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
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DCD Media PLC
http://www.dcdmedia.co.uk/

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Major New Drama Productions
27/04/2006
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DCD MEDIA SHOWREEL 2006
http://www.dcdmedia.co.uk/showreels/DigitalClassicsShowreelWM9512Kbps.wmv

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

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.

DCD MEDIA SHOWREEL 2006 (New In The Header)
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Insights
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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".

Al
Looking good.

June 2006 will moderately exceed expectations, and are comfortable with the
outlook.

Trading Update & Announcement of New Projects
http://moneyam.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/20060802070000PD25C.html

FT

Hitting the V spot
By Clay Harris

Published: August 2 2006 03:00 | Last updated: August 2 2006 03:00

Done and Dusted, part of Aim-listed DCD Media, has won two new contracts.

It will produce and direct the MTV Video Music Awards next month and devise and stage this year's Victoria's Secret Fashion Show for CBS. The latter show, the acceptable face of lingerie in the prudish US broadcasting culture, is expected to contribute $5m (3.7m) to turnover against $2m last year when D&D only televised it.


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LONDON (AFX) - DCD Media PLC said it is 'comfortable' with its outlook, and expects pretax earnings for the full year to June to 'moderately exceed expectations'.

In a trading update, the company said its recently acquired subsidiaries Done and Dusted (DandD) and Box TV have been integrated smoothly, and that it is seeking further growth opportunities.

'We believe that significant further growth can be achieved through both internal expansion and acquisition, so long as they enhance shareholder value, and we are actively seeking such opportunities', said chief executive Chris Hunt.

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Holding in Company

The Company was informed today by Richard Price, a non-executive director of the
Company, that RPTA Limited, a company controlled by him, had purchased 1,700,000
ordinary shares of 0.1p each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares'). The purchase
price for these shares was 1.19 pence.

Mr Price's total holding of Ordinary Shares now totals 9,337,095 Ordinary
Shares, representing approximately 0.31 per cent. of the issued share capital of
the Company.

2 August 2006

looking good, not surprise as everybody wants a piece of this juicy company.
this top banana is for long term investor.
fish can fly.

From the Daily Mail

Former five boss david Elstein's DCD Media boogied 0.05p ahead to 1.175p after it won a contract to produce the MTV video awards in August.
The company has undergone something of a transformation but the shares have yet to respond.
After the hefty price Permira paid earlier this week for privately-owned all3Media maker of midsummer murders, listed TV producers surely deserve closer examination.

NBDtv rides the Underground with Ernie

UK independent distributor NBDtv will be taking new children's animation series Underground Ernie to Mipcom next month, CEO Nicky Davies Williams has announced.

The 26x12' childrens CGI animation series is based on the names of the London Underground tube lines, and is being produced for UK diginet CBeebies by Joella Productions. Former England football ace Gary Lineker provides the main voiceover.

"The programming we now represent internationally is now extremely diverse," added Davies Williams. "I am sure that Mipcom Junior buyers will enjoy Underground Ernie as a must-have entertaining series for three- to eight-year-old boys and girls around the world and see the huge licensing and merchandising potential."



5 Sep 2006
C21 Media 2006

DRIVER

THANKS FOR THE POSTING AND the beautiful picture. DCD another beautiful little fish. Nice one with a capital of 37million at the little price of 1.14p but profitable and ahead of market expectation. PE should be improving as earning is growing non-stop. You wonder why they all want a piece of it. well, everybody is welcome though if they want to join.

Psst, driver.
Whats happened with this one this morning????

Looks like the buy recommend in this months red-hot penny shares did the trick. Results out in November I think.

These's are all buys today so far, 1.16 to buy at the moment.

The volumes building on DCD ahead of the results by the look of it.

10/10/2006 - New appointment for Box TV

Box TV, the drama subsidiary of DCD Media, has hired Adrian Bate to further expand development and production alongside the companys founding producer, Gub Neal.

Gub and Adrian will work together overseeing the company's existing commissions as well as developing a wide range of new work for both the UK and international markets.

Adrian, who was Head of Film & Drama at Zenith Entertainment and has been responsible for over 40 hours of prime time UK drama (Two Thousand Acres of Sky, 55 Degrees North, Class of 76 and Cider with Rosie), will also be bringing the Zenith drama slate with him.

Justin Thomson-Glover, MD of Box TV and a director of DCD Media, said: We are delighted that Adrian is joining Box TV. He is a fantastic producer and has a hugely successful track-record in making long running series as well as ambitious events.

With Sweeney Todd, Wind in the Willows, and Bon Voyage all kicking off for us in the last 12 months and an ambitious range of new series and events coming through, Adrian is perfectly placed to help Box TVs growing slate.

Adrians specific strength in popular series will give Box TV a significant advantage in building a reputation in a broader range of genre as well.

Adrian said: Working with Box is an exciting prospect - their ethos is geared to developing and producing quality drama. Im really impressed with the projects that already have been commissioned or developed its a company with real ambition, and it will be great working alongside Gub and his talented team."

At the same time Box TV have also appointed Julian Stevens as Head of Development to manage the expansion of work, including the additional developments brought in from Zenith by Adrian.

many thanks driver and best luck to DCD

Box TV, production

Tues 24th and Wed 25th Oct at 9pm, ITV1

During this two-part thriller, Neil and Elizabeth take their children David and Rachel on a camping holiday in rural France.

Oddly, they find themselves continuingly bumping into over friendly couple Simon and Linda who claim to be camping with their own children.

Elizabeth finds the couple creepy, a fear which is compounded when they begin to spot Simon and Linda's camper van in their rear view mirror. Are the couple following them or is it mere coincidence?

Later, when a young boy goes missing, Elizabeth and Neil begin to suspect the oddball couple are more dangerous than creepy.

To their horror, the same boy runs screaming from the woods into the path of their car. As they look for help, stranded in the isolated forest of the Pyrenees, they see the camper van appearing out of the darkness.

When Neil and Elizabeth go to investigate, Simon and Linda have gone. And when they return to their own car, so have David and Rachel.

And now look! You can even take a sneaky peak at Bon Voyage with our fantastic clip.

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