Robson Green in studio for Xmas album via Telstar deal. (Talent).

Telstar's new imprint T2 has signed Robson Green for his first album in six years, ready for launch into the Christmas market.

Green began working on new material with producer Nigel Wright at the producer's Scratch Studios a week ago, with T2 preparing for an album release on November 25 or December 2.

Besides reuniting Green with Nigel Wright, who worked on the Robson & Green project, the move will also see Green reunited with Jerome Flynn, the partner with whom he sold a total of 6m albums in the mid-Nineties. Flynn is being lined up to guest on one track from the album, possibly a recording of What A Day For A Daydream.

The T2 deal has emerged from Green's friendship with Telstar Group music division president Jeremy Marsh, who was BMG music division president at the height of Robson & Green's success. It is understood that BMG passed on the project because of pressures on the time of Simon Cowell, who A&Red the major's successful Robson & Jerome releases.

"Robson hasn't released an album which has sold less than 1m copies, so we are very excited about this," says Marsh. Neil Palmer, the Telstar group founder who is helming T2, adds, "To have sold 6m albums in three releases, and with Nigel Wright working on the album, creates its own kind of buzz."

The new album will tie-in with two forthcoming TV series in which the actor/singer will star in during the lead-up to Christmas.

The album is likely to be the biggest release to date on Telstar's new nascent T2 label, which will go ...