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Ten years ago this the new 'TPIR' and 'Family Feud' had either been cancelled or were headed in that direction. The company was sold after that.
Another post in November discussed how it should have gone to a major studio and as a result there may have been some better product/remakes over the last 10 years.
As it happened, what was the lineage of owners up to Freemantle Media in 2002? I've seen the names Pearson and All-American come up a lot but what exactly followed what?
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All-American Television bought Mark Goodson Productions in 1995, and then in 1997, Pearson bought All-American.
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Let's take up a collection and buy Fremantle!!! I've got three bucks. Anyone???
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[quote name=\'FeudDude\' date=\'Jan 20 2005, 07:51 PM\']All-American Television bought Mark Goodson Productions in 1995, and then in 1997, Pearson bought All-American.
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I had never heard of them. Were these small companies that mortgaed everything they had in an effort to get into the Kingworld-style big leagues?
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[quote name=\'PaulD\' date=\'Jan 20 2005, 06:20 PM\']I had never heard of them. Were these small companies that mortgaed everything they had in an effort to get into the Kingworld-style big leagues?
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You never heard of them because they were mostly involved in overseas distrubution.
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[quote name=\'PaulD\' date=\'Jan 20 2005, 08:20 PM\'][quote name=\'FeudDude\' date=\'Jan 20 2005, 07:51 PM\']All-American Television bought Mark Goodson Productions in 1995, and then in 1997, Pearson bought All-American.
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I had never heard of them. Were these small companies that mortgaed everything they had in an effort to get into the Kingworld-style big leagues?
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All-American distributed a syndicated series that had an ill-fated original run on NBC with David Hasselhoff about lifeguards. That's their biggest claim to fame. They also syndicated America's Top 10 with Casey Kasem and the Combs syndicated Feud.
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Jan 20 2005, 09:35 PM\'][quote name=\'PaulD\' date=\'Jan 20 2005, 08:20 PM\'][quote name=\'FeudDude\' date=\'Jan 20 2005, 07:51 PM\']All-American Television bought Mark Goodson Productions in 1995, and then in 1997, Pearson bought All-American.
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I had never heard of them. Were these small companies that mortgaed everything they had in an effort to get into the Kingworld-style big leagues?
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All-American distributed a syndicated series that had an ill-fated original run on NBC with David Hasselhoff about lifeguards. That's their biggest claim to fame. They also syndicated America's Top 10 with Casey Kasem and the Combs syndicated Feud.
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To continue on, Pearson was (and is) a British-based media conglomerate primarily involved with publishing, including Penguin Putnam Books in the U.S. and the Financial Times around the world. They had already acquired Grundy Productions, Thames Television and the small American syndicator ACI, along with some other European production companies, before acquiring All-American, primarily for "Baywatch," most likely, not Goodson-Todman. These entities were all combined into Pearson Television. A couple of years later, the RTL Group of European radio and TV stations (including the legendary Radio Luxembourg), a division of the Bertlesmann media conglomerate of Germany, bought into Pearson Television and in 2000, Pearson decided that they wanted out of the television biz and sold their share to RTL. Reaching for All-American's old overseas subsidiary for a name, they became FremantleMedia and remain so to this day.
[Tom Bergeron] And now you know. [TB]
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[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Jan 21 2005, 03:44 PM\'][quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Jan 20 2005, 09:35 PM\'][quote name=\'PaulD\' date=\'Jan 20 2005, 08:20 PM\'][quote name=\'FeudDude\' date=\'Jan 20 2005, 07:51 PM\']All-American Television bought Mark Goodson Productions in 1995, and then in 1997, Pearson bought All-American.
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I had never heard of them. Were these small companies that mortgaed everything they had in an effort to get into the Kingworld-style big leagues?
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All-American distributed a syndicated series that had an ill-fated original run on NBC with David Hasselhoff about lifeguards. That's their biggest claim to fame. They also syndicated America's Top 10 with Casey Kasem and the Combs syndicated Feud.
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To continue on, Pearson was (and is) a British-based media conglomerate primarily involved with publishing, including Penguin Putnam Books in the U.S. and the Financial Times around the world. They had already acquired Grundy Productions, Thames Television and the small American syndicator ACI, along with some other European production companies, before acquiring All-American, primarily for "Baywatch," most likely, not Goodson-Todman. These entities were all combined into Pearson Television. A couple of years later, the RTL Group of European radio and TV stations (including the legendary Radio Luxembourg), a division of the Bertlesmann media conglomerate of Germany, bought into Pearson Television and in 2000, Pearson decided that they wanted out of the television biz and sold their share to RTL. Reaching for All-American's old overseas subsidiary for a name, they became FremantleMedia and remain so to this day.
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Indeed. Thanks.
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[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Jan 21 2005, 04:44 PM\']To continue on, Pearson was (and is) a British-based media conglomerate primarily involved with publishing, including Penguin Putnam Books in the U.S. and the Financial Times around the world.
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Pearson also owns the Scott Foresman educational publishing concern. Their main claim to fame was publishing the old "Dick and Jane" readers for many years.
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[quote name=\'davemackey\' date=\'Jan 22 2005, 03:11 PM\']Pearson also owns the Scott Foresman educational publishing concern. Their main claim to fame was publishing the old "Dick and Jane" readers for many years.
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They could combine the ventures...
This is Dick. See Dick bid. This is Jane! See Jane bid. This is Bob - see Bob read the prices. Dick went over. Jane went over! Bob says this is a double overbid.
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[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Jan 22 2005, 03:36 PM\']This is Dick. See Dick bid. This is Jane! See Jane bid. This is Bob - see Bob read the prices. Dick went over. Jane went over! Bob says this is a double overbid.
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Aaron, you forgot:
See Bob Speak...
Bob says, "Have Spot Spayed or Neutered"...
This is Spot...
See Spot Cringe In Horror...
See Spot Run....
Run Spot Run!!!
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If this turns into a poetry corner version of Can You Top This?, I'm going to get the rope.