Orbit becomes sole provider of BBC Prime in UAE

Notes and media contacts

Upcoming highlights will offer BBC Prime fans a stellar range of programming including:

• Charles II: The Power and the Passion
• 50 Things To Eat Before You Die
• Top Gear Xtra
• Sherlock Holmes and the Silk Stocking
• Jerry Hall's Gurus
• Fawlty Towers
• Kidnapped
• Tweenies Specials: Night Time Magic and Jungle Adventure

About Orbit:
Orbit Communications Company is the world's first fully digital, multi-channel, multi-lingual pay television platform that broadcasts 39 television channels and 20 music radio stations to the Middle East and North Africa.

It offers five channel packages that are customized to suit all the members of the family. Orbit delivers the best in family entertainment, movies, news, sports and documentaries offering its viewers unrivalled and exclusive quality programming.

For more information, please visit www.orbit.net.

About BBC Prime
BBC Prime is broadcast to 22 million subscribers across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia on cable and satellite. This flagship British general entertainment channel showcases the best of the BBC's programming including drama, music, comedy, children's, documentary, film and lifestyle series. Over 2500 hours of new programming are transmitted each year. Subtitles are available in English, Hungarian, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Thai, Korean, Japanese and Traditional Chinese.

For downloadable images and detailed press information on BBC Prime schedules, visit the media site www.bbcchannelpartners.com and press releases can be viewed at www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice

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Alia Shaikho on Tel: 317370 97317+, Fax: 311919 97317+