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Studio Lambert

{{Short description|British TV production company}}

{{distinguish|Studio Liddell}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Studio Lambert

| logo = StudioLambertLogo.png

| type = Subsidiary

| foundation = {{Start date and age|2008}}

| location = London, United Kingdom
Los Angeles, United States
Manchester, United Kingdom
Glasgow, United Kingdom

| locations = 4

| key_people = Stephen Lambert (CEO)
Tim Harcourt (Creative Director)
Susan Hogg (Head of Drama)
Jack Burgess (EVP, SL USA)

| industry = Television production

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| parent = All3Media

| homepage = {{URL|http://www.studiolambert.com}}

| footnotes =

}}

Studio Lambert is a British television production company based in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Los Angeles. It creates and produces scripted and unscripted programs for British and American broadcasters, cable networks and streaming platforms. It is part of All3Media, the global production group.{{cite web|url=https://all3media.com/group-companies/|title=Group Companies|website=All3Media.com}}

Stephen Lambert, creator of many well-known global formats, launched the company in 2008. Tim Harcourt joined in 2012, first as head of development then becoming creative director.{{cite web|url=https://www.studiolambert.com/about.html|title=About|website=www.studiolambert.com}} The company quickly grew a reputation on both sides of the Atlantic for making "innovative" and popular unscripted shows.{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/fox-celebrity-watch-party-1234594820/|title=Fox Sets Unscripted Series 'Celebrity Watch Party' Featuring Rob Lowe, Raven-Symoné|work=Variety|date=30 April 2020|access-date=26 January 2021}} Studio Lambert is known for many productions including award-winning global hits Undercover Boss, Gogglebox, The Traitors UK and The Traitors US as well as Race Across the World, The Circle and Four in a Bed. In 2022, it was announced Netflix had given Studio Lambert a series order for the biggest reality competition ever, Squid