User:JigglypuffGuy04/sandbox/HiT Entertainment

HiT Entertainment (styled "HiT") was a British-American entertainment company originally established in 1982 as Henson International Television (formerly styled "hit!"). They are well known for owning shows like Fraggle Rock, Rubbadubbers,Barney & Friends, Thomas & Friends, Pingu, Bob the Builder, Fireman Sam and Angelina Ballerina.

Why They Were An Absolute Hit!

 * 1) To start off, they've brought back a lot of good shows that ended years prior to them buying their properties, making a good-to-decent revival:
 * 2) *They brought back Fireman Sam with a fifth season, which not only managed to be a great season for the show, but it managed to be a massive improvement to the series.
 * 3) *They brought back Pingu for two more seasons in 2003, which managed to be just as enjoyable as the first four seasons.
 * 4) They own many good shows such as Bob the Builder, Fireman Sam, Pingu (and its reboot, Pingu in the City), Thomas & Friends, Rubbadubbers, and Kipper.
 * 5) They worked together with Nickelodeon to make the great Nick Jr. animated pre-school series, Oswald from 2001-2003.
 * 6) Many of their shows provide good morals for children, whether it's learning how to work together in Bob the Builder, learning different fire safety tips in Fireman Sam, learning everyday problems in Pingu, or learning all different types of morals in Thomas & Friends, nearly every show that HiT has made never fails to provide a good moral.
 * 7) They care deeply for the franchises they own and they always try to make sure that their forgotten shows and the classic seasons of the shows that they own receive enough attention by releasing episodes of the shows on DVDs and streaming services, as opposed to pretending that they don't exist like what Mattel does.
 * 8) Many of their workers could successfully take criticism. For example, they listen to all of the criticisms that they were receiving when it came to Thomas & Friends during the Sharon Miller era, and they managed to successfully restore the show to its former state in season 17 after Andrew Brenner was hired as head writer.
 * 9) Their logos are pretty good and charming, especially the 1997-2008 logo over here.
 * 10) They're also a really good DVD and VHS distribution company too, since most of their DVD and VHS releases are well-made and put-together, with many of their DVD releases including colourful and creative menus.
 * 11) *They've also distributed shows that they don't explicitly own to companies outside of the UK, including Shaun the Sheep, Fifi and the Flowertots and Roary the Racing Car in the USA, and Postman Pat in Spain.
 * 12) Speaking of DVDs, they made a compilation series called HiT Children's Favourites (or HiT Favourites in the USA), a DVD series that combines many of their shows into one big DVD compilation, which was a good way of getting children to discover a wide range of their shows.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) They have made some bad or mediocre shows, such as Angelina Ballerina and Mike the Knight.
 * 2) While not as bad as Mattel, they can be a bit too overprotective about their franchises and they can tend to block YouTube videos to an extreme, most notably when they blocked a lot of Thomas & Friends YTPs.
 * 3) Even though they do good jobs with the franchises they own, they have also notably ruined a few franchises from time to time:
 * 4) *One of the notable example is Thomas & Friends, although they did good jobs with seasons 7 and 8, they did end up causing the show to decline in season 9-16 with them trying to hard to pander towards young toddlers and with them hiring Sharon Miller as the head writer for seasons 12-16, who didn't do a good job with the series. Fortunately, they did redeem themselves by improving the series in season 17 when they got Andrew Brenner to be the head writer.
 * 5) *The worst example of them butchering a franchise is Fireman Sam, in which they decided to revive the show again in season 6, which lead to tons of problems including flanderization, animation that is a downgrade from season 5, bad voice acting, and tons of other issues. To make matters worse, they completely ignored every bit of criticism that they received and did very little to improve the series, even to this day, the show still hasn't recovered from any of it's flaws.
 * 6) *Along with Mattel, they would also ruin Bob the Builder with an infamous reboot in 2015, which suffers most of the same flaws as Fireman Sam since season 6, with the main characters being flanderized, the voice acting being inferior to the ones in the original, and the characters being redesigned to look more realistic, which took all of the charm from original show away.
 * 7) They started to somewhat decline after mh:terribletvshows:Mattel bought them out in 2012, before going downhill completely when Mattel gained full ownership of their properties and rebranded their company as Mattel Television in 2016, which is saddening considering that HiT Entertainment made for a pretty good company until Mattel vulgarized and ruined it, although they luckily kept the content from HiT.