Telewest Studios

Telewest Studios (formerly Sierra Television) is a British television production, licensing and distribution company that serves as the production/distribution arm of the Telewest Group subsidiary of WarnerMedia Entertainment, a unit of AT&T's WarnerMedia.
The company, then known as Sierra Television, was the licensing tenant for Telewest and its programming since 1995, until Telewest itself brought the company in 2005, and renamed it to its current name in 2007.
== History ==
Telewest Studios's history can be traced back to Sierra Television, an independent television production/distribution company founded in 1994, which signed a deal with Telewest in 1995 to distribute its programming library internationally, while Telewest produced its own original programming through its in-house production unit.
Sierra Television was accquired by Telewest Communications in 2005 as part of a new strategy by the company to produce content for other networks, and was renamed Telewest Studios in 2007;  however, some of Telewest Studios' subsidiaries, such as Telewest Studios Australia, still carried the Sierra name until 2011.
Telewest Studios not only makes programmes primarily for its parent company Telewest Group, but also for other networks such as the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 among others.
Programmes on non-Telewest channels retained the Sierra brand (examples are Channel 4's A Place in the Sun, and Bully for the BBC) until 2009. Many of the programmes shown on the Telewest network show the end-board featuring the Telewest Studios logo after the credits as of 2007.
In 2017, Telewest Group acquired a majority stake in Canadian production company Portfolio Entertainment. As a result of the takeover the company is now a part of Telewest Studios, with Telewest Worldwide handling international distribution of all current and future series.
On 27 December 2018, as part of a restructuring of its domestic production units which would see the company phasing out the main Telewest Studios branding in the UK, Telewest Studios announced the launch of three different labels: Limitless (for soap operas), Pipebomb (for scripted comedy) and Sure Shot (for entertainment and panel shows).
On 10 May 2019, WarnerMedia announced a reorganization of Telewest Group. Telewest's TV channels and online brands remaining under WarnerMedia Entertainment (under the name of Telewest Networks), and Telewest Studios (as well as the unit's film production arm, Telewest Pictures) were moved to Warner Bros., with Warner Bros. International Television Production being folded into Telewest Studios, and Warner Bros. Television Distribution taking over distribution of all Telewest Studios programming.
== Output ==
== Units ==
===Local===
==== Ice Box Television ====
==== Tomato ====
==== Zingatron ====
==== Miracle Eye ====
==== Twinkle ====
==== Footprint Pictures ====
==== Limitless ====
==== Pipebomb ====
==== Sure Shot ====
=== International ===
====Telewest Studios North America====
==== Telewest Studios Australia ====
==== Telewest Studios Deutschland GmbH ====
==== Telewest Studios France ====
==== Telewest Studios Nederland ====
==== Telewest Studios Nordic ====
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Category:1994 establishments in the United Kingdom
 
Category:Television production companies of the United Kingdom
Category:Media companies based in London
Category:Peabody Award winners