ITV Studios Global Entertainment
ITV Studios Global Entertainment is the worldwide distributor of programming produced by Granada / ITV's production teams, as well as independent producers.
Programmes include films like Brief Encounter, and the Carry On... films. Also a part of this collection is the ITC Entertainment feature film library, including The Eagle Has Landed, The Return of the Pink Panther, and On Golden Pond.
The television library features programming by most of the major ITV companies (except Thames Television, which belongs to RTL Group) including titles such as Prime Suspect, Doctor Zhivago (2002 miniseries), The Forsyte Saga (2002), Inspector Morse and Agatha Christie's Poirot, plus children’s shows, TV movies (e.g. 2005's Pope John Paul II), wildlife documentaries and other factual programming.
Independent productions distributed by ITV include programming produced by Wall to Wall (Ancient Egyptians, The Story Of Us), Darlow Smithson Productions (Seconds From Disaster), Wark Clements (A Mother's Journey), Aardman Animations (Creature Comforts), Chorion (Agatha Christie's Marple and Poirot), Carnival Films (Rosemary & Thyme) and Red Productions (Bob and Rose, Second Coming).
The company also incorporates ITV Studios Home Entertainment, and a publishing and consumer licensing division, responsible for merchandising rights of ITV Productions and third-party programmes (including CBeebies' Numberjacks). Both have recently been merged in a restructuring of ITV's international arm, which saw the new entity firstly named ITV Worldwide and now ITV Studios Global Entertainment.
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