SUPER INDIES PRODUCTION 100
SURVEY
ALL3MEDIA Angelica Films, Aurora Media, Bentley, Betty, Bullion, Company, Caravan, Great Scott, Lime, Little Dot, Lion, Main Event, Maverick, Neal Street, New Pictures, North One, Objective Me- dia Group, Optomen, Purple, Raw TV, Seven Stories, Silverback, Story Films, Studio Lambert, Two Broth- ers, Two Halves, Unstoppable, West Road, Wise Owl, Witchery Pictures.
on expensive M&A activity. This, of course, has continued
this year. ITV Studios, for example, has backed two high profile new scripted production companies: Nicola Shindler’s Quay Street Productions and Moritz Polter’s Windlight Pictures.
WHY SO MANY? All this begs the question: why so much deal-making activity in the past year? In some cases the financial
impact of Covid-19 was a key cause, as with Passion’s takeover of Keo. Many ‘true indie’ companies have struggled during the pandemic, with cancellations and delays in production meaning they have had to rely on cash reserves to see them through the crisis. For some, the attraction of being part of a well-funded group that can help them weather a crisis is clear. That said, there were few distressed sales during the pandemic. Government support helped to insulate many indies from the crisis. “The last 12-16 months have
been challenging for everyone in the television industry, perhaps more so for truly independent production companies,” says Jason Hocking, managing director of CC-Lab.
industry has been reshaped by the rise of the streamers. Netflix, Disney+ and
Amazon Prime Video have all added subscribers throughout the pandemic, and have also increased their investment in new content. Netflix, for example, boosted its spend on making TV shows in the UK by 50% to $1bn (£750m) in 2020. Indies with relationships
with streaming platforms have grown as a result on the back of commissions for high-end, big budget shows. By contrast, producers reliant
on traditional broadcasters – where budgets are under pressure and shows have been cancelled – have tended to struggle during the pandemic. “Those companies with
STREAMER IMPACT Arguably the biggest reason for the rise in deal-making is structural: it is a response to the way the TV
HOW IT WORKS Every year, we send survey forms to TV production companies and ask a series of questions. The facts provided, for the period July 2019-June 2020, form the basis of the P100. Due to the exceptional circumstances of Covid-19 lockdown, we’ve not asked companies for their turnover this year so we have not ranked indies. Instead, the P100 is an A-Z of all of those who took part.
commissions from the streaming platforms are in high demand from buyers,” says Tom Manwaring, partner at Helion Partners, which has advised on many recent M&A deals including the sales of Silverback Films, Eleven Film, Drama Republic, Red Planet and The Agency. “They’ve been growing well, despite the pandemic.” Eleven Film, for example,
has recently delivered the third series of Sex Education to Netflix, while Silverback Films has strong relationships with streaming platforms Netflix and Disney+ having produced successful shows Our Planet for Netflix as
Autumn 2021 P40
ARGONON Leopard, Leopard USA, Like A Shot, Windfall Films, BrightSpark, Transparent, Bandicoot
ASACHA MEDIA Red Planet PIctures, Wag TV
AVALON Avalon TV, Topical
BANIJAY RDF (inc RDF West, Fizz, Wonder, Little Wonder), IWC, Blacklight TV, Wonder, Neon Ink, Yellow Bird, Fearless Minds,The Natural Studios, Artists Studio, Douglas Road, Dragonfly, DSP, Electric Robin, Fifty Fath- oms, Initial, Kudos, Remarkable, Sharp Jack, Shine, Shiny Button, Sidney Street, Simon’s Cat, Tiger Aspect, Tigress, Wild Mercury, Workerbee, Zeppotron
BBC STUDIOS 72 Films, Amazing, Baby Cow, Clerkenwell Films, Curve Media, Firebird, House, Lookout Point, Mighty, Moonage, Original Talent, Red Planet, Sid Gentle, Sprout, Two Cities, Various Artists
ENDEAVOR IMG Media EONE
Whizz Kid, Daisybeck Studios
FREMANTLE UK Euston Films, Hare and Tortoise, Label1, Man Alive, Naked, Thames, Talkback, Castlefield
ITV STUDIOS12 Yard, Big Talk, Boom Cymru, Cats on the Roof, Genial, Mammoth Screen, Monumental, Multi Story Media,
televisual.com
Noho TV, Oxford Scientific, Pos- sessed TV, Potato, Route 24, Silver- print, So TV, Tall Story, The Garden, Twofour Group, World Productions
KESHET Greenbird, Keshet UK
LIONSGATE UK Potboiler TV, Kindle Entertain- ment, Bonafide Films
MEDIAWAN Drama Republic
NBC UNIVERSAL Carnival, Monkey, Working Title TV, Heyday Television
RED ARROW Cove, CPL, Nerd TV, Endor
SKY Love, Blast! Films, Znak&Jones, Sugar, True North, Chrysalis Vision, Avanti Media
SONY Left Bank, Electric Ray, Stellify, Blueprint TV, Fable Pictures, Stolen Pictures, Eleventh Hour Films, Whisper Films, Eleven
STUDIOCANAL Red Production, Guilty Party, SunnyMarch TV, Urban Myth
STV STV Studios, Primal Media
TINOPOLIS Firecracker, Mentorn, Pioneer, Sunset+Vine, Tinopolis Wales, Daybreak, Fiction Factory
TIN ROOF Blink Films, Outline
VICE MEDIA Pulse
WARNER BROS Wall to Wall, Ricochet, Twenty Twenty, Renegade
ZDF ENTERPRISES Off the Fence Production
ZINC MEDIA Blakeway, Brook Lapping, Films of Record, Red Sauce, SuperCollider, Tern
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