History
In January 1997, Mentorn Films merged with fellow independent specialist factual production outfit Barraclough Carey Productions; a company that was founded by former documentary filmmaker & former BBC editor George Carey and film & television producer & former head of BBC documentaries Jenny Barraclough into forming the largest entertainment & production company which was revealed to be Mentorn Barraclough Carey as Mentorn Films founder Tom Gutteridge became chief exective & majority owner of the merged production company Mentorn Barraclough Carey with co-founder George Carey became creative director of the merged production studio whilst Jenny Barraclough became director of the merged production outfit. [1]
In September 1999, it was announced that The Television Corporation (TVC) had struck a deal to acquire Mentorn Group alongside its production division Mentorn Barraclough Carey, its international distribution arm Mentorn International, and fellow production company behind Robot Wars TV21.
On 28 January 2000, Mentorn Group had closed its Manchester-based production division MBC North. [2]
Six months later in July of that same year, Mentorn's parent holding company Television Corporation had acquired independent sports production company behind UK coverage of annual cycling-race Tour de France Venner TV. [3]
In December 2001 a year following the acquisition of Mentorn Group by Television Corporation (TVC), Mentorn Media who had produced its programming from Scotland had boosted its Scottish production operations by opening a new production office based in Glasgow and launched a Scottish production division entitled Mentorn Scotland that would produce programmed out from its Scottish production office as Mentorn's production subsidiary Folio became a unit within Mentorn Scotland with managing director & founder of Mentorn's subsidiary Folio Charles Thompson and head of programming Jane Rogerson [4]
In January 2002, Mentorn Media's parent company Television Corporation (TVC) merged Mentorn's international distribution arm Mentorn International with Sunset+Vine's distribution arm into forming a mega international distribution division entitled Television Corporation Distribution with Mentorn International managing director Mark Roland heading Television Corporation Distribution as its [5]
Acqusition by Tinopolis
In October 2005 three months after former BBC director of sport, Peter Salmon joined Mentorn's parent Television Corporation as chief executive, Welsh independent TV production group 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. [6]
In December 2006, Mentorn Media alongiside its Welsh production parent Tinopolis announced it had restructured its Mentorn Media subsidiary as it exited from the scripted production operations by placing Mentorn's drama production output into a new independent drama production company under Mentorn Group entitled Daybreak Pictures that would produce Mentorn's future drama productions with former Channel 4 and Mentorn head of drama David Aukin became Daybreak Pictures' creative director whilst former Mentorn executive producer Hal Vogel and Mentorn's CEO John Willis will be heading Mentorn Group's new drama production subsidiary Daybreak Pictures as its directors, Arwel Rees managing director of Mentorn's parent Tinopolis had became chairman of Daybreak Pictures. [7]
By December 2012 seven years following Tinopolis' acquistiton of London-based production company Mentorn Media alongside its Scottish production office Mentorn Scotland, its international distribution arm Mentorn International, Mentorn International the former international division of Mentorn Media & Tinopolis' distribution subsidiary had been merged into Tinopolis' London-based global media distribution company Passion Distribution including Mentorn Media's programming library when Mentorn Media's parent Tinopolis had acquired the latter distribution company as Passion Distribution became the latter's new distribution unit and Mentorn's new distributor with Passion started distributing Mentorn's future programmes worldwide. [8] [9] [10]
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