Hat Trick Productions

Hat Trick Productions

Hat Trick logo
Type	Limited
Industry	Television production
Founded	1986
Founder	Rory McGrath Jimmy Mulville Denise O'Donoghue
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom
Key people	Rory McGrath (co-founder) Jimmy Mulville (co-founder) Denise O'Donoghue (co-founder) Geoffrey Perkins (director)
Website	www.hattrick.co.uk

Hat Trick Productions is a British independent production company that produces television programmes, mainly specialising in comedy.

History

Hat Trick Productions was founded in 1986 by Rory McGrath, Jimmy Mulville and Denise O'Donoghue. Its first commission was Chelmsford 123, a situation comedy for Channel 4.^[1] Two years later, Geoffrey Perkins became company director, and helped to produce shows such as Father Ted, Whose Line Is It Anyway? and Have I Got News for You.^[2]

Perkins left the organisation in 1995, to become head of comedy for BBC Television.^[2]

Current programmes

• Some Girls (BBC Three 2012–2014)
• Episodes (BBC Two 2011–present, Showtime 2011–present)
• Have I Got News for You (BBC Two 1990–2000, BBC One 2000–present)
• Room 101 (BBC Two 1994–2007, BBC One 2012–present)
• The Revolution Will Be Televised (BBC Three 2012–present)
• Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Channel 4 1988–1998, ABC & ABC Family 1998–2007, The CW 2013–present)
• Boomers (BBC One 2014–present)
• The Secret (ITV 2016–present)

Former programmes

• What Are You Looking At?
• Facejacker (Channel 4 2010–2012)
• It's Only a Theory (BBC Four 2009)
• Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire (BBC Two 2009, Comedy Central 2009)
• Spy (Sky 1 2011–2012)
• The Royal Bodyguard (BBC One 2011–2012)
• The Armstrong and Miller Show (BBC One 2007–2010)
• The Bubble (BBC Two 2010)
• Great Night Out (ITV 2013)
• Bodies (BBC Three 2004–2006)
• Bike Squad
• Bromwell High (Channel 4 2005)
• Chartjackers (BBC Two 2009)
• Chelmsford 123 (Channel 4 1988–1990)
• Doctor Thorne (ITV 2016)
• Drop the Dead Donkey (Channel 4 1990–1998)
• Fairy Tales (BBC One 2008)
• Father Ted (Channel 4 1995–1998)
• Fonejacker (Channel 4 2006–2012)
• Game On (BBC Two 1995–1998)
• Harry Enfield's Television Programme (BBC Two 1990–1992, Became Harry Enfield & Chums - BBC One 1994–1998)
• If I Ruled The World (BBC Two 1998–1999)
• Jeffrey Archer: The Truth
• Miss Marie Lloyd – Queen of The Music Hall (BBC Four 2007)
• News Knight with Sir Trevor McDonald (ITV 2007)
• Norbert Smith – a Life (Channel 4 1989)
• Outnumbered (BBC One 2007–2014)
• The Omid Djalili Show (BBC One 2007–2009)
• Paul Merton: The Series (Channel 4 1991–1993)
• Round the Bend (CITV 1989–1991)
• Dinner Date (ITV 2010–2012, ITV Be 2014–present)
• Small Potatoes (Channel 4 1999–2001)
• The Kumars at No. 42 (BBC Two 2001–2004, BBC One 2005-2006, Sky 1 2014–present)
• The Worst Week of My Life (BBC One 2004–2006)
• This is David Lander (Channel 4 1988)
• Trevor's World of Sport (BBC One 2003)
• Worst Week (CBS 2008–2009)

References

1. "Company History About Us". London: Hat Trick Productions. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
2. "Geoffrey Perkins". The Daily Telegraph. 31 August 2008. Retrieved 27 May 2010.

External links

• Official website