Good Food,Hot Weather to NZ Living, Food Channels

BBC Worldwide Brings Good Food and Hot Weather to NZ's Living and Food Channels

BBC Showcase: 1 March 2007: BBC Worldwide’s Australasian arm has sold more than 300 hours of cookery, lifestyle and factual programming to the Living Channel New Zealand.

The package includes more than 100 hours of first-run programming, which will air on the Living Channel and its sister network, Food TV.

Celebrity Masterchef Goes Large (15 x 30’), Saturday Kitchen 2006 (20 x 30’), James Martin Digs Deep (10 x 25’), Rick Stein’s Betjeman and Me (1 x 49’) and United States of Reza (12 x 23) are among the titles that will premiere on Food TV from March this year.

Other titles include encore showings from The Naked Chef, Wild Harvest with Nick Nairn, Friends for Dinner and Dinner in a Box with Curtis Stone.

Meanwhile, the Living Channel will air premieres of A Year at Kew S3 (10 x 28’), Life Coach Less Ordinary S2 (10 x 45’) and Living in the Sun S3 (20 x 60’).

The package also includes Himalaya with Michael Palin, four series of Antiques Roadshow, Delia Smith’s Winter Collection, two series of Friends for Dinner and the return of Ainsley’s Barbecue Bible.

“We are pleased to be able to bring such a high calibre of lifestyle programming to New Zealand audiences this year” said Julie Dowding, BBC Worldwide Australasia’s Head of Sales.

“2006 saw both our channels reach new audience level highs and the inclusion in our schedules of BBC Worldwide’s top notch lifestyle programming was an important factor in that growth. This strong new BBC package gets 2007 off to a great start” added John McCready of the Living Channel.

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1 March 2007

Notes to editors: BBC Worldwide Limited is the main commercial arm and a wholly owned subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The company exists to maximise the value of the BBC’s assets for the benefit of the licence payer and invest in public service programming in return for rights. The company has six core businesses: Global Channels, Global TV Sales, Magazines, Content & Production, Home Entertainment and Digital Media. In 2005/06, BBC Worldwide generated profits of £89 million on sales of £784 million.

BBC Showcase is the world’s largest television trade event hosted by a single distributor. It is taking place in Brighton, UK, from 25 February to 1 March with a record attendance of over 560 buyers from all over the globe. The annual event sees BBC Worldwide generate programme sales and broker international funding deals for co productions on behalf of the BBC, other UK networks and independent producers.

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