Ten Alps PLC
01 February 2006

For Release 1 February 2006



                           Ten Alps plc: Acquisition

       Drama division launched by purchase of Cottage Industry Productions


TV group Ten Alps plc ('Ten Alps') announces that it has launched Ten Alps
Drama, a new division formed through the acquisition of drama production company
Cottage Industry Productions Limited, by its subsidiary, Ten Alps TV.


The deal provides Ten Alps with two BBC1-financed projects, plus a number of
other scripts and drama developments, and brings in Cottage Industry's Managing
Director Jo Willett as Head of Ten Alps Drama.


Both BBC scripts are one-hour TV films planned for production in Summer 2006.
These are Chris Hurford's A PLACE IN THE COUNTRY and Jonathan Harvey's
co-produced MAKING LOVE WITH GINNY AND SIMON.


Ten Alps paid #74,647 in cash for the entire issued share capital of Cottage
Industry Productions, against net assets of approximately #40,000.


TV DRAMA PROJECTS


Jo Willett's credits include BAFTA and RTS award-winning A RATHER ENGLISH
MARRIAGE, Emmy Award-winning DIRTY TRICKS, and Meera Syal's recent LIFE ISN'T
ALL HA HA HEE HEE.  Jo is the former Head of Drama at TV companies Wall to Wall
and SelecTV.  She has signed a service contract with Ten Alps TV, which includes
sales and profit-related incentives.



Projects on the development slate include a single drama for ITV from Simon
Burke (writer on WHITE TEETH, SONS AND LOVERS); Patrick Hamilton's THE SLAVES OF
SOLITUDE, with Andrew Davies attached to write; and Clare Morrall's novel
ASTONISHING SPLASHES OF COLOUR.



Said Alex Connock, Ten Alps Chief Executive: "Drama is about expertise - and Jo
Willett is an expert. We are delighted to be working with her. On day one she
not only has her own impressive slate, but also a desk covered with drama
projects and ideas from our existing companies."


STRATEGY FOR TEN ALPS DRAMA


Ten Alps Drama will share an office building in Shepherd's Bush with two Ten
Alps-owned factual production companies, 3BM TV and Blakeway Productions, both
of which have been making docudramas successfully in both the UK and US.


Said Jo Willett, Cottage Industry's Executive Producer: "Going that extra step
from docudrama into pure drama is a next logical step for Ten Alps.
Significantly, it tracks the way the TV business is going, with dramatized true
stories appearing in prime-time slots.  I look forward to working with Ten Alps
both on factually-generated projects, and on mainstream fiction projects that I
bring to the company."


Said Nitil Patel, Ten Alps Group Finance Director: "We plan to grow our drama
business over the next three years in the same way as we have fruitfully
approached factual TV - a combination of internal investment and further niche
acquisitions."



EDITORS' NOTES

TEN ALPS PLC


Ten Alps is a TV production group listed on AiM.  It was co-founded in 1999 by
Alex Connock (CEO) and Bob Geldof (Non-Exec).  It now owns factual production
companies Brook Lapping, Blakeway Productions, 3BM TV, Ten Alps TV & Radio and
Ten Alps Midlands.  It currently has around 20 programmes in production.  Output
from group companies ranges from high-budget docudramas like THE FLIGHT THAT
FOUGHT BACK, which was the highest-rated programme on Discovery US in the past
five years, to HIDDEN COUNTRY HOUSES for FIVE, or the forthcoming Channel 4
series with historian Niall Ferguson THE LONG WAR.  Brook Lapping also produces
substantial output for the Teachers' TV channel.


JO WILLETT CV


Jo produced BBC 1's three-parter LIFE ISN'T ALL HA HA HEE HEE, written by and
starring Meera Syal, for Hat Trick.  At Carlton Television she produced BERTIE
AND ELIZABETH and FORTYSOMETHING.  For Littlebird and Carlton she produced the
award-winning DIRTY TRICKS, starring Martin Clunes and Julie Graham.  As Head of
Drama at Wall to Wall she produced the BAFTA and RTS Award Winning A RATHER
ENGLISH MARRIAGE, and OUR BOY, starring Ray Winstone and Pauline Quirke as well
as executive producing the Screen Two BUMPING THE ODDS.  She was Head of Drama
at SelecTV where her credits include PIE IN THE SKY, LOVE HURTS and HEARTS AND
MINDS.


CONTACTS


Ten Alps plc:
Peter Binns
Binns & Co PR Ltd
Tel: 0207 - 786 9600
Mobile: 07768 392 582
peter.binns@binnspr.co.uk



Nitil Patel
Finance Director
Ten Alps plc
07990 578356
nitil@tenalps.com

www.tenalps.com



Ten Alps Drama
Jo Willett
07703 648282
jowillett@cottagetv.co.uk









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