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Granada Productions is one of
Europe's leading commercial television production and distribution companies.
Since January 2006, the company has used the name
ITV Productions when making programmes for the
ITV family of channels. Productions for other broadcasters and internationally are still credited to Granada Productions.
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Granada is the largest commercial TV producer in the UK, creating over 3,500 hours of original programming each year across all genres except news.
Many brands on UK television are part of the Granada family, including Britain’s most watched programme,
Coronation Street;
Emmerdale,
Heartbeat,
Marple and
Agatha Christie's Poirot,,
University Challenge,
I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!,
Parkinson,
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway,
Tonight,
The Jeremy Kyle Show and
This Morning are all produced by Granada Productions.
Granada produces programmes for UK television channels including the
ITV Network,
BBC One and
BBC Two,
Channel 4,
Five and
Sky One, based in key production centres in
London,
Manchester and
Leeds, with a small internationally-focussed operation (Anglia Factual) in
Norwich. The Bristol arm which was originally part of HTV closed in 2006.
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ITV Productions
ITV Productions comprises the following network production divisions from its predecessor companies*:
* Border Television and Westcountry Television rarely contributed network programmes, so were largely unaffected by the creation of ITV Productions.
The division is also responsible for ITV's production facilities
The London Studios,
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Granada Studios,
The Leeds Studios, location hire company
ProVision and Leeds-based post production companies
Film Lab North and
The Finishing School. Granada International and Granada Ventures are part of ITV Worldwide. Both arms have been re-united as part of the new Global Content division of ITV, led by Dawn Airey (formerly chief executive of
Five and managing director of channels at
BSkyB).
Granada America
The Sherman Oaks, California and New York-based US arm, Granada America, is one of the Top 3 largest international commercial producers for the US market. In Summer of 2005 they'd more primetime network programming on air in the US than any other producer.
Granada America is a major force in acquiring, developing and producing
Hollywood TV movies, scripted series and reality programming for US networks and the international market, with over 25 Granada shows on US TV every week.
A leading producer of reality programming, Granada America has shows in production at many of the major broadcast and cable networks, including
Hell's Kitchen and
Nanny 911 for
Fox,
Hit Me Baby One More Time and
Little Friends for
NBC,
But Can They Sing? and
Celebrity Fit Club for
VH1,
Airline,
The First 48 and
House Of Dreams for
A&E and
Room Raiders for
MTV.
In 2006, Granada, in association with
RTL Group, produced a US version of
Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon.
Granada America is also one of the largest producers and distributors of Hollywood TV movies. An average of 12 Hollywood TV movies are produced or acquired by Granada America each year and regularly feature big name stars such as
Molly Shannon in
12 Days of Christmas Eve,
Jason Priestly in
The Reality Of Love,
Farrah Fawcett in
Hollywood Lives, based on
Jackie Collins’ best selling novel,
Anne Heche in
Dead Will Tell,
Melanie Griffith in
Lethal Seduction,
Aidan Quinn and
Mary Louise Parker in
Unexpected Journey and
Susan Sarandon in
Icebound.
Until recently, the Chief Executive Officer of Granada America was
David Gyngell, son of the late
Bruce Gyngell, the former managing director of ITV breakfast franchisee
TV-am.
Granada Australia
Granada Productions Australia is one of
Australia’s leading independent television producers.
Established in 1998, Granada Productions has grown to the point where it now produces over 120 hours of television every year.
The company was originally
Artist Services, a company formed by a group of investors including
Steve Vizard, producing many shows such as
Fast Forward,
Full Frontal and
SeaChange. Granada purchased the company in the late 1990's.
Its core business is to produce and develop television shows across all genres primarily for the
Australasian television market. Its current slate includes the new hit show for the Seven Network
Dancing with the Stars;
Mars Venus for
W on
Foxtel; the acclaimed show
Merrick and Rosso Unplanned,
World Comedy Unplugged and
Celebrity Super Powers for the
Nine Network; the
FOX8 hit,
Australia's Next Top Model and the new show for
Network Ten,
Australian Princess.
Granada Germany
Granada Germany is one of
Germany's top five television producers.
Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!, Granada's German production of
I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! is one of the most successful entertainment shows ever on leading channel
RTL, with two series produced in 2004.
Other recent Granada productions include three MANIA shows, celebrity music talent show
Star Duell and
Deutschlands Beste Doppelgänger (
Stars And Their Doubles) for RTL, and East-West German comedy
Ei Verbibbsch for
Sat.1.
Granada International
Granada International is Britain’s leading commercial distributor, representing more than 35,000 hours of programming across all genres from Granada’s own production teams and independent producers.
Distributing to over 155 territories worldwide, Granada International’s portfolio includes the largest British feature film collection, including
Brief Encounter, and the
Carry On... films. Also a part of this collection is the
ITC Entertainment feature film library, including
The Eagle Has Landed,
The Return of the Pink Panther, and
On Golden Pond. The television library features programming by most of the major
ITV companies (
except Thames Television, which belongs to
RTL Group) including award-winning drama titles such as
Prime Suspect,
Dr. Zhivago (
2002 miniseries),
The Forsyte Saga (
2002),
Inspector Morse and
Agatha Christie's Poirot, through to innovative formats, captivating children’s shows, star-studded Hollywood TV movies, stunning wildlife documentaries and outstanding factual programming.
Granada International has also established strong relationships with key broadcasters and producers around the world, and is a major player in programme financing and co-production partnerships.
Current independent producer relationships include Wall to Wall (
Ancient Egyptians,
The Story Of Us),
Darlow Smithson (
Seconds From Disaster), Wark Clements (A Mother's Journey), Aardman (
Creature Comforts), Chorion (
Agatha Christie's Marple and Poirot),
Carnival Films (
Rosemary & Thyme) and Red Productions (
Bob and Rose,
Second Coming), with broadcaster relationships including
A&E,
WGBH,
Mediaset,
National Geographic,
Discovery and
NDR.
It also produced the children's series
Allsorts.
Granada International's sister company Granada Ventures is the publishing and consumer licensing division, responsible for merchandising and exploiting the rights of ITV Productions and third-party programmes (including
CBeebies'
Numberjacks).
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