Wall to Wall (production company)
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | TV Production |
| Founded | London, 1987 |
| Headquarters | London (UK) |
Key people | Leanne Klein (CEO)[1] |
| Products |
New Tricks Who Do You Think You Are? Genius of Photography Frontier House George Orwell: A Life in Pictures Colonial House The Edwardian Country House Man on Wire Ancient Egyptians Smallpox 2002 The Day Britain Stopped Things I Hate About You Neanderthal First Columbus Long Lost Family |
| Parent | Warner Bros. Television Productions UK (Time Warner) |
| Website | http://www.walltowall.co.uk |
Wall to Wall, part of Warner Bros. Television Productions UK (formerly Shed Media Group), is an independent television production company that produces event specials and drama, factual entertainment, science and history programmes for broadcast by networks in both the United Kingdom and United States.
In January 2009, Wall to Wall's first feature film Man on Wire won a BAFTA award for Outstanding British Film and followed this success with an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Previously, the company had won a Peabody Award in 2000 for The 1900 House.[2]
Wall to Wall joined the Shed Media Group in November 2007.
The company's name derives from negative references made in the mid-1980s, by then BBC Director-General Alasdair Milne and in the title of a book by Financial Times journalist Chris Dunkley, to "wall-to-wall Dallas" as a possible aftereffect of the coming deregulation of UK broadcasting. Future BBC2 controller Jane Root, among the company's founders, considered this a negative, puritanical and conservative view of the medium's possibilities (ref. NME, May 17, 1986) and the name "Wall to Wall Television" was adopted as a conscious celebration of the medium, which its founders considered the "establishment" of the time to be frightened of.
Programming
Current Productions
New Tricks: Pilot plus Nine series for BBC One – total 77 episodes, with more in production.
Who Do You Think You Are?: six series plus adoption special for BBC One - total 43 episodes, with more in production.
Who Do You Think You Are? USA: In production in the US for NBC featuring Sarah Jessica Parker, Susan Sarandon and co-producer Lisa Kudrow as well as a number of other high profile celebrities.
Filmography
- The Media Show (1991, Channel 4)
- A Statement of Affairs (1992, ITV1)
- You Me and It (1992, BBC)
- New Nightmares (1992, Channel 4)
- Baby It's You (TV Series) (1994, Channel 4/The Learning Channel)
- The Great Ape Trial (1995, Channel 4)
- The Real X-Files (1995, Channel 4/Discovery Channel)
- Plotlands (1996, BBC)
- Our Boy (1997, BBC One)
- The Science of Sex (1997, The Learning Channel)
- Weekly Planet (1997, Channel 4)
- A Rather English Marriage (1998, BBC One)
- What Granny Did in the War (1999, Channel 4)
- What Shall We Do with the Moon (1999, Channel 4)
- Standing Tall (1999, Channel 4/The Learning Channel)
- Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll (1999, BBC One)
- Naked Planet (1999, Channel 4/PBS)
- 1940s House (1999, Channel 4)
- The 1900 House (1999-2000 Channel 4) PBS
- Stressed Out (2000, Channel 4)
- When Money Went Mad: The South Sea Bubble (2000, Channel 4)
- Neanderthal (TV series) (2001, Channel 4/Discovery Channel)
- Enduring Extremes (2001, Discovery Channel (Europe))
- Eurocops (2001, Discovery Channel (Europe))
- Sex Life (2001, BBC Two)
- Extinct (2001, Channel 4)
- One Hit Wonderland (2002, Discovery Channel (Europe))
- Spymaster (2002, Discovery Channel)
- The World's First Predator (2002, Five/Bravo)
- Treats from the Edwardian Country House (2002, Channel 4)
- The Edwardian Country House (2002, Channel 4) PBS
- Outbreak (2002, Discovery Health Channel/Alliance Atlantis)
- Art Crime (2002, BBC Four/Bravo)
- Chariot Race (2002, Channel 4/TLC)
- Smallpox 2002 (2002, BBC Two)
- Scribbling (2002, BBC Two)
- Ancient Egyptians (TV series) (2003, Channel 4/The Learning Channel/Canal+/RAI/NDR)
- The Day Britain Stopped (2003, BBC Two)
- Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher (2003, BBC Two)
- George Orwell: A Life in Pictures (2003, BBC Two)
- 5 Things I Hate About You (2003, BBC Two)
- Frontier House (2004, Channel 4/WNET)
- First Columbus (2004, Discovery Channel)
- Pioneer House (2004, Channel 4)
- Colonial House (2004, WNET)
- Salvage Squad (2004, Channel 4)
- The Regency House Party (2004, Channel 4/WNET)
- Century Farm (2004, BBC Northern Ireland)
- Spy (2004, BBC Three)
- We've Got the Builders In (2004, BBC Two)
- Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures (2004, BBC Two)
- The Man Who Broke Britain (2004, BBC One)
- Oil Storm (2005, FX)
- The Mafia (2005, Five/National Geographic Channel)
- Not Forgotten (2005, Channel 4)
- The Reclaimers (2005, BBC Two)
- Ian Fleming: Bondmaker(2005, BBC One)
- Texas Ranch House (2006, PBS)
- The First New Heart (2006, Channel 4/Discovery Channel)
- 100% English (2006, Channel 4)
- Underworld Histories (2006, National Geographic Channel)
- The Battle That Made Britain (2006, BBC Four)
- The Genius of Photography (2006, BBC Two)
- HG Wells: War with the World (2006, BBC Two)
- Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes (2006, BBC Two)
- You Don't Know You're Born (2007, ITV1)
- Empire's Children (2007, Channel 4)
- Crisis at the Castle (2007, BBC Two)
- Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story (2008, BBC Two)
- Man on Wire (2008)
- Electric Dreams (TV series), (2009, BBC Four)
- Turn Back Time: The High Street (2010, BBC One)
- Long Lost Family (2011–present, ITV)
- The Gift (2014–, BBC One)
- Back in Time for Dinner (2015 BBC One)
- First Peoples (2015, PBS)