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]
History
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 and Glasgow) and its fellow production subsidiaries Folio Productions, Sunset+Vine and Redback Films in a deal that would expand Tinopolis' sports production activities and boost its operations into London.[2]
In June 2011, Tinopolis announced it had entered the American production market by acquiring Los Angeles-based American unscripted reality production company A. Smith & Co. Productions, the acquisition of American unscripted production outfit A. Smith & Co. Productions had gained Tinopolis its own American production subsidiary with Tinopolis merging its American production operations into the acquired American studio as A. Smith & Co. Productions would collaborate with Tinopolis' fellow subsidiaries such as Sunset+Vine to co-produce content and adapt Tinopolis' formats into America as A. Smith & Co.'s co-founders Arthur Smith and Kent Weed had continued to lead the acquired Los Angeles-based American unscripted production company under Tinopolis with its founders had joined Tinopolis' board of directors