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 ===Background===
-The '''[[Thames (1968-2005)|Thames]]''' production company was originally the production arm of [[Thames Television]], formed from a merger of the separate previous units [[ABC Television Productions]] and [[Rediffusion London Productions]]. Even after Thames had lost its ITV franchise in 1992 to [[Carlton Television|Carlton]], it continued on as a production company, which was acquired by [[Pearson Television]] in mid-1993 (itself sold to CLT-UFA in July 2000, merged to become the RTL Group, and rebranded as [[Fremantle|FremantleMedia]] in 2001).
+On January 1, 2012, [[Fremantle|FremantleMedia]] split [[Talkback Thames]] into four companies: [[Talkback (2012-)|Talkback]] for comedy, Thames for entertainment, [[Boundless]] for factual and [[Retort]] for scripted comedy.
-On 10 February 2003, Thames was merged with another Fremantle subsidiary, [[Talkback (1984-2005)|Talkback]] to form [[Talkback Thames]], which was then split in 2012 into four production companies, resurrecting the Thames brand to focus on entertainment shows.
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