@OldNavy1988, THIS JUST IN: The Jim Henson Company had agrees to acquired Pearson Television from Pearson plc. for $1.2 Billion dollars. This deal give them iconic game shows like The Price is Right and Family Feud and the libraries of Thames Television and Grundy Television, including the animated shows Danger Mouse and Count Duckula, formerly seen on Henson-owned Nickelodeon in the United States, CEO Michael Eisner says “With this deal, we will expand our production capabilities in the UK and expands to Australia with Grundy Television and gets some of the world’s most popular game show formats“
—The Financial Times
The plans are for the US-based production side folding into Touchstone Television, with Thames and Grundy remaining as separate studios under Touchstone, Worldvision will take over the distribution of Family Feud and To Tell the Truth and will launch a revisal of Card Sharks for the 2001-02 season, while The Price is Right will move to ABC Daytime for the 2002-03 season.
Whatever happens with Thames, I'll find a way for the iconic Thames logo to avoid being plastered.
Nice. And what is Pearson Television? I know quite a bit about British TV, but don't know about this.
IOTL, Pearson is a British conglomerate whom at one point was the biggest book publisher in the world.