Optomen

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Optomen
Type Subsidiary
Industry Television production
Mass media
Founded1988;35 years ago (1988)
Headquarters London, United Kingdom
New York City, United States
Key people
Patricia Llewellyn
(CEO, Optomen UK)
Maria Silver
(President, Optomen USA)
Parent All3Media
Divisions Optomen Entertainment
Website www.optomen.com

Optomen is an independent television production company, with Optomen Television Ltd. for the United Kingdom and Optomen Productions Inc. (launched in 2002) for the United States.

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Broadcasting

United Kingdom and the United States

Optomen produces a variety of television shows for UK broadcasters including BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky1, Good Food and Discovery. In the US, Optomen has produced directly for, or co-produced with, Fox, HBO, A&E, Discovery, TLC, PBS, and Food Network. [1]

International

Optomen International is its distribution arm which sells its completed programmes worldwide, the most popular being The F Word , Kitchen Nightmares , Great British Menu, and Police Camera Action! .[ citation needed ]

List of programmes

TitleBroadcasterTransmission dateEpisodesRunning time per episode
Anatomy of Desire Channel 4 1998449 minutes
Anatomy of Disgust Channel 4 2000349 minutes
Boy Meets Girl Channel 4 2001349 minutes
Can Animals Predict Disaster?PBS Nature160 minutes
Crazy DriversBravo20031325 minutes
D-Day Despatches ITV June 2004515 minutes
Eating With... BBC Two 830 minutes
First Catch Your Hare: Hannah Glasse BBC Four 130 minutes
Food Glorious Food ITV 2013960 minutes
French Leave Channel 4 September 20031030 minutes
Gangland GraveyardPBS/Channel 4 160 minutes
Giada in Paradise Television Food Network 260 minutes
Gordon Ramsay's F Word Channel 4 2005960 minutes
Great British WeddingsSky One360 minutes
Green: The New Red, White & BlueDiscovery Channel190 minutes
Hell's Kitchen Fox 200560 minutes
If You Can't Stand The Heat Channel 4 1999
It's A Girl Thing Channel 4 November 2001624 minutes
Japanese SchoolgirlsDiscovery Science230 minutes
Jump London Channel 4
Kitchen Criminals BBC Two 2030 minutes
Making Slough Happy BBC Two November 2005460 minutes
Market Kitchen Good Food 2007
Mary Queen of Shops BBC Two 460 minutes
MasterChef FOX 201060 minutes
Mind of a Millionaire BBC Two October 2003460 minutes
Most Evil Discovery Channel
Matilda and the Ramsay Bunch CBBC 2015–Present30 (1 upcoming series)15 minutes
Old Bear Stories Carlton Television 1993-1997310 mins
One Fat Lady, One Large Life BBC Two 1999
Police Camera Action! ITV 199430 minutes
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Channel 4/Fox 200360 minutes
Red GoldWNET/Thirteen/Channel 4 349 minutes
Return of the Chef Channel 4 January 2005830 minutes
Role ReversalArts & Entertainment NetworkMarch 20031120 minutes
Saturday Cookbook ITV Breakfast 20122144 minutes
Sex BC Channel 4 July 2002249 minutes
Spirituality Shopper Channel 4 June 2005
The Great British Menu BBC Two 8030 minutes
The Naked Chef BBC Two 1999
Two Fat Ladies BBC Two 1996–19992430 minutes
Two Men in a Trench - Series 1 BBC Two September 2002650 minutes
Two Men in a Trench - Series 2 BBC Two February 2004660 minutes
Tyler's UltimateFood Network20032622 minutes
Worst Cooks in America Food Network20102260 minutes
You’re Not the Man I MarriedLifetime1330 minutes

Publications

Optomen has also published books to accompany the following programmes: The F Word , Great British Menu, Kitchen Nightmares , Two Fat Ladies , and The Naked Chef .

Awards

The company has won many awards over the years, including an International Emmy, three BAFTAs, three Royal Television Society awards, three Indie awards, and two Glenfiddich awards. [2]

Sale to All3Media

On 13 August 2010, it was announced that Optomen had been acquired by All3Media in a £40 million takeover.[ citation needed ] The agreement saw All3Media take control of Optomen along with its New York-based subsidiary Optomen Productions Inc and One Potato Two Potato, which was established as a joint venture with Gordon Ramsay.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. "About Optomen an international television production company". Archived from the original on 2007-09-01. Retrieved 2007-10-06.
  2. "Awards Optomen has been nominated for or won". Archived from the original on 2007-08-31. Retrieved 2007-10-06.