Genres range from screen versions of classic and modern best-sellers to completely original cutting-edge stories. Series Kamenskaya, Brigada and Idiot became outstanding events both in Russia and abroad. The documentary production (Nobel Prize Winners, The Arms of Russia, etc) is popular in Europe as well as in Russia because of the uniqueness of material and the similarity of Russian and European documentary tradition.

TV channel RUSSIA (former RTR) is one of the largest national TV-companies in the Russian Federation. The network includes 11 regional departments, international channel RTR-Planet, TV-channels CULTURE and SPORT and radio station. The company is the leader in news, entertainment and educational programming. It was one of the first to launch a large-scale production of drama and TV movies. Programs about nature and ethnography with impressive sights and rare shots (The Wildlife Explorer and Adventure Hunt) have already won the recognition of broad audience. Among partners of TV-channel RUSSIA there are networks from more than 20 countries (Germany, Finland, Sweden, Spain, Poland and other European countries).

Twofour has a very extensive catalogue of factual entertainment and lifestyle programmes represented by a number of specialist distributors

New to the catalogue is Conversations With A Serial Killer represented by Target Entertainment, Excess All Areas which uses new shocking graphic technology to show the damage young people are doing to their bodies which is with BBC Worldwide and the fourth series of The Hotel Inspector, Five's top rated original show during its transmission run. The Hotel Inspector is available through RDF Rights.


Twofour Broadcast supplies programming to all the UK terrestrial channels - BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five - as well as Sky, LIVING, Discovery and a variety of other digital and international channels.

The company is known for its wide range of factual entertainment and lifestyle programming. It is currently producing a fourth series of The Hotel Inspector for Five, Are You Smarter Than A Ten Year Old? for Sky One, Big Chef, Little Chef with Heston Blumenthal for Channel 4 and Doctor in the House (w/t), which uses high tech graphics to give young party lovers a living autopsy for BBC Three. Recent credits include Open Gardens, 30 half hours for BBC TWO, Beat: Life on the Street - two series for ITV1 and the award-winning Through Hell and High Water (with rowers Ben Fogle and James Cracknell) for the BBC. Dramas, quizzes and property shows are all in the pipeline.

Twofour has embraced the world of convergent TV producing content for distribution to mobiles and online. It has also developed a very successful advertiser funded programming team and is one of the largest producers of branded programming in the country - working with major brands including Philips, Audi, the British Heart Foundation, Epson and the Home Office.

DIGITAL CONTENT PORTFOLIO

Video Library: More than 8,000 long and short-form programs for VOD, mobile and broadband
Mobile Assets: Includes text alerts, wallpapers, ringtones, games, and quizzes
Web Assets: Includes 25+ channel websites, more than 100 mini-sites, online, PC, and console games


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