New York, NY (June 15, 2005) -- Scholastic Entertainment (SE), a leader in kids’ media and entertainment, has partnered with Lions Gate Home Entertainment, the distributor of Scholastic Entertainment’s popular Clifford The Big Red Dog® and Clifford’s Puppy Days™ 
home video releases, to bring the remarkable series, Maya & Miguel™, to DVD.  In stores on September 13th, Twice The Fun and ¡Super Fabuloso! will be available on DVD and VHS for the suggested retail price of $16.98 and $12.98, respectively.  Providing a double dose of fun with television’s newest and most exciting twins, each DVD will feature four fun-filled episodes plus cool bonus features, while each VHS will include two episodes.
 
"I'm thrilled to expand our relationship with Lions Gate to include our favorite twins," said Deborah Forte, President of Scholastic Entertainment, and creator and executive producer of the series. "The company has been a phenomenal partner for us with Clifford The Big Red Dog and Clifford’s Puppy Days. We are confident that it will have similar success with Maya & Miguel, which has resonated extremely well with children and parents alike.”
 
In these first two exciting DVD releases, everyone’s favorite twins delight fans with hours of entertainment from the show’s premiere season. Highly engaging episodes on the ¡Super Fabuloso! DVD include The Matchmaker, The Autograph, When Maya Met Andy and Mala Suerte.  Twice the Fun contains four charming episodes including Rhymes With “Gato,” La Nueva Cocinita, and The Letter.  Both DVDs boast unique features such as Spanish language tracks and a value-added bonus game.
 
Synopses
Twice the Fun DVD:
Rhymes With Gato- when Chrissy’s kitten runs away, Maya and her friends put up signs and spread the word about the lost “gato.”  Unfortunately, Maggie’s Spanish is terrible, and she tells people they’re missing a “pato” — a duck.  Soon Maya is stuck with a disgruntled duck in her apartment.  On the same afternoon, it turns out, that the landlord is coming by to make some repairs, and she still has to find the lost kitty.
 
La Nueva Cocinta - While Maya & Miguel are searching with their Abuela Elena for treasures through her seemingly bottomless trunk of memories, they happen upon an old menu from her defunct restaurant “La Cocinita.”  She dreams about the menu – summoning magical concoctions that can cure an ill-tempered grouch.  After a walk around the neighborhood, Maya quickly decides that not only Abuela Elena, but the whole neighborhood is in need of a new Cocinita to bring happiness and harmony to everyone with the magic of the old recipes.  Enlisting her friends as the kitchen and wait staff, Maya prepares for the big opening night over Miguel’s steady stream of protests and warnings.  Of course, Maya and her crew soon get in over their heads.
 
Twice the Fun DVD and VHS:
The Letter - Maya finds an abandoned letter on Miguel’s desk, written to a pretty girl in their class named Esperanza.  Thinking that her brother might need a little help in making friends, Maya tells Esperanza how wonderful Miguel is.  No sooner does Esperanza decide that Miguel is the coolest boy in the fifth grade than Maya learns that the real author of the letter wasn’t Miguel, but Andy!  Suddenly, the Tres Amigas have a lot of explaining to do.
 
Twice the Fun DVD and ¡Super Fabuloso! VHS:
Teacher’s Pet- When Paco stops speaking, Maya and Santiago take him to the vet, who tells them that the poor parrot is simply lonely staying at home all day. Maya solves the problem by taking Paco to school with her. When Paco gives incorrect answers in class, accidentally insults kids in the hall, and eventually flies off somewhere in the school, Maya has a lot of problems to solve all at once.
 
¡Super Fabuloso! DVD & VHS:
The Matchmaker - One evening, after Maya sees Abuela Elena dancing alone, she decides that her grandmother’s cheery exterior is masking a deep loneliness — and that Abuela Elena needs to be fixed up on a date. Maya’s big idea launches a quest for an eligible sixty-something bachelor, the mother of all makeovers, and a blind date that doesn’t go as planned.
 
¡Super Fabuloso! DVD & Twice the Fun VHS:
The Autograph - When Paco unwittingly destroys Miguel’s favorite Orlando Cruz baseball card, Maya decides to fix the situation by getting an autograph from Orlando himself, who is coming to town that weekend with his team.  What ensues is a “Naked Gun”-like series of escapades where the kids try to get closer to the star by impersonating a boy-band, hot dog vendors, and a big furry mascot.
 
