The makers of the children's TV show Jungle Run openly acknowledge The Crystal Maze as an influence, particularly the current host, Michael Underwood, who was a captain in the first Christmas special.

Still, makers of compact disk players acknowledge that the digital systems have deficiencies despite early advertisements that trumpeted their "perfect sound."

Although evidence of drugs might then be used to investigate specific employees, its makers acknowledge that Sentor could not prove that a worker was using drugs.

In a cinema-noir style, the makers of Manorama Six Feet Under acknowledge the inspiration from the original by playing the sequence where Jack Nicholson's character gets his nose slashed on the main character's (Satyaveer) television.

The makers of the movie "Philadelphia" acknowledged yesterday that the film "was inspired in part" by the story of a New York lawyer who was dismissed after his employer discovered he had AIDS.

The makers of the movie "Philadelphia" settled a lawsuit and acknowledged that the film "was inspired in part by" the story of a New York lawyer.

The makers acknowledge that the games ignore some aspects of history, but argue that their purpose is to entertain.

Even makers of generics acknowledge that the approval process for generic biologics would be more complex than the current shortened process for conventional generic drugs.

The maker of an AIDS drug has acknowledged that it devised what it called a research study at least in part as a marketing device for the drug.

But its maker, Pfizer, has acknowledged that its other COX-2 drug, Bextra, has been shown to pose risks to patients after heart surgery.