BBC TeleTubbies a huge success in China

[Gromit]

// The BBC's more innocent fare has already proved a hit with Chinese parents. The loopy frolicking of Tinky Winky and the Teletubbies and In the Night Garden's Iggle Piggle – or Yigu Bigu as he's known in China - have topped television ratings, selling more than 500,000 DVDs in China.
 
"There is a growing appetite for content that is warm, educational and safe," says Mr Cheung in his Beijing office where a large poster of the Top Gear triumvirate looms over his head. "Our content compares favourably with a lot of other children's animation which contains a lot of violence and fighting."
The children's television market in China has come a long way in a short period. In 2003, when the BBC first sold Teletubbies to China's state broadcaster CCTV, there was no concept of pre-school programming and no CCTV children's channel, recalls Mr Cheung.
The show became a massive surprise hit, spawning a line of hugely successful Teletubbies Entertainment Centres in five Chinese cities where parents can take their children to play with the characters in a deliberately educational environment.
"With most parents only having one child, and with a great emphasis on education and protecting children's innocence in China, we've found that Chinese parents are increasingly prepared to spend real dollars on their children," Mr Cheung says. In a country wracked by piracy, Worldwide's healthy sales of the genuine article are a testament to this fact. //

http://www.telegraph....for-BBC-in-China.html

A great British success story, don't yo agree?

[LegalOccupier]

Strange how people who *** the Telegraph and Mail keep posting links to the papers websites.

[boxtops]

Excellent news gromit, another piece of Good News posting, makes a change from the usual complaints and grumbles.

[Gromit]

LegalOccupier

I have never sl*gged off the Telegraph, I have been buying it for 30 years. The links I post to the Mail are ones I can verify. If someone else posts a link to the Mail (or any other source) I attempt to make sure the facts are true or evenly presented before I make a comment. It is on that criteria, the Mail often comes a cropper.

[LegalOccupier]

My humble appologies MrGromit i thought you were one of the people on here that call it the ToryGrath and said it would print lies about the BBC

[Gromit]

I can understand your confusion, I do call it the Torygraph even though I have always preceded it for news. You should be wary of stories in the press from papers, because to varying degrees, they are all competitors to the BBC and so are not objective.

[LegalOccupier]

I have always classed the bbc as being run by champagne socialists and i am reluctant to believe all they say.

[modeller]

Most people become champagne socialists when they get the opportunity.