DCD Media plc The TV production & distribution powerhouse

DCD Media Plc formerly (Digital Classics plc) Europe's pre-eminent independent producer and distributor of arts, music and dramatic television programming.

The Now New DCD comprises of new acquisitions NBD TV, Box TV, Iambic Productions, Digital Classics DVD, and Done & Dusted.

Box TV A leading drama production company whose recent BBC production Sweeney Todd' Leading Roll Ray Winston received high public and critical acclaim.

Done & Dusted , Specialists in documentary, drama and music event specials respectively, offering an increased output of quality production, and a maker of rock concert videos.

NBD TV, A rock and pop music distributor.
http://www.nbdtv.com/

Iambic Productions Leading specialist producer of arts, music and entertainment programmes.

About DCD
DCD make's and delivers great programmes for clients enabling them to achieve high audience satisfaction and ratings. Delivering through the activities of subsidiary companies each of which is a recognisable and successful brand. Each of the subsidiaries is specialized but their activities are complementary and enable maximization of current and future intellectual property rights.

DCD's Vision is to become Europe's pre-eminent independent producer and distributor of arts, entertainment, music and drama audio-visual content for television and DVD.

The newly formed DCD is well positioned to return massive growth In the coming years in revenue and Share Price this from the Interim Results 200% increase in turnover to 3.7m against same period last year 21/03/06
http://moneyam.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/20060320070000P4F9E.html
DCD Media PLC
http://www.dcdmedia.co.uk/

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Major New Drama Productions
27/04/2006
http://moneyam.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/20060427070000P53DC.html

DCD MEDIA SHOWREEL 2006
http://www.dcdmedia.co.uk/showreels/DigitalClassicsShowreelWM9512Kbps.wmv

New DCD Download Site
http://www.digitalclassicsdvd.co.uk/index.php

Al
I would say that they were all buys today including the 10m

Nice to see a bit of blue in a sea of red.

A Done and Dusted Production for Sky One

http://www.electricsky.com/catalogue_detail.aspx?program=951

"Nice RNS this morning", said Badger.
"Wont do my portfolio any harm", replied Toad.

"Nice RNS this morning", said Badger.
"Wont do my portfolio any harm", replied Toad.

"I heard you the first time" said Toad! Yes, nice RNS. "Should help me to drive the share price higher" said Toad.

In the header.
14 June 2006 The Wind in the Willows

"I see we have made the inside pages on The Independant", said ratty, as he tucked into another sausage for breakfast at Toad Hall.

"Worth a flutter eh"? mumbled Badger through a mouthful of toast. "What we need is a Mole in the camp to give us some inside info"

"I wonder if DCD are willing to make a "Wind in the Willows 2", featuring those wonderful scriptwriters, Kim & Alan", said Mole, through a mouthfull of worms.

"it's a possibility" said Ratty, but there is always a danger that it could become subtitled "2 farts with a cricket bat"!

A BUY in todays Independant

DCD Media

Our view: Worth a flutter

Share price: 1.2p (unch)

The Television production company DCD Media, under the stewardship of former Channel 5 boss David Elstein, has raised the scale of its operations dramatically over the past six months.
On the way, it has secured a number of commissions to make various programmes and the latest was unveiled yesterday. It will see DCD produce for the BBC a major new adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, featuring Bob Hoskins as Badger and Matt Lucas, of Little Britain fame, as Toad.

The agreement should generate more than 3m in turnover for the group and is expected to be aired on BBC1 towards the end of the year. Filming has already started in Romania.

The deal is the latest coup for DCD. Last month it won a commission from ITV to make the new Saturday morning music slot that will replace the long-running CD:UK. The company is producing 15 one-hour shows and if the yet-to-be-named format proves successful it will become a permanent feature on ITV1.

DCD shares have doubled on the back of all the positive news since the start of the year and yesterday closed at 1.2p. Although the company is a true penny stock it is by no means a minnow - its market capitalisation tops 50m. And despite the strong rise its shares still offer good value. Analysts expect DCD to make a pre-tax profit of 3m for the year ending 30 June 2007. That leaves it trading at just 12 times earnings. If it continues to win commissions at the current rate these forecasts will prove to be too conservative. That makes DCD worth a flutter.

Begbies Traynor

Our view: Buy

Robbie Williams in HD
Done and Dusted, who will be directing the show.

http://www.hdtvuk.tv/2006/06/robbie_williams.html

By heck Driver, you are on form today! Another nice find. The future looks more than orange for this share in my opinion.

It would be nice to see DCD getting behind a documentary on Alan's cricket team, now that would make a cracking show!?! I hung my finely honed piece of willow up many years ago due to a complete lack of any sort of skill other than being able to hammer the stumps into the ground with it!!
kim

Star line-up announced for The Wind in the Willows

Bob Hoskins leads an all star cast in a lavish adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's children's classic The Wind in the Willows, commissioned for BBC ONE from independent Box TV.

