21-12-2022, 03:25 PM
(21-12-2022, 11:36 AM)JAS84 Wrote:(20-12-2022, 09:27 PM)Kojak Wrote: Indeed. I'm sure LWT even mentioned plans for a joint 7-day London news in their franchise submission in '91, so it had clearly been thought of for a while. I think even if Thames had won the franchise, they and LWT would have still eventually joined forces for at least the news.Disney would've acquired Art Attack anyway. In 1993, TVS was sold to International Family Entertainment. In 1997, IFE was sold to Fox Kids Worldwide (a joint venture of Fox and Saban). In 2001, Disney took over Fox Kids, and as such, now own the TVS archive.
(As an aside, am I right in thinking Frank Bough was initially considered to host London Tonight? ISTR he was and then he was hit by some scandal or other. I could just be imagining this, of course!)
He did, and there ended up being multiple foreign-language adaptations of Art Attack (all filmed at Maidstone!) before he ultimately went and sold the whole format to Disney. Can't imagine that having happened if TVS had kept their franchise.
Only you have to take on board the fact that IFE probably wouldn't have acquired TVS had they kept their franchise.