Ten Alps PLC
02 November 2006
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2 November 2006
Ten Alps Plc: Entertainment TV
First major terrestrial TV commission
Ten Alps Plc ('Ten Alps') announces its first significant terrestrial
entertainment TV commission - six one-hour episodes of a Channel 4 series
provisionally titled Harvey Goldsmith Presents...
The project was announced by Channel 4 today, having been in production for the
past three months.
The commission represents the first publicised fruit of a move made earlier in
2006 by Ten Alps, beyond its core factual TV strength into entertainment and
drama.
In the series, high-profile promoter Harvey Goldsmith (Live Aid, Pavarotti in
Hyde Park, tours for Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen) brings his unique
experience of triumphs and setbacks in a lifetime as a showbiz impresario to the
aid of six entertainment acts or businesses. Some are internationally famous,
some are almost unknown. The precise content of the show will be announced when
the series is broadcast in early Spring 2007. It is produced by Ten Alps TV,
the group's entertainment subsidiary.
Bob Geldof, co-founder and non-executive director of Ten Alps, said:
'It's an overused word in music, but I'll use it anyway: Harvey Goldsmith really
is a legend.'
On 30 October Goldsmith received the lifetime achievement award from the Music
Industry Trust in a Grosvenor House ceremony.
Background
Ten Alps TV also has a cable/satellite entertainment series on air in the first
quarter of 2007, namely Top Dog, on Discovery Animal Planet.
The Ten Alps group also owns factual TV production companies Brook Lapping,
Blakeway, 3BM and HDTV, as well as an interest in the Teachers' TV project.
With around 430 staff, based principally in London and the North-West, the group
also has publishing and internet interests.
Forthcoming announcements
Ten Alps will update on a specific date for its interim results and accompanying
analyst presentation in due course.
Ten Alps will update on progress on its internet TV activities - which are
proceeding on target - before the end of November.
Contact
Parkgreen Communications
Paul McManus
07980 541 893
Ten Alps TV
Executive Producer Harvey Goldsmith Presents
Sam Cash
0208 740 4780
Ten Alps Plc
Chief Executive
Alex Connock
01625 667515
www.tenalps.com
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