FAST-growing film and TV company Winchester Entertainment - headed by former Blackburn entrepreneur Gary Smith - has announced another big deal. The firm is going into business with educational publishers Dorling Kindersley to produce children's TV programmes. The new venture, Dorling Kindersley Winchester (DKW), will combine the resources and creative talents of subsidiaries Winchester Television and DK Vision to create educational children's television.

The deal comes on the back of last week's announcement of a multi-million dollar Hollywood.

"It is too early to say how much it may be worth, but the idea is really quite solid," a spokesman for Winchester Entertainment said today.

"DK have some superb ideas. Put that together with Winchester's enterprise and you have a strong combination."

Former QEGS pupil Gary Smith founded Winchester and owns more than 30 per cent of the stock market listed company.

It is behind the hugely successful children's characters Jellabies (known as Jellikins in the UK) and have four children's shows currently running and three more in development.

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