DQ On Board Lassie Co-Pro

LONDON: India-based DQE has signed on as a co-producer on the new Lassie animated series from Classic Media, joining M6 in France and Germany’s ZDF.

Tapaas Chakravarti, the chairman and CEO of DQ Entertainment, commented: "Our association as production and distribution partners with Classic Media after the successful debut of hi-end CGI Casper’s Scare School now gets into another long term artistically and commercially fruitful relationship with the co-development of heart-warming TV series in 3-D animation. We are happy also that we will draw on the creative and commercial experience of Classic Media, M6 and ZDF Group along with our other French and Irish affiliates for this great co-development, which commercially means beginning of a new era for DQ Entertainment Group."