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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