History
The company was founded in 1971 when three Thames executives, Lloyd Shirley, George Taylor and Brian Tesler realised there was a market for a new type of television drama. To facilitate this new-style of quick-changing action, Euston utilised the use of two crews filming different scenes of the same programme at the same time, which ensured production times were quicker. Euston eschewed studio filming and all material was filmed on location using the more expensive but higher quality 16mm film stock.
Initial shows such as Special Branch gained reasonable praise but it was the series The Sweeney which first gave the company its first critical and commercial success. Using a storyline style known as kick, bollock and scramble, this formula continued in such shows as Fox and Widows. In 1979, the company created Minder as a vehicle for Sweeney star Dennis Waterman giving the company its longest running show.
With the demise of parent company Thames as an ITV company, Euston's output reduced. It continued to make Minder but for Central Television but when this series was axed in 1994, further work was not coming. The company eventually disbanded and no longer exists.
Read more about this topic: Euston Films
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“Books of natural history aim commonly to be hasty schedules, or inventories of God’s property, by some clerk. They do not in the least teach the divine view of nature, but the popular view, or rather the popular method of studying nature, and make haste to conduct the persevering pupil only into that dilemma where the professors always dwell.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Don’t you realize that this is a new empire? Why, folks, there’s never been anything like this since creation. Creation, huh, that took six days, this was done in one. History made in an hour. Why it’s a miracle out of the Old Testament!”
—Howard Estabrook (1884–1978)
“Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)