¡Super Fabuloso! DVD:
When Maya Met Andy - Miguel recalls when Andy, who is missing an arm, moved into the neighborhood: Maya, eager to make Andy feel comfortable in their group, tries to steer the boys away from playing sports because she assumes that Andy won’t be able to participate.  This results in Maya meeting Miguel and his boys as they try to play ball.  In the end, Maya learns that true sensitivity means treating others as equals.
 
Mala Suerte - When Rosa scorches the family breakfast, Maya thinks the apartment is cursed with bad luck.  Using Maggie’s grandmother’s Guide to Feng Shui, Maya, Miguel and the gang redecorate the entire place in an effort to restore positive energy before Santiago brings home an important supplier for dinner.  However, the kids’ freshly painted walls, makeshift Asian fountains, and rearranged furniture cause a lot more harm than good.

About Maya & Miguel
Maya & Miguel made a stellar debut in fall 2004, quickly becoming the # 1 new show on PBS KIDS GO! and establishing an immediate and powerful connection with its audience. To date, the Maya & Miguel website at pbskidsgo.org/mayaandmiguel has received over 140 million page views, over 180,000 emails from kids, and almost 400,000 average daily users. In addition, Maya & Miguel has already been honored with several awards including a Parents’ Choice Approved seal, a Corporate Citizenship award from the Hispanic Federation, a Corporate Outreach award from Puerto Rican Family Institute Award, as well as a nomination for an Imagen Award for Best Children’s Animated Programming. Based on an original concept by Scholastic Entertainment President Deborah Forte, the series is designed to present culture and language learning as fun, relevant, and rewarding for all children, with a special emphasis on the Latino population. The goals of the series are: (1) to promote the value of a culturally diverse society; and (2) to support English language learners through the presentation of language in a natural context with a special emphasis on vocabulary. Maya & Miguel is a broad-based Scholastic initiative comprised of television; print media; school and community outreach; dynamic Web sites at pbskidsgo.org/mayaandmiguel as well as scholastic.com; publishing; and a host of ancillary products including apparel and accessories, and coming soon, home video and DVD.
 
About Lions Gate Entertainment
Lions Gate Entertainment is the leading diversified independent producer and distributor of motion pictures, television programming, home entertainment, family entertainment and video-on-demand content, and its prestigious and prolific library of 8000+ titles is the largest in the indie world.  The Lions Gate brand name is synonymous with original, daring, quality entertainment in markets around the globe.
 
About Scholastic Entertainment
Scholastic Entertainment (SE) is the entertainment and media division of Scholastic, the global children's publishing and media company. A proven leader in the children's entertainment landscape, SE ranks as one of the foremost producers of quality, family-oriented television programming, feature films, videos, and web sites, and an award-winning licensor and marketer of children's properties worldwide. In addition to Maya & Miguel™, SE's production credits include such popular television series as the top-rated Clifford The Big Red Dog® (PBS KIDS); the Emmy award-winning spin-off of this hit TV series, Clifford’s Puppy Days™ (PBS KIDS); the Emmy award-winning series I SPY (HBO Family) and The Magic School Bus™ (TLC); as well as Dear America, The Royal Diaries™, Animorphs ™ and Goosebumps™. In the feature film arena, SE has produced the critically-acclaimed movies Clifford’s Really Big Movie, The Baby-sitters Club, The Indian in the Cupboard, Tuck Everlasting and The Mighty and is currently adapting the best-selling Philip Pullman trilogy, His Dark Materials, for the big screen with New Line Cinema. Additionally, SE serves as the exclusive licensing, merchandising and promotional representative for such prominent franchises as Home Movies™. SE has been recognized with the LIMA Award for Best Brand/Corporate License for its Scholastic Brand product line as well as LIMA’s Best Character License of the Year for Clifford The Big Red Dog. For more information, visit Scholastic's Webby award-winning web site at scholastic.com.
 
About Scholastic
Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) is the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books and a leader in educational technology.  Scholastic creates quality educational and entertaining materials and products for use in school and at home, including children's books, magazines, technology-based products, teacher materials, television programming, film, videos and toys.  The Company distributes its products and services through a variety of channels, including proprietary school-based book clubs, school-based book fairs, and school-based and direct-to-home continuity programs; retail stores, schools, libraries and television networks; and the Company's Internet site, www.scholastic.com.

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