Bond's Back on TBS Superstation for 15 Days of 007 Festival, Beginning Sunday, Oct. 1

Business Wire, Sept 11, 2000

Entertainment Editors

ATLANTA--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Sept. 11, 2000

TBSsuperstation.com and Spiderdance, Inc. Present All-New Online Cyber

Bond Event; Viewers Have Three Chances To Win 007-Related Prizes;

Movie Festival Leads Up To Premiere of TBS Superstation's Original

Movie FIRST TARGET

Fall is in the air, so it's time to kick back with a martini (shaken, not stirred, of course) and catch TBS Superstation's annual 15 Days of 007 movie marathon, beginning Sunday, Oct. 1. This year's event features an all-new Cyber Bond interactive program at TBSsuperstation.com, developed by Spiderdance, Inc. (MTV's webRIOT). And contests and sweepstakes give viewers three chances to win secret agent-related prizes, including a Be Like Bond adventure.

International intrigue, scheming villains, snazzy gadgets, beautiful women and non-stop action. TBS Superstation is the television home of classic Bond...James Bond. Sixteen movies comprise this year's 15-day marathon, which runs through Sunday, Oct. 15. Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and George Lazenby each star in the coveted 007 role. (Complete schedule attached.)

Cyber Bond

Online, viewers can get in on the action by logging on to TBSsuperstation.com to experience Cyber Bond, a multi-user online experience, fully integrated and synchronized with each of the 007 movies as they air on TBS Superstation.

With this year's CyberBond, TBS Superstation and Spiderdance, Inc. are pushing the envelope for state-of-the-art convergence programming. Viewers nationwide will be able to compete against each other by answering timed Bond trivia questions synchronized with the broadcast, chat with other players and participate in "Infiltration," a game where they are sent on challenging online 007-like assignments.

15 Days of 007 Be Like Bond Sweepstakes

TBS Superstation offers viewers three chances to win valuable prizes. First, the 15 Days of 007 Be Like Bond sweepstakes, sponsored by Circuit City and Ricochet, offers viewers a chance to be just like their favorite British secret agent. To enter, viewers must go online to TBSsuperstation.com and fill out an entry form between Sept. 24 and Oct. 31. Winners will be selected through a random drawing, with one person winning the grand prize, a Fantasy Spy Adventure, which includes a four-day trip for two to Covert Ops, a fantasy spy camp in Tucson, Ariz. Also included in the grand prize package is a high-speed wireless modem and Toshiba laptop, courtesy of Ricochet, and a 43-inch Hitachi Digital Television, courtesy of Circuit City.

Ten first-prize winners will receive a portable MP3 music player, provided by Circuit City. Twenty second-prize winners will win a Panasonic Shockwave Metal CD jogger, as well as The Best of Bond...James Bond CD from Capitol Records. TBS Superstation will also give away 40 third prizes, including a 15 Days of 007 jacket, wristwatch and cap; 100 fourth prizes, including a 15 Days of 007 gadget collection and The Best of Bond...James Bond music CD from Capitol Records; and 200 fifth prizes, a 15 Days of 007 cap and gadget tool card.

Cyber Bond Infiltration Sweepstakes

Viewers can go online to TBSsuperstation.com and log on to Cyber Bond to play the Cyber Bond Infiltration game, in which the viewer is given a mission to find James Bond using a series of clues. The clues will lead the viewer to Bond by helping the participant identify who has captured Bond, where he is being held and what gadget he'll need to escape.

Once the player has narrowed the choices down to the three correct answers at the end of the night, a sweepstakes entry page appears, which the player can fill out and submit in order to be considered for prizes.

An independent panel of judges will look at each day's entries and determine a winner. One winner will be chosen for each day Bond movies are presented during the 15 Days of 007 movie festival. Each winner will receive a Panasonic DVD player and six James Bond movies on DVD.

007 Ops Contest

Viewers who log on to TBSsuperstation.com and participate in Cyber Bond during airing of the Bond movies on TBS Superstation have the chance to earn points by answering trivia questions about the movies showing. The 10 participants who have the highest overall point totals at the end of each Bond movie will be declared the winners and will receive a 15 Days of 007 jacket or a pair of 15 Days of 007 sunglasses.

FIRST TARGET

15 Days of 007 leads up to the world premiere of TBS Superstation's latest original movie, FIRST TARGET, starring Daryl Hannah, Doug Savant and Gregory Harrison. In FIRST TARGET, Hannah plays Secret Service agent Alex McGregor, described as a "female James Bond." Savant plays her beau Grant Coleman, a river guide who helped her save the president's daughter from harm in last year's enormously popular original movie First Daughter. In this sequel, the president (Harrison) is targeted for assassination during a national park commemoration in the mountains of Washington state, and it's up to McGregor and Coleman to save him.