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Entertainment Rights PLC
26 April 2004



26 April 2004

                    Entertainment Rights plc (the "Company")

                    Result of Extraordinary General Meeting

On 25 March 2004, the Company announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, The
Sleepy Kid Company Limited, had conditionally agreed to acquire all of Hallmark
Entertainment Distribution LLC's right, title and interest in the Filmation
Library for a total consideration of US$20 million (the "Acquisition") and a
Firm Placing and a Placing and Open Offer of an aggregate of 150,408,893 new
ordinary shares in the Company at 11.25p per share, both of which were
conditional upon the approval of shareholders of the Company at an Extraordinary
General Meeting convened for the purpose ("EGM").

The Company is pleased to announce that at the EGM held earlier today, each of
the ordinary resolution put to shareholders to approve the Acquisition and the
special resolution put to shareholders to approve the Firm Placing and the
Placing and Open Offer was duly passed.

The Acquisition is therefore expected to be completed by Wednesday, 28 April
2004.

The aggregate 150,408,893 new ordinary shares in the Company (the subject of the
Firm Placing and the Placing and Open Offer) are expected to be admitted to the
Official List of the UK Listing Authority and to trading on the London Stock
Exchange plc's market for listed securities at 8.00 am on Thursday, 29 April
2004.

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Enquiries:

Entertainment Rights plc                020 8762 6200
Mike Heap, CEO
Elizabeth Gaines, Finance Director
Julie King, Group PR Manager

Collins Stewart Limited                 020 7523 8350
Stephen Keys, Corporate Finance

Bell Pottinger                          020 7861 3232
David Rydell/Charles Reynolds


About Entertainment Rights

   * Entertainment Rights Plc (ER) is one of the UK's fastest growing media
    groups specialising in the ownership of high quality children's and family
    programming, characters and brands.

   * The company owns the rights to a number of popular children's
     characters including Basil Brush, Postman Pat and Little Red Tractor.

   * Since 1999, when ER owned rights to just 50 hours of
     programming, ER's library has grown to over 1,200 hours of high
     quality children's and family programming. This includes rights to
     global brands such as Mattel's BarbieTM, Scholastic's CliffordTM,
     Hasbro's Transformers, as well as other well-known brands including
     Casper the Friendly Ghost and Felix the Cat.

   * The acquisition of Filmation will add a further 500 hours of
     progamming to ER's library, including the rights to classic
     characters He-Man and Masters of the Universe, She-Ra,
     Ghostbusters, BraveStarr, Fat Albert and The Lone Ranger.

   * ER has grown rapidly. Annual revenues have grown from
     #1.8m in 1999 to #29.5m in 2003, the last reported financial
     year.

   * High resolution images are available for the media
     to view and download free of charge from http://www.vismedia.co.uk.










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