Peace Arch Announces Sale of Television Series to Animal Planet in the United States.
May 21 2004 - 3:37PM
PR Newswire (US)
Peace Arch Announces Sale of Television Series to Animal Planet in
the United States. TORONTO, May 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Peace
Arch Entertainment Group Inc. (AMEX and TSX: "PAE") is pleased to
announce its long running Canadian series "Animal Miracles", has
been licensed to Discovery Communication Inc.'s ANIMAL PLANET in
the United States. Peace Arch's U.S. distributor, Program Partners
of Santa Monica, California, represented the program to ANIMAL
PLANET. The sale was facilitated by Peace Arch's Vancouver-based
documentary, lifestyle and realty television division, The Eyes
Project Development Corp. "This sale confirms the value of Peace
Arch's factual programming in international markets, particularly
in the important U.S. cable environment. We are extremely proud of
the fact that Animal Miracles will now be seen daily on ANIMAL
PLANET, the preeminent source for top-quality, animal related
programming." stated Blair Reekie, President of the company's
factual subsidiary. "'Animal Miracles' epitomizes the excellent
production values we've come to expect from Peace Arch and The
Eyes," said Program Partners' Josh Raphaelson. "The series has
already been very well received by U.S. audiences and should be the
first of many projects we'll put on the air together in this
market." Animal Miracles is a 39 episode, one hour format,
documentary series that explores the powerful relationship between
people and animals and is hosted by seven-time Emmy nominee Alan
Thicke. The series features dramatic recreations of events
involving animals rescuing people during natural and man-made
disasters, as well as the passionate and inspiring efforts of
people across North America to help animals in need. The series
began airing Monday-Friday on ANIMAL PLANET in late March in the
U.S.A. Animal Miracles is seen every week in Canada on LIFE
NETWORK, an Alliance Atlantis Network. Peace Arch Entertainment
Group Inc., one of Canada's foremost entertainment companies,
creates, develops, produces and distributes proprietary feature
film and television programming for worldwide markets. Peace Arch
Entertainment Group Inc. has offices in Vancouver, Toronto, Los
Angeles and London, England. This press release includes statements
that may constitute forward-looking statements, usually containing
the words "believe", "estimate", "project", "expect", or similar
expressions. These statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor
provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from the forward-looking statements. Factors that would cause or
contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to,
continued acceptance of the Company's products and services in the
marketplace, competitive factors, dependence upon third-party
vendors, availability of capital and other risks detailed in the
Company's periodic report filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company
undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions
or changes after the date of this release. For media inquires,
please contact: Nicole Spracklin Discovery Communication Inc. Peace
Arch Entertainment Group Inc. One Discovery Place 407-124 Merton
Street Silver Spring, MD 20910 Toronto, ON, M4S 2Z2 Tel: (240)
662-3709 Tel: (416) 487-0377 (ext. 237) Website:
http://www.discovery.com/ Email: Website: http://www.peacearch.com/
Program Partners, Inc. (PPI) Stacey Davis Davis Public Relations
Tel: (310) 571-1785 DATASOURCE: Peace Arch Entertainment Group Inc.
CONTACT: Nicole Spracklin, Peace Arch Entertainment Group Inc.,
407-124 Merton Street Toronto, ON, M4S 2Z2, Tel: (416) 487-0377
(ext. 237), Email: , Website: http://www.peacearch.com/; Discovery
Communication Inc., One Discovery Place, Silver Spring, MD 20910,
Tel: (240) 662-3709, Website: http://www.discovery.com/; Program
Partners, Inc. (PPI), Stacey Davis, Davis Public Relations, Tel:
(310) 571-1785,
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