SURVEY
PRODUCTION 100 TOP 100
Red Planet Pictures
(Asacha Media Group) founder/chairman Tony Jordan mds Belinda Campbell, Alex Jones turnover £50.7m shows Death In Paradise S11 (BBC1), Our House (ITV1), Sanditon S2 (Masterpiece, PBS, BritBoxUK & ITV)
Drama producer Red Planet has risen from 38th to 11th place in the P100 this year, with turnover rising from £14.9m to £50.7m. Red Planet lists its key highlight for the past year as “successfully completing production of 25+
hours of drama in what was a very challenging 12 months due to COVID and the backlog it created.” Like many scripted producers, it says that a major challenge is competing for cast and crew in a very busy market. “The inflation of rates and costs of services has been substantial leaving very little room for manoeuvre.” Red Planet sold a majority stake in its business last year to Asacha Media Group, the emerging Paris-based production group founded by three former Endemol Shine and Zodiak executives. Red Planet was founded in
OII Death In Paradise
2006 by Tony Jordan, who now serves as executive chairman. The Sanditon and Death in Paradise producer’s
day-to-day activities are overseen by joint mds Belinda Campbell and Alex Jones.
Thames
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(Fremantle) md Amelia Brown dir of progs Charlie Irwin dir of development Thomas Williams dir of prod Dean Jones turnover £46m shows Britain’s Got Talent (ITV), Too Hot to Handle (Netflix), Blankety Blank (BBC1)
Whisper Group
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(Sony Pictures Television) ceo co-founder Sunil Patel coo Roisin Thomas md, sport Mark Cole chief creative officer Helen Warner turnover £45.7m shows Billy Connolly Does (UKTV), Formula 1 Live and Highlights (C4), The 2020 Tokyo Paralympics (C4)
Too Hot to Handle ITN Productions
Whisper looks to fuse sport with entertainment. Highs this year include delivering a standalone F1 feature with Tom Cruise, as well as delivering The 2020 Tokyo Paralympics for C4.
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(ITN) md,TV Ian Rumsey head of production Nicki Purcell head of factual Will Smith turnover £34m shows Jeremy Vine (C5), Andrew Neil Show (C4), Soham: The Murder of Holly and Jessica (C5), Secrets of the Krays (BritBox)
ITN Productions generated £34m in revenues, a year-on-year growth of almost 14%. The production arm of ITN says it has worked with twice the number of clients it had two years ago.
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(Fremantle) co-ceos Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe producers / exec producers Emma Norton, Lucas Ochoa, Michael Dawson, Chelsea Morgan Hoffman turnover £33.5m shows Conversations with Friends (BBC3), The Dry (BritBox)
Carnival Films
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(Universal Int’l Studios) executive chairman & ceo Gareth Neame md Nigel Marchant turnover £45m shows The Last Kingdom (Netflix), Downton Abbey: A New Era (film)
Shine TV
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(Banijay) md Jon Swain creative director Tim Whitwell director of production Alan Williams turnover £43.5m shows MasterChef (BBC1), Hunted (C4), Celebrity Hunted (C4), Changing Rooms (C4)
The Last Kingdom
Turnover at Shine has risen from £32.5m to £43.5m in the past year. It recently struck a six-year deal for MasterChef, moving the production from London to Birmingham in 2024. It means the format will air until at least 2028.
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(ITV Studios) creative director and ceo Simon Heath md Roderick Seligman head of drama Jake Lushington turnover £33.47m shows Line of Duty (BBC1), Vigil (BBC1), Show Trial (BBC1), Anne (ITV1)
Conversations With Friends Autumn 2022 P39
Hit factory World Productions made three of the most watched dramas in the UK during 2021: Pembrokeshire Murders, Vigil and Line of Duty. It’s working on The Gathering, a C4 drama from writer and director Helen Walsh.
televisual.com Nutopia
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ceo Jane Root md Carl Griffin hop Caroline McCool turnover £33m shows Vendetta: Truth, Lies and the Mafia (Netflix), The World According to Jeff Goldblum (Disney+), Welcome to Earth (Nat Geo, Disney+)
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