Abbey Home Media Wins British Columbian and Canadian Broadcast Deal For Lost in the Snow with Knowledge Network and TV Ontario.
04/08/2004
Abbey Home Media has secured an international broadcast deal for its magical Christmas programme, Lost in the Snow with Knowledge Network in British Columbia and it’s sister company TVOntario.
Produced in conjunction with Carlton Television, Lost in the Snow is a delightful 30-minute 2D animated Christmas special, based on the popular picture book by award-winning children’s writer and illustrator Ian Beck. It features the voices of Hugh Laurie (Stuart Little) and Helen Baxendale (Cold Feet) and is made by the award-winning Honeycomb Animation.
Knowledge Network is British Columbia’s provincial funded broadcaster dedicated to providing diverse, in-depth, educational programming via television and the web. Approximately one in three British Columbians (1.4 million people, BBM Canada) watch Knowledge Network each week via basic cable service, over-the-air transmission in rural communities, and direct-to-home satellite.
Sarah MacDonald, Director of Programming, Television and New Media at Knowledge Network stated:
"Knowledge Network is committed to offering high quality, educational
television for children and families", says. "We are delighted to be working with like-minded partners such as Abbey Home Media to entertain, enchant, and educate our viewers."
TVOntario, are a successful children’s broadcaster and the morning children's block is the number 1 rated pre-school block in Ontario. They have received more than 850 national and international awards in recognition of their children’s and prime-time programming.
“Lost in the Snow is a charming programme and we look
forward to having it in our Christmas/holiday schedule.”
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 three key trading areas:
Broadcast: TV series including Wide Eye, MacDonald’s Farm, Bump The Elephant, Teddy Trucks, SuperTed.
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.
The Knowledge Network
Knowledge Network is funded by a grant from the Ministry of Advanced Education through OLA and regulated by the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). The station broadcast its first signal in 1981 and merged with the Open Learning Institute to form the Open Learning Agency (OLA) in 1988.
For more information on Knowledge Network, please visit: www.knowledgenetwork.ca
TVOntario TVOntario is the provinces educational broadcaster, dedicated to providing a full slate of enriching curriculum-linked programs for all ages. TVO reaches 98.5% reaches 98.5% of all Ontarians, and TFO, 75%, 75% of all Franco-Ontarian households.
For more information on TVOntario, please visit: www.tvo.org
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For further information, please contact:
Nardis Roscoe
Marketing Director
020 7563 3933 [email protected]
