Wall to Wall Media, part of

Warner Bros. Television Studios UK Warner Bros. Television Studios UK (formerly Shed Media Group and later Warner Bros. Television Productions UK) is a British creator and distributor of television content. The Group produces long-running television brands in drama, factual, doc ...

(formerly

Shed Media Warner Bros. Television Studios UK (formerly Shed Media Group and later Warner Bros. Television Productions UK) is a British creator and distributor of television content. The Group produces long-running television brands in drama, factual, doc ...

Group), is an independent television production company that produces event specials and drama, factual entertainment, science and history programmes for broadcast by networks in both the United Kingdom and United States. Its productions include Who Do You Think You Are?,

New Tricks ''New Tricks'' is a British television police procedural The police show, or police crime drama, is a subgenre of procedural drama and detective fiction that emphasizes the investigative procedure of a police officer or department as the ...

, Child Genius, and Long Lost Family. In January 2009, Wall to Wall's first feature film ''

Man on Wire ''Man on Wire'' is a 2008 documentary film directed by James Marsh. The film chronicles Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center. It is based on Petit's 2002 book, ''To Reach the Clouds'', r ...

'' won a BAFTA award for Outstanding British Film and followed this success with an

Academy Award The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ...

for Best Documentary Feature. Previously, the company had won a

Peabody Award The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and ...

in 2000 for ''The 1900 House''. Wall to Wall joined the

Group in November 2007. In July 2017, Wall to Wall opened a regional production base in

Bristol Bristol () is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. Bristol is the most populous city in ...

called Wall to Wall West headed by Emily Shields. Productions from Wall to Wall West include variations of the

BBC Two BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It covers a wide range of subject matter, with a remit "to broadcast programmes of depth and substance" in contrast to the more mainstream an ...

lifestyle documentary series Back in Time for... and

The World's Most Extraordinary Homes ''The World's Most Extraordinary Homes'' is a British documentary miniseries presented by Piers Taylor and Caroline Quentin and is broadcast on BBC Two. The series was also picked up by Netflix between March 2018 and July 2022. Synopsis The d ...

. Wall to Wall was one of the first production companies to win a factual commission from

Apple TV+ Apple TV is a digital media player and microconsole developed and marketed by Apple Inc. It is a small network appliance hardware that plays received media data such as video and audio to a television set or external display. Since its secon ...

with its series

Becoming You ''Becoming You'' is a documentary television series created by Wall to Wall Media and narrated by Olivia Colman. The series was released on November 13, 2020 on Apple TV+. Premise ''Becoming You'' follows 100 children from across the world t ...

, which premiered on 13 November, 2020. The company's name derives from negative references made in the mid-1980s, by then BBC Director-General

Alasdair Milne Alasdair David Gordon Milne (8 October 19308 January 2013) was a British television producer and executive. He had a long career at the BBC, where he was eventually promoted to Director-General, and was described by ''The Independent'' as "one ...

and in the title of a book by ''

Financial Times The ''Financial Times'' (''FT'') is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs. Based in London, England, the paper is owned by a Japanese holding company, Nik ...

'' journalist Chris Dunkley, to "wall-to-wall ''

Dallas Dallas () is the List of municipalities in Texas, third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 ...

''" as a possible after-effect of the coming deregulation of UK broadcasting. Future

BBC2 BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It covers a wide range of subject matter, with a remit "to broadcast programmes of depth and substance" in contrast to the more mainstream an ...

controller

Jane Root Jane Fairbairn Root (born 18 May 1957) is a creative executive in the media industry, who has run major television networks on both sides of the Atlantic. As Controller of BBC Two (1999 to 2004), she was the first woman to be a channel controller f ...

, among the company's founders, considered this a negative, puritanical and conservative view of the medium's possibilities (ref. ''

NME ''New Musical Express'' (''NME'') is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand. Founded as a newspaper in 1952, with the publication being referred to as a 'rock inkie', the NME would become a magazine that ended up as a f ...

'', 17 May 1986) and the name "Wall to Wall Television" was adopted as a conscious celebration of the medium, which its founders considered the "establishment" of the time to be frightened of.

Programming

Current productions

*'' Long Lost Family'': six series for ITV- total 43 episodes with more in production. * ''Back in Time For''...: five series for

– total 22 episodes, with more in production. *'' Child Genius'': four series plus a documentary, Celebrity Special and a "Five Years On" special for

Channel 4 Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned enterprise, state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a four ...

– total 18 episodes with more in production. * ''Who Do You Think You Are?'': twelve series plus adoption special for

BBC One BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's flagship network and is known for broadcasting mainstream programming, which includes BBC News television bulletins, p ...

– total 110 episodes, with more in production. *''500 Questions:'' First series for ITV.

Filmography

References

External links

* {{Authority control Warner Bros. Television production companies of the United Kingdom ro:Wall to Wall