DLT ENTERTAINMENT Launches 80’S Sitcom Flashback, First Fast Channel Curated To Celebrate The Zany Old School TV Comedies Of The Iconic Eighties

Program Line-up Includes THREE'S COMPANY, THEES A CROWD, THE ROPERS, TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT, and CHECK IT OUT

New York: 20th May 2024: DLT Entertainment, the award-winning international production and distribution company, announces the launch of 80’s Sitcom Flashback, the first FAST Channel exclusively curated to celebrate the zany, heartwarming and addictive situation comedies that dominated primetime TV in the iconic eighties. DLT Entertainment, an innovator in adapting U.K. formats, will utilize their library of classic sitcoms to launch 80’s Sitcom Flashback across FAST streaming platforms beginning this month. The channel, which debuts on global streaming media platform Plex, will roll out across other streaming platforms including Free Movies Plus and Anoki in the second quarter 2024. The announcement was made today by Donald Taffner Jr., President of DLT Entertainment.

The programming line-up will feature the critically acclaimed Three’s Company starring John Ritter, Suzanne Somers, and Joyce DeWitt, which was adapted from the British sitcom Man About The House; two spinoffs - the cult favorite The Ropers starring Norman Fell, Audra Lindley and Jeffrey Tambor; Three’s A Crowd starring John Ritter, Mary Cadorette, and Robert Mandan; plus Too Close For Comfort starring Ted Knight and Jim J. Bullock; and the hidden gem Check It Out! starring Don Adams in this post-Get Smart sitcom set in a super market

“In these last few years, I’ve been blown away again and again by how much people still love these classic shows. They just can’t seem to get enough. That’s why we decided to bring them all together in a FAST channel and call it 80’s Sitcom Flashback,” said Mr. Taffner. “It’s a place for audiences to go when they want to just lean back, binge away, and laugh their heads off. These series have a sensibility that people really get hooked on. And with this amazing roster of brilliant stars – we can’t wait to introduce a whole new generation to their comedic genius.”

Amagi, a pioneer in cloud technology and OTT industry leader, will serve as technical service partner and manage the distribution of 80’s Sitcom Flashback across the FAST streaming platforms. 80’s Sitcom Flashback is available for platform connection through Amagi’s FAST marketplace, Amagi Connect. 47 Samurai and Amagi will provide support for all advertising sales solution needs.

Program highlights:

• Three’s Company: Starring John Ritter, Suzanne Somers, Joyce DeWitt, Norman Fell, Audra Lindley, Richard Kline, and Don Knotts. Jack, Janet, and Chrissy are three single roommates living together platonically in a Santa Monica apartment. Ritter’s brilliant physical comedy punctuates the running gag that super-straight Jack has to pretend to be gay for the benefit of their landlord Mr. Roper and his love-starved wife.
• The Ropers: Starring Norman Fell, Audra Lindley, Jeffrey Tambor. In this Three’s Company spin-off, landlords Helen and Stanley Roper have sold their building and moved to Cheviot Hills. While Helen scrambles to climb the social ladder, cold fish Stanley undermines her dreams at every turn. In recent years, Mrs. Roper has become an object of fan adoration, spawning “Ropers Romp” parties across the U.S.
• Three’s A Crowd: In this spin-off of Three’s Company starring John Ritter, Mary Cadorette, and Robert Mandan, free spirit Jack Tripper has opened his own restaurant and actually proposes to girlfriend Vicky. But she is in no hurry to tie the knot and instead invites him to move in – much to the consternation of her wealthy parents.
• Too Close for Comfort: Starring Ted Knight, Jim J. Bullock, Nancy Dussault, Lydia Cornell, Deborah Van Valkenburgh. In swinging San Francisco, an uptight cartoonist scrambles to control his two freewheeling daughters, who live in the apartment downstairs. Meanwhile, he is constantly bumping heads with their flakey but loveable friend, Monroe Ficus.
• Check It Out: Starring Don Adams, Dinah Christie, Jeff Pustil, Gordon Clapp. Adams displays his comic genius as the harried manager trying to impose sanity on a supermarket staffed by a bumbling cast of oddballs and misfits.

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Further information:
Nikki Murray, on behalf of DLT Entertainment: nikki.murray@premiercomms.com | +44 (0) 20 7292 5094

NOTES TO EDITORS

About DLT Entertainment:
With headquarters in London and New York, DLT Entertainment Ltd. is engaged in every aspect of television distribution and production around the world, as well as stage production in the US and in the UK where it owns London’s Shaftesbury Theatre and talent representation business, with ownership positions in MMB Creative, The Soho Agency, Blue Book Artist Management, The Galton Agency, Gag Reflex and Mark Watson’s Impatient Productions. Expanding its own production activities in the UK, DLT also acquired Vera Productions.

Founded in 1963 as a distribution company by Don Taffner Sr., the company added television production to its portfolio in 1977. It has enjoyed terrific success in its sixty one year history with legendary hits on both sides of the Atlantic including the multiple award-winning and BBC Trust praised sitcom My Family, As Time Goes By, Three’s Company, Too Close For Comfort and Meet My Folks. In addition, DLT has built a reputation as a leading distribution company with classics such as The Benny Hill Show, The World at War, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood, The Russ Abbot Show, Michel LeGrand and Friends, and Dara O’Briain’s Go 8 Bit.

In 2018 DLT expanded its own production activities in the United Kingdom through the acquisition of Vera Productions whose past productions include Getting On, Million Pound Jewellers, Bremner, Bird, and Fortune, and numerous Dispatches such as President Trump’s Dirty Secrets and Politicians for Hire: Cashing in on Brexit. 2020 saw further expansion with an investment in Mark Watson’s Impatient Productions.

2020 saw the creation of a podcasting division with the release of When No One’s Watching featuring Richardson & Matt Willis and recently produced Very Modern Quests starring Alice Levine's for Audible.

DLT is also a significant player in the artist management business with key investments in The Soho Agency, Milburn Browning Associates, Blue Book Artist Management, and The Galton Agency.

The Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where Mrs. Doubtfire, The Musical continues its West End run, is owned by DLT.