Entertainment Rights

Entertainment Rights Plc (ER) is the UK's leading global media group specializing in the ownership of high quality children's and family programming, characters and brands. Entertainment Rights owns or controls the rights to many global characters including Basil Brush®, Postman Pat®, Guess With JessTM, Little Red TractorTM, Rupert Bear®, He-Man an... d the Masters of the Universe®, Fat Albert and the Cosby kidsTM, She-Ra®, Jim Jam & SunnyTM, Ghostbusters, The Lone Ranger, Lassie, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Felix . In January 2007, Entertainment Rights acquired Classic Media, the US-based owner of an extensive portfolio of children's and family characters and brands including Big Idea Productions Inc, producer and creator of the award-winning ,VeggieTales' series of programming which, to date, has sold over 50 million home entertainment units in the US. Since 1999, when Entertainment Rights owned rights to just 39 episodes of programming, Entertainment Rights' library has grown to circa 9,000 episodes of high quality children's and family characters and brands. This includes certain rights to global brands such as Mattel's BarbieTM, Scholastic's CliffordTM and Hasbro's TransformersTM. Entertainment Rights has grown rapidly; annual revenues have increased from £1.8m in 1999 to £68.1m in 2007, the last reported financial year.Read More