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PLIMSOLL ceo Grant Mansfield coo Christine
Owen turnover £48.1m shows Tiny World (Apple TV+), Chasing Ocean Monsters (Discovery+), John Bishop’s Great Whale Rescue (ITV), My Unique B&B (BBC22)
Bristol-based Plimsoll is growing fast. The factual producer’s slate spans global SVODs through to UK terrestrials, and this diversified client base has helped it weather
13 RED PRODUCTION (StudioCanal) ceo Sarah Doole coo Arnaud Verhalle head of development Chloe Dunbar head of production Ange Taylor turnover £38.1m shows Finding Alice (ITV), It’s a Sin (C4)
the Covid-19 storm. None of its shows were cancelled and it has managed to keep in production with all its shows. UK private equity firm LDC acquired a minority stake in Plimsoll in 2019, in a deal that valued the indie at £80m. The production company has used the investment to drive growth domestically and internationally. Earlier this year, Plimsoll completed the full acqusition of the distributor Magnify Media, run by Andrea Jackson. Coming up is ITV natural history series A Year on Planet Earth,
Tiny World
which is also backed by Tencent, Fox Nation and ARD. Plimsoll is also making On the Edge with Alex Arnold for Disney+, following
the star climber of Free Solo in his latest exploits. Disney+ and Nat Geo have also greenlit Supernatural Planet.
14 TIGER ASPECT (Banijay) coo Helen Wright head of drama Lucy Bedford head of comedy David Simpson turnover £37.8m shows Domina (Sky Atlantic), Adult Material (C4), The Other One (BBC1), Jack Whitehall: Travels with my Father (Netflix)
It’s a Sin
Former BBC3 boss Damian Kavanagh departed last October after two years running Tiger Aspect, which is also the home of the Fifty Fathoms and Shiny Button labels.
15 SHINE (Banijay) md Jon Swain creative director Tim Whitwell turnover £32.5m shows MasterChef (BBC1), The Write Offs (C4), Rick Stein’s Cornwall (BBC2), A Very British Lockdown (ITV)
16 REMARKABLE (Banijay) md Kitty Walshe director of production Susan King turnover £31.7m shows Your Home Made Perfect (C4) Sunday Brunch (C4), Ben Fogle’s Lost World’s - Chernobyl (C4), Pointless (BBC1)
MasterChef
A strong year for Remarkable, which continued with a high volume of productions during the pandemic. It says growth is coming from fact ent formats for UK and international streamers.
21 TALKBACK (Fremantle) md Jonno Richards creative director Laura Gibson turnover £24.2m shows Too Hot to Handle (Netflix), Alan Carr’s Epic Gameshow (ITV), Celebrity Juice (ITV2), QI (BBC2)
Talkback has had big success with two new shows - Netflix’s Too Hot To Handle and ITV’s Alan Carr’s Epic Gameshow. Core brand Nevermind the Buzzcocks launches on Sky Max later this year.
22 ELEMENT producer Ed Guiney producer Andrew Lowe producer Emma Norton pexec producers TV drama Lucas Ochoa, Michael Daws turnover £23.03m shows Normal People (BBC3), The Drowning (Channel 5)
23 ARROW md Iain Pelling creative directors John Smithson, Tom Brisley turnover £22.9m shows Magic of Disney’s Animal Kingdom (Disney+), JonBenet Ramsay: What Really Happened? (Discovery+)
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Arrow has struck some major SVOD deals in the past year, and shown growth in the crime genre. Some 97% of Arrow’s revenues now come from international clients.
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24 BANDICOOT (Argonon) md Derek McLean creative direc- tor Daniel Nettleton turnover £22.3m shows The Masked Singer ITV), The Masked Singer: Unmasked (ITV Hub), Supercar Superfam (BBC1), The Masked Dancer (ITV)
The Masked Singer
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