Category:Thames Productions

(There were, in fact, only months between Thames leaving the ITV network and its acquisition by Pearson - which also owned the Financial Times and half of The Economist, and still owns Longman Books)
(Thames, along with Pearson's other TV interests (Grundy, Talkback, etc.), became part of FremantleMedia in 2001. Fremantle is still owned by RTL to this day, despite dropping the "Media" in 2018)
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The product of a merger between [[:Category:Rediffusion Productions|Associated-Rediffusion]] and [[:Category:ABC Productions|ABC]], Thames took over from the former as the ITV station for London on Mondays to Fridays on 30 July 1968. After losing its franchise to [[:Category:Carlton Productions|Carlton]] in the 1991 ITV franchise auction, it ceased broadcasting on 31 December 1992 and became an independent production company.
The product of a merger between [[:Category:Rediffusion Productions|Associated-Rediffusion]] and [[:Category:ABC Productions|ABC]], Thames took over from the former as the ITV station for London on Mondays to Fridays on 30 July 1968. After losing its franchise to [[:Category:Carlton Productions|Carlton]] in the 1991 ITV franchise auction, it ceased broadcasting on 31 December 1992 and became an independent production company.
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Thames was acquired by the Pearson conglomerate in mid-1993, and lost its identity following a merger into Talkback in 2003. Shows made by this TalkbackThames company are listed in [[:Category:Talkback Productions|Talkback]]. The "Thames" credit was revived in 2012 for Fremantle's non-comedy entertainment programmes.
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Thames was acquired by the Pearson conglomerate in mid-1993, and in 2001 became part of FremantleMedia (simply Fremantle since 2018), owned by the Luxembourg-based RTL Group. It lost its identity following a merger into Talkback in 2003. Shows made by this TalkbackThames company are listed in [[:Category:Talkback Productions|Talkback]]. The "Thames" credit was revived in 2012 for Fremantle's non-comedy entertainment programmes.
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Revision as of 22:47, 25 July 2022

Definition:
Programmes made by Thames Television.

The product of a merger between Associated-Rediffusion and ABC, Thames took over from the former as the ITV station for London on Mondays to Fridays on 30 July 1968. After losing its franchise to Carlton in the 1991 ITV franchise auction, it ceased broadcasting on 31 December 1992 and became an independent production company.

Thames was acquired by the Pearson conglomerate in mid-1993, and in 2001 became part of FremantleMedia (simply Fremantle since 2018), owned by the Luxembourg-based RTL Group. It lost its identity following a merger into Talkback in 2003. Shows made by this TalkbackThames company are listed in Talkback. The "Thames" credit was revived in 2012 for Fremantle's non-comedy entertainment programmes.

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