Former BBC Worldwide Exec Joins IMG Entertainment

LONDON, June 13: IMG
Entertainment has appointed Anna Vivian to the newly created role of VP of
emerging markets.

Working under Mark Young,
IMG Entertainment’s senior VP of entertainment sales and acquisitions
worldwide, Vivian will be charged with driving factual and entertainment TV
sales across emerging markets like Eastern Europe, CIS, Asia, Latin America and
Africa.

Prior to IMG
Entertainment, Vivian served as BBC Worldwide’s head of the Middle East,
Eastern Europe and CIS, where she managed TV sales, formats, publishing and DVD
licensing in those markets. During that time she helped establish brands such
as Teletubbies, Planet Earth, Top of the Pops, The Weakest Link and Strictly Come Dancing across TV, books and DVD.

IMG will be taking more
than 800 of hours of programming to DISCOP this year, including dramas like the
second season of Secret Diary of a Call Girl; Sordid Lives: The Series, starring Olivia Newton-John; and The Diary of Anne Frank, an adaptation based on the memoirs of Anne Frank,
as well as more than 35 formats, including Bingo America and the recent Emmy Award-winner Single Seats.

Young said: “Anna’s
previous experience and developed knowledge of the media landscape within emerging
markets makes her the obvious choice for this role. Augmenting our great sales
team with entertainment sales experts like Anna will help IMG Entertainment
move to another level. We have already doubled our sales from 2006 to 2007 and
we are looking good to double them again through 2008.”

—By Irene Lew