BBC Multimedia, twice awarded the Best Children's Software Company* accolade, is to publish a children's entertainment PC and Mac CD-ROM title based on the TV series Engie Benjy.

The publisher has appointed software developer Q&D Multimedia Ltd to the project. Q&D specialises in developing titles for the children's market, and has won awards for its pre-school education and entertainment software.

Engie Benjy features Ant and Dec as the voices behind the TV programme's star characters.  Dec is the voice behind the star of the programme, Engie Benjy. Ant plays Jollop the dog - Engie Benjy's best friend.

Created by award-winning producer and director Bridget Appleby of Cosgrove Hall, Engie Benjy is the story of an engine doctor with striking bright blue hair.  Together with his team of Jollop and Dan the van, they have all kinds of amazing adventures with their friends and their extra special vehicles.

BBC Multimedia's Engie Benjy CD-ROM will be published in September 2003, and will include a range of interactive games and activities aimed at pre-school children.

Dave Lee, BBC Worldwide's Director of Multimedia, said: "We're delighted to be working on an Engie Benjy title. BBC Multimedia's expertise in taking high quality children's TV brands and enhancing them with award-winning software is well known. We're working to reflect that expertise in the quality of this latest product."

* Right Start Best Toy Awards 1999 and 2001

About BBC Multimedia
BBC Multimedia, the software publishing division of BBC Worldwide, publishes console and PC games, as well as interactive entertainment products for mobile and other platforms. In addition, BBC Multimedia creates children's and reference titles for PC and consoles. All the company's interactive products are developed with an emphasis on innovation, entertainment, creativity, learning and the quality the BBC is renowned for. You can find out more about its catalogue of titles on the BBC Multimedia website - <http://www.bbcmultimedia.com>.

BBC Worldwide, the commercial consumer arm of the BBC, generates income to support the UK licence fee by marketing programme-related products and services around the world.  It is self-funding and exists to provide supplementary funding for the BBC's public services.  In 2001/02, BBC Worldwide provided cashflow to the BBC of £106 million.  Its ambition is to quadruple cashflow to the BBC during the current Charter period.  BBC Worldwide is financially separate from the rest of the BBC and receives no public funding.