During this period, Chorion produced several new TV productions. In May 2002, the UK's Channel Five announced that it had bought 100 episodes of a new CGI-animated TV series based on Enid Blyton's Noddy, with the show "Make Way For Noddy" airing in September of that year. In November 2002, the company announced a four-year deal with major UK television network ITV to produce a few feature-length TV dramas based on the Agatha Christie novels. These began to broadcast on-air at the end of 2003. During this period, development and production also began on an animated cartoon series based on The Famous Five in collaboration with Disney Channel in France. The range of newly developed TV Shows began to expand internationally, with Noddy becoming the most recognised children's character in France in 2003, sold to Chinese publishers in 2004, and airing in the United States on PBS in 2005.