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Reg Grundy Organisation founded as Reg Grundy Enterprises , later known as both Reg Grundy Productions and Grundy Television and known informally as Grundy's was an Australian-based multinational mass media company, primarily involved in television as a production company but also in distribution and licensing.

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Reg Grundy , the company's namesake founded the media enterprise locally in , It branched out internationally in the late s under the banner Grundy World Wide Limited with divisions in Europe, United Kingdom, the United States and Asia. The company first produced game shows, then branched into soap operas in Reg Grundy's started his media career in radio, before moving to television producing Wheel of Fortune which launched on Nine Network in Another show with this title, although based on the USA version celebrated its 25th anniversary in Australia, a week before its cancellation in July He created and operated local, independent television production and distribution companies in Europe, Asia and North and South America.

Pearson Television now Fremantle acquired the Grundy group of companies on 3 April The new company is now managed by the management team from Crackerjack, with Mark Fennessy as chief executive officer and his brother Carl Fennessy as chief operating officer. Simon Spalding Fremantle Director of Asia Pacific Operations said in an interview that Grundy Television's premises in Sydney are to be refurbished and that once complete, all Sydney based staff will be located there.

He claims that this will help to create a 'deeper' production facility and is not a cost-cutting exercise. Spalding also said that although the Grundy name would be disappearing, he was looking at how FremantleMedia could retain the Grundy name and the heritage associated with it. See Fremantle Australia. It also produced the Swedish version of Card Sharks — Lagt kort ligger.

Reg Grundy Productions was the American wing of the worldwide television production company Grundy Worldwide , founded by Australian television producer Reg Grundy. Reg Grundy Productions was responsible for the production of two highly successful daytime game shows on NBC during the s, Sale of the Century and Scrabble , and produced a revival of Scrabble in Of the game shows Grundy produced in America, only Sale and the original Scrabble were hits; Time Machine lasted 16 weeks, Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak , and Small Talk had week runs each and Scattergories and the revival of Scrabble were cancelled after five months the latter returning only on a limited basis.