From: zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk,alt.comedy.british,uk.misc
Subject: Useful UK TV Addresses (3/5)
Date: 22 Jan 93 08:48:46 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre, Manchester, England, M13 9PL.


6 Gorleston Street, London, W14 8XS
Tel: 071-603-4567

"Rough Guide to Careers"        (Job doc) for BBC 2
"Europe Express"                (Euro travel doc) for BBC 2
"Checkout"
"Not on Sunday"                 for Channel 4
"New Age"                       for Channel 4

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Domaine
?
???-???-????

"Travelog"      (travel doc) for Channel 4

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Elstree (Production) Co. Ltd
Elstree Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood. Hertfordshire, WD6 1JG
Tel: 081-953-1600

"Prospects"             for Channel 4
"Rude Health"           for Channel 4
"Othello"               for BBC
"Great Expectations"    (drama) for Disney Channel
"Old Curiosity Shop"    (drama) for Disney Channel

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Entertainment Media
?
Tel: ???-???-????

"Boys from the Bush"    (comic drama) for BBC 1

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European Television Networks
The Quadrangle, 180 Wardour Street, London, W1V 4AE
Tel: 071-439-1177

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Euston Films
365 Euston Road, London, NW1 3AR
Tel: 071-387-0911

"Minder"                        (comic drama) for ITV network.
"Selling Hitler"                (doc on propaganda?) for BBC 2 (?)
"Anglo-Saxon Attitudes"         (drama series) for ITV

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Excelsior
?
Tel: ???-???-????

"A Touch of Frost"      (cop drama) for Yorkshire Televison (ITV Network)

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Eyewitness Ltd
The Drove, Sherfield English Road, Romsey, Hampshire, SO51 6EF
Tel: 0794-22500

"The Chief"     (police drama) for Anglia TV (ITV network)

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Filmfair Ltd
1-4 Jacobs Well Mews, London, W1H 5PD
Tel: 071-935-1596

Mostly animations.

"The Wombles"
"Paddington Bear"
"Bangers and Mash"
"Huxley Pig"
"Rod 'n' Emu"
"Dream Stone"
"Brown Bear's Wedding"
"White Bear's Secret"
"Astro Farm"

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Filmit Productions Ltd
2 Tunstall Road, London, SW9 8BN
Tel: 071-738-4175

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First Freedom Productions Ltd
15 Rochester Square, London, NW1 9SA
Tel: 071-482-7307

"This Week"             (doc/current affairs) for ITV
"This World this Week"  (doc/current affairs) for Channel 4
"Dispatches"            (doc/current affairs) for Channel 4

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First Take
?
Tel: ???-???-????

"Open Space"    (doc) for BBC 2

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Flashback Televisions Ltd
2-3 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6DR
Tel: 071-490-8996

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Flying Pig Productions Ltd
13 High Street, Thornbury, Bristol, BS12 2AE
Tel: 0454 281898

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Fox Television
10-12 Fitzroy Mews, London, W1P 5DQ
Tel: 071-387-3308

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Freeway Films
67 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2JG
Tel: 031-225-3200

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Frontroom Films Ltd
1 The Barton, Mill Road, Countess Wear, Exeter, Devon, EX2 6LJ
Tel: 0392 70985

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GCP
5 Drayton Gardens, London, W13 0LG
Tel: 081-997-3513

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GMTV
5th Floor, The Television Centre, Upper Ground, London, SE1 9LT
Tel: 071-827-7000

GMTV provide the early morning service for the ITV network. 
[Bland chat and blinding decor are the name of the game.]

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Grampian Television
Queen's Cross, Aberdeen, AB9 2XJ
Tel: 0224 646464

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Granada Television
Granada TV Centre, Quay Street, Manchester, M60 9EA
Tel: 061-832-7211

One of the major independent UK program makers and broadcasters.
After the last award of franchises Granada is the oldest ITV
company still broadcasting - it is the last of the originals.
Large number of productions for the ITV network.

"What the Papers Say"   (printed media commentary) for BBC 2
"Coronation Street"     (soap) for ITV
"World in Action"       (investigative doc) for ITV
"Brideshead Revisited"  (drama) for ITV
"Jewel in the Crown"    (drama) for ITV
"Prime Suspect"         (cop drama) for ITV
"The Comedians"         (standup comedy) for ITV

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Grand Slam
?
Tel: ???-???-????

"Paralympics"   (sports)        for BBC 2

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Grant/Naylor
?
Tel: ???-???-????

