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Formerly | Ragdoll Productions (U.K.) Limited (1985-2000) Ragdoll Video Limited (1991–2000)[1][2] Ragdoll Limited (2000-2013)[3] |
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Company type | Private |
Industry | Television production |
Founded | 26 July 1984Template:End Date And Age |
Founder | Anne Wood |
Headquarters | , England |
Key people | Christopher Wood |
Owner | Ragdoll Ltd. |
Subsidiaries | The Ragdoll Foundation |
Website | ragdoll |
Footnotes / references [1] |
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1968 | FilmFair London is founded |
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1971 | DIC Audiovisuel is founded |
1972 | Strawberry Shortcake brand is first developed |
1974 | CPLG is founded |
1976 | CINAR and Colossal Pictures are founded |
1982 | DIC Enterprises is founded |
1984 | Ragdoll Productions is founded |
1987 | DIC Audiovisuel closes |
1988 | Studio B Productions is founded |
1992 | Epitome Pictures is founded |
1993 | DIC Enterprises becomes DIC Entertainment |
1994 | Wild Brain is founded‚ and Red Rover Studios is founded, DIC Entertainment brands as The Incredible World of DIC |
1995 | Platinum Disc Corporation is founded |
1996 | CINAR buys FilmFair's library |
1997 | Decode Entertainment is founded |
1999 | Wild Brain acquires Colossal Pictures' employee base |
2002 | Nerd Corps Entertainment is founded |
2004 | Halifax Film Company is founded, CINAR rebrands as Cookie Jar Group |
2005 | Platinum Disc Corporation merge as Echo Bridge Home Entertainment |
2006 | Decode and Halifax Film merge as DHX Media, DIC acquires CPLG, and Ragdoll Worldwide is formed with BBC Worldwide |
2007 | DHX Media buys Studio B Productions and Wild Brain becomes Wildbrain Entertainment |
2008 | Cookie Jar Group absorbs DIC and House of Cool absorbs Red Rover Studios |
2010 | DHX Media buys Wildbrain Entertainment‚ and Peanuts Worldwide is founded |
2011 | Decode Entertainment and Red Rover Studios closes |
2012 | DHX Media buys Cookie Jar Group |
2013 | DHX Media buys Ragdoll Worldwide |
2014 | DHX Media buys Epitome Pictures, Nerd Corps, and Echo Bridge Home Entertainment's family content library; Cookie Jar Group is absorbed |
2016 | The WildBrain multi-channel network launches and Studio B and Nerd Corps merge as DHX Studios |
2017 | Wildbrain Entertainment closes; DHX Media buys Peanuts Worldwide and Strawberry Shortcake |
2018 | Halifax Film becomes Island of Misfits |
2019 | DHX Media rebrands as WildBrain, Epitome Pictures closes, and the WildBrain MCN becomes WildBrain Spark |
2020 | CPLG becomes WildBrain CPLG |
2021 | Echo Bridge folds into SP Distribution |
2023 | WildBrain acquires House of Cool |
2024 | WildBrain Spark merged into its parent company as WildBrain London |
Ragdoll Productions Limited, or simply Ragdoll, Was a British television production company founded in 1984 by Anne Wood, who had previously worked for Yorkshire Television and TV-am. It is located in Bloxham, Oxfordshire, and has produced a number of children's programmes, most notably Pob's Programme, Teletubbies, Rosie and Jim, Brum, Boohbah, Tots TV, and In the Night Garden..., most of which are now owned by WildBrain.