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Tinopolis
The Tinopolis Group is an international TV production and distribution group with businesses based in the UK and US. It produces over 4,500 hours of television annually for more than 200 UK and foreign broadcasters. History Llanelli, Wales, became such a significant regional producer of tin that it was referred to as "Tinopolis" by the latter half of the 19th century. Hence the parent company took this name when it was established there in 1990. Tinopolis purchased The Television Corporation, the parent company of Sunset + Vine and Mentorn, in 2006. Video Arts, the training media company, was founded in 1972 by comic John Cleese, and since trained about 100,000 organisations in approximately 50 countries. Video Arts was purchased by Tinopolis in 2007. In 1988, writer and director Ed Thomas founded Fiction Factory, a company now part of Tinopolis. Shares of Tinopolis plc were listed on London's Alternative Investment Market in 2005. It was widely held by major institutions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caerdydd (TV Series)
''Caerdydd'' is a Welsh language television programme set in Cardiff made by Fiction Factory for Welsh public service television station S4C. The series is "a stylish, new drama about modern, urban Welsh-speakers living in a bilingual city" following "a group of modern urban twenty- and thirtysomethings" with "their complex friendships and relationships etagainst a backdrop of relentless socialising". First commissioned by S4C's drama editor Angharad Jones in 2005, as part of a drive by S4C to reach a younger audience, the third series of ''Caerdydd'' started its run on S4C on 30 March 2008. A fourth series was commissioned and went into production in Spring 2008. It started broadcasting on 14 June 2009. Awards and nominations ''Caerdydd'' (2nd series) has received three nominations for the ''2008 Bafta Cymru'' awards: Best Screenwriter for Ed Talfan, Best Design for Hayden Pearce and Best Director of Photography (Drama) for Richard Wyn. The second series was also nomi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angharad Mair
Angharad Mair (born March 1960) is a Welsh television presenter; she is the lead presenter on the nightly S4C Welsh language magazine programme, ''Heno'' and the BBC Wales news programme, ''Wales Today''. Background She was born in Carmarthen, South Wales, where she lived with her older sister and three younger brothers. Her first jobs were working in Tesco and The Ivy Bush Royal Hotel in Carmarthen. Media career After training and working for BBC Wales, where she worked on the Welsh language children's programme '' Bilidowcar'', Mair joined Llanelli-based independent television production company Tinopolis in 1991. When Tinopolis produced both programmes from Cardiff, for a time she presented both the English language BBC Wales news ''Wales Today'' from 18:30 to 19:00, as well as the Welsh S4C ''Wedi 7'' from 19:00 to 19:30. In 2008 Mair still presented ''Wedi7,'' and was Executive Director for Tinopolis, where by 2006 she held 2.482% of the shares. Mair wrote a column in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heno
() is a Welsh television magazine and chat show programme. Broadcast live on S4C weeknights at 7:00 pm, it features topical stories and studio guests. Various reporters also assist with subject-specific presenting, both in the studio and on location, or through filmed segments. Its afternoon sister programme is called (). Background was first broadcast on S4C on Monday 17 September 1990, made by production company Agenda (which became Tinopolis) in Swansea. It was replaced by a similar programme, (), in January 2002. returned on 1 March 2012, after Tinopolis won a £5.1 million contract. The show is broadcast from Tinopolis's Llanelli studio. In May 2012, they re-opened their studio in Caernarfon (which they had recently closed) following complaints that the programme was too Llanelli-based. The Caernarfon studio created content about North and Mid-Wales. Format In its original run, was broadcast at 6pm each weekday but since its return it is shown between 7pm and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Y Pris
''Y Pris'' (English: ''The Price'') is a Welsh television crime drama, produced by Fiction Factory for Welsh public service television station S4C. The series, described in its tagline as "''The Sopranos'' by the seaside", is set in Carmarthenshire and follows the "tangled lives of a group of gangsters who hide their illicit dealings". The series was written and created by Tim Price. The first series comprises thirteen episodes. It was filmed in March and April 2007. The second series, comprising eight episodes, was commissioned by S4C in 2008 and filmed later the same year for broadcast in 2009. The series is, together with ''Caerdydd'', ''Cowbois ac Injans'', and ''Con Passionate'', part of S4C's drama editor Angharad Jones' drive to reach a younger audience for the station. The series' theme was written and recorded by Alabama 3 lead singer Rob Love. All twenty-one episodes are available to stream on S4C's website. All episodes are fully subtitled in both Welsh and English. E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Jones (businessman)
Ron Jones (born 1948) is a British businessman and executive chair of Tinopolis, one of the UK's largest television production companies. Previously a partner in the accounting and consultancy firm Arthur Andersen. He was a founder of Tinopolis in 1990 and has led the company since that time. Jones took the company public in 2005 and this led to a rapid expansion by acquisition, including a hostile takeover of the largest listed production company at that time, The Television Corporation PLC. In 2008 Jones and his management team bought the company back in partnership with Vitruvian Partners, a private equity company. Jones is a former member of the Sports Council for Wales (now Sport Wales) and the Welsh Language Board. He was treasurer of Glamorgan County Cricket Club for nine years, and is a director and former chairman of Llanelli Scarlets, the leading rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Video Arts