Hoskins stars as Badger with Matt Lucas as Toad, Mark Gatiss as Rat, Lee Ingleby as Mole, Imelda Staunton as the Barge Lady, Jim Carter as the Engine Driver and Anna Maxwell Martin as the Gaoler's Daughter.

Adapted from the much-loved book by Lee Hall, writer of the Oscar-nominated and multi-award winning film Billy Elliot, the drama will be transmitted later this year on BBC ONE.

Iconic locations such as the Riverbank, the Wild Wood, Toad Hall and the Open Road are brought vividly to life as Mole is introduced to the countryside outside his hole, encountering industrious Ratty, gruff Badger and the irrepressible Mr Toad.

Filming takes place in and around Bucharest from 12 June until 28 July.

Gub Neal says: "I have a long-standing fascination with the story of The Wind in the Willows and believe our version is a first for TV in terms of scale and ambition. Lee Hall's translation is utterly faithful to Kenneth Grahame's book and the glorious locations outside Bucharest are perfectly suited to achieving the unspoilt rural world described in the original text.

"Rather than using heavy prosthetics, I think it is both appropriate and natural to play the characters as largely human. The costumes and make-up will effect subtle transformations, but these are intended to inspire the audience's imagination into seeing how close the performances are to the characters' animal personae.

"We are delighted to attract such a high-calibre cast to the drama and believe they will inhabit their characters perfectly."

Jane Tranter, BBC Controller of Drama Commissioning, says: "The Wind in the Willows is one of the favourite children's books of all time and this new adaptation fits perfectly within BBC ONE's remit to produce high quality, popular drama for a wide audience.

"Lee Hall has delivered a charming, evocative and memorable script and we expect his writing, combined with the cre of British acting talent and stunning production values to be a big draw with viewers."

The Wind in the Willows is a UK/Canada/Romania co-production between Box TV, Muse Entertainment and MediaPro Pictures for the BBC in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. DCD Media are set to distribute the film outside Canada.

The director is Rachel Talalay (Band of Gold, The Borrowers, Ally McBeal), and the director of photography is David Franco (Desperate Housewives).

The executive producers are Justin Thomson-Glover and Patrick Irwin for Box TV. Executive in BBC Drama commissioning is Polly Hill.

Matt Lucas is best known for Little Britain and his other credits include Shooting Stars and Casanova. Mark Gatiss wrote and starred in The League of Gentlemen as well as appearing in Nighty Night and Funland. Lee Ingleby was recently seen in The Street and Life on Mars and his other credits include Nature Boy and The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Bob Hoskins' illustrious career includes such films as Mrs Henderson Presents, Mona Lisa and The Long Good Friday, with TV work including The Lost World.

Anna Maxwell Martin played Esther Summerson in the BBC's Bleak House and has also appeared in Doctor Who and North & South. Jim Carter's many credits include Pompeii: The Last Day, Bright Young Things, The Way We Live Now and Brassed Off. Imelda Staunton won a Bafta and an Oscar nomination for her starring role in Vera Drake and appeared recently in Fingersmith, Nanny McPhee and My Family and Other Animals.

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Most of the trades today looked like buys about 10m surprising the sp didnt move.

NBDtv hires for sales drive

It was snapped up by David Elstein's DCD Media last December. Now UK distributor NBDtv has appointed a new sales team, hiring execs from rivals 3DD Entertainment and Zonemedia.

Danielle Davies, formerly sales manager at music event and telefilm vendor 3DD, and before that at Action Time and RDF Media, has been taken on to head the newly created southern and eastern hemisphere sales department. She will focus on the Middle East, Far East, Latin America, Canada and Australasia.

Rick Barker, formerly head of television sales at another DCD Media subsidiary, Digital Classics Distribution, has the newly created position of head of sales for continental Europe at NBDtv. Lauren Marriott has also joined from his eastern European sales position at Zonemedia to become sales exec at NBD, reporting to Barker.

Traditionally specialising in music-related programming, NBDtv now distributes a more diverse slate, said CEO Nicky Davies Williams, including drama, kids and factual programming supplied by DCD Medias wholly owned production companies: Done & Dusted, Box TV and Iambic Productions.

DCD Media paid 1.46m (US$2.73m) for 21-year-old NBDtv last year as part of an ongoing acquisitions spree that also saw it pay a total of 6.12m for Box TV, the drama prodco set up six years ago by Channel 4's entire drama department, led by ex-commissioning editor Gub Neal.


31 Jul 2006
C21 Media 2006

Edited version of todays trading update;
"hey guys, we're doing a bit better than we thought. This is pretty good".