talkbackTHAMES
is one of the UK's largest production companies making award winning programming for all major terrestrial and digital channels. Over the past year we have produced over 500 hours of high-quality television.
Uniquely spanning all major genres - drama, comedy, entertainment, features, documentaries, digital media and factual entertainment, talkbackTHAMES has a raft of award winning programming to its name. In recent years awards have included two Baftas for The X Factor, RTS Awards for The Apprentice, QI, The Bill, The I.T. Crowd and Simon Amstell (Entertainment Performance for Never Mind the Buzzcocks), a prestigious Peabody Award for Stephen Poliakoff's Gideon's Daughter, four Rose D'or Awards for The Apprentice, Look Around You, The I.T. Crowd and QI (Stephen Fry for best gameshow host), three Emmy Awards for Stephen Poliakoff's The Lost Prince, two British Comedy Awards for Never Mind the Buzzcocks and two National TV Awards for The X Factor, a BAFTA for Green Wing and The Apprentice and a Grierson Award for the documentary Take That For The Record. is the UK production arm of FremantleMedia. Drawing on Fremantlemedia's international format licensing and distribution capabilities, talkbackTHAMES is uniquely placed to get the most out of programming by extending programme brands into new areas, and new countries in turn.
FremantleMedia is the production division of the RTL Group, producing over 8,500 hours of programming a year. RTL Group is Europe's largest television and radio company with 34 TV channels and 34 radio stations in 11 European countries.