Video Arts is a UK-based video production company which produces and sells soft-skills training programmes, e-learning courses and learning platforms. Video Arts also distributes third party titles. It was founded in 1972 by John Cleese, Sir Antony Jay and a group of other television professionals. Cleese sold the company in the 1990s,Video Arts sells in £25m deal '''', 5 January 1996 and it was later bought by in 2007. Cleese continued to feature in Video Arts' training videos. Video Arts uses humou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Smith (producer)
Arthur Smith (born November 25, 1960) is a Canadian television producer who is the Chairman of A. Smith & Co. and Chairman of Tinopolis USA. Best known for the multiple Emmy nominated ''American Ninja Warrior'' and FOX's longest-running competition show ''Hell's Kitchen'', he was inducted into the Realscreen Hall of Fame in 2021, and was named Producer of the Year 2020 by Broadcasting & Cable. He previously worked for CBC Sports, Dick Clark Productions, MCA Television Group, and Fox Sports Net. He has won multiple NAACP awards for his series '' Unsung'', Rose D'Or Awards for ''I Survived A Japanese Game Show'', a Critics' Choice Real TV Award, a Realscreen Award and multiple Reality Television Awards. In addition, his shows have been nominated for Daytime Emmys, Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards, Producers' Guild Awards and People's Choice Awards. Early life Smith was born Montreal in 1960 and grew up in Hampstead, Quebec. He became interested in television during his youth, making ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitruvian Partners
Vitruvian Partners is a European private equity firm focusing on leveraged buyout and growth capital investments in middle-market companies. Vitruvian invests throughout the UK and Europe and recently in China and India. The firm has offices in London, Munich, Madrid, Stockholm, Shanghai, San Francisco and Luxembourg. The firm was founded in 2006 by former partners of Apax Partners, BC Partners and Bridgepoint Capital Bridgepoint Group plc is a British private investment company listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. History Bridgepoint was founded as NatWest Equity Partners, a private equity firm part of NatWest. .... In 2008, Vitruvian completed the fundraising for its inaugural €925 million fund, the Vitruvian Investment Partnership I ("VIP I"). In December 2013, Vitruvian announced that it had closed the fundraising of its second fund, Vitruvian Investment Partnership II (“VIP II”), at its self-imposed cap of £1 bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llanelli
Llanelli ("St Elli's Parish"; ) is a market town and the largest community in Carmarthenshire and the preserved county of Dyfed, Wales. It is located on the Loughor estuary north-west of Swansea and south-east of the county town, Carmarthen. The town had a population of 25,168 in 2011, estimated in 2019 at 26,225. The local authority was Llanelli Borough Council when the county of Dyfed existed, but it has been under Carmarthenshire County Council since 1996. Name Spelling The anglicised spelling “Llanelly” was used until 1966, when it was changed to Llanelli after a local public campaign. It remains in the name of a local historic building, Llanelly House. It should not be confused with the village and parish of Llanelly, in south-east Wales near Abergavenny. Llanelly in Victoria, Australia was named after this town of Llanelli, using the spelling current at that time. History The beginnings of Llanelli can be found on the lands of present-day Parc Howard. An Iron A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiction Factory Films
Fiction Factory Films, also known as Fiction Factory, is a television production company based in Cardiff. Since 2005 it has produced over 140 hours of drama for BBC, ITV, Channel 5 and S4C, and has earned over 70 nominations and awards, from BAFTA and Celtic Film Festival to the Rose d’Or The Rose d'Or ('Golden Rose') is an international awards festival in entertainment broadcasting and programming. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) first acquired the Rose d’Or in 1961, when it was created by Swiss Television in the lakes ... Prix Europa, with distribution to over 80 countries. Productions References External linksFiction Factory– main website Tinopolis Mass media companies of Wales Television in Wales Television production companies of the United Kingdom Privately held companies of the United Kingdom Companies based in Cardiff {{UK-media-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top Chef
''Top Chef'' is an American reality competition television series which premiered on Bravo on March 8, 2006. The show features chefs competing against each other in culinary challenges. The contestants are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry, with one or more contestants eliminated in each episode. The show is produced by Magical Elves Productions, the company that created ''Project Runway''. The success of the show has resulted in multiple spin-offs, such as ''Top Chef Masters'', '' Top Chef: Just Desserts'', ''Top Chef Junior'', ''Top Chef Amateurs'', and '' Top Chef Family Style'', as well as Spanish-language spin-offs, including '' Top Chef Estrellas'' and ''Top Chef VIP''. Numerous international adaptations of the show have also been produced. The series has been renewed for a twentieth season, which is being filmed entirely in London. Titled '' Top Chef: World All-Stars'', this season is set to feature past contesta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Politician's Husband
''The Politician's Husband'' is a three-episode British television miniseries, first shown on BBC Two between 25 April and 9 May 2013. Written by Paula Milne, it makes a pair with her 1995 drama ''The Politician's Wife''. Plot Senior Cabinet minister Aiden Hoynes (David Tennant) and his wife Freya Gardner (Emily Watson) are a high-flying golden political couple. Hoynes resigns from his post as part of a planned leadership bid, which is thwarted when his friend, the equally ambitious Bruce Babbish (Ed Stoppard), condemns Aiden's resignation and inflammatory resignation speech. Babbish is aided by Chief Whip Marcus Brock (Roger Allam), who plans to help the former in his own leadership bid. Freya, who had to temporarily stall her career to look after her and Aiden's two children, Noah and Ruby, replaces Aiden in Cabinet. Away from Westminster, husband and wife face an uncertain future as they come to terms with the diagnosis that Noah (Oscar Kennedy) has Asperger syndrome. Desper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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