FremantleMedia Enterprises Secures Deals for Mr. Bean

LONDON, March 27: On the eve of the anticipated worldwide
release of the second Mr Bean feature
film, Mr Bean’s Holiday,
FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has secured a raft of new sales and series
renewal deals for both the live-action and animated series of Mr Bean.

The 14×30-minute live-action Mr Bean series has been licensed to Jeunesse TV in France;
Fox in Italy; Disney in Taiwan; RTSI in
Switzerland; Lithuania Radio & Television; and Latitud in Guatemala. The
series has also been renewed in 13 territories, including Australia, Hong Kong,
pan-regional Latin America, Sweden, Switzerland and Denmark. The series, which
first aired in 1990, has been licensed to over 200 territories.

Mr Bean The Animated Series, available as a 52×15-minute or as a 26×30-minute series, has recently
been licensed to Kidz Entertainment in Denmark; Lithuania Radio &
Television; MBC in the Middle East; Latitud in Guatemala; and Prava I Prevodi
in Serbia. Territories that have re-licensed the animated series include
Taiwan, Finland and Cyprus. In the animated series, Mr Bean gets into all sorts
of mad-cap capers with his faithful sidekick Teddy, as Rowan Atkinson lends his
vocals to Bean’s hilarious animated adventures.

David Ellender, the CEO of FremantleMedia Enterprises,
commented: “Mr Bean is an FME comedy
catalogue stalwart and a highly regarded asset. As an evergreen brand, Mr
Bean’s global presence is a tribute to
Rowan Atkinson’s unparalleled talent, and FME is pleased to work with Tiger
Aspect to leverage our relationships with broadcasters and reap rewards for Mr
Bean worldwide. It is clear from these
recent deals that Mr Bean remains
a firm favorite in the hearts of television viewers, as he no doubt will with
film fans also.”