HOLA ENTERTAINMENT EXTENDS Taffy Entertainment’s PRESENCE IN LATIN AMERICA WITH KEY BROADCAST SALES

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July 8th, 2008 Leave a comment Visited 40 times, 2 so far today

Code Lyoko, The Fantastic Four, Dive Olly Dive! and Creepie Acquired By Additional Broadcasters

PARIS, 7 July 2008 – The MoonScoop Group’s Taffy Entertainment, the worldwide distribution, brand management and entertainment company, is bolstering the Latin American presence of its hit animated shows Code Lyoko, The Fantastic Four, Dive Olly Dive! and Creepie, announcing key sales with a variety free TV broadcasters in the region. The deals were completed with the assistance of Canadian-based HOLA Entertainment, which signed on as Taffy’s distribution agents for free TV broadcasters and video distribution in Latin America one year ago.

The Fantastic Four, the hit animated series based on the iconic superheroes from Marvel, has now been picked up by Canal 7 Teletica in Costa Rica, TV6 in Trinidad and Ecuador’s Ecuavisa. The show also continues to air on Cartoon Network Latin America and free TV broadcasters TV Globo in Brazil and TVN in Chile, among others.

Code Lyoko, the 2D/3D CGI action-adventure fantasy series has been picked up by TV6 in Trinidad and Ecuavisa in Ecuador. It can also be found on Jetix Latin America and TVN in Chile, in addition to over 100 other countries.

Additional deals completed include Ecuador’s Tevecuador picking up the kids’ documentary series Insectoscope, Ecuavisa’s acquisition of Dive Olly Dive!, and CBC Barbados picking up Dive Olly Dive! and Creepie.

“The Latin America market has been an area of tremendous growth for us,” said Marie Conge, Senior Vice President, International Sales at Taffy Entertainment. “Our partnership with Hola Entertainment has already paid huge dividends and we’re thrilled that broadcasters are responding to the high-quality entertainment value in our programming. We are also confident these shows will prove to be outstanding additions to the lineups for each broadcaster.”

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MEDIA CONTACT:

Marc Grossmann, Taffy Entertainment/MoonScoop: Tel + 1 (818) 227-8966

Email: mgrossmann {at} taffyentertainment(.)com

About Taffy Entertainment

Part of The MoonScoop Group, Taffy Entertainment (www.TaffyEntertainment.com) is a leading worldwide distribution, brand management and entertainment company representing brands from some of the largest animation producers across the globe. This includes the prolific Mike Young Productions; MoonScoop Productions, the top producer of animation in Europe; and select properties from third parties. Taffy’s library for distribution and/or consumer products includes the Emmy® Award-nominated series “ToddWorld,” “Dive Olly Dive!” and “Growing Up Creepie,” as well as “Pet Alien,” “Titeuf” (TooTuff), “Mix Master,” “Fantastic Four,” “Code Lyoko” and “Casper,” among many others. With offices in Paris, Los Angeles and Shanghai, the company has fully-integrated production, distribution, licensing, merchandising and marketing facilities. It also has a library that includes over 3,000 half hours of animation, encompassing some of the most recognizable worldwide brands and best-loved animated creations in the global television market. The company also distributes to leading broadcasters in 160 countries around the world.





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