Optomen Television


CEE nets gobble up All3 factual

Hungary’s TV2 has become the new local home of Gordon Ramsay series The F Word, as buyers in Central and Eastern Europe snap up All3Media International programming. TV2 has bought long-running UK series The F Word, which was for Channel 4 and from Optomen Television, along with other Ramsay-fronted programmes. These are two 1x90mins specials […]

BBC Studios hires Optomen exec for factual post

The BBC has poached the head of formats at All3Media-owned Optomen Television, Jon Swain, to lead a new production unit called Popular Factual (WT). The division will look to create new and returning popular factual, lifestyle series and features from bases in Bristol, Wales and Northern Ireland. It will sit within a new BBC Studios […]

Ex-Optomen exec joins ITV Studios prodco

Former Optomen Television production chief Gail Pinkerton has joined ITV Studios-owned UK prodco Possessed. She will be head of production at the fledgling company, which is behind unscripted series such as Pick Me (pictured), Cash Strapped and Spotless, which ITV is piloting for the UK market on Saturday, August 20. Pinkerton is a long-serving Optomen […]

Naked hires ex-Fox TV Studios UK chief

Simon Andreae’s production company, Naked Entertainment, has appointed former Fox Television Studios UK managing director Susie Dark as its first COO. Dark will oversee all financial, legal and operational aspects of Simon Andreae’s indie, which is one of a batch that FremantleMedia invested in last year. The company claims to have “several series commissions in […]

Gordon Ramsay creates prodco, All3 JV

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has created a studio and scored a joint venture production pact with All3Media. Studio Ramsay will focus on developing and producing unscripted and scripted television. According to a spokesperson, the prodco’s establishment does not effect Ramsay’s existing prodco, One Potato Two Potato, which is operated as a joint venture with All3-owned […]

Ramsay has final Kitchen Nightmares

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has brought his restaurant-in-trouble series Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares to an end after 10 years on Channel 4 in the UK. The show, which comes from All3Media’s Optomen Television and Ramsay’s One Potato Two Potato, first broadcast in 2004 and has spawned 123 episodes and a successful American remake for Fox, Kitchen […]

All3Media posts profit ahead of takeover

All3Media Holdings, the parent company that houses All3Media and its production companies, posted turnover of £507.6 million and EBITA of £60.5 million for the year to August 31, 2013. This compares with with £473 million and £64.1 million the previous year. All3 said the earnings figure reflected investments in digital producer Little Dot Studios and […]

Simon Andreae lands Darnell’s Fox role, Sony project in doubt

Fox Broadcasting has handed Simon Andreae the coveted role at the top of its alternative programming unit following the departure of long time incumbent Mike Darnell. The move brings to an end Fox’s long search for a replacement for Darnell, who left earlier this year after nearly two decades with the 21st Century Fox-owned broadcaster. […]

Sex, Drugs and Restaurant wars

“Chefs are the new rock stars,” says Mike Beale, head of formats at ITV Studios, the company behind long-running hit Come Dine With Me. “It’s not about Delia anymore and you could probably track this trend to The X Factor.” If chefs are the new rock stars, international cooking formats are their stage. The traditional […]