Talent Television

London & Ottawa, 8th March 2004 - Following the recent announcement of a strategic alliance between the two companies, UK indie Talent Television has acquired the rights to 13 episode series ZEROMAN, currently in production from Amberwood Entertainment, Canada, it was announced today by Sheldon Wiseman, CEO of Amberwood and Annie Miles, Director of Talent Kids, Talent TV’s children’s division.

ZEROMAN is an animation series targeted at the 8+ years audience and was developed to feature Hollywood actor Leslie Nielsen. Neilsen plays the hapless, incompetent superhero, Zeroman, who is the alter-ego of Fair City’s favourite mailman, Les Mutton.

Talent TV has taken the UK rights to this first series developed by Amberwood for Teletoon in Canada and agreed to co-produce all subsequent series.

Annie Miles commented, "I am delighted that we have acquired ZEROMAN. It is a superb, comedy animation series, with great production values and wild storylines that will appeal to a wide audience of all ages around the world."

Sheldon Wiseman, President and CEO of Canadian production company Amberwood Entertainment, added, "We are very proud of ZEROMAN and believe the series will be a huge hit in the UK as well as internationally, and we are delighted that Talent have shown equal enthusiasm for the show."

For further information:

Debbie Lawrence                               Sheldon Wiseman
The Lippin Company                          CEO, Amberwood Entertainment
+44 (0)20 7745 7189                         Tel : +1 (613) 238 4567 x32
dlawrence@lippingroup.com                swiseman@amberwoodanimation.com

Notes to editors:

Talent Television (part of Talent Group plc) is a leading independent UK format creator and producer of innovative television, video and interactive programming. The Company's reputation for prime-time entertainment programming is unrivalled. The "Test the Nation" series for BBC1 is now well established as a scheduling event which combines the excitement of live network television with state-of-the-art interactive television and web technology. Subjects covered so far include "The Nation's IQ", "Relationships", "General Knowledge" and "The End of Year Test". Talent was also a pioneer in reality television with "The Villa", which was first produced in 1999 for Sky One.

Talent Television also has strong ties with major Japanese broadcasters and indie production companies, having produced several HDTV documentaries for both NHK and TV Asahi networks. And, last October, the "Test the Nation" format was successfully launched on TV Asahi, in association with Japanese indie TV Man Union.

Talent Kids, the children's division, was established in January 2003 to develop high quality, innovative programming for kids. It's first commission was for the Disney Channel, with "Inside Clyde", an original fantasy adventure game show, the first 13 x half-hours being screened this winter in the UK. This was followed by a breakthrough reality entertainment format for 6-11 year olds called "Best of Friends". Produced for CBBC, the first series of 15 x half-hours is scheduled for transmission on the CBBC digital channel in March 04.

Amberwood Entertainment is one of Canada's leading independent television production companies. Based in Ottawa, Amberwood is a producer, financier and distributor of high quality animated and live-action series, specials and features for child and family audiences.