TOP 100 PRODUCTION 100 Workerbee O69= Leopard
(Banijay) md Rick Murray creative director Michelle Chappell senior director Ben Hirsch head of production Nicola Hirsch turnover £9.7m shows The Bridge (C4/HBO Max), Janet Jackson (Sky Docs), Idris Elba’s Fight School (BBC2), Peter Crouch: Save Our Beautiful Game (D+).
O69= Blink Films
(Argonon) md Kristian Smith head of production Katie Kearney turnover £9.7m shows Worzel Gummidge: Guy Forks (BBC1), Worzel Gummidge: Calliope Jane (BBC1), Catherine Tate’s Hard Cell (Netflix)
The Bridge Magic Light
Liverpool and London based Leopard Pictures spans drama, comedy, film and children’s. Its new series Catherine Tate’s Hard Cell debuted on Netflix this year, while it has also produced the Mackenzie Crook led reboot of Worzel Gummidge.
O73
ceos Martin Pope, Michael Rose marketing Mark Ollington fd Clare Swain distribution dir Muriel Thomas turnover £8.7m shows Superworm (BBC1), Pip and Posy (C5/ Milkshake, Sky Kids)
Continuing its tradition of producing animated specials for BBC1’s Christmas Day line-up, Magic Light last year delivered Superworm - which won 8m viewers and a 42% share. Magic Light is also in production of a second series of 52 episodes of Pip and Posy.
Off the Fence IWC Media O74
(Banijay) creative director Mark Downie dir of prod Jonathan Warne head of factual Pauline Low turnover £8.2m shows Location, Location, Location (C4), Susan Calman’s Grand Day Out (C5), Scotland’s Home of the Year (BBC), Wordsworth and Coleridge Road Trip (Sky Arts)
Wag O7I= Mindhouse
(Tin Roof Media) co founders & creative dirs Dan Chambers, Justine Kershaw creative dir Laura Jones head of ops Ulla Streib turnover £9m shows Chernobyl: The New Evidence (C4), Ken and Barbie Killers: The Lost Murder Tapes (D+), Tutankhamun: Mystery of the Toxic Tomb (C4/NatGeo/Science Channel)
SURVEY O71=
co-founder Louis Theroux creative dirs Arron Fellows, Nancy Strong head of prod Sophie Ardern turnover £9m shows Bambers: Murder at the Farm (Sky), Louis Theroux’s Forbidden America (BBC2), Sex Actually with Alice Levine (C4), Joe Wicks: Facing My Childhood (BBC1)
Chernobyl: The New Evidence
Founded in 2019 by Louis Theroux, Arron Fellows, Nancy Strang and Sophie Ardern, Mindhouse makes its P100 debut this year. It recently won a BBC doc order about Mark Zuckerberg to mark almost two decades of Facebook.
O75
(Asacha Media Group) md Steven Green dir of operations Eliya Arman creative director Bridget Bosely head of production Kate Gibbard turnover £7.98m shows Great British Landmark Fixers (Yesterday), War Factories (Yesterday)
Susan Calman’s Grand Day Out
Wag has won its first orders from Netflix, ITV and Paramount Plus. Wag hasn’t traditionally pitched into the UK but new creative director Bridget Bosely has strong links to the UK market, “so our biggest area of growth is winning commissions from British terrestrials and new British SVoD services.”
O77= Rare Television O77= Raw Cut
(ZDF Studios) ceo Bo Stehmeier coo Karen Meehan md of production Andrew Zikking turnover £7.5m shows
Ancient Engineering (C5) The One Show inserts (BBC1) My Octopus Teacher (Netflix)
ceo Alexander Gardiner creative dir UK Rory Wheeler dir of content Emma Barker vp US development Christian Broadhurst head of production Ben Sutton turnover £7.5m shows Ice Airport Alaska (Smithsonian), Digging For Britain (BBC2), Expert Witness (BBC1), Hornby: A Model World (Yesterday)
Ancient Engineering
Digging for Britain was upscaled for BBC2 after a period on BBC4, while Ice Airport Alaska delivered a second series. Rare’s Hornby series proved there is a passionate audience for this kind of specialist programming.
Autumn 2022 P50 Stellify
O76
(Sony Pictures Television) ceos Kieran Doherty, Matthew Worthy dir of operations Vikkie Taggart head of production Michelle Marsh turnover £7.9m shows Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? (ITV), Secret Body (BBC Scotland), Farm to Feast (BBC NI and BBC Network), There’s No Place Like Tyrone (BBC NI)
Who Wants to be a Millionaire? O79
ceo Steve Warr group creative director Mark Roberts execs Gerry Melling, Mark Harrison turnover £6.5m shows Police Interceptors (C5), Inside Britain’s Kidnap Gangs (BBC3), Secrets & Scandals (C5), This Cop Life (Really / D+), Frontline Fightback (BBC1)
DSP
O80
(Banijay) md Donna Clark creative director Ninder Billing head of production Victoria Thomas turnover £6.4m shows Interior Design Masters (BBC1), Secrets of the Salisbury Poisonings (Discovery+)
Inside Britain’s Kidnap Gangs
televisual.com
DSP’s feature length doc In Cold Blood for ITV’s Exposure strand won an international Emmy for current affairs. Meanwhile Interior Design Masters successfully transferred from BBC2 to BBC1. DSP’s new company structure has led to “growth across broadcasters and streamers.”
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