Echo Bridge Readies New Episodes of Hit Shows

LOS ANGELES, September 22:
Echo Bridge Entertainment will debut new seasons of the teen drama series Degrassi:
The Next Generation
and the
prime-time reality show Rich Bride, Poor Bride at this year’s MIPCOM.

Echo Bridge Entertainment
will launch the eighth season of Degrassi: The Next Generation, which is currently in production in Canada and
scheduled for broadcast in the U.S. on MTV Network’s The N on October 10.
Twenty-six new half-hour episodes will be available in addition to the 143 half
hours already produced. This season continues to explore new territory for the
adolescents and young adults at the Degrassi Community School. Favorite
characters deal with the social and academic pressures of becoming high-school
juniors and seniors, and new characters join the cast.

Season two of Rich
Bride, Poor Bride
will
consist of 13 new one-hour episodes. The program, which airs in prime time on
SLICE in Canada, follows brides with different budgets as they struggle through
the planning of their weddings, recording the highs and lows of what happens
when costs collide with expectations.

Also on offer are 26 half
hours of Jeff Ltd., a
comedy about a nickel-and-dime advertising and promotions executive who chases
get rich schemes and women. The show aired in Canada on CTV and The Comedy
Network.

Degrassi and Rich Bride, Poor Bride are key titles from the Alliance Atlantis
International Distribution library that continue to perform worldwide, and we
are thrilled to offer international broadcast partners brand new seasons of
both series at this year’s MIPCOM market,” said Dan March, the executive VP of
Echo Bridge Entertainment. “Jeff Ltd., rounds out our prime-time programming offerings, an uproarious
comedy that is sure to have wide international appeal.”

The April acquisition of
Alliance Atlantis International Distribution added approximately 7,500 titles
and more than 5,500 hours of programming to Echo Bridge Entertainment’s
catalogue, which now includes more than 11,000 titles.

—By Jackie Stewart