About HIT Entertainment
HIT Entertainment, owned by private equity investment group Apax Partners, is one of the world's leading independent children's entertainment producers and rights-owners. HIT's portfolio includes properties, such as Barney™, Bob the Builder™, Thomas & Friends™, Pingu™, Fireman Sam™, Angelina Ballerina™ and Rainbow Magic™. HIT represents Chapman Entertainment's Fifi and the Flowertots™ and Roary the Racing Car™ in North America and Japan, as well as Wallace & Gromit™, Shaun the Sheep™, Timmy Time™ and Aardman Classics from Aardman Animations. HIT also acts as a worldwide representative for The Jim Henson Company's library of classic family brands and as representative for The Wiggles® in the UK.
Launched in 1989, HIT's lines of business span television and video production, content distribution, publishing, consumer products licensing, live events and attractions and has operations in the UK, US, Canada, Hong Kong and Japan. HIT is a part-owner of US preschool channel, PBS KIDS Sprout℠, and international preschool channel JimJam, (outside of the US, UK and China).
For more information, visit http://www.hitentertainment.com.
Alison Homewood
Executive Vice President, Worldwide TV Distribution, HIT Entertainment
Alison Homewood, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Television Distribution, HIT Entertainment has over 20 years of experience in the international film industry. Presently, Ms. Homewood's focus is on the global TV licensing and coproduction of the company's portfolio of classic preschool brands, Bob the Builder™, Barney™, Thomas & Friends and Angelina Ballerina™, among others.
Most recently, she served as Vice President of Sales for Europe, Africa and the Middle East at The Walt Disney Company representing Disney children's programming, ABC Cable network series and feature films for Touchstone, Walt Disney and Miramax.
Previously, Ms. Homewood served at Disney as Deputy Managing Director, EMEIA, responsible for licensing the BBC's prestigious portfolio of TV programs, selling the ancillary rights and distributing international channels BBC Prime and BBC Food. She was particularly instrumental in the global success of preschool titles Teletubbies and Tweenies. She first joined BBC Enterprises in 1989 as Negotiator, Co-productions and then served as General Manager, BBC Worldwide Paris, where she was responsible for the start-up of the BBC's first commercial office in Europe. She returned to the UK in 1997 to become Regional Head, EMEIA in charge of TV Distribution, and then was promoted in 1998 to Sales Director, EMEIA in charge of TV Distribution, Publishing and Home Entertainment. She became Deputy Managing Director, EMEIA in 2002 when channels and local production were added to her responsibilities.
