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26 June 2009
Talent Group plc
("Talent" or "the Company")
Directorate Change
Talent announces, further to the announcement of the interim results of the
Company earlier today, that it has appointed Mr Stephen Callen to the board as
Finance Director. Stephen, a Chartered Accountant, has over fifteen years
experience of the independent television sector.
Mr Callen qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1980 with Dixon Wilson where
he remained until 1986, when he joined Hanover Druce plc as assistant company
secretary. In 1988 he was appointed finance director of Sunset + Vine plc in
order to oversee their flotation on the Unlisted Securities Market. This
company transferred to the main market in 1990 and in 1995 merged with the
Molinare Group to become The Television Corporation plc, which subsequently
acquired the Mentorn Group. He left The Television Corporation in 2003 to take
up a position as finance director of Brentford Football Club, enabling the Club
to be re-financed and acquired by its Supporters Trust in 2006. Since then he
has been involved in a number of media-related projects.
Under Schedule 2, paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules, the following information is
disclosed:
Directorships held by Mr Callen in the past five years:
Current directorships Past directorships
Archimedia Ventures plc Brentford FC Limited
Brentford FC Community Sports Trust
Brentford FC Football Community Society
Ltd
Brentford Holdings Limited
Griffin Park Stadium Limited
Ipoco Limited
Ipoco.com Limited
Mr Callen is not holding any shares in the capital of the Company.
Mr Callen has confirmed there is no additional information under schedule 2,
paragraph (g) of the AIM rules which needs to be disclosed.
Talent Group plc 020 7421 7800
Tony Humphreys (Managing Director)
John East & Partners Limited 020 7628 2200
John East/Simon Clements
Notes to editors:
Talent Television (part of Talent Group plc) is a leading independent UK format
creator and producer of innovative television and interactive programming.
Talent produces a wide range of entertainment and factual programming for a
broad spectrum of terrestrial and cabsat broadcasters in the UK, US and
worldwide. Credits include "Everybody Dance Now" for prime time ITV One, BBC
live interactive series "Test the Nation" for prime time BBC One , CBBC's hit
show "Best of Friends", "TV Scrabble" and "Casino Casino" co-produced with Gag
Productions for Challenge?, reality documentary series "Corkscrewed",
co-produced with LA-based Magic Pictures Inc for Sky One and Fox Reality, and
controversial documentaries "The Man With 80 Wives" and "9/11: The Curse of
Compensation" for Channel 4. Talent was also a pioneer in reality television
with "The Villa", which was first produced in 1999 for Sky One.
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