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talkbackTHAMES

	Public
Founded	2003
Headquarters	London, England
Key people	Lorraine Heggessey (CEO)
Industry	Media
Products	Television
Owner	FremantleMedia (part of the RTL Group)
Website	talkbackthames.tv

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 network franchisee for London on weekdays. This merger was arranged in 2003.

The CEO of talkbackTHAMES is Lorraine Heggessey, who took up the post in April 2005, replacing Peter Fincham, who had been CEO of Talkback from 1986 to 2003, and then of talkbackTHAMES from 2003. Fincham left to take over Heggessey's previous job as Controller of BBC One.

Productions

Notable talkbackTHAMES productions include:

The Apprentice for BBC One;
The Bill, originally a Thames production, for ITV;
Bo' Selecta! for Channel 4;
Britain's Got Talent in association with SYCOtv, for ITV (June 2007)
Da Ali G Show for Channel 4;
Dale's Supermarket Sweep for ITV (January 2007)
Des O'Connor With... for ITV;
Family Affairs for Five;
Family Fortunes for ITV;
Fun House for ITV (September 2007)
Grand Designs for Channel 4;
Grease Is the Word in association with SYCOtv, for ITV (2007)
Green Wing for Channel 4;
How Clean is Your House? for Channel 4;
The IT Crowd for Channel 4;
I'm Alan Partridgefor BBC Two
Manhunt - Solving Britain's Crimes for ITV (from December 2006)
Never Mind the Buzzcocks for BBC Two;
Pop Idol for ITV;
PokerFace for ITV;
The Price Is Right for ITV;
Property Ladder for Channel 4;
QI for BBC Two;
The Sharon Osbourne Show for ITV;
Shooting the Past for BBC One;
They Think It's All Over for BBC One;
Wish You Were Here...?/Do You Still Wish You Were Here...? for ITV (2007)
The X Factor in association with SYCOtv, for ITV;

External links

talkbackTHAMES.tv

• • [ e] The Apprentice UK
Series	Series One (2005)
Featuring	Sir Alan Sugar
Notable candidates	Timothy Campbell
Production	Mark Burnett
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Motto
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"God and my right"
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Lorraine Heggessey (born November 16 1956^[1]) is a British television producer and executive, currently the Chief Executive of the production company talkbackTHAMES.
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FremantleMedia is the content and production division of RTL Group, Europe's largest TV, radio, and production company. Its world headquarters are located in London, England.
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Talkback Productions was formed in 1981 by Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. The company is one of the UK’s leading production companies and part of the RTL Group, a major European broadcast and content company.
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Thames Television

The final Thames Television logo prior to losing its ITV franchise (1990-1992)
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Freeview Channel 3
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Virgin Media Channel 103
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Peter Fincham (born 26 July, 1956) is a British television producer and executive, who was the Controller of BBC One, the primary television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation,^[1]
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The Apprentice.
Genre Reality television series
Created by Mark Burnett
Narrated by Mark Halliley
Theme music composer Dru Masters^[1]
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Country of origin United Kingdom
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Bo' Selecta! is a British TV comedy sketch show which ran for three series and one Christmas special on Channel 4 television. Written and created by Leigh Francis, the programme involved lampooning celebrity culture, featuring Francis himself in a series of surreal, often
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