SpaceWorks Entertainment Inc., is pleased to announce that its multimedia project Ice Planet, a new sci-fi television series and video game enterprise, starring Michael Ironside, has been awarded a Production Grant by the Bell Fund, the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund.

Mark Terry, VP of Production for SpaceWorks Entertainment Inc., and Ice Planet's Brand Manager is pleased with the Fund's decision. "We're excited that the Bell Fund has approved this unique project," he said. "This is the first time a mobile game and television series will be co-launched and we're proud to have the Bell Fund and Silverbirch Studios on board for this industry initiative."

Andra Sheffer, Executive Director of Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, said she found the project to be very exciting. "SpaceWorks is a very successful production company working with an equally successful mobile game developer in Silverbirch," she said. "The mobile game component in particular is very exciting because of its ability to port to multiple devices and languages."

SpaceWorks and SilverBirch will begin production shortly with a game release date to coincide with the broadcast of the first episode of Ice Planet, the television series, later this year.

"This is an important milestone for SilverBirch and certainly a strong endorsement of our Ice Planet game initiatives", said SilverBirch CEO Kevin Birch. "Having the Bell Fund finance nearly seventy five percent of our project costs further ensures that this game will be up to our expected standards of quality and innovation, with the greatest worldwide market penetration possible."

The game will incorporate characters and storylines from the television series allowing for enhanced play to fans of the series. The series is being distributed by CHUM International and will be premiered in Canada on Space: The Imagination Station and in the UK on the Sci-Fi Channel. The mobile game will be available for download from the Internet as well as from mobile device carriers.

"All of our projects from here on will feature this cross-platform, multimedia strategy," said SpaceWorks VP of Business Affairs Demerise Lafleur. "It is clearly the way of the future in entertainment and we're proud to be the trailblazers for it."

Ice Planet is a Canada-Germany treaty co-production and a SpaceWorks Entertainment Inc. (a D'or, Jackson and Rapovski Company, Canada) and Circles & Lines GmbH (a Hey and Winnenbrock company, Germany) co-production. The producers are G. Philip Jackson, Daniel D'or and Paul Rapovski (Canada) and Frank
Winnenbrock and Hendrik Hey (Germany). Produced in association with CHUM
Television.