14th May 2010 - First Album The Bopps release their first album (called First Album) on May 24th to support their current Series running daily on Nick Junior. The 12 original tracks are songs from the Series and the CD will be available through Amazon, Play.com and HMV. Further information on the band and the Series is now available from www.thebopps.co.uk
26th Feb 2010 - The Bopps. Nick Jnr have announced that The Bopps Series will commence broadcast on April 5th. A CD featuring the songs from the Series will be launched at the same time aptly entitled; The Bopps – The First Album.
11 August 2009 - The Bopps It’s all a bit hush, hush but a brand new LEG Series has been commissioned by Nickelodeon. The music based Series builds on our relationship with Stan Cullimore and goes into production next month. We’re very excited and all shall be revealed in next month’s news update.
24 July 2009 - Little Red Tractor. Kleiner Roter Traktor (Little Red Tractor) DVD season 2 has been released in Germany through Universum Film. Titled 'Der Stromausfall' it has all 6 episodes from the series.
20 July 2009 - Billy renewed. Canal+ have renewed their deal to broadcast all 26 episodes of Billy in France.
5 May 2009 - Billy returns. Billy is back on Tiny Pop.
Tiny Pop is available on Sky channel 617, Virgin cable channel 737 and Freesat channel 605. Catch it at 10:45am and 3:45pm
13 January 2009 - Little Red Tractor returns.
Little Red Tractor is back on CBeebies at 8:30 am weekdays.
17 Nov 2008 - One Hell of a Weekend. The Little Entertainment Group and partner Brabham Media and Entertainment have signed a deal with Duke Entertainment to distribute this unique motorsport title. Produced by LEG, "One Hell of Weekend" tells the story of the triumph of a privateer team in overcoming the challenge of the greatest endurance race of them all; Le Mans.Duke Website >>>
20 Oct 2008 - Stan's the Man for Al Jazeera. Stan, Little Red Tractor and the crew are packing their bags for the Arabian desert after LEG inked a deal with the newly formed Al Jazeera Children's Channel. The Channel is the largest dedicated children's channel in the Middle East and series 5 and 6 will go out in the new year.
28 Sept 2008 - Drama out of a Crisis. As alarm bells continue to sound in the world of Children's TV, BAFTA's Matthew Bell sees Roman Mysteries as a reason to be cheerful. Read the full article here.
11 Aug 2008 - Romans ratings - Best in class. Roman Mysteries is the UK's highest rating afternoon kids show - as reported in Broadcast Magazine on 7 August. Over One Hundred and Fifty Thousand kids tuned in not including several hundred thousand grown ups. The show goes from strength to strength.
29 June 2008 - "Mini Epic" - Radio Times Roman Mysteries Preview. The Radio Times has previewed the forthcoming second series of Roman Mysteries calling it "children's television at its most ambitious". Click here for the full story.
25 June 2008 - Roman Mysteries DVD release. Release of the complete series one DVD box set of Roman Mysteries has been set to coincide with the new broadcast dates for series two on BBC1 and CBBC. Tuesday 8th July see's this 2 disc box set hit the high street with pre-orders being taken at Amazon, Play.com and many other retail websites. Follow this linkto find out more.
23 June 2008 - Roman Mysteries Series 2 Broadcast. Our intrepid band of adventurers, Flavia, Nubia, Jonathan and Lupus return to the screen this summer with a brand new series of Roman Mysteries. The BBC have announced that series 2 will begin broadcast on Tuesday 8th July. Starting at 4:35pm on BBC1 with a switchover to CBBC at 5:15pm for the next episode, this pattern is repeated every Tuesday for the duration of the series.
14 June 2008 - Little Red Tractor DVD release. "One potato, Two potato" - 6 exciting new adventures for Little Red Tractor and friends, coming to DVD on 21st July 2008. If you cant wait, the latest series of Little Red Tractor is currently back on air showing on CBeebies, Tuesday 10:05 - 10:20 am.
28 March 2008 - Specialist corporate division. The Little Entertainment Group, following several recent successful corporate filming ventures, are pleased to announce the creation of a specialist corporate division dedicated to the creation of training, marketing and sales films. The new division will bring 20 years of broadcast writing, filming and music experience to this sector and will be offering new, less expensive technology to bring television broadcast quality to this often neglected sector. Sam Stevens, heading up the new division, said “Corporate films have often suffered from a low budget feel and 2nd division look due to lack of genuine broadcast experience of service providers. Advanced technology now means that superb quality can be achieved at low cost whilst our 20 years of TV experience at the highest level means we can also bring high-end scripts, effects and performers to add real value to the content. There is genuine promise of exciting times ahead in this genre”
25 February 2008 - Merlin Back On Air. The Little Entertainment Group’s first stop motion series, Merlin The Magical Puppy, is now back on screen in the UK. The 26 x 10’ series was originally commissioned by ITV and regularly obtained ratings in excess of 20% when it was first shown at its 3.30 p.m. slot on CITV terrestrial. The series now airs on cITV’s digital children’s channel on weekdays at 9:30 and 12:30. Internationally, the series has been highly successful, selling in over 100 territories.
15 January 2008 - Roman Mysteries goes international. Parthenon Entertainment have completed sales of TV rights to ARD in Germany, Cuatro in Spain and Viasat in Scandanavia. LEG has also completed a worldwide DVD deal with Revelation Films who have already sold Australian DVD rights. The UK DVD will launch later this year to coincide with the transmission of Series 2.
8 January 2008 - Ten Pin Alley becomes Little Entertainment Post. Following its most successful year ever, Ten Pin Alley, the post production facility owned by LEG has re-branded as Little Entertainment Post. The change of name is part of the vertical integration of the Group’s services and coincides with the launch of our DVD label, The Little DVD Company. Stay tuned for news of major additions to our picture post services!
25 December 2007 - LEG does its bit for Comic Relief. LEG, were very pleased to be associated with the BBC’s 2007 Comic Relief Appeal by providing audio post services to the production of this iconic Christmas favourite "Robbie the Reindeer".
6 October 2007 - Parthenon Entertainment take on Romans. LEG is pleased to announce that Parthenon Entertainment will be representing global TV distribution for the Roman Mysteries Series. We have enjoyed a valued relationship with them over the years and we feel confident this commercial tie-in will be of huge benefit to the Series. From the 8th to 12th October we will be attending the MIPcom television market in Cannes supporting the international launch of the Series as well as presenting some items from our development slate in readiness for 2008.
22 Aug 2007 - RM II swings into action.
We are now 2 weeks into shooting Series 2 of Roman Mysteries on location in Bulgaria. Ratings from Series 1 have fluctuated between 450,000 and 600,000 against average high ratings from Children’s TV of 300 to 330,000. These figures are very satisfactory especially when seen in the light of the Summer Holiday season.
19 June 2007 - New Roman Mysteries Broadcast Date. The BBC have released new broadcast dates for Roman Mysteries. From the start, 'The Secrets of Vesuvius'. Scroll One can be viewed at 4:30pm, BBC one 19th June.
