Lionsgate Television continued to build its leadership in market segments outside the realm of the major studios, producing and delivering cost-efficient one-hour dramas, television movies and miniseries to cable networks hungry for the edgy, original programming that has become a Lionsgate trademark.

Lionsgate's two cable television series, THE DEAD ZONE and MISSING, performed strongly in their new seasons. THE DEAD ZONE, starring Anthony Michael Hall and hailed as the best adaptation of a Stephen King work to the screen, attracted nearly four million viewers to some of the early episodes of its third season on USA Network.

MISSING, revitalized by vivacious new lead Vivica A. Fox, began its second season on Lifetime Network in July 2004. Both of these series have generated profits from day one. Lionsgate has already produced 45 episodes of THE DEAD ZONE in conjunction with Paramount International Television and USA Network and anticipates that, if it continues on its current path, the series will be renewed for a fourth season and will become a solidly syndicatable show.

Lionsgate continued to strengthen its relationships with major cable networks during the year with a steady supply of topical television movies and miniseries featuring high production values at relatively low cost. Lionsgate Television delivered INFIDELITY and BABY FOR SALE to Lifetime Network, BRAVE NEW GIRL, produced by Britney Spears and based on a book cowritten by the pop superstar and her mother, to ABC Family, and the critically-acclaimed thriller miniseries FIVE DAYS TO MIDNIGHT to the Sci-Fi Network.

The upcoming two-hour television movie FRANKENSTEIN for USA Network, starring Parker Posey, Vincent Perez, Thomas Kretschmann, Adam Goldberg, Ivana Milicevic and Michael Madsen, directed by Marcus Nispel and executive produced by Martin Scorsese, further underscores Lionsgate's across-the-board prowess in the horror/thriller genre.

Another core competence, nonfiction programming, will now be channeled directly through Lions Gate Television. Again displaying the Company’s ability to move opportunistically across its lines of business, Lionsgate Television announced the formation of an in-house unit to produce documentary features for its theatrical, television and home entertainment divisions, capitalizing on the growing demand for nonfiction programming in all media.