MAJOR PUBLISHING DEAL FOR TINGA TINGA TALES

Entertainment Rights PLC
05 November 2008

ENTERTAINMENT RIGHTS ENTERS INTO GLOBAL MASTER PUBLISHING PARTNERSHIP WITH PENGUIN GROUP FOR TINGA TINGA TALES

London - 5 November, 2008 - Entertainment Rights (ER) Plc the UK's leading global media group specialising in the origination,
acquisition and distribution of children's and family programming, characters and brands, today announces it has signed a major publishing
deal with Penguin Group for Tinga Tinga Tales, a core ER property, ensuring the brand will become a successful worldwide publishing
franchise. As part of the agreement ER will receive a cash advance against royalties.

The deal sees Puffin Books act as the UK publisher and Grosset and Dunlap act as the publishing partner in North America. Penguin plans
an exciting and varied publishing programme for the brand. The deal includes the production of storybooks, novelty books, electronic books,
audio books and annuals.

Tinga Tinga Tales is a brand new animated series (52 x 11) being produced by Tiger Aspect Productions in partnership with leading
children's broadcasters CBeebies in the UK and Playhouse Disney in the US. ER controls the worldwide distribution rights for the brand,
across all forms of media, including Television, Consumer Products, Live Entertainment , Digital and Music. .

Tinga Tinga Tales will bring to the screen animal stories that have been passed down from generation to generation throughout Africa.
The style of the production is based upon the famous Tinga Tinga art of Tanzania. All images in the series are hand painted by local African
artists and then expertly computer animated to produce a wonderful and unique visual experience.

Jane Smith, Chief Commercial and Creative Director, Entertainment Rights Plc commented: "Penguin Group is the ideal global publishing
partner for Tinga Tinga Tales. Their strong international distribution and marketing capabilities, coupled with their creative expertise and
history of working with enormously successful children's properties will ensure that Tinga Tinga Tales becomes a truly global brand much
loved by children and parents around the world, and a cornerstone of the ER portfolio for years to come."

ENDS

For further information please contact:

Simon Avis
Head of PR
Entertainment Rights Plc
T: 020 8762 6200
E: simon_avis@entertainmentrights.com

Ben Simons or Charlotte Kirkham
M: Communications
T: 020 7153 1530

About Entertainment RightsEntertainment Rights Plc (ER) is a global entertainment media company, with a portfolio that includes some of
the world's most popular children's, family and pop-culture brands. With offices in London, New York and Nashville, the Company specialises
in the origination, acquisition and distribution of children's and family programming, characters and brands. The Company's catalogue
appeals to a broad demographic from pre-school children to young adults and families. The ER catalogue consists of more than 3,600 hours of
content that has been distributed in more than 170 territories worldwide. ER's expertise is in the exploitation of its catalogue of brands
and content in a number of key disciplines, including television and theatrical distribution, product licensing and merchandising, live and
home entertainment, and digital media.

ER is a publicly quoted company listed on the London Stock Exchange. Annual revenues have increased from �1.8m in 1999 to �68.1m in
2007, the last reported financial year.

Key brands in ER's global portfolio include Postman Pat�, Where's Waldo?*, Tinga Tinga Tales* VeggieTales�, Rupert Bear�, George Of The
Jungle*, Lassie�, Casper The Friendly Ghost�, Basil Brush�, Finley The Fire Engine*, The Lone Ranger�, He-Man� and the Masters of the
Universe�, She-Ra* and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer�.

About Penguin Group
The world-famous Penguin brand is the label of quality from novels and classics to cookbooks - and much more - around the world. The
Penguin Group publish an unrivalled range of fiction and non-fiction, bestsellers and classics, children's books and illustrated reference
treasure chests in over 100 countries.

About Puffin Books
Puffin is the UK's leading publisher of children's books and one of its best loved brands. The publishing programme spans illustrated
books for the very young through to teenage fiction, poetry and non-fiction. Puffin publishes an award-winning range of best-selling
authors, including Janet and Allan Ahlberg, Eric Carle, Eoin Colfer, Roald Dahl, Lauren Child, Meg Rosoff, Charlie Higson and Melvin
Burgess. Puffin is part of Penguin Group (UK).

About Tiger Aspect
Tiger Aspect Productions, an IMG Media company, is internationally recognised as one of the UK's most successful and prolific
independent television producers. The company portfolio includes animation, comedy, drama, entertainment and factual genres. Tiger creates a
wide range of critically acclaimed and award-winning programming for all the UK's major terrestrial and non-terrestrial broadcasters. In
addition the company's creative output now enjoys an increasingly high profile in the USA through its commissions for major stateside
networks. Tiger's production slate includes primetime mainstream successes for BBC1 and ITV. These are complemented by a varied and genre
defining range of programming for BBC2, Channel 4, Five, Sky, MTV and BBC3 and ITV2, 3 & 4. Current and recent successes include Charlie
and Lola (CBBC), Robin Hood (3 series for BBC One), Secret Diary of a Call Girl (ITV2), The Home Show (Channel 4), Paul Merton In India
(Five) and Ross Kemp In Afghanistan (Sky One).

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