About the writers and Company Pictures

Company Pictures

Company Pictures was established in 1998. Other television production highlights include: ‘Elizabeth I'(winner of 3 Golden Globes); all ten series of ‘Shameless' (Channel 4: BAFTA and RTS Awards); seven series of ‘Wild at Heart' (ITV); seven series of ‘Skins' (E4); ‘George Gently' (BBC1); ‘The Devil's Whore' (Channel 4); ‘Generation Kill' (HBO); ‘Mansfield Park'; ‘The Palace' (ITV1), ‘The Take'; ‘The Runaway' (Sky1 HD) and ‘Beaver Falls' (E4).

In the past Company Pictures has produced: ‘The Lakes' by Jimmy McGovern; ‘A Young Person's Guide to Being a Rockstar‘ (Channel 4 and Warner Bros: RTS award Best Serial); ‘North Square' (Channel 4: winner Best Series Press Guild);  ‘Not Only But Always...' (Channel 4: BAFTA winner: Rhys Ifans Best Actor); ‘The Rotters' Club' (BBC); and ‘Life and Death of Peter Sellers' (HBO: winner of two Golden Globe Awards for Best TV Movie and Best Actor for Geoffrey Rush and 15 Emmys).

Company has made five feature films with some of the UK's leading directing talent including Roger Michell, Stephen Hopkins, Penny Woolcock, Shane Meadows and Lynne Ramsey.

Amongst its numerous awards Company Pictures won Best Independent Production Company at the 2005 and 2008 Broadcast Awards and the European Producers of the Year Award at the 2004 Monte Carlo Awards.

Since October 2004 Company Pictures has been a part of the All3 Media Group.