Britt Allcroft
Following his retirement, Matthew Corbet bequeathed his puppets to Richard Cadell, a fan of Sooty and a skilled magician, who focused on producing a new "Sooty" programme for ITV titled "Sooty Heights", which launched in 1999. Like with its predecessor, the new programme stuck to the same format, but with episodes set within a beachside hotel that the characters ran, with Cadell joined by Liana Bridges – a co-star whom he worked with on a number of episodes in the final series of "Sooty &amp; Co." By the end of 1999, The Britt Allcroft Company had purchased a 50% stake in the franchise, held under Sooty International Limited, and created a joint-venture company called Bridgefilms, which would also handle distribution rights to existing Britt Allcroft property "Magic Adventures of Mumfie". The Britt Allcroft Company would be later rebranded to Gullane Entertainment in 2000.