Boomerang Wins KidScreen Children's Award

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Boomerang Plus PLC

21 February 2011

 



Date:                           21 February 2011

On behalf of:               Boomerang Plus plc ('Boomerang' or 'the Group')

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Boomerang Wins KidScreen Children's Pre-school Award

Boomerang Plus plc (AIM: BOOM.L), a profitable and vertically integrated, multi-genre, independent television production group, is pleased to announce that its programme Ble Mae Cyw? won the Best One-Off, Special or TV Film in the Pre-School category at the KidScreen Awards on Thursday, 17 February 2011, the world's leading children's television summit, held in New York.

The feature length film for S4C's daily nursery service Cyw (the Welsh word for chick) follows some of S4C's best-loved nursery characters as they look to find missing chick Cyw. The hit film beat off stiff international competition.

Boomerang is one of the largest Children's producers by volume in the UK, producing 256 hours for the 2010 calendar year, and has achieved major recognition for its Children's content over recent years. ABC, a pre-school series for S4C that uses a mixture of live action puppetry and animation to introduce children to the Welsh alphabet, won the Children's Programme Award at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards 2009. Boomerang's Welsh language production of the family film, Rhestr Nadolig Wil (Wil's Christmas List), for S4C, won the drama category at the 2009 BAFTA Children's Awards; also nominated for the 2010 KidScreen Tween/Teens Category for Best One-Off, Special or TV Movie.

Commenting on the award, Angharad Garlick, of Boomerang's Children's Department, said:

"It is brilliant to be producing Children's content which is regarded alongside some of the world's best. We cherish the relationship we have with S4C and echo its commitment to broadcasting children's programming of the highest quality. Boomerang is proud of its contribution to the pre-school programme service and proud too of its talented team specialising in this field."

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Boomerang Plus plc

• Boomerang, founded in 1994, has extensive experience in producing content in a variety of genres, including entertainment, factual, sport, music, drama, and children's programming for television, radio and the web.
• The Group operates across the whole spectrum of creative industry activities including content production, post-production services, television facilities, and talent management.
• Boomerang aims to be independent television production company of choice to the Network broadcasters looking to fill their Ofcom quotas from the 'Nations and Regions' (broadcasters must source between 10% and 50% of qualifying programme hours from outside the M25 boundary).
• Boomerang is ranked in the top five independent television production companies, by revenue, in the Nations and Regions according to the Broadcast Survey 2010.
• Boomerang's strategy is to continue to produce high quality content across a breadth of genres and to become a leading producer of AFP and digital content and services. The Group also aims to achieve strong organic growth by leveraging its existing customer base and making strategic acquisitions, with a view to becoming a major supplier to UK networks looking to satisfy their Nations and Regions quotas.

 

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