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red planet ceo Tony Jordan mds Belinda Campbell, Alex Jones financial dir Julie Gissing head of development Sarah Barton 2019 ranking 47 shows Sanditon (ITV), Death In Paradise (BBC1)
red production (StudioCanal) ceo Nicola Shindler EP/head of prod Michaela Eccleston Fereday EP Richard Fee 2019 ranking 43 shows The Stranger (Netflix), Traces (UKTV)
Death in Paradise
Red had three productions ongoing when lockdown hit. Boys was in post and carried on remotely but “two other productions in filming and preproduction were massively affected by the lockdown in terms of costs, locations, casting, crew availability…”
red sky Mds Jane Rogerson, Ross Harper production exec Nan Gourlay director development Jacqui Hayden 2019 ranking - shows Spring at Jimmy’s Farm (C4), Socially Distant with Susan Calman (BBC), Climategate (BBC4), Tiny Lives (BBC)
reef (Zinc Media) Director, London Television, Zinc Media Group Greg Sanderson 2019 ranking 99 shows Police Code Zero: Officer Under Attack s2 (C5), Britain’s Craziest Christmas Lights (C5)
Spring at Jimmy’s Farm
Reef says it hasn’t had to “completely cancel or have a project decommissioned due to Covid!” But the impact on its police access series “has been considerable with schedules extended to allow for the difficulty with shooting even when filming was allowed to start.”
remarkable (Banijay) mds Kitty Walshe, James Fox dir prod Susan King dir content Dom Waugh 2019 ranking 29 shows The Wall (BBC1), Your Home Made Perfect (BBC2) Sunday Brunch (C4), Richard Osman’s House of Games (BBC2)
Remarkable says 2019-2020 “has been a breakthrough year for us, landing several major new commissions whilst bringing back our returning series.”
rollem md Kay Mellor head of development Sian Palfrey development assistant Emily Nabney executive assistant Rosie Perry 2019 ranking 68 shows My Left Nut (BBC3)
rondo ceo Gareth Williams finance dir Alwyn Davies commercial dir Sion Clwyd Roberts 2019 ranking 46 shows Rownd a Rownd (S4C), Sgorio (S4C), Find it, Fix it, Flog it (C4), Britannia’s Burning: Fire on the Bridge (BBC/S4C)
My Left Nut
Rondo is now “looking to grow our slate of network programmes through our subsidiary company Yeti Media” on the back of BBC and C4 reorders. There’s a new Anglesey base planned too for Rownd a Rownd.
shine TV (Banijay) md Tanya Shaw creative director Tim Whitwell 2019 ranking 15 shows MasterChef (BBC1), The Heist (Sky), Hunted (C4), Celebrity Hunted (C4), Treasure Island (C4)
MasterChef
shiny button (Banijay) mds Andrew Brereton, James De Frond, Tom Davis development producer Kate Heggie 2019 ranking - shows King Gary (BBC1), Pls Like (BBC3/1), Dial M for Middlesborough (UKTV)
Alongside its UK commissions, Shiny Button now has “active development in place with two international streamers, and we are actively pursuing commissions from US channels.” It says COVID has caused delays to productions “however we are still producing a series and a Xmas special before the end of the year.”
sid gentle (BBC Studios) ceo Sally Woodward Gentle md Lee Morris head of development Henrietta Colvin commercial dir Charles Dawson 2019 ranking 28 shows Killing Eve Series 3 (BBCAmerica. BBCOne/BBCThree acquisition)
Killing Eve maker Sid Gentle says “production has been majorly im- pacted with international shooting looking increasingly difficult. Budgets are seeing approximately 20% increases due to Covid related costs with uncertainty as to where this additional finance would come from.”
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Joint ceos Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey COO Jane Hamlin 2019 ranking 39 shows Dancing With the Birds 60-minute special (Netflix)
The maker of Netflix wildlife series, Our Planet says “the major area of growth for natural
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history production companies is the international streamers. The BBC remains steady but budgets are falling if anything.” Silverback says the long production cycle of landmark natural history fortunately allowed it a “little bit of slack”, as filming ground to a halt and “none of our partners withdrew their funding.”
Our Planet
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