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    - 365 episodes of Teletubbies cost $20 million to produce. - Teletubbies merchandise generated over £500 million in sales over a decade, with around 150,000 toys being ordered by shops initially. - Productions like Teletubbies helped fund around 750 hours of new television programming for the BBC, generating £23 million in income and an additional £28 million through a deal with Discovery Channel.

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    - 365 episodes of Teletubbies cost $20 million to produce. - Teletubbies merchandise generated over £500 million in sales over a decade, with around 150,000 toys being ordered by shops initially. - Productions like Teletubbies helped fund around 750 hours of new television programming for the BBC, generating £23 million in income and an additional £28 million through a deal with Discovery Channel.

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    - 365 episodes of Teletubbies cost $20 million to produce. - Teletubbies merchandise generated over £500 million in sales over a decade, with around 150,000 toys being ordered by shops initially. - Productions like Teletubbies helped fund around 750 hours of new television programming for the BBC, generating £23 million in income and an additional £28 million through a deal with Discovery Channel.

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    365 episodes of Teletubbies cost $20 million,

    (From 'Teletubbies' Creator: High-Tech, High-Cost TV; AARON O. PATRICK, the Wall Street journal, June, 2007) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118066419634821004.html
    "When we did Teletubbies, which was mid-1990s, we would be able to get three-quarters of the budget from broadcasters," she says. "Now it's the other way around. You're very lucky nowadays if you get a quarter and you have to go out and find three-quarters. We thought times were hard then, but they are impossible now. I don't think that I could have done it now." Anne Wood, of the production company Ragdoll Media revolution: Tomorrows TV, By Laura Craig Gray, BBC Money Programme, February 2009

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7897212.stm 120 countries and translated into 45 languages. Around 150,000 Teletubbies were ordered by shops, but the makers estimated that they could have sold three million. Teletubbies top toy sales, BBC news, February 2, 1998 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/52657.stm Productions like the popular children's programme The Teletubbies have generated an income of 23m and helped fund around 750 hours of new television. Teletubbies marketing yielded 32m, while the deal with the US-based Discovery Channel added 28m ($46m) in co-funding for BBC programmes. Entertainment Making money at the BBC, BBC news, July 15, 1998 (1999) Last year alone, the Teletubbies made 32.3m. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/133136.stm

    Research suggests it is not what you watch, it is what age you start and how long you watch for that has a detrimental effect. In many ways Teletubbies, or any other educational programme for children, could be as physiologically damaging as a violent video game. Teletubbies is as bad for your child as a violent video game, says leading psychologist, By DR ARIC SIGMAN, Mail Online, Daily Mail, September 2010 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1311139/Teletubbiesbad-child-violent-video-games.html

    Around 500million worth of Teletubbies-related goods have been sold over the past decade Teletubbies are 10 years old, CAROLINE IGGULDEN, The Sun, Oct 2007 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/23314/Teletubbies-are-10-years-old.html

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