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In a major strategic initiative that will strengthen its presence within the Hollywood creative community and expand its output of original television programming, RHI Entertainment (NASDAQ: RHIE) has opened a Los Angeles based programming office and named Tom Patricia, Executive Vice President, Movies and Miniseries and Elizabeth Stephen, Executive Vice President, Series. The announcement was made today by Robert Halmi Jr., President and CEO, RHI Entertainment.

The new office will be responsible for production and development as well as co-financing opportunities. Patricia and Stephen will work closely with RHI�s New York creative team, including company founder and head creative executive Robert Halmi, Sr. and Senior Vice President, Development Lynn Holst.

�While RHI has always had a high profile in Hollywood, this new programming arm will enable us to ramp up our West Coast development and production efforts even further,� said Halmi, Jr. �Tom and Elizabeth are extremely talented executives who have the key relationships and know how to get projects greenlit and produced. They will have an immediate and far reaching impact on RHI�s creative output.�

Tom Patricia, an Emmy-nominated and Christopher Award-winning producer, most recently has had an exclusive producing deal with Lionsgate Television for TV series, movies, miniseries, and non-fiction programs. Patricia�s production credits include the award-winning film �Homeless to Harvard� for Lifetime Television, starring Thora Birch and Kelly Lynch. The film premiered as Lifetime�s highest rated original movie the year it was broadcast and it ranks as one of the highest rated original cable films of all time. Patricia�s recent credits also include the miniseries �The Gathering,� a suspense-thriller for Lifetime starring Peter Gallagher, Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Peter Fonda; �Time Bomb� for CBS starring Angela Bassett; �Dawn Anna� for Lifetime starring Debra Winger; and two miniseries for Fox, �Intensity� and �Sole Survivor,� both based on the #1 New York Times Bestsellers by acclaimed author Dean Koontz.

Patricia served as Senior Vice President for Michael Ovitz�s Artists Television Group, where he was head of the Television Movie and Miniseries Department. He also headed up Peter Guber�s Television Movie and Miniseries Department as President, Television Pictures, Mandalay Entertainment. In addition, Patricia was Senior Vice President for Citadel Entertainment, a joint venture between HBO and UK Broadcaster ITEL, where he served as head of all television development and production.

�RHI has a well deserved and long established reputation for productions that are dramatically compelling and creatively ambitious,� said Patricia. �I am excited about this tremendous opportunity to work with everyone at RHI and to expand and build upon RHI�s brand of event movies and minis.�

Elizabeth Stephen most recently served as president of Mandalay Television, a division of Mandalay Entertainment Group, since 2007, overseeing the creative development and production for the division. She is the Executive Producer of the critically acclaimed and Peabody Award Winning Showtime series �Brotherhood.� In the first 18 months running the Mandalay division, Stephen packaged and sold over 25 original shows to virtually all the broadcast networks, basic cable and premium cable channels, including ABC, CBS, Fox, F/X, TNT, USA, Showtime, HBO, AMC, A&E, Lifetime and Spike. Stephen also developed and produced television movies such as �Blood Crime� for USA starring James Caan and Johnathon Schaech and �X Team� starring Bai Ling and Eric Mabius for ABC.

Stephen�s background includes Executive Vice President in Charge of Feature Film Development and Production for The Avnet/Kerner Company. While there, she co-produced the Walt Disney feature film �The Mighty Ducks 3� and produced the 1999 ABC television movie �My Last Love� starring Nancy Travis and Scott Bairstow. She additionally served as the executive on Disney�s mega-hit �George of the Jungle� starring Brendan Fraser.

Stephen began her career in the entertainment industry as a film executive at Hollywood Pictures where she shepherded projects which included the Rebecca DeMornay/Annabella Sciorra thriller �The Hand That Rocks the Cradle� and the romantic comedy �Only You� starring Academy Award� nominees Robert Downey Jr. and Marisa Tomei.

�RHI is poised to become a major supplier of television series and I am thrilled to help lead the company in this exciting new direction,� said Stephen. �We will aggressively seek out A-list content as we look to partner on projects both creatively and financially.�

About RHI Entertainment

RHI Entertainment (NASDAQ: RHIE) develops, produces and distributes made-for-television movies, miniseries and other television programming worldwide, and is the leading provider of new long-form television content in the United States. Under the leadership of Robert Halmi, Sr. and Robert Halmi, Jr., RHI has produced and distributed thousands of hours of quality television programming, and RHI�s productions have received more than 100 Emmy Awards. In addition to the development, production and distribution of new content, RHI owns rights to more than 1,000 titles, or over 3,500 broadcast hours of long-form television programming, which are licensed to broadcast and cable networks and new media outlets globally. For more consumer information visit www.rhitv.com.

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