group. There is a good slate of programmes in production.\n\nMeanwhile Ten Alps this week starts a year-long project to negotiate residual rights and digitize its 500-strong back-catalogue of documentaries, so that the company's entire historic output can be available, and hopefully monetized, online.\n\nAlex Connock, Ten Alps CEO said:\n\n 'A few years ago, TV festival agendas were full of concern about dumbing down - but to a degree ...