About Maverick Television
Category: News ReleaseMaverick is one of the most successful production companies in the UK, with a reputation for producing challenging and innovative documentaries, features and factual series for all the major UK broadcasters.
In the last 12 months, Maverick has produced amongst others: ratings triumph Embarrassing Fat Bodies, Embarrassing Bodies: Live From The Clinic, The Model Agency, Gok's Teens: The Naked Truth (all for Channel 4), Bizarre Crime (BBC Three), Get The Junior Look (Disney Junior), My Naked Secret (Discovery Real Time), My Super Sweet World Class for MTV and Britain's Next Big Thing (BBC Two).
Alongside the broadcast output, Maverick has continued to pioneer in digital media. It has a treble-BAFTA award-winning New Media department, producing innovative multiplatform content, including Embarrassing Bodies, which won the Broadcast Award for Most Popular Factual 2011, Royal Television Society and British Interactive Media Association awards as well as the 2009 BAFTA for interactivity and the Broadcast Digital Award for Best Use of Interactive in 2010.
Embarrassing Bodies Live was nominated for an International Digital Emmy, in the Digital Programme: Non Fiction category. To date, the Embarrassing Bodies website has had over 13 million visits since launch, 16 million video views, 120 million page views and more than 150,000 user comments.
Maverick Television is based in Birmingham and London; Jim Sayer is Managing Director and Alexandra Fraser is Creative Director.