ABOUT US
BBC Studios Productions is a world-beating collective of critically acclaimed and publicly adored content producers, built on a 100 year legacy at the BBC and a global reputation for creating shows with prestige, purpose and, above all, superlative storytelling. Shows that enthral and educate, inspire and entertain.
Spanning the full breadth of specialisms, we have an enviable portfolio of content and expertise which has delivered genre-defining content to commissioners and co-production partners all over the globe.
Our five genre pillars - in Factual, Scripted, Global Entertainment, Kids & Family and Audio – boast an impressive range of market-leading production units, labels and indie partners whose commitment and capabilities in bringing world-class stories to global audiences is unparalleled.
Factual consists of the Natural History Unit, known as the NHU; the Science Unit; the Documentary Unit; and Specialist Factual Productions.
In Scripted, we have Drama Productions; Comedy Productions; and in the US, LA Productions Scripted team.
Global Entertainment span Entertainment Productions; Music Productions; Factual Entertainment Productions; and Events Productions (collectively, UK Entertainment). It is also successfully growing and exploiting intellectual property across our ten international production bases in France, Germany, Spain, Australia ,the Nordics, the US, India and South Africa.
We are home to a dedicated Kids & Family division, and have recently launched BBC Studios Audio - a cross-genre team specialising in iconic radio and hit podcasts, from world-class radio dramas, to impactful factual storytelling and award-winning comedy & entertainment audio formats.
OUR GENRES
OUR INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION LABELS, INVESTED INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS AND PRODUCTION PARTNERS
Beyond our stellar Production Units, we’re always looking to develop, diversify and push ourselves in bold and exciting new directions. As part of our genres, we also work with a range of independent production labels and invested independent producers.
We've fully aquired a number of brilliant and distinctive labels - including Baby Cow (Alan Partridge), Clerkenwell Films (Somewhere Boy), Firebird Pictures (Wilderness), House Productions (Sherwood), Lookout Point (Happy Valley), Sid Gentle Films Ltd . (Killing Eve) and Voltage TV (Amanda and Alan's Italian Job). We also work with a range of Invested Independent Producers including Boffola (Am I Being Unreasonable), Expectation (Alma's Not Normal), Mettlemouse , Moonage Pictures (The Famous Five), Mothership , Turbine Studios (Small Axe) and Various Artists Ltd. (I May Destroy You).
We also work with production partners including Drama Republic, Hartswood Films, John Downer Productions, Mindhouse, Red Planet Pictures, Rogan Productions, See Saw, SISTER, Uplands Television and Zinc Media.
BRANDED AND DIGITAL PRODUCTION
We also produce award-winning content across multiple platforms, including digital and social media content, brand-funded content and podcasts.
Our short-form YouTube series, The Workout Badges - a collaboration between Joe Wicks and Hey Duggee - won Best Digital Pre-school Content at the Broadcast Digital Awards in 2022. We’ve also produced impactful brand-funded TV series including Cook Clever, Waste Less with Prue & Rupy for Hellmann’s and Channel 4, Perpetual Planet: Heroes of the Ocean for Rolex and Nat Geo, and The Great Home Transformation for IKEA and Channel 4.
OUR CULTURE
INCLUSION RIDER We are committed to ensuring that at least 20% of talent on our Productions, on- and off-screen, identify as being from an under-represented background: from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background, have a lived experience of a disability, identify as LGBTQ+ or be from a low socio-economic background.
THE PLEDGE We empower our senior leaders to take responsibility for behaviour on their sets and responsibility and accountability for taking action when things aren't right.
ASSISTANT PRODUCER ACCELERATOR PROGRAMME One of the many ways that we invest in developing the next generation. The programme is designed to take 15 skilled researchers from across the industry to participate in a 12-month funded training programme.
*D&I Pledges vary Internationally
