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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Production company |
| Founded | January 6, 2014 in London, United Kingdom [1] |
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| Headquarters | Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom |
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| Owners | Dan Baldwin |
| Website | hungrybearmedia |
Hungry Bear Media Limited [1] is a British television production company founded in 2014 by Dan Baldwin and Juliet Denison-Gay.
In 2014, Hungry Bear Media was founded by television executive Dan Baldwin and television executive Juliet Denison-Gay. [2] [3] [4]
In January 2015, the company entered a first-look deal with distributor Sky Vision, a subsidiary of Sky. [4]
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