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Banijay UK | |
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Company type | Subsidiary |
Industry | Television production |
Founded | 19 January 1983 |
Founders | |
Headquarters | Shepherd's Bush, London , United Kingdom |
Area served | United Kingdom |
Key people |
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Number of employees | 800 |
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Website | banijayuk |
Footnotes / references [1] |
Banijay UK Productions Limited,[1][2] trading as Banijay UK, is a British production company. Since 2020, the company has been a subsidiary of Banijay Entertainment. Banijay UK incorporates a number of production brands, including Artists Studio, Darlow Smithson Productions, House of Tomorrow, Initial, Remarkable Entertainment (previously Brighter Pictures and Cheetah Television), Tiger Aspect, Tigress Productions, Zeppotron, and their digital divisions: Endemol Games[3] and Endemol Digital Studio.
After entering a joint venture with 21st Century Fox, additional companies under the new Endemol Shine UK umbrella include Dragonfly, Kudos, and Princess Productions (now defunct). The various television production brands specialize in a broad range of genres including entertainment, reality series, drama series, specialist factual, arts, live events, music entertainment, documentaries, youth shows, and comedy.[4]
In the United Kingdom, Banijay UK is mostly known for producing Big Brother from 2000 onward and also Celebrity Big Brother from 2001 onward.