"Red Dwarf"             (comic scifi) for BBC 2

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Griffin Productions
Balfour House, 46-54 Great Titchfield Street, London, W1P 7AE
Tel: 071-636-5066

"Painting with Light"                   for BBC
"Odyssey"                               for Channel 4
"Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less"    (drama?) for BBC

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HTV Cymru/Wales
Culverhouse Cross, Cardiff, CF5 6XJ
Tel: 0222-590590

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HTV West
Television Centre, Bath Road, Bristol, BS4 3HG
Tel: 0272-778366

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Hat Trick Productions Ltd
10 Livonia Street, London, W1V 3PH
Tel: 071-434-2451

"Norbert Smith - A Life"                (comic fake bio-pic) for Channel 4
"Whose Line is it Anyway?"              (comic ad-lib quiz) for Channel 4
"Newsroom"
"Drop the Dead Donkey"                  (comic newsroom drama) for Channel 4
"Harry Enfield's Television Program"    (comedy sketches) for BBC 2
"Harry Enfield's Festive Television Program"    (comedy sketches) for BBC 2
"Have I Got News For You"               (comic news quiz) for BBC 2
"Clive Anderson Talks Back"             (chat) for Channel 4
"S & M"                                 (comic ad-lib) for Channel 4
"Paul Merton Series"                    (comic sketches) for Channel 4
"Round the Bend"
"The Big One"
"Chelmsford 123"                        (comic romans in britain) for Channel 4

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Hawkshead Ltd
3 Fitzroy Square, London, W1P 5AH
Tel: 071-388-1234

"Fat Man in Argentina"  (travel doc) for Channel 4
"Remember, Remember"    for Channel 4
"Roux Brothers"         (cooking) for BBC 2
"The Manager"           (sport drama) for Channel 4
"Rainbow Reports"

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Hindi Films
?
Tel: ???-???-????
Fax: ???-???-????

"Ghazals"       (poet comp) for Channel 4

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Holmes Associates
17 Rathbone Street, London, W1P 1AF
Tel: 071-637-8251

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The Ideas Factory
Maxron House, Green Lane, Romiley, Stockport, SK6 3JG
Tel: 061-406-6685

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Home Video Channel
Unit 11, Canalot Production Studios, 222 Kensal Road, London, W10 5BN
Tel: 081-964-1141

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Hummingbird Productions
?
Tel: ???-???-????

"The Juliet Letters"    (Costello/Music) for BBC 2

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Humphrey Barclay Productions/First Choice
5 Anglers Lane, London, NW5 3DG
Tel: 071-482-1992

"That's Love"           (comic drama series) for TVS (ITV network)
"Up the Garden Path"    (comic drama series) for Granada (ITV network)
"Desmonds"              (comedy series) for Channel 4

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ITC Entertainment,
24 Nutford Place, London, W1H 5YN
Tel: 071 262 3262

No connection with the Independent Television Commision.  This ITC
made/makes TV.  I think that ITC videos can be ordered at the above
address.

"The Prisoner"  (mind-games drama)

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Illuminations
19-20 Rheidol Mews, Rheidol Terrace, London, N1 8NU
Tel: 071-226-0266

"TV Heaven"     (60s TV revival) for Channel 4

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Imagicians Ltd
34 Fouberts Place, London, W1V 2BH
Tel: 071-287-5211

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InCA Ltd
(same as Inca Video and Film Productions ?)
Tel: ???-???-????

"The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures"      (pop sci) for BBC 2

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Inca Video and Film Productions
Park House Studios, PO Box 111, London, SE26 5DB
Tel: 081-778-7318

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Independent Television Association (ITA)
Knighton House, 56 Mortimer Street, London, W1N 8AN
Tel: 071-612-8000

The controlling body of the ITV network.  They don't actually
make any programs.

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Independent Television Commission (ITC)
Television House, Mount Street, Manchester, M2 5WT
Tel: 061-???-????

First call for complaints about ITV, Channel 4, cable or
satellite services in North West England.

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Independent Television Commission (ITC)
70 Brompton Road, London, SW3 1EY
Tel: 071-584 7011

Deals with complaints about ITV, Channel 4, cable and satellite
channels.  A complaint may be `for' as well as `against'
something.  If you could put together a cogently argued complaint
that there is too LITTLE sex and violence on ITV it would have to
be considered as seriously as any other complaint!

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Independent Television News
200 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8XZ
Tel: 071-833-3000

Produces the ITV network news service.  The major output is the
nightly "News at Ten" but they also do "The 5:40 News" and other
bulletins.  A 50 minute news program for Channel 4 is also
produced and a `ITN World News' which is made available to any
broadcasting station that wants it (and can pay for it.)

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Insight Productions Ltd
Gidleigh Studio, Gidleigh, Chagford, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ13 8HP
Tel: 0647-432686

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Interesting Television Ltd
The Boundary House, Old Warwick Road, Lapworth, Warwickshire, B94 6LU
Tel: 0564-783958

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Isolde Films Ltd
4 Kensington Park Gardens, London, W11 3HB
Tel: 071-727-3541
-- 
Geoff. Lane. | Internet: zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk | Janet: zzassgl@uk.ac.mcc.uts
UTS Sys Admin,  Manchester Computing Centre,  Oxford Rd,  Manchester, M13 9PL
Exactly who makes the Tannoy announcements in M*A*S*H?  It can't be Radar
and there is never anyone else in the office.  (This refers to `classic'
M*A*S*H of course, not M*A*S*H*Lite with all the Radar removed at source.)