TOP 100 PRODUCTION 100 Silverback Films O58
(All3Media) ceo/director Alastair Fothergill ceo/director Keith Scholey coo Jane Hamlin fd Rachel James turnover £13.9m shows Mating Game (BBC), Polar Bear (Disney)
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(BBC Studios) ceo Sarah Monteith coo Asha Amster fd Jonathan Merrell development Rupert Majendie turnover £13.3m shows The Witchfinder (BBC2), Chivalry (C4), Phantom of the Open (theatric) Red Flag (All4)
Polar Bear Initial
Baby Cow says it’s “cautiously optimistic” about the year ahead and is looking forward to producing “a number of really exciting commissions where we are working with a mix of emerging, developed and established talent.”
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(Banijay) mds Cat Lynch, Katy Manley head of production Jody Collins turnover £12.7m shows Soccer Aid 2021,2022 (ITV), The Games (ITV), On Yer Bike for Soccer Aid (ITV), Lee Mack: Road to Soccer Aid (ITV)
Initial says it’s buoyed as the “number of new platforms and opportunities continue to grow” and that means “the more traditional channels are adapting to compete – both in terms of how they schedule and what they commission.”
Atlantic Optomen Lightbox O60 Wildseed Studios
co founders Jonathan Chinn, Simon Chinn coo Vanessa Tovell turnover £13m shows Sophie: A Murder in West Cork (Netflix), The Curse of the Chippendales (Amazon), Torn (Nat Geo), Blood Brothers (Netflix)
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md Miles Bullough creative director Jesse Cleverly head of kids and animation Sarah Mattingley HoP Helen Stern turnover £12.9m shows The Last Bus (Netflix), Dodo (Sky Kids)
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(All3Media) ceos Tina Flintoff , Nick Hornby turnover £12.2m shows Great British Menu S17 (BBC), Sort Your Life Out (BBC), Highlife (C4) Johnny Vs Amber (Discovery+)
Zig Zag
Wildseed says it remains “confident for the future” with shows in production and several in funded development.” It says it’s “watching how global economic pressures and instabilities affect SVOD subscription revenues and confidence but so far so good!”
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ceo Danny Fenton md Matt Graff head of ent Andy Scott HoP Sarah McQueen coo Mia Freedman turnover £12.1m shows Ultimate Goal 2 (BT Sport), The Garms Dealer (C4), Backyard Ballistics (Insight/ Outdoor Channel), Raise your Game with Gareth Southgate (Youtube Original)
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ceo Anthony Geffen md Claudia Perkins head of dev Dan Buckley turnover £11m shows The Crown Jewels with Clive Myrie (BBC1), Hawking, Can You Hear Me (Sky Docs), Shackleton’s Endurance (History)
Highlights for Atlantic include “two primetime BBC1 shows playing over the platinum jubilee weekend” as well as “major commissions from the BBC, C4, ITV and PBS” as well as immersive orders from Meta and Snap.
True to Nature
Simply “finding new partners” has been a highlight for Zig Zag in the past year. The indie says “dealing with Covid” has been the big challenge and it’s “cautiously optimistic” for the year ahead.
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ceo Wendy Darke commercial and fd Stephen Batty production execs Katie Hall, Lisanne Marks turnover £10.6m shows Shark with Steve Backshall (Sky Nature), Dreamflight Sleepy Stories (Sky Kids), Expedition with Steve Backshall S2 (UKTV), Gangs of Baboon Falls (Sky Nature)
The Crown Jewels with Clive Myrie
Specialist factual indie, True to Nature, list both Covid and environmental changes affecting filming as challenges it has faced. It says it sees opportunities in “television production for both UK and international broadcasters and streamers. The market is challenging, and it is important to understand the challenges faced by our clients and how we can support them.”
Autumn 2022 P48 Brinkworth
md Malcolm Brinkworth HoP Andi d’Sa head of creative Xander Brinkworth Head of Pop Fact Lorna Dawn Creanor turnover £10m shows Accused: Guilty or Innocent? (A&E US), 999: Critical Condition (C5), Police: Hour of Duty (C5), The World’s Most Luxurious Holidays (C4)
Brinkworth says its work for US based channels is “growing owing to the success of the current projects and we are also now working with both UK and international based streamers. We see this growing further in 2023.” It says that “at the
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(Argonon) exec chair David Dugan ceo Carlo Massarella md Allison Todd turnover £12m shows Lost Treasures of Rome (C4), The £15bn Railway (BBC), Why Ships Crash (BBC), Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard (BBC)
Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard
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same time, we are also managing to extend our commissioning base in the UK across all PSBs.” Post Covid, Brinkworth says “building back the culture” of the company has been a highlight and mixing again in an office has “enabled us to nurture and grow young talent as well as providing a supportive environment for the whole team.”
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