Abbey Home Media Signs Multiple UK Licensing Deals For Wide Eye
March 1st 2004
Following a highly successful Autumn TV broadcast debut on the BBC’s Cbeebies channel, Abbey Home Media has secured multiple UK licensing deals for its hit pre-school property Wide Eye, co-produced with the BBC. Wide Eye’s expanding license portfolio makes it one of the fastest growing series in the UK market for pre – school children’s products.
LicenseeCategory
Abbey Audio,
video, DVD
Akroyds Nightwear
BBC Worldwide Books
and Magazines
Bellco Balls
Big Badge Co Badges
Blueprint Collections Stationery
and Bags
Falcon Games Games,
puzzles
GSP Interactive
games
Martin Yaffe Plush
Toys, Wheeled goods, melamine
Purple Peach Stickers
Snuggle Sacks Sleeping
Bags
TDP Nightwear
Zap Bedding
Made by the BAFTA award – winning King Rollo Films (Spot, Maisy) and co-produced with BBC TV, the 26 x 10 minute episode series is targeted at boys and girls aged 3-6.
The series is set in the magical world of the Natterjack Forest, home to a delightful cast of unique and collectible animal characters. Pre – schoolers will revel in the adventures and play value of the lovable baby owl Little Hoot; his best friend Flea; the playful Natterjack toads; 99 the dozy but lovable centipede; arch mischief maker wily Komodo Dragon and his son Baby Komodo.
Strong graphics and the unique collectability of the characters makes Wide Eye ideally suited to a wide range of pre – school consumer products categories. Wide Eye is endorsed by the Pre – school Learning Alliance, the UK supervisory body for over 16,000 play groups ensuring that licensed products have added appeal to children, parents and grandparents alike.
James Harding, Abbey’s Managing Director commented:
“We are delighted to see Wide Eye developing in to a successful long term pre – school license. It is fantastic to be working with the best partners in their respective sectors and we are already looking forward to significant sales over the Christmas period as key products hit the UK market.”
EDITOR’S NOTES
Abbey Home Media Group plc is one of the UK leading independent producers and distributors of Children’s programming for the pre-school audience, operating in the same sector as HIT Entertainment, Chorion and Entertainment Rights.
Located in central London, Abbey has an extensive rights portfolio of wholly owned and licensed properties focussed in four key trading areas:
Broadcast: TV series including Wide Eye, MacDonald’s Farm, Bump The Elephant, Teddy Trucks, SuperTed (co-owned with S4C and Mike Young Productions)
Audio / Video / DVD: An extensive catalogue of over 100 titles including distribution rights to Wide Eye, MacDonald’s farm, Baby Bright, Fungus The Bogeyman, Mona The Vampire, Rupert, Babar, Postman Pat, Mr. Men , Sooty.
Publishing: A book publishing list of 40 titles including the internationally distributed Wide Eye and Mother Goose Multimedia Early Learning Programmes, Artyfacts Creative Learning books, Baby Bright and My First Rhymes series.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Contact Nardis Roscoe
+ 44 (0)20 7563 3933 [email protected]
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For further information, please contact:
Nardis Roscoe
Marketing Director
020 7563 3933 [email protected]
