TOP 100 PRODUCTION 100
SURVEY
81= STRAWBERRY BLOND ceo Steve Wynne CD Super Best Quality Joe McVey series prod, head Scotland Hannah Smith head of dev Tom Benson-Geddes turnover £4m shows The Playlist (CBBC), The Great British Dig (C4), The Live Lounge Show (BBC4)
81= WOODCUT chair Carolyn Bennett ceo Kate Beal CD Derren Lawford tech dir Matt Blyth turnover £4m shows The Beverley Allit Tapes (Sky Crime), Surviving a Serial Killer (C4), Secret History of WW2 (C5), Combat Ships (Smithsonian)
The Great British Dig
For the companies still standing and still in production the future is bright,” says Woodcut. “Now we have to grapple with new platforms, rights positions, terms of trade and the sale of Channel Four… all in the life of running an indie!”
83= SISTER founder & chief creative officer Jane Featherstone coo Dan Isaacs joint CDs, scripted Chris Fry, Naomi De Pear turnover £3.9m shows This is Going to Hurt, The Power, Landscapers, The Split, Gangs of London
83= A PRODUCTIONS managing directors Mark Taylor, Katherine McQueen HoP Duncan Fraser turnover £3.9m shows JoJo & Gran Gran (CBeebies), Love Monster (CBeebies)
This is Going to Hurt
Animation house A Productions is feeling the bite of Brexit, that is “having a real impact on recruitment. Key talent is returning to the EU or unable to move here due to prohibitive costs for the employer in terms of sponsoring and so on.”
85 BACK2BACK md David Notman-Watt HoP Anna Boronat development Holly Bigsby ops dir Rebecca Notman- Watt turnover £3.7m shows Scrap Kings S4 (Quest), Help! My House is Haunted S3 (Discovery), The World’s Deadliest Weather S4 (BBC Earth), The Royals Revealed (C5)
One of its busiest years, due to its returners, says Back2back, but “the continuing reduction in budgets [is] making some projects almost unworkable. It feels as if all risk, Covid or otherwise, is being pushed back onto production companies.”
86 CACTUS TV ceo, co-founder Amanda Ross md Simon Ross HoP Angela Pierce dev producer Pollyanne Conway turnover £3.4m shows Saturday Kitchen Live (BBC1), Martin & Roman’s Sunday Best! (ITV), Martin & Roman’s Weekend Best! (ITV), Between The Covers (BBC2)
87 OUTLINE (Tin Roof Media) co founders, CDs Laura Mansfield, Helen Veale head of dev Adam Townsend head of ops Ulla Streib turnover £3.4m shows Remarkable Places to Eat (BBC2), Sarah Beeny’s Renovate Don’t Relocate (HGTV, Discovery+), Sarah Beeny’s New Life In The Country (C4)
Saturday Kitchen Live
Budget squeezes have seen Outline also jump into AFP. “We are in production with two AFP projects and have others in discussion and see this as an area of significant growth and new opportunity.”
88 COMPANY PIC- TURES / BENTLEY PRODUCTIONS (All3Media) chief executive officer Michele Buck turnover £3.2m shows Agatha Raisin, Midsomer Murders
Agatha Raisin
89 OXFORD
FILM & TELEVISION ceo, CD Nicolas Kent joint md, head of film Mark Bentley joint md, dir of prod Annie Lee director Patrick Forbes turnover £2.7m shows Men in Dance (BBC4), The Romantics and Us (BBC2), Anne: The Princess Royal at 70 (ITV)
90= HCA
ENTERTAINMENT ceo Henry Cole md Hamish Rieck head of production Ben Tinsley turnover £2.5m shows Find It Fix It Flog It (C4), Shed and Buried (Quest), Junk and Disorderly (ITV4), The Motorbike Show (ITV4)
The Romantics and Us
HCA had to delay some domestic shows and is waiting to shoot those with international settings but, it says “Covid or no Covid the deal’s the same! If our shows don’t rate we’re broke! Right now all our shows are rating so we look to the future with excitement!”
Autumn 2021 P30
90= TWO RIVERS md Alan Clements factual Mick McAvoy drama Marcus Wilson pop fact Lizi Wooton entertainment Mirella Breda turnover £2.5m shows Escape To The Chateau (C4), Escape To The Chateau: Make Do And Mend (C4), Killing Escobar (Theatrical, BBC), Inside The Trial Of Alex Salmond (BBC2)
92 TRANSISTOR FILMS (Sky Studios) CD, founder Danny Tipping HoP Bernie Costello EP Ned Parker turnover £2.4m shows The Murderer & Me (Sky Crime),The Killer Uncaged (Sky Crime), I Am a Killer S2 (Sky Crime)
Make Do and Mend
televisual.com
Says Transistor: “Our biggest achievement is successfully delivering high quality shows, both studio-based entertainment and high rating factual, during the pandemic without compromise in terms of editorial and production values.”
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88 |
Page 89 |
Page 90 |
Page 91 |
Page 92 |
Page 93 |
Page 94 |
Page 95 |
Page 96 |
Page 97 |
Page 98 |
Page 99 |
Page 100 |
Page 101 |
Page 102 |
Page 103 |
Page 104 |
Page 105 |
Page 106 |
Page 107 |
Page 108 |
Page 109 |
Page 110 |
Page 111 |
Page 112 |
Page 113 |
Page 114 |
Page 115 |
Page 116 |
Page 117 |
Page 118 |
Page 119 |
Page 120 |
Page 121 |
Page 122 |
Page 123 |
Page 124 |
Page 125 |
Page 126 |
Page 127 |
Page 128 |
Page 129 |
Page 130 |
Page 131 |
Page 132 |
Page 133 |
Page 134 |
Page 135 |
Page 136 |
Page 137 |
Page 138 |
Page 139 |
Page 140
