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Optomen 
Type Limited Industry Media Founded 1988 Headquarters Optomen Television Ltd.
London, England
Optomen Productions Inc.
New York, U.S.Key people Optomen Television Ltd. - Patricia Llewellyn (MD)
Optomen Productions Inc. - Beth Hoppe (CEO)Products Television Owner(s) All3Media Website www.optomen.com Optomen is an independent television production company with Optomen Television Ltd. for the United Kingdom and Optomen Productions Inc. launched in 2002 for the United States.
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Broadcasting
United Kingdom and the United States
Optomen produce a variety of television shows for many UK broadcasters including BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky One, UKTV Food and Discovery UK. Meanwhile in the U.S. Optomen has produced directly for, or co-produced with, Fox, HBO, A&E, Discovery, TLC, PBS and Food Network with many more to come.[1]
International
Optomen International is their distribution arm which sells their completed programmes worldwide, the most popular being The F-Word, Kitchen Nightmares, Great British Menu and Police Camera Action!.
List of Programmes
Title Broadcaster Transmission Date Episodes Running Time per Episode Anatomy of Desire Channel 4 1998 4 49 Minutes Anatomy of Disgust Channel 4 2000 3 49 Minutes Boy Meets Girl Channel 4 2001 3 49 Minutes Can Animals Predict Disaster? PBS Nature 1 60 Minutes Crazy Drivers Bravo 2003 13 25 Minutes D-Day Despatches ITV June 2004 5 15 Minutes Eating With... BBC Two 8 30 Minutes First Catch Your Hare: Hannah Glasse BBC Four 1 30 Minutes French Leave Channel 4 September 2003 10 30 Minutes Gangland Graveyard PBS/Channel 4 1 60 Minutes Giada in Paradise Television Food Network 2 60 Minutes Gordon Ramsay's F Word Channel 4 2005 9 60 Minutes Great British Weddings Sky One 3 60 Minutes Green: The New Red, White & Blue Discovery Channel 1 90 Minutes Hell's Kitchen Fox 2005 60 Minutes If You Can't Stand The Heat Channel 4 1999 It's A Girl Thing Channel 4 November 2001 6 24 Minutes Japanese Schoolgirls Discovery Science 2 30 Minutes Jump London Channel 4 Kitchen Criminals BBC Two 20 30 Minutes 23 Minutes Making Slough Happy BBC Two November 2005 60 Minutes Market Kitchen Good Food 2007 Mary Queen of Shops BBC Two 4 60 Minutes Mind of a Millionaire BBC Two October 2003 4 60 Minutes Most Evil Discovery Channel One Fat Lady, One Large Life BBC Two 1999 Police Camera Action! ITV 1994 30 Minutes (Ramsay's) Kitchen Nightmares Channel 4/Fox 2003 60 Minutes Red Gold WNET/Thirteen/Channel 4 3 49 Minutes Return of the Chef Channel 4 January 2005 8 30 Minutes Role Reversal Arts & Entertainment Network March 2003 1 120 Minutes Sex BC Channel 4 July 2002 2 49 Minutes Spirituality Shopper Channel 4 June 2005 The Great British Menu BBC Two 80 30 Minutes The Naked Chef BBC Two 1999 Two Fat Ladies BBC Two 1996–1999 24 30 Minutes Two Men in a Trench - Series 1 BBC Two September 2002 6 50 Minutes Two Men in a Trench - Series 2 BBC Two February 2004 6 60 Minutes Tyler's Ultimate Food Network 2003 26 22 Minutes You’re Not the Man I Married Lifetime 13 30 Minutes Publications
Optomen has also published books to accompany the following programmes: The F-Word, Great British Menu, Kitchen Nightmares, Two Fat Ladies and The Naked Chef.
Awards
The company are proud of the many awards they have won over the years including an International Emmy, three BAFTAs, three Royal Television Society awards, three Indie awards and two Glenfiddich awards.[3]
Sale to All3Media
On Friday 13 August 2010 it was announced the Optomen had been acquired by All3Media in a £40 million takeover. The agreement sees All3Media take control of Optomen along with its New York-based subsidiary Optomen Productions Inc and One Potato Two Potato, which was established as a joint venture with Gordon Ramsay.
References
- ^ http://www.optomen.com/company/about_us About Optomen
- ^ http://www.optomen.com/shows Optomen Programmes
- ^ http://www.optomen.com/company/awards Optomen Awards
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- Companies based in New York
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