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RLJE International Ltd

Trade name	Acorn DVD
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Entertainment retail
Founded	1997; 28 years ago (1997), in London, England
Founder	Peter Edwards
Headquarters	8515 Georgia Avenue, Suite 650, Silver Spring, MD, US
Number of locations	55 Drury Lane, Covent Garden, London, WC2B 5SQ
Area served	UK, US, Australia
Key people	Miguel Penella (CEO, Acorn Media Group) Stuart Shaw (managing director, RLJ Entertainment International) Shane Murphy (managing director, Acorn Media Enterprises)
Products	DVDs Gifts
Parent	RLJ Entertainment
Website	acornonline.com

RLJE International Ltd, d/b/a Acorn Media, a British company that publishes and distributes DVDs, as well as selling home-video products and streaming videos with a particular focus on British television.

History

Launched in 1997, Acorn Media U.K. Limited distributes collectible home video products in the U.K. market. By design, Acorn U.K.'s product line often overlaps with the Acorn Media U.S. line. This division of the company also serves as a permanent presence in the U.K. television programming community, a primary source of both Acorn Media U.S. and Acorn U.K. acquisitions.

Important programming franchises for this Acorn division include New Tricks, Criminal Justice, Midsomer Murders, Foyle's War, Trial & Retribution, Wild at Heart, Wainwright Walks, and Inspector George Gently.

In April 2007, Acorn Media U.K. launched Acacia U.K., a healthy joyful living brand encompassing licensed and original programming on DVD.

In 2012, RLJ Companies bought Acorn Media, including a majority share in Agatha Christie Ltd, and Image to form RLJ Entertainment.

In 2021 it began distributing new AMC Networks programming.

Titles

The company publishes television titles (in either individual or box-set formats) including:

Situation comedies

• Barking
• Chelmsford 123
• Filthy Rich & Catflap 25th Anniversary Edition
• First of the Summer Wine
• Oh, Doctor Beeching!
• Rude Tube
• The Good Life
• The Liver Birds
• To the Manor Born

Dramas

• Above Suspicion
• Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
• All Creatures Great and Small (2020 TV series)
• Ashes to Ashes
• Bad Girls
• Broadchurch
• Criminal Justice
• Creepshow
• Dark Winds
• Doc Martin
• Down to Earth
• Father Dowling Mysteries
• Footballers' Wives
• Garrow's Law
• Inspector George Gently
• Interview with the Vampire
• The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
• Jane Eyre
• Kingdom
• Life on Mars
• Line of Duty
• Mayfair Witches
• Midsomer Murders
• Murderland
• New Tricks
• NOS4A2
• Queer as Folk
• Taggart
• The Fall
• The Smoke
• The Terror
• The Walking Dead: World Beyond
• The Walking Dead: Dead City (coming soon)
• The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (coming soon
• The Tunnel
• Tales of the Walking Dead
• Trial & Retribution
• Waterloo Road
• When the Boat Comes In
• Wild at Heart
• NOS4A2

Classic dramas

• Dixon of Dock Green
• Sutherland's Law
• Z-Cars

Period dramas

• A Family at War
• Clochemerle
• Foyle's War
• I, Claudius (US only)
• Ivanhoe
• Lilies
• Lord Peter Wimsey
• Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
• Penmarric
• Rhodes
• Tenko
• The Bletchley Circle
• The House of Eliott
• The Strauss Family
• The Crimson Field
• The Edwardians

Special interest

• Antiques Roadshow (UK edition)
• Apollo 11 anniversary DVD
• Britain's Best Drives
• Coal House
• Countryfile
• Extreme Fishing with Robson Green
• Edwardian Farm
• Fred Dibnah's Steam Collection, Railway Collection
• Wainwright Walks with Julia Bradbury
• Wainwright Walks: Coast to Coast with Julia Bradbury
• Railway Walks with Julia Bradbury
• Oz and Hugh Raise the Bar
• Oz and James's Big Wine Adventure
• Victorian Farm
• Who Do You Think You Are? (UK edition)

See also

• Acorn TV

References

1. "Acorn Media DVDs & Blu-rays". moviemail.com. Archived from the original on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
2. Jensen, Elizabeth (25 March 2012). "Home Video Company Cashing in on British Revivals". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
3. "Acorn DVD Information Page". Acorn DVD. Archived from the original on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
4. "RLJ Entertainment Information Page". RLJ Entertainment.
5. "Acorn Media News Announcement". Acorn Media Group.
6. "RLJ Acquisition News Story" (Press release). PR Newswire.
7. "Acorn Media (Blu-ray) | DVD Empire". dvdempire.com. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
8. "Dark Winds".
9. "Interview with the Vampire".

External links

• acorndvd.com, the company's official UK website
• acornonline.com, the company's US website

• 1997 establishments in England
• British companies established in 1997
• British subsidiaries of foreign companies
• Distribution companies of the United Kingdom
• DVD companies of the United Kingdom
• Video on demand services
• Entertainment companies of the United Kingdom
• Mail-order retailers
• Media and communications in the London Borough of Lambeth
• Online retailers of the United Kingdom
• Privately held companies based in London
• Publishing companies based in London
• Publishing companies established in 1997
• Retail companies based in London
• Retail companies established in 1997