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Lime Pictures, formerly known as Mersey Television, is a ''. In 1995 , the company began producing a second soap opera for the same channel, '' Hollyoaks '', which still runs as of 2007 . Both of these series were created by Redmond himself, and in 2003 the company took over production of another series he had created, the children's drama '' Grange Hill '', which had first been broadcast on BBC One in 1978 and had been made in-house by the BBC until Mersey Television took over. The company moved production of the series to their Liverpool base, with the fictional school no longer being established as in London but instead its location in the UK was no longer specified. In the 1992 ITV network franchise auction, Mersey Television made an audacious bid against holders Granada Television for the North West England franchise, which had been Granada's ever since the inception of independent television in the 1950s , with Granada one of the biggest and most established of the ITV companies. However, although Mersey bid more money for the franchise, the licence stayed with Granada as the Independent Television Commission declared that the Mersey Television bid did not meet the required quality threshold. Mersey Television was bought by All3Media in June 2005 and, in a contractual requirement, renamed ''Lime Pictures'' in 2006. In April 2006, a foul up on the website exposed thousands of applications CV's and personal details. The Register SEE ALSO REFERENCES SHOWS EXTERNAL LINK |
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