Wonderhood Studios


Wonderhood Television promotes for development & production

Wonderhood Television, the TV arm of UK-based Wonderhood Studios, has promoted Lianne Hickey to director of productions and operations and Tom Garton to the newly created role of director of development. Hickey joined Wonderhood in 2022 as head of production, during which time she has worked across shows including Evacuation, Super Surgeons and The Kidnap […]

BBC Studios restructures docs unit with BBCS podcast chief & Wonderhood exec appointments

BBC Studios (BBCS) has restructured its documentary division with podcast exec Georgia Moseley and Wonderhood Studios’ Katharine Patrick taking up new roles at the company. Moseley becomes head of the Documentary Unit while Patrick has been named senior creative director, working with existing editorial leads and creative directors Kirsty Cunningham and Joe Mather. Patrick and […]

Paramount + & Channel 5 visit Park Lane Hilton in Wonderhood docuseries

Paramount+ and UK broadcaster Channel 5 have commissioned Inside The Hilton On Park Lane (working title), a docuseries featuring exclusive access to the prestigious London hotel. Produced by Wonderhood Studios, the 4 x 60-minute series goes behind the scenes at the hotel as it undergoes a multi-million-pound renovation. To celebrate its 60th anniversary, the hotel, […]

Paramount+ & C5 explore the last days of Dodi Al-Fayed

Paramount Global streamer Paramount+ and UK broadcaster Channel 5 have ordered a documentary about the life of Egyptian film producer Dodi Al-Fayed and his untimely death alongside Britain’s Princess Diana. Produced by Wonderhood Studios, the 1 x 90-minute Dodi: Last Days Of A Playboy aims to go “beyond the image of a pampered playboy portrayed […]

UK’s Channel 4 orders Wonderhood’s pet pregnancy show ‘Fur Babies’

Channel 4 (C4) in the UK has ordered a four-part docuseries that explores the highs and lows that occur when people’s pets become pregnant. Fur Babies (working title) is from Wonderhood Studios and will use a state-of-the art rig to capture all the important moments in pet pregnancy from initial ultrasounds to the labours and […]

Channel 4 teams with Wonderhood for cancer hospital obs-doc

UK broadcaster Channel 4 has commissioned Super Surgeons: A Chance At Life, a new series following some of the world’s leading surgical oncologists as they employ ground-breaking new technology to try to save or prolong the lives of their patients. Produced by Wonderhood Studios, the 3 x 60-minute series has exclusive access to The Royal […]

Wonderhood rejigs senior roles, hires Naked’s head of production

David Abraham and Samantha Anstiss’s UK-based Wonderhood Studios has hired Lianne Hickey from Fremantle-owned Naked to head up its production efforts. Hickey, who was most recently head of production at Naked, takes the same role at Wonderhood, which has also promoted Katharine Patrick to become head of factual and named Tom Garton as its head […]

Sky boosts factual with bumper order & preps Sky Max drama original

European pay-TV giant Sky has just made a bumper factual order for seven new original productions across its Sky Documentaries, Sky Crime, Sky Nature and Sky History channels, while also commissioning an original crime drama for its newly announced linear channel Sky Max. Four of the newly commissioned factual titles – all seven of which […]

Sky partners with Wonderhood & The Guardian for modelling industry exposé

European pay TV operator Sky has partnered with UK newspaper The Guardian and Wonderhood Studios on a docuseries that explores alleged sexual abuse in the modelling industry. The untitled three-part series will aim to shine a spotlight on the life-changing events experienced by models over decades, revealing not only the behaviours of prominent individuals but also how […]