Leopard Pictures

Leopard Pictures

Founded	2001;24 years ago (2001)
Founders	James Burstall
Headquarters	London , England
Parent	Argonon (2011–present)
Website	leopardpictures.tv

Leopard Pictures (formerly known as Leopard Films and Leopard Drama) is a British television production company that is a subsidiary of international production group Argonon.

History

Leopard Films was first founded in July 2001 when James Burstall stepped down as head of factual at September Films, James Burstall launched a joint-venture production company with London-based British independent televisiom production company Lion Television in which it was called Leopard Television with the newly launched company would be based at Lion Television's headquarters and would share Lion's American offices as James Burstall became the new company's president & CEO ^[1]

Two years later in September 2003, Leopard Films expanded into the American television production operation with the establishment of its American television production arm based in New York called Leopard Films USA with the newly launched Ameriican production arm.

By September 2004, Leopard Films enterted the international distribution operations by launching its own distribution division that would handle distribution of all of Leopard Films' productions in-house named Leopard Distribution to expand the company's management of its intellectual propertywith Leopars Films' founder & president James Burstall heading the company's new distribution arm Leopard Distribution as its CEO alongside sales manager Paul Hanrahan. ^[2]

Two months later in November of that month, Leopard Films enterted the drama production output by launching its scripted production division named Leopardrama to focus on its drama production activities, marking factual specialist production company Leopard Films expansion into the drama production business as the new drama production division Leopardrama would handle new & returning drama series. ^[3]

In October 2007, Leopard Films' international distribution arm Leopard Distribution had appointed former ITN Source exec Katie Stephenson as its sales executive of Leopard Distribution. ^[4]

In May 2011, Leopard Films alongside its drama production arm Leopard Drama, New York-based American production division Leopard USA and the company's international distribution arm Leopard International had joined forces with London-based multi-media entertainment production company Remedy Productions into forming a new independent production group named Argonon as Leopard Films became the factual production of the new group whilst its international arm Leopard Dostrobution was renamed to Argonon Distribution to reflect the establishment of Argonon as James Burstall became the president of the newly formed production group. ^[5]

Filmography

Television series

Title	Years	Network	Notes
Missing [6]	2009–2010	BBC One
Eve	2015–2016	CBBC
Worzel Gummidge [7]	2019–2021	BBC One	co-production with Lola Entertainment, Treasure Trove Productions and Pidgeon Entertainment
Hard Cell [8] [9]	2022	Netflix

Films

Title	Release date	Distributor	Notes
An Englishman in New York [10]	March 26, 2009	Leopard Distribution
Mimi And The Mountain Dragon [11]	December 26, 2019	BBC Studios Distribution	co-production with Factory

References

1. Waller, Ed (13 July 2001). "Ex-September man forms JV with Lion TV". C21Media.
2. "Leopard looks to LA". C21Media. 2 September 2004.
3. "Leopard films starts up drama arm". Broadcast Now. 11 November 2004.
4. "Leopard pounces on ITN exec". C21Media. 5 October 2007.
5. "Leopard boss launches Argonon super-indie". Digital Spy. 19 May 2011. Archived from the original on 23 February 2022. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
6. "Liam Keelan announces raft of new commissions as BBC Daytime tackles the issues that matter". BBC Press Office. 17 July 2008. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
7. "BBC One announces adaptation of iconic Worzel Gummidge starring Mackenzie Crook with first look picture" (Press release). BBC Media Centre. 6 June 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
8. "Catherine Tate to play multiple characters in new Netflix comedy series Hard Cell". Radio Times. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
9. Kanter, Jake (30 June 2021). "'Hard Cell': 'Doctor Who' Star Catherine Tate Lands Netflix Prison Comedy Series". Deadline. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
10. "An Englishman in New York". Leopard Pictures.
11. "BBC – Sir Michael Morpurgo's Mimi And The Mountain Dragon to be 'BBC One festive treat' – Media Centre". www.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 22 January 2020. Retrieved 2020-01-08.