Remarkable Entertainment

Remarkable Entertainment

Formerly	Remarkable Television (2009–2016)
Company type	Subsidiary
Predecessors	Cheetah Television (1987–2009) Brighter Pictures (1992–2009)
Founded	2009;16 years ago (2009)
Headquarters	London , England
Parent	Banijay UK Productions
Website	www.remarkble.tv

Remarkable Entertainment (formerly known as Remarkable Television) is a British television production company that is part of Banijay UK Productions which is part of French production & distribution company Banijay Entertainment. It was created through the merger of two British production companies Cheetah Television and Brighter Pictures by their Dutch parent company Endemol in 2009.

History

In June 2014, Remarkable announced that establishment of their game-show division Remarkable Games with former head of entertainment at Remarkable Television named James Fox heading the new games division as their creative director. ^[1]

In July 2020, Remarkable and its Dutch production & distribution parent Endemol Shine Group was merged into French production & distribution company Banijay Group (who owns its British subsidiaries) with Remarkable became a subsidiary of Banijay's UK division Banijay UK and became its new parent as Banijay's distribution arm Banijay Rights will distribute Remarkable's future programmes. ^{[2] [3]}

In July 2023, Banijay UK Productions announced the merger of Remarkable's factual production division Remarkable Factual into Banijay's other British factual production subsidiary RDF Television with Kitty Walshe stepping down of the CEO of both factual producers. ^[4]

Filmography

Title	Years	Network	Notes
Ready Steady Cook [5]	1994–2021 [6]	BBC Two/BBC One	inherited from Cheetah Television
Deal or No Deal	2005–present	Channel 4/ITV1 [7]	inherited from Cheetah Television West
Only Connect	2008–present	BBC Four/BBC Two	inherited from Presentable and RDF Television [8]
Pointless	2009–present	BBC Two/BBC One	inherited from Brighter Pictures
Celebrity Big Brother	2010	Channel 4
Big Brother
Divided		ITV1
The Million Pound Drop	2010–2015; 2018–2019	Channel 4
The Bank Job	2012	Channel 4
Tipping Point [8]	2012–present	ITV1	inherited from RDF Television and Fizz
The Common Denominator	2013	Channel 4
Ejector Seat	2014	ITV1
The Singer Takes It All		Channel 4	co-production with Initial
Two Tribes	2014–2015	BBC Two
The Big Spell	2017	Sky One
Richard Osman's House of Games	2017–present	BBC Two
All Together Now	2018–2019	BBC One
The Wall	2019–2022		co-production with Glassman Media and Springhill Entertainment
The Birthday Cake Game	2021	BBC Radio 4
Starstruck	2022–2023	ITV1
The Big Interiors Battle	2023	Channel 4
Survivor		BBC One
Genius Game	2025–present	ITV1
Building the Band	2025–present	Netflix

References

1. Barraclough, Leo (June 4, 2014). "Endemol U.K. Launches Formats Specialist Remarkable Games". Variety.
2. "Banijay Closes Endemol Shine Acquisition, Forming Global Production Giant". The Hollywood Reporter . July 3, 2020. Retrieved September 20, 2024.
3. Whittingham, Clive (July 7, 2020). "Banijay completes Endemol Shine deal". C21Media.
4. Goldbert, Max (July 17, 2023). "Kitty Walshe Exiting Banijay Labels RDF & Remarkable Factual After Eight Years". Deadline Hollywood.
5. "BBC - Rylan Clark-Neal top host all new Ready Steady Cook on BBC One - Media Centre". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
6. Seddon, Dan (7 September 2021). "Ready, Steady, Cook reboot has been axed by the BBC". Digital Spy.
7. "DEAL OR NO DEAL RETURN CONFIRMED FOR ITV AND ITVX AND STV". Dock10 . March 2023. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
8. Booth, Martin (2 February 2024). "Award-winning Bristol production company to close after 30 years". Bristol 24/7.

External links

• Official website