| Type | Private (part of the All3Media Group [1]) |
|---|---|
| Industry | TV Production |
| Founded | London, 2008 |
| Headquarters | London (UK) Los Angeles (USA) |
| Key people | Stephen Lambert, Chief Executive Eli Holzman, President, SL USA |
| Website | http://www.studiolambert.com |
Studio Lambert is a fast-growing independent television production company based in Los Angeles and London.
It specializes in creating and producing entertaining non-scripted programs for the UK, US and international markets. It launched in Soho, London, in March 2008 and six months later opened a US office in Culver City, CA.[1][2] It is currently producing shows in the US and UK for a wide range of broadcast and cable networks. In the 2011 Broadcast (magazine) survey of independent production companies, Studio Lambert ranked #11 by size of turnover.
Studio Lambert's first major formatted show was Undercover Boss, which started on Britain's Channel 4 in 2009. The company's American version premiered on CBS in February 2010 immediately after the Super Bowl to a record-breaking audience of nearly 40 million viewers - the largest audience ever for the premiere of a reality series.[3] It went on to become the most popular new show of the 2009-10 television season in any genre with an average audience of 17 million viewers and to earn an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Reality Program. The second season averaged 12.3 million viewers and in March 2011 CBS announced that it has ordered a third season of Undercover Boss from Studio Lambert.
In the UK, the company's returning series include Undercover Boss, Three in a Bed, Four in a Bed and The Fairy Jobmother all for Channel 4.
In the US, in addition to making 22 episodes a year of Undercover Boss other shows include Mel B: It's a Scary World for Style Network and The Fairy Jobmother for Lifetime. The AMC network announced in April 2011 that it had ordered one of its first unscripted shows from Studio Lambert - The Pitch.[4]
Studio Lambert also produces documentary projects such as Seven Days, a real-time documentary series filmed in Notting Hill and shown on Channel 4 in the autumn of 2010.[5] Other documentary projects made by the company include Benefit Busters for Channel 4 and a feature documentary on the financial crash titled The Flaw which was launched at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011..
Chief executive Stephen Lambert is responsible for ground-breaking international hit formats in Britain and America such as Wife Swap, Faking It, Secret Millionaire.
The US team of Studio Lambert is run by Eli Holzman, the former head and co-founder of Miramax Television. Holzman created the series Project Runway, and served as the president of Ashton Kutcher’s Katalyst Films, where he developed and launched Beauty and the Geek. As well as serving as an executive producer on Undercover Boss, Mel B: It's a Scary World and The Fairy Jobmother, Holzman is executive producer of the Studio Lambert/Zoo Productions series Southern Fried Stings for truTV.[6]
Studio Lambert is backed by All3Media, a global group of production companies and an international distribution company.
The original 'Studio Lambert' was a very successful television commercials production company in the 1960s, 70s and 80s run by Stephen Lambert's father, Roger Lambert, a director of many well-known ads.