Celebrate the spirit of friendship with Cartoon Network's new show ‘Samsher Sikander Chuddie Buddie’

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New delhi, July 15, 2008

As Friendship Day approaches, Cartoon Network celebrates the wonderful bond of friendship by presenting the first of its kind trans-created show “Samsher Sikander Chuddie Buddie”. The brand new show revolves around the unique and an unusual friendship of a young boy, Samsher Singh with a crazy and extremely funny spider monkey, Sikander. Launching on July 21, 2008, the show will be on air Monday – Friday at 7:30 p.m.

Due to a mix up by the Byculla Municipal Council, who thought “Sam ‘Sher’ Singh” actually was the name of a lion, 12 years old Samsher Singh gets transferred to ‘Pashu Pakshi Kendriya Vidyalaya’, where all the students and faculty are animals! As the only human student, Samsher soon finds that life at his new school is really the survival of the fittest and befriends “Jimmy Sikander” - an over smart monkey, who swings “Samsher” into trouble and misadventures, turning him into an ultra-cool kid in the school.

Krishna Desai, Director, Programming, Turner International India Pvt Ltd, said, “Samsher Sikander Chuddie Buddie is yet another exciting and innovative show from Cartoon Network’s stable. The show displays the beautiful yet extraordinary friendship of a young boy with a monkey, so extremely opposite in nature as well as species and yet they bond as twins, opportune to celebrate the friendship spirit around the corner. A fresh and a unique concept, the show has been trans-created for the Indian audiences by adding local flavor to the characters, content and animation to make it more relevant and appealing to kids in India. We are sure that kids’ will love watching the never-before adventures of these unique chuddie buddies.”

Launched in India in 1995, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.’s (TBS) Cartoon Network is the leading kids’ entertainment channel, reaching more than 28.84 million viewers. Currently available in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu languages, Cartoon Network India is the first international kids channel to acquire 19 locally produced programming like Krishna: Aayo Natkhat Nandlal, Vikram Betal, Akbar & Birbal amongst others. Recognised as the resident kids’ experts with a 360-degree presence through successful on-air and on line presence, ground-events, promotional licensing, product licensing, theme parks, publishing, CD ROMS etc. Cartoon Network’s dedicated and comprehensive website, www.cartoonnetworkindia.com is a popular virtual hangout zone where digital natives find detailed information on all their favourite shows and characters, popular promotions and interactive games.

Turner Broadcasting System Inc., a Time Warner company, is a major producer of news and entertainment products around the world and the leading provider of programming for the basic cable industry.

For further information, please contact:

IPAN

Neeti Dhawan

Tel: 011-42492100

Email: Neeti.dhawan@ipan.com

Turner International India Pvt. Ltd.

Karuna Gulyani

Tel: 011-41699123

Email: karuna.gulyani@turner.com