BBC Studios Productions

BBC Studios Productions Limited

Formerly	BBC Studios Limited (2015–2018)[1]
Company type	Division
Industry	Television production
Founded	27 February 2015[1]
Area served	United Kingdom
Revenue	£423 million (2022)
Net income	£24 million (2022)
Total assets	£32 million (2022)
Owner	BBC
Parent	BBC Studios
Divisions	BBC Studios Science Unit BBC Studios Factual Entertainment Productions BBC Studios Music Productions BBC Studios Entertainment Productions BBC Studios Continuing Drama Productions BBC Studios Natural History Unit BBC Studios Event Productions BBC Studios Documentary Unit BBC Studios Drama Productions BBC Studios Comedy Productions BBC Studios Kids & Family Productions BBC Studios Specialist Factual productions
Subsidiaries	Mortimer Productions Nice and Accurate Productions
Website	productions.bbcstudios.com

BBC Studios Productions Limited^[1][2] is a British content production company and is BBC Studios' national production division, producing a wide range of programmes from things like Top Gear to Strictly Come Dancing. BBC Studios Productions is responsible for producing programmes while BBC Studios is in charge of ventures like UKTV and the distribution and selling of formats of BBC programmes. BBC Studios Productions is the biggest content producer in the United Kingdom.^[3]

Divisions

BBC Studios Productions has 12 production divisions responsible for producing different programmes for their channels, as well as other broadcasters including Apple TV+, Amazon Prime Video, Channel 4, Channel 5, UKTV, Discovery Channel, Netflix and PBS.^[3]

BBC Studios Science Unit

The BBC Studios Science Unit has produced a wide range of scientific programmes for multiple broadcasters. The department is headed up by Andrew Cohen and is overseen by the Factual Managing Director Tom McDonald.

Titles

• The Edge of Science (YouTube Original)
• The Surgeon's Cut (Netflix)
• The Planets (BBC Two)
• 8 Days: To the Moon and Back (BBC Two)
• Horizon (BBC Two)
• The Sky at Night (BBC Four)
• Rendezvous with the Future (Bilibili)
• The Truth About... (BBC One)
• Stargazing Live (BBC Two)
• Climate Change – The Facts (BBC One)
• Extinction: The Facts (BBC One)
• Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
• Cook Clever, Waste Less with Prue and Rupy (Channel 4)
• Perpetual Planet: Heros of the Oceans (National Geographic)

BBC Studios Factual Entertainment Productions

BBC Studios Factual Entertainment Productions is responsible for delivering entertaining and enriching programmes. The Factual Entertainment productions is headed by Naomi Carter and is overseen by managing director of Factual Entertainment and Events Hannah Wyatt.

Titles

• Top Gear (BBC One)
• Countryfile (BBC One)
• The One Show (BBC One)
• Nigella: At My Table (BBC Two)
• Dragons' Den (BBC Two)
• Gardeners' World (BBC Two)
• Antiques Roadshow (BBC One)
• Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby (BBC Two)
• Bargain Hunt (BBC One)
• Jay Blades' Home Fix (BBC One)
• Nigella's Cook, Eat. Repeat (BBC Two)
• Celebrity Painting Challenge (BBC One)
• DIY SOS (BBC One)
• Morning Live (BBC One)
• It's Grime Up North (Channel 4)
• Weatherman Walking (BBC One)
• Wanted Down Under
• Points of Viewdr

BBC Studios Music Productions

BBC Studios Music Productions is the production arm of BBC Studios Productions responsible for music-related commissions. The BBC Studios Music Productions is headed by James Payne and is overseen by Entertainment and Music Managing Director Suzy Lamb.

Titles

• Glastonbury (BBC)
• Later... with Jools Holland (BBC Two)
• Mercury Prize (BBC)
• Soul America (BBC Four)
• Reading + Leeds (BBC)
• Top of the Pops (BBC Two)
• BBC Young Musician (BBC Four)
• K-Pop Idols: Inside the Hit Factory (BBC Four)
• Maestro (BBC Two)
• Fleetwood Mac: Don't Stop (BBC One)
• Proms in the Park (BBC)
• Jools' Annual Hootenanny (BBC Two)

BBC Studios Entertainment Productions

BBC Studios Entertainment Productions produces titles such as Children in Need and Strictly Come Dancing. BBC Studios Entertainment Productions is headed by Mel Balac and is overseen by Entertainment and Music Managing Director Suzy Lamb.

Titles

• Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One)
• Question of Sport (BBC One)
• Elton John: Uncensored (BBC One)
• The Big Night In (BBC One)
• Comic Relief (BBC One)
• Children in Need (BBC One)
• Eurovision Song Contest (BBC One)
• A Royal Team Talk: Tackling Mental Health (BBC One)
• The Weakest Link (BBC One)
• EastEnders: Secrets from the Square (BBC One)
• Got It Covered - BBC Children in Need (BBC One)
• Mastermind Cymru (S4C)

BBC Studios Kids & Family Productions

Titles

• Blue Peter
• Go Jetters
• JoJo & Gran Gran
• Saturday Mash-Up!
• Bro's in Control
• The Dumping Ground
• Phoenix Rise

BBC Studios Documentary Unit

Titles

• The Met: Policing London
• Life and Death Row
• Landward
• Rip Off Britain
• Imagine

BBC Studios Events Productions

The BBC Studios Events Productions unit focuses primarily on events of significance across the UK and was the primary and sole source of all coronation footage which was covered in Ultra-high-definition and distributed to broadcasters domestically and worldwide.

Titles

• Royal Christmas Message^[4]
• Coronation of Charles III and Camilla
• Platinum Party at the Palace
• Trooping the Colour
• The Earthshot Prize
• Festival of Remembrance
• Coronation Concert

BBC Studios Drama Productions

Titles

• Doctor Who
• Father Brown
• Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators
• Silent Witness

BBC Studios Natural History Unit

Titles

BBC Studios Continuing Drama Productions

Titles

• EastEnders
• Casualty
• Doctors^[5]
• River City
• Pobol y Cwm

BBC Studios Comedy Productions

Titles

• Good Omens
• Inside No. 9

BBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions

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