Production News

Ten Alps PLC
13 June 2006

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Ten Alps Plc ('Ten Alps') announces its first entertainment commissions, a
group-wide DVD deal and its plan to launch the public sector video website
Public TV.

Entertainment commissions won & launch of formats business

Ten Alps TV has gone into production on a six-part entertainment series for
Channel 4 called Get Your Act Together, and a ten-part entertainment series for
Animal Planet (Discovery Networks Europe) called Top Dog, for which it produced
an on-air pilot in 2005.

The commissions represent Ten Alps' first significant step towards developing a
TV entertainment formats business.  Co-founder Bob Geldof was previously
shareholder in Planet 24, the production company behind the Big Breakfast
format, and maintains a shareholding in the company behind the Survivor format,
one of the major US entertainment TV hits of the past 6 years.

Group-wide deal with major DVD distributor 2 entertain

Ten Alps plc has signed a group-wide DVD deal with 2 entertain, the UK's leading
TV DVD distributor.

The deal links Ten Alps and 2 entertain in a publishing partnership for DVD
exploitation of factual TV projects from Ten Alps-owned production companies
Brook Lapping, 3BM TV, Blakeway Productions, Hart Davies TV and Ten Alps TV.

2 entertain is the distributor of a wide range of DVDs across a number of
genres; TV Drama, Comedy, Natural History, Science, Sport, Fitness, Science
Fiction and Special Interest, including some of the UK's best-known programmes
and brands, Little Britain, Dr Who, Pride and Prejudice, Thomas The Tank Engine
and Manchester United to name but a few.

As well as targeting DVDs from new projects, Ten Alps and 2 entertain plan to
mine Ten Alps' back catalogue for past programmes which can translate to DVD,
particularly those that definitively cover recent historical events such as the
Royals, peace efforts in Northern Ireland and the Middle East and terrorism - on
all of which Ten Alps has a significant library.

'The DVD market is very significant to us, in view of the depth and quality of
some of our catalogue,' said Alex Connock, Ten Alps Chief Executive.  'We
believe that DVD is an excellent way to distribute documentaries to a
geographically disparate but committed, global audience, and we are sure that 2
entertain, with their scale and clout, are the right people to be working with.'

Richard Green, CEO, 2 entertain said, 'We are delighted that Ten Alps has chosen
2 entertain as a publishing partner.  Their choice of 2 entertain is an
endorsement of our mission to champion the very best of UK productions on DVD
and CD around the world.'

Plan to launch Public TV as UK public sector video website

Ten Alps' internet and digital TV division, headed by Nigel Dacre, will towards
the end of 2006 launch Public TV (www.public.tv).

The website will aim to be a video portal bringing together all Ten Alps' public
sector websites and internet TV operations under a single banner.

Public TV will aim to serve the UK's 5.8 million public sector workers with a
single point at which they can search for high-quality training and professional
development video material.

Ten Alps' view (which is one widely held in the internet industry) is that over
time professional training videos will be likely to be viewed online, and that
both websites and specialist magazines will gravitate towards more video-based
offerings.  Broadband penetration is now running at 64% in the UK and is set to
grow, and download speeds of 1MB+ facilitate video viewing.

Ten Alps already has a position within the public sector internet TV space, by
virtue of it being the principal shareholder in the consortium operating the
Teachers' TV project for the Department for Education and Skills.  Teachers' TV
has a very substantial internet presence, with over 1000 programmes hosted
online, and well over 100,000 video downloads per month at present.

www.tenalps.com


Contact

Parkgreen Communications, Paul McManus
0207 786 9600

Alex Connock - Chief Executive, c/o Moira McManus
0207 878 2311

Nitil Patel - Finance Director
0207 428 3182

Nigel Dacre - Ten Alps Digital
0207 878 2413



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