Pearson Television

Pearson Television was the American-based television production and distribution arm of a British company Pearson PLC.
History.
In 1993 after a bidding war, Pearson, PLC. bought the production arms of Thames Television, and then Reg Grundy Productions (Australia), ACI Worldwide (Television) Distribution (US), In 1996 Pearson, PLC. bought the US publicly traded television company All American Television, and merged it into Pearson Television. This acquisition gave them the rights to various game show format libraries, including Mark Goodson Productions, 
In April 2000, Pearson TV decided to take over Smith & Jones' UK production company Talkback Productions. Pearson Television ended 2001 merged its television interests with those of Bertelsmann, CLT-UFA, forming the RTL Group. Subsequently, the RTL Group became wholly owned by Bertelsmann as it bought out Pearson's interests and those of CLT.
In the following year, Pearson Television was re-branded as FremantleMedia, which subsequently rebranded as simply Fremantle in 2018.