RNS Number:1922M
Chorion PLC
11 June 2003


For Immediate Release
Wednesday, 11 June 2003



                       CHORION TAKES CHRISTIE TO AMERICA

Chorion PLC, the entertainment brands business (LSE:  COR), has today announced
the largest ever Christie order from an American television network.  A&E
Network, the award winning US cable network, is to show eight new Christie
dramas.  This order underlines Chorion's continuing progress in America.

At the AGM last week Waheed Alli, Chairman of Chorion, announced that the first
four of the Chorion/A&E Network/ITV co-productions - Death on the Nile, Five
Little Pigs, The Hollow and Sad Cypress - would all star David Suchet as the
world famous detective Hercule Poirot.  Filming on Five Little Pigs will begin
in July and full casting details will be announced nearer the time.

Waheed Alli, Chairman of Chorion, said:

"We're delighted to have A&E Network as our American co-production partner for
these key new Christie dramas.  This is the biggest ever order for Christie from
an American company and shows her enduring worldwide popularity.  We are all
committed to broadening the appeal of the world's greatest mystery writer and
bringing her classic stories to new audiences".


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For further information please contact:

Rachel Whetstone                    Portland                      020 7404 5344





Notes to Editors

 1. Chorion PLC (LSE:  COR) is a brand creation and management business with the
    rights to key properties such as Miss Marple, Poirot, Maigret, The Famous
    Five and Noddy.  Chorion PLC signed a ground breaking deal with ITV earlier
    this year for a minimum of 16 new Christie television dramas over the next
    four years.

 2. Agatha Christie is universally known as the Queen of Crime.  She wrote 80
    novels and short story collections as well as 19 plays.  Her books have been
    translated into more than 100 languages and are estimated to have sold two
    billion copies worldwide, making her the most widely published author in
    history, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare.



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