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Entries from February 2008

Janson Media Announces MIPTV 2008 Slate

February 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Janson Media today announced its slate of programming for MIPTV 2008 to be held in Cannes, France, April 7th through 11th. The company is at MIPTV for the 19th consecutive year, exhibiting at Stand #R30.18, in the Riviera Hall of the Palais des Festivals.

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Janson Announces Multiple Deals for Giant Screen Films

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Janson Media today announced that its award-winning Giant Screen Films Collection has been licensed by several broadcasters around the world in recent months. Licensed territories include Mexico (TV Azteca), Canada (Oasis TV and Outdoor Life Network) and Bulgaria (TV Sedem), as well as Greece and South Korea.

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Newest “Kid Guides” DVD Visits Spy Museum, Franklin Institute

February 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Janson Media today announced the release of the DVD, Kid Guides: Museums. The third title in the Kid Guides DVD Collection, Kid Guides: Museums is adapted from an award-winning, weekly television series. Kid Guides follows two kid hosts, Matt and Brittney, as they travel the world visiting the best zoos, museums, aquariums, and […]

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“Gateway Arch” Receives Rave From Booklist

February 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Janson Media’s DVD, The Gateway Arch: A Reflection of America, earned a rave review in the upcoming March 1st, 2008 issue of Booklist Magazine. Said reviewer Elliot Mandel of the DVD, “Narrated by St. Louis native Kevin Kline, this lively documentary profiles the history, design, and construction of the Gateway Arch. The film initially […]

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Janson Takes Viewers on an Inspiring Journey To “Mystic India”

February 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Janson Media today announced the release to worldwide television, VOD, and new media markets of Mystic India: An Incredible Journey of Inspiration. The latest release in the company’s Giant Screen Films Collection, now available in HDTV, rediscovers a land of many mysteries and fascinations. Mystic India is the world’s first large-format epic on India, and […]

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Janson Media Releases “Bake Decorate Celebrate!” Television Series

February 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Janson Media today announced the release to worldwide television, VOD, DVD/video, and new media markets of Bake Decorate Celebrate!, an exciting television series that features dessert decorating ideas and techniques for every occasion. The show launched its first season in February 2006. Broadcasts of the show more than doubled since the beginning of the second […]

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Definitive Biography of Jack Lemmon Released on DVD

February 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Janson Media today announced the worldwide release of the DVD, Jack Lemmon: America’s Everyman. The title is the sixth to be released on DVD from the company’s Hollywood Collection, an award-winning archive of 34 movie star biographies and retrospectives produced by Wombat Productions between 1985 and 1999.

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“John Paul the Great” DVD Earns Rave from School Library Journal

February 7th, 2008 · No Comments

Janson Media’s new DVD, John Paul the Great: A Pope Who Made History, earned a rave review from School Library Journal in its February 1, 2008 issue. Reviewer Lisa Hubler of Memorial Junior High School in South Euclid, Ohio, wrote, “The life of Karol Jósef Wojtyla — from his birth in Poland in 1920 to […]

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Wildlife Expert Jim Knox Featured by NY Times and Martha Stewart Live

February 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Jim Knox, host of the Janson Media television series, Jim Knox’s Wild Zoofari, appeared on the December 4th, 2007 episode of Martha Stewart Live, along with his special guests — a pair of adult reindeer nicknamed “Donner” and “Blitzen.” Jim chatted with Martha about the animals, his work at Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo, […]

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Author Richard Bangs Honored by National Travel Panel

February 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Janson Media today announced that Richard Bangs, renowned travel author and host of the adventure series, Richard Bangs’ Adventures with Purpose, received the First Place Prize for Best Travel Book of 2007 by the North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA). Bangs won for his book, Adventures With Purpose, the companion piece to his program, Egypt: […]

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Janson Media Releases Sean Hepburn Ferrer’s “Racehoss” on DVD

February 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Janson Media today announced the worldwide release of the DVD, Racehoss: The Life of Albert Race Sample. In this two-hour documentary-style one-man performance, filmed before a live audience, acclaimed filmmaker Sean Hepburn Ferrer presents a moving life story of former convict turned do-gooder, Albert Race Sample.

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