Janson Seals Deal to Bring 'Richard Bangs' Adventures with Purpose' to Chinese Television

Janson Media announced today that the first three episodes of it's adventure series Richard Bangs' Adventures with Purpose (4 x 60') were sold to Pan Universe International of China. The deal includes New Zealand: Quest for Kaitiakitanga, Switzerland: Quest for the Sublime and the Telly Award winning Egypt: Quest for the Lord of the Nile. The series will air on free and basic cable television in China.

Hosted by Richard Bangs, who is often called 'the father of modern adventure travel,' Adventures with Purpose is a series of adventure travel, eco-conscious historical documentaries. Adventures with Purpose is produced by Small World Productions, the makers of Smart Travels-Europe and Pacific Rim with Rudy Maxa and Travels in Europe with Rick Steves. The special is co-produced by KCTS/Seattle, and Richard Bangs Productions of Marina del Rey, California.

Episode 101: Quest for the Lord of the Nile (Winner of Two Silver Telly Awards) Follow Bangs up the Nile River and deep into the heart of ancient Egypt, exploring the history of the powerful Crocodile God.

Episode 102: New Zealand Quest for KaitiakitangaVenture to the southernmost reaches of civilization, in a down under world with an upright world-view.

Episode 103: Switzerland: Quest for the Sublime Follow Bangs on a quest to discover the roots of adventure travel and to search for what philosophers and poets of earlier times called the sublime.

Pan Universe International Communication Services (Pan Universe International) and Beijing Sinovision International Communication Co. Ltd (Sinovision International) were registered separately in Hong Kong and Beijing in 2000. Sinovision International concurrently takes the work as the Beijing Office of Pan Universe International. The two brother companies endeavor to introduce excellent TV programs of the world to China and to spread the excellent Chinese TV programs to abroad, as well as, to invest in production of national TV programs and to provide them to domestic and international market.

Small World Productions is a small Seattle-based independent production company that since 1980 has been dedicated to making first-rate travel programs for public television. The company's television series focus on the sights, art, and history of destinations in Europe, the USA, and Mexico & the Caribbean. Each episode is meant to appeal to travelers and armchair travelers and includes useful travel tips.

Richard Bangs is a world adventurer, international river explorer, Web pioneer and award winning author. He is also a founding partner of Mountain Travel Sobek, America's oldest and largest adventure travel firm. In addition to his Adventures with Purpose series, Bangs has produced web based projects such as Great Escapes, Well-Traveled and Terraquest.

Established in 1989, Janson Media is an independent content distribution company based in the United States, with a rights portfolio of over 1,200 hours of exclusive programming available for licensing to worldwide television, VOD, DVD/video, and emerging new media companies, and a publisher/ manufacturer of award-winning DVDs.