Richard Hammond Wins BAFTA Children’s for Blast Lab

Richard Hammond won the Best Presenter Award for Richard Hammond’s Blast Lab at the BAFTA Children’s Awards 2009 last night. The series marks DCD-owned September Films and Hammond’s first foray into children’s programming.

Produced by September Films in association with Hamster’s Wheel Productions for CBBC, the first 26 x 30’ series of the science gameshow have proved a huge ratings success in the UK and beyond and 26 new episodes have just completed production, for broadcast on CBBC/BBC2 from 2010.

International sales company DCD Rights distribute Richard Hammond's Blast Lab which has so far sold very well worldwide.

The publishing and merchandising for Blast Lab has got off to a tremendous start with 3 best selling books and a further 4 titles released this autumn. The DVD of the series was released in October by Universal and fun science toys are being developed by leading toy manufacturer Trends.