EM.Entertainment Secures New Deals Ahead of DISCOP

UNTERFOEHRING, June 14: In advance of DISCOP,
EM.Entertainment has licensed a range of children’s programming to Eastern and
Southeastern territories for broadcast on free- and pay-TV and for home
entertainment release.

EM.Entertainment has licensed the edutainment series VIPO to Hagi Film i Video for broadcast on Polish free-
and pay-TV. The media company has also acquired home entertainment rights for VIPO and the fantasy/action series Dragon
Hunters within Poland, the Czech Republic
and Hungary.

EM.Entertainment has also licensed a package of programming
to Cass Film for home entertainment distribution in Poland. The program package
contains the live-action series Pippi Longstocking and the animation feature films Maya the
Bee, Pippi’s Adventure in the
South Seas and Pippi’s Adventure
with the Whales.

Children’s broadcaster Minimax has secured the second season
of the popular series Flipper & Lopaka
for free-TV broadcast in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and the
former Yugoslavia, excluding Slovenia. The agreement also includes broadcast
rights to the show Rescue Heroes
for Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Albanian private broadcaster tva has acquired a free-TV
license for series classics such as Maya the Bee and Pippi Longstocking,
as well as for the fantasy series The Mysterious Cities of Gold, for broadcast in Albania and Macedonia.

In addition, the Hungarian distributor InterDomino has
secured home entertainment rights to a number of programs for distribution in
Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania. These include the cartoon
series Arthur, the animated feature
films Blinky Bill’s White Christmas
and TAO TAO, and the live-action
film adaptations of Pippi Longstocking and Lassie. Meanwhile,
EM.Entertainment has also licensed free and pay-TV rights for the first season
of Flipper & Lopaka to media
company Talit for use within the Israeli TV market.

“The contracts that have been agreed with a host of
customers ahead of DISCOP bear testament to the great appeal of our shows
within Eastern and Southeastern Europe,” commented John Morris, the president
of distribution at EM.Entertainment. “I am optimistic that alongside the titles
from our program library, our new productions such as Master Raindrop, Enyo and preschool CGI series Zigby will also meet with huge approval in Budapest.”