Background
Hallmark Cards originally purchased the company from the Halmis in 1994. Under Hallmark, the company was known as Hallmark Entertainment until 2006, when the Halmis, along with affiliates of Kelso & Company, reacquired the company, renaming it "RHI", after the founders' names.Also in 2006, ION Media Networks, the parent company of ION Television, announced "an exclusive programming alliance" with RHI. Under this agreement, RHI will program the 7-11 p.m. ET/PT time periods on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights for two years starting July 1, 2007, under the umbrella title The RHI Movie Weekend. The agreement also makes way for the U.S. broadcast premieres of at least six RHI productions each year.
In 2007, RHI began offering premieres of its films to digital cable customers of Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Cox Cable and Comcast, via the video on demand service. Also that year, RHI licensed a number of its new movies, miniseries and back catalog titles to global subscribers of Apple's iTunes service.
In addition to its most recent product, RHI has a library that includes material from its Hallmark Entertainment and Qintex Entertainment predecessors, including the classic Hal Roach library (Topper, Laurel and Hardy, etc.), the Lonesome Dove television franchises, and the theatrical and home video rights to the Our GangLittle Rascals shorts released before MGM took over the series.
Productions
Television miniseries
- The 10th Kingdom (2000)
- Alice in Wonderland (1999)
- Arabian Nights (2000)
- Dinotopia (2002)
- Hercules (2005)
- Gulliver's Travels (1996)
- Jason and the Argonauts (2000)
- Legend of Earthsea (2004)
- The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (1999)
- Merlin (1998)
- Merlin's Apprentice (2006, sequel to Merlin)
- Snow Queen (2002)
- Tin Man (2007)
- The Lost Empire (2001)
- The Odyssey (1997)
Made-for-television movies
- The Night They Saved Christmas (1984)
- Annabelle's Wish (1997)
- Black Swarm
- Cleopatra (1999)
- Dreamkeeper (2003)
- Killer Wave
- Moby Dick
- Mrs. Santa Claus (1996)
- Noah's Ark
- P. T. Barnum
- Something Beneath
- Swampdevil
- Black WidowManeater Film Series
- Blood Monkey (2007)
- Croc (2007)
- Grizzly Rage (2007)
- In the Spider's Web (2007)
- Maneater (2007)
- Eye of the Beast (2007)
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