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Open Mind Productions

Open Mind Productions is a British television production company founded on 26 July 1989 by Roland Tongue and Chris Ellis. Tongue, who retired from the company at the end of 2011, was previously a film editor at the BBC, while Ellis was previously a teacher and script writer at Children's BBC. Their logo is a blue stylized head with a quarter piece being separated.

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Open Mind Productions
IndustryTelevision production
FoundedJuly 26, 1989 (1989-07-26)
Founder
  • Roland Tongue
  • Chris Ellis
Websiteopenmind.co.uk

Open Mind Productions is a British television production company founded on 26 July 1989 by Roland Tongue and Chris Ellis.1 Tongue, who retired from the company at the end of 2011,1 was previously a film editor at the BBC, while Ellis was previously a teacher and script writer at Children's BBC. Their logo is a blue stylized head with a quarter piece being separated. 2

The company has produced programmes for children and educational TV, including The Word Machine, The Number Crew, Rat-A-Tat-Tat and Maths Mansion for Channel 4 and Numberjacks and The Shiny Show for the BBC.13

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  1. Dickson, Jeremy (19 December 2011). "Open Mind shakes up management". kidscreen. Brunico Communications Ltd. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
  2. "People". Open Mind Productions. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
  3. "What We've Done". Open Mind Productions. Retrieved 8 February 2014.