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The Tinopolis Group is an international TV production and distribution group with businesses based in the UK and US. It produces over 4,500 hours of television annually for more than 200 UK and foreign broadcasters.[1]
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In October 2005, Tinopolis announced its potential takeover approach to acquire London-based television production company Mentorn Media including its Scottish production office Mentorn Scotland and its international distribution arm Mentorn International alongside its parent production group Television Corporation (including its production offices in both Oxford & Glasgow) and its fellow production subsidiaries Folio Productions, Sunset+Vine & Redback Films in a deal that would expand Tinopolis' sports production activites and boost its operations into London.[2]
In August 2011 following Tinopolis' entry into the United States & the acqusition of A. Smith & Co Productions, Tinopolis announced it had brought Los-Angeles-based American unscripted production outifit BASE Productions alongside its production offices based in both Burbank and Washington, the acqusition of Los Angeles-based American production company BASE Productions had marked Tinopolis' second American production studio acqusition and it boosted its American operations in that country whilst BASE Productions' founders John Brenkus and Mickey Stern continued operating the production studio within Tinopolis as the former joined Tinopolis' board.[3][4]
In December 2012, Tinopolis had expanded its distribution activities & its international production operations with the acquistion of London-based British global media international distribution company that distribute content Passion Distribution, thrus it gave Tinopolis its own international distribution division as Passion Distribution's founder Sally Miles had continued leading Tinopolis' newly acquired international distribution arm Passion Distribution with Tinopolis had merged its fellow international distribution subsidiary & former distribution division of Tinopolis' subsidiary Mentorn Media, Mentorn International (MINT) and its programming catalouge into the acquired London-based distribution unit Passion Distribution with Passion started distributing future programmes from Tinopolis' unit Mentorn and the former's own production units worldwide.[5][6][7] Three days later in that same month, Tinopolis had acquired Firecracker Films.[8][9]
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