UMTV is a British radio and television production company set up by Chris Evans in 2002.
Christopher James Evans is an English television presenter, radio DJ, businessman, voice actor and producer for radio and television. He started his broadcasting career working for Piccadilly Radio, Manchester, as a teenager, before moving to London as a presenter for the BBC's Greater London Radio and then Channel 4 television, where The Big Breakfast made him a star. Soon he was able to dictate highly favourable terms, allowing him to broadcast on competing radio and TV stations. Slots like the Radio 1 Breakfast Show and TFI Friday provided a mix of celebrity interviews, music and comic games, delivered in an irreverent style that attracted high ratings, though often also generated significant numbers of complaints. By 2000 he was the UK's highest paid entertainer, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. In the tax year to April 2017, he was the BBC's highest paid presenter, earning between £2.2m and £2.25m annually.
The Directors are Chris Evans, Executive Producer and Writer; Clare Barton, Joint Managing Director/Head of Production; Chris Gillett, Joint Managing Director/Head of Operations and Helen Wright, Financial Director.
In 2007 UMTV Chris Evans left UMTV.
The company's back catalogue of shows include Boys and Girls (Channel 4), The Terry and Gaby Show (Channel 5), Johnny Vegas: 18 Stone of Idiot (Channel 4/E4), OFI Sunday (ITV1), Live With Christian O'Connell and Live With Chris Moyles (Channel 5) and School of Hard Knocks (Channel 4) which won a BAFTA back in 2005.
Boys and Girls was a British television gameshow broadcast in 2003 by Channel 4.
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The Terry and Gaby Show was a daytime television show broadcast on Five on weekday mornings between June 2003 and April 2004, produced by Chris Evans' company UMTV. It was hosted by Terry Wogan and Gaby Roslin.
Ad-funded projects have included The National Lottery Daily Play and Glory Ball for Challenge
UMTV has produced a series of shows including the 2007 Red Bull X-Fighters World Series 2007 for ITV4, ITV Mobiles/ITV2 The Hot Desk, Red Bull Flugtag London 2008 for ITV1/ITV4 and the Red Bull X-Fighters World Series 2008 for Dave.
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Red Bull Flugtag is an event organized by Red Bull in which competitors attempt to fly home-made, human-powered flying machines, size-limited to around 10 metres (33 ft), weight-limited to approximately 150 kilograms (330 lb). The flying machines are usually launched off a pier about 9 metres (30 ft) high into the sea or body of water. Most competitors enter for the entertainment value, and the flying machines rarely fly at all.
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In 2014 UMTV.TV produced over 20 hours of original broadcast TV in the UK.
In 2015 UMTV.TV will be producing its 8th series of Red Bull X-Fighters on Dave, its 2nd series of Red Bull Cliff Diving, an 8th series of The Hot Desk and a 2nd Series of The Red Bull Soapbox
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TFI Friday is an entertainment show that was broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. It was produced by Ginger Productions, written by Danny Baker and hosted by Chris Evans, for the first five series. The sixth series was hosted by a number of guest presenters. The show was broadcast on Fridays at 6pm from 9 February 1996 to 22 December 2000, with a repeat later that night. Its theme tune was Ron Grainer's theme from Man in a Suitcase, in keeping with Evans' frequent use of 1960s television themes in his work.
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