News Release

Toronto
July 21, 2009

CCI Entertainment and CBC's Turbo Dogs Revvs Things Up At The 2009 Telly Awards

CCI Entertainment along with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation are pleased to announce the success of Turbo Dogs at this years Telly Awards. The series won a bronze in the Children’s Television Category. The announcement came this week and is the first Telly Award for the series. Turbo Dogs, the critically acclaimed animated series airs on CBC in Canada and qubo in the United States.

Currently Turbo Dogs ranks #1 on NBC’s qubo block on Saturday mornings! The series is also the recipient of the 2009 US iParenting Media Award for Best Product in the television category.

The Telly Awards honor the very best local, regional, and cable television commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions, and work created for the Web. The Telly Awards receives over 13,000 entries annually from the finest ad agencies, production companies, TV stations, cable companies, interactive agencies and corporations in the world.

Turbo Dogs is about the antics of a wacky, dog-filled community that is wild about racing. Based on the book Racer Dogs by award winning illustrator Bob Kolar, Turbo Dogs brings the unique world of Racerville to life via rich 3D animation and high-octane storylines. The Hollywood Reporter states, “Going to the dogs is a good thing in this charming new animated series.  The best thing about Turbo Dogs is its flawless animation. It's all stuff kids will love…”

The series is a collaboration between CCI Entertainment and Huhu Studios produced in association with CBC. Scholastic Media hold the US rights. Targeted to kids 4-7 years of age, the show combines laughs, learning, and the thrill of the open road.

About CCI Entertainment Ltd. (Cambium Catalyst International)
CCI Entertainment is one of Canada's leading independent production and distribution companies with a successful track record spanning twenty years. CCI has been particularly recognized in the area of family programming, having been responsible for thousands of hours of award-winning television for the world market including: Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs, Monster By Mistake, Timeblazers, Shining Time Station and Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant Show. CCI Entertainment's mission is to create family entertainment that entertains, engages and fuels imaginations.

About Scholastic Media
Scholastic Media (SM), the entertainment and media division of Scholastic, is a leading producer of quality, family-oriented content across multiple platforms, including feature films, television programming, videos, interactive and audio products, and web sites, and is a major developer and marketer of children's brands worldwide. Among SM's award-winning and top-rated productions are the animated series Clifford The Big Red DogÒ (PBS KIDSÒ); the Emmy award-winning spin-off series Clifford's Puppy Daysä (PBS KIDS); I SPY (HBO Family); The Magic School BusÒ (TLC); Goosebumps®; Animorphs®; Maya & Miguelä (PBS KIDS GO!); and SM’s newest series, WordGirl™, (PBS KID GO!).  SM's critically-acclaimed feature films include Clifford's Really Big Movie, The Indian in the Cupboard, The Babysitters Club Movie, and The Mighty. SM also produced the forthcoming film The Golden Compass, based on the award-winning Philip Pullman trilogy His Dark Materials, for New Line Cinema. Scholastic is a co-creator of the new multi-platform qubo® network for children, which promotes literacy and positive values through entertainment.  Provided by Scholastic, Dragon is the new pre-school series airing on qubo®.

About Huhu Studios
Huhu Studios is one of New Zealand’s leading animation studios and is committed to producing family values based entertainment by telling great stories using high quality animation.  Huhu works to achieve this by participating in the investment, creation, development, production and distribution of quality animated content.

The company creates their own unique shows such as Buzz & Poppy (75 x 7 minute episodes), the upcoming Dimbleby (52 x 7 minute episodes), and movies including The Ten Commandments (with Promenade Pictures). For more information please visit www.huhustudios.com.

For further information contact:

Kristin Lecour

CCI Entertainment

(416) 583-2905

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