Wall to Wall

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Wall to Wall is a British television production company, one of the world's leading producers of factual and drama programming.

For twenty years it has been supplying broadcasters around the world and its programmes and formats have sold in over one hundred territories.

Productions range from high-end event specials to high-volume output for digital channels spanning every genre from science and history to factual-entertainment and drama.

Wall to Wall’s productions have won almost every major international television award. The company was recently voted one of the seven most influential production companies in the world in the Real Screen Global 100 List.

Wall to Wall also distributes its own programming and attends the major international television markets.

Many of its commissions come from the UK broadcasters such as the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV, It also makes shows for US networks Discovery, NG and FX.

Highlights of recent output include: the celebrity-led genealogy format Who Do You Think You Are? (now with its fifth series in production) which after critical acclaim and record ratings transferred from BBC2 to BBC1. The hit BBC1 cop drama series New Tricks and the multi-award-winning special George Orwell: A Life in Pictures.

Other acclaimed productions include the ‘reality dramas’ Colonial House, Frontier House and The Edwardian Country House, the spectacular mini-series Ancient Egyptians, the chilling docu-dramas Smallpox and The Day Britain Stopped, the factual entertainment format Things I Hate About You and science specials Neanderthal and First Columbus.

Among the most acclaimed previous productions are The 1900 House and the drama A Rather English Marriage both winners of the prestigious Peabody Award and the Emmy-winning documentary series Baby It's You.

Wall to Wall was also the producer of Oil Storm, the film that, when broadcast in the spring of 2005, foretold the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina three months before it actually happened.

Productions include: