Talent Television

London, 8 January 2004 - CBBC has commissioned Talent TV to produce a new 15 x 30 minute factual and entertainment show for children.

Best Of Friends features teams of five friends aged between 10 and 12 years old. The team face a series of tasks and treats designed to test their humour, loyalties and friendship. During a two day mystery tour the friends could either find themselves solving mathematical problems or being pampered at a beauty salon.

Tony Humphreys, Managing Director of Talent Television said "We are extremely pleased to announce this new CBBC commission. The series brings together the high appeal that reality game shows have for children but, at the same time, gets them to think about the importance of friendship in their own lives. For this reason, we believe that it is a breakthrough format."

Best Of Friends is based on an original idea by Mark Robson, developed by Jonathan Wolfman, and produced by John Marley. The series was commissioned by Anne Gilchrist, CBBC Head of Entertainment and it will start on The CBBC Channel in Spring 2004.

For further information:

Deborah Lawrence
The Lippin Company
+44 (0)20 7745 7189
dlawrence@lippingroup.com

Notes to editors:

Talent Television is a leading independent UK format creator and producer of innovative television, video and interactive programming. Talent Television is a pioneer in reality entertainment with The Villa (first produced for Sky One in 1999), as well as counting the Test the Nation series for BBC1 and TV Scrabble series for Challenge TV among its highly successful, prime-time interactive entertainment catalogue. Talent Kids, the company's children's division, recently announced its first commission, to develop a new family game series for Disney Channel UK.

Talent Television also has strong ties with international broadcasters, especially in Japan, with recent HDTV documentary Turner's Return for NHK, and a string of programmes for TV Asahi including the Spaceship Earth series.