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On Your Mark...Get Set...Let's Go With Barney™

Everyone's Favorite Dinosaur Stars In An All-New Live! Family Adventure In 2006

12/19/2005

NEW YORK, NY

On your mark...get set...Let's Go! It's time to turn on your imagination and get in gear for fun as Barney, BJ™ and Baby Bop™ take you on a trip to a tee-rific toy workshop in the ALL-NEW BARNEY LIVE! The Let's Go Tour, making stops in more than 60 cities in 2006.

When BJ and Baby Bop's favorite toys are broken, Barney whisks them away on a magical adventure where they meet dancing teddy bears, out-of-this-world robots, life-sized musical instruments and much more! Will Barney and his friends find their way through the workshop? Can they use their imaginations to repair the toys? Find out in this all-new, live, Let's Go adventure with your first best friend!

BARNEY LIVE! The Let's Go Tour features new songs and classic Barney favorites with an engaging story and the dino friends you've come to know and love.

Tickets for most of the DINO-MITE shows are available at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling local Ticketmaster offices. For all scheduling information visit www.barney.com.

Along with BARNEY LIVE! The Let's Go Tour, HIT Entertainment will release the third installment in the stu-u-upendous Let's Go series, Barney: Let's Go To The Beach on DVD and VHS on February 7th. Let's Go with Barney invites preschoolers to explore exciting places as they go and grow with their first best friend.

About Barney
As a helping hand for growing children, Barney (along with special pals Baby Bop and BJ) helps parents give their children the range of skills they need to grow - and he always does it with lots of fun, music and laughs. Barney & Friends™ episodes are always filled with Sharing, Caring, Imagining, Dancing and Learning and can be seen daily on PBS KIDS® and PBS KIDS Sprout

Join Barney LIVE! The Let's Go Tour in the following cities:

Concert Date	City	Venue	On Sale Date
1/21-1/22	Mobile, AL	Mobile Civic Center	11/19
1/24-1/25	Baton Rouge, LA	Baton Rouge Civic Center	12/17
1/27 - 1/29	Atlanta, GA	Atlanta Civic Center	11/19
1/30 - 1/31	Macon, GA	Macon Centroplex	11/19
2/1 - 2/2	Bristol, TN	Viking Hall Civic Center	11/18
2/3 - 2/4	Augusta, GA	Bell Auditorium	11/19
2/7 - 2/8	Fairfax, VA	Patriot Center	12/19
2/10 - 2/12	Wallingford, CT	Chevrolet Theatre	12/10
2/14 - 2/15	Kingston, RI	Ryan Center	1/7
2/16	Amherst, MA	Mullins Center	1/7
2/18 - 2/19	Boston, MA	Agganis Arena	1/11
2/21 - 2/22	Bethlehem, PA	Stabler Arena	1/14
2/25 - 2/26	Philadelphia, PA	Tweeter Center	1/14
2/28 - 3/1	Salem, VA	Salem Civic Center	1/14
3/7	Champaign, IL	University of Illinois Assembly Hall	1/28
3/8	Columbus, OH	Nationwide Arena	1/28
3/10 - 3/12	Toronto, ONT	The Rogers Centre	1/28
3/14	Saginaw, MI	Dow Event Center	1/28
3/16 - 3/19	Rosemont, IL	Rosemont Theatre	2/4
3/24 - 3/26	New York, NY	Radio City Music Hall	2/4
3/27 - 3/28	Rochester, NY	Blue Cross Arena	2/18
3/29 - 3/30	Glens Falls, NY	Civic Center	2/18
4/1 - 4/2	Cincinnati, OH	Taft Theater	2/17
4/3 - 4/4	Peoria, IL	Peoria Civic Center	2/25
4/7 - 4/8	Cleveland, OH	Wolstein Center	2/25
4/11 - 4/12	Louisville, KY	Louisville Gardens	3/11
4/14 - 4/16	Pittsburgh, PA	Benedum Center	3/4
4/18 - 4/19	Madison, WI	Alliant Energy Center Coliseum	3/4
4/20 - 4/21	Minneapolis, MN	Target Center	3/11
4/22 - 4/23	Milwaukee, WI	Milwaukee Theatre	3/11
4/26 - 4/27	St. Louis, MO	Fox Theatre	3/11
4/28 - 4/30	Nashville, TN	Municipal Auditorium	3/25
5/2 - 5/3	Birmingham, AL	BJCC Concert Hall	3/18
5/6 - 5/7	Dallas, TX	Nokia Theatre	3/18
5/9 - 5/10	San Antonio, TX	Freeman Coliseum	3/25
5/11 - 5/12	Houston, TX	Toyota Center	4/1

About HIT Entertainment

HIT Entertainment, owned by private equity investment group Apax Partners since June 2005, is one of the world’s leading independent children’s entertainment producers and rights-owners. HIT’s portfolio includes internationally renowned children’s properties, such as Bob the Builder™, Barney™, Thomas & Friends™, Pingu™, Rubbadubbers™ and Angelina Ballerina™. HIT acts as a representative for The Wiggles® in the UK, US and Canada and as worldwide representative for The Jim Henson Company’s library of classic family brands, including Fraggle Rock™. HIT also owns the Guinness World Records™ publishing and television property and Fireman Sam™, a joint venture with S4C. Launched in 1989, HIT’s lines of business span television and video production (including studios in the US and the UK), publishing, consumer products licensing and live events. With a catalog of more than 1,000 hours of young children’s programming, HIT sells its shows to more than 240 countries worldwide, in more than 40 different languages and has operations in the UK, US, Canada, Hong Kong and Japan. In 2005, the Company joined Comcast Corporation, PBS and Sesame Workshop to launch PBS KIDS Sprout℠, a 24-hour digital cable channel and VOD service for preschoolers. For more information, visit www.hitentertainment.com.