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The Incorporated Television Company (ITC) was a British television distribution company founded by Lew Grade in 1954 as the distribution unit of ATV (Associated TeleVision), one of the ITV franchises; it later branched out into TV series and feature film production. In 1995, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment acquired ITC Entertainment Group, resulting in the company being renamed into a new incarnation of PolyGram Television two years later. PolyGram was later acquired by Seagram and Sons on 10 December 1998, resulting in PolyGram TV being folded into Universal Television (which serves as the legal successor of the company).

Most of the ITC library, with certain exceptions (The Dark Crystal is held by Universal Pictures with Sony Pictures Entertainment handling video rights; the Muppets franchise is now owned by the Walt Disney Company), is now owned by ITV Studios Global Entertainment, a subsidiary of ITV plc.