United Film & Television

Background

United Film & Television Productions (later United Productions) was a defunct film and television subsidiary of United News & Media, formed in 1996, after buying Mills & Allen International, who owned Meridian Television and Anglia Television. It later bought out HTV in June 1997. The company later sold Anglia, Meridian and HTV to Granada in July 2000, however for competition reasons HTV's broadcast facilities and license were later passed to Carlton in October 2000.

(1996-2001)

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Logo: On a blue-black gradient background, we see the connected serif words "un" (which were the corporate logo of United News & Media), and below it was a line and we see the words either "UNITED film & television productions" or beginning in 1998 "UNITED productions" below the logo.

Variants:

• Sometimes, a co-producer will appear alongside the United logo.
• From 1996 to 1998, the "un", and the text "UNITED" was in orange. This continues to be used on The Wombles (1996 series). Sometimes, the words "for" is shown above and below the logo, and we see the words reading either "MERIDIAN BROADCASTING", "ANGLIA TELEVISION ENTERTAINMENT" (both in orange) or the HTV logo in white.
• Starting in 1998, the brand logos of Meridian, Anglia or HTV are shown below the logo.
• In 1998, shortly before the change to the ITV logo, the background was yellow, and the "un" and the text was in blue. The word "For ITV" is shown below the logo and with the 1989 ITV logo. This was briefly used for a short time.
• Sometimes, the logo was superimposed in the credits.
• For programmes that they produced for Channel 4, the words "for" and "Channel Four" appears below the logo with a copyright disclaimer underneath.
• On ITV3 airings of Ruth Rendell Mysteries the logo is in widescreen ratio instead of its usual fullscreen ratio.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: None or the ending theme of the show.

Availability: Uncommon.

• It was often seen on many Meridian, Anglia and HTV programmes that they produced until 2001.
• This logo can be seen on programmes that they produced for Channel 4 and BBC.