talkbackTHAMES is a British television production company, a division of FremantleMedia (part of the RTL Group). It was formed by the merger of Talkback Productions and Thames Television, the former ITV franchisee for London on weekdays. This merger was arranged in 2001. Image File history File links Logo_talkbackthames. ... British television broadcasting has a range of different broadcasters, broadcasting multiple channels over a variety of distribution media. ... FremantleMedia (formerly All-American Television and Pearson Television) is a division of RTL Group which holds the rights to the Goodson/Todman game show library which includes such classic game shows as The Price is Right, Match Game, Ive Got a Secret, and Family Feud, as well as non... RTL Group is Europes largest TV, radio and production company. ... Talkback Productions was formed in 1981 by Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. ... Thames Television was an British television production company and between 1968 and 1992 was the weekday ITV company serving London from 9 :25 a. ...

The CEO of talkbackTHAMES is Lorraine Heggessey, who took up the post in April 2005, replacing Peter Fincham, who had been CEO of Thames from 1986 to 2001, and then of talkbackTHAMES from 2001. Fincham has taken over Heggessey's previous job as Controller of BBC One. Lorraine Heggessey (born November 16, 1956) is the Controller of BBC One, the UKs oldest and frequently most-watched television channel. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... BBC One (or BBC1 as it was formerly styled) is the oldest television station in the world. ...

Notable talkbackTHAMES productions include:

• The Apprentice for BBC Two;
• The Bill, originally a Thames production, for ITV1;
• Da Ali G Show for Channel Four;
• Des O'Connor With... for ITV1;
• Family Affairs for Five;
• The Price is Right for ITV1;
• Green Wing for Channel Four;
• How Clean Is Your House? for Channel Four;
• The IT Crowd for Channel Four;
• Never Mind the Buzzcocks for BBC Two;
• Bo Selecta for Channel Four;
• Pop Idol for ITV1;
• QI for BBC Two;
• Property Ladder for Channel Four;
• Shooting the Past for BBC One;
• They Think It's All Over for BBC One;
• Grand Designs for Channel Four;
• The X Factor in association with SyCo TV, for ITV1;
• Family Fortunes for ITV1 (from September 2006).

The Apprentice is a television programme, first aired in the UK in 2005. ... BBC Two (or BBC2 as it was formerly styled) was the second UK television station to be aired by the BBC and Europes first television channel to broadcast regularly in colour (from 1967), envisaged as a home for less mainstream and more ambitious programming. ... The Bill is a long-running British television police procedural shown on ITV1, at 8PM on Wednesdays and Thursdays. ... ITV1 is a terrestrial, free-to-air television channel broadcast in the United Kingdom by the ITV network. ... Ali G, delivering the Class Day speech to the Harvard class of 2004. ... Channel 4 is a television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ... Desmond Bernard OConnor is a British entertainer, born January 12th, 1932 in Stepney, London. ... Family Affairs was a British soap opera. ... Five, formerly known as Channel 5, is the United Kingdoms fifth national analogue terrestrial TV channel. ... Bruce Forsyth, host of the 3rd version in the United Kingdom. ... Green Wing is an award winning British television comedy, set in a hospital. ... How Clean Is Your House? is a UK entertainment/lifestyle television programme in which expert cleaners Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie visit filthy homes and then clean them. ... The IT Crowd (pronounced it rather than eye tee) is a Channel 4 sitcom written by Graham Linehan (Father Ted, Black Books) and produced by Ash Atalla (The Office). ... Publicity shot for Never Mind The Buzzcocks, episode aired on 13th March 2005. ... Bo Selecta! (title taken from Craig Davids song, Re-Wind) is a British TV comedy sketch show and the brainchild of writer/performer, Leigh Francis. ... Pop Idol was a British television series shown on ITV1; the show was a talent contest to find the best new young singer or pop idol in the United Kingdom. ... QI, standing for Quite Interesting, is a comedy panel game television show shown on BBC Two and BBC Four and hosted by Stephen Fry. ... The Property Ladder is the range of domestic property available within a particular area or country. ... Shooting The Past was a critically-lauded television drama by Stephen Poliakoff, first broadcast by the BBC in 1999, focused around a photographic library threatened by closure, and the lives of its eccentric staff. ... They Think Its All Over (1995-) is the name of a British satirical game show with a sporting theme shown on BBC 1. ... BBC One (or BBC1 as it was formerly styled) is the oldest television station in the world. ... Grand Designs is a Channel 4 TV series covering unusual architectural projects, presented by Kevin McCloud and produced by Talkback. ... The X Factor is a British popular music talent show, broadcast on Saturdays on ITV1 (with spinoff behind-the-scenes shows The Xtra Factor and X Factor 24/7 screened on ITV2). ... Family Fortunes is a very long-running British game show, based on the American game show Family Feud. ...

External links

• talkbackTHAMES website