Studio Lambert

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Studio Lambert
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Television production
Founded2008;16 years ago (2008)
HeadquartersLondon, United Kingdom
Los Angeles, United States
Manchester, United Kingdom
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Number of locations
4
Key people
Stephen Lambert (CEO)
Tim Harcourt (Creative Director)
Susan Hogg (Head of Drama)
Jack Burgess (EVP, SL USA)
Parent All3Media
Website www.studiolambert.com

Studio Lambert is a British television production company based in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Los Angeles. It creates and produces scripted and unscripted programs for British and American broadcasters, cable networks and streaming platforms. It is part of All3Media, the global production group. [1]

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Stephen Lambert, creator of many well-known global formats, launched the company in 2008. Tim Harcourt joined in 2012, first as head of development then becoming creative director. [2] The company quickly grew a reputation on both sides of the Atlantic for making "innovative" and popular unscripted shows. [3] Studio Lambert is known for many productions including award-winning global hits Undercover Boss , Gogglebox , The Traitors UK and The Traitors US as well as Race Across the World , The Circle and Four in a Bed . In 2022, it was announced Netflix had given Studio Lambert a series order for the biggest reality competition ever, Squid Game: The Challenge – a co-production with The Garden, featuring 456 players and a prize of $4.56m. [4] In the 2024 Broadcast Magazine survey of independent UK production companies, Studio Lambert ranked #3 by size of turnover. [5] In 2019 and in 2024, the same survey ranked the company #1 in its peer poll. [6] [7] Studio Lambert won Best Independent Production Company at both the 2020 and 2024 Broadcast Awards. [8] [9]

A scripted division was established in 2015 to produce high quality drama series with British and American writers, directors and on-screen talent. [10] The company’s first scripted show, Three Girls , won five BAFTA awards in 2018. [11] [12] The Feed launched on Prime Video in 2019, [13] The Nest premiered on BBC One to high ratings and acclaim in 2020, [14] and Three Families launched in 2021. [15]

The original 'Studio Lambert' was a very successful television adverts production company in the 1960s, 70s and 80s run by Stephen Lambert's father, Roger Lambert, a director of many well-known television adverts.

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Awards

Studio Lambert won Best Independent Production Company at the 2020 and 2024 Broadcast Awards . [16] [17]

In 2023, The Traitors UK won a BAFTA Television Award , [18] Edinburgh TV Award, [19] RTS Programme Award [20] and BPG Award. [21] The Traitors US earned an Emmy Awards nomination for Outstanding Casting for a Reality Program. [22]

Gogglebox has won numerous awards. In 2014 and 2022, it won a BAFTA in the Reality & Constructed Factual category. [23] From 2015 to 2018, in 2021 and in 2022, it won a National Television Award . [24] The format won a Rose d’Or Award in 2014. [25]

Race Across the World won a BAFTA in 2020 for Best Reality & Constructed Factual. [26] It also won a Broadcast Award in 2021 for Best Popular Factual Programme [27] and has been nominated twice for the Grierson Awards . [28]

Undercover Boss is a two-time Emmy Awards -winning series, [29] which has been nominated multiple times for the Critics' Choice Television Awards . [30]

BBC One limited drama series Three Girls won five BAFTAs including the award for Best Mini-Series. [31] It won Best TV Drama at Prix Italia 2018, [32] alongside winning awards at the RTS Programme Awards , [33] BPG Awards, [34] Broadcast Awards [35] and Edinburgh TV Awards.

The Circle won the C21 International Format Award for Best Competition Reality Format in 2019. [36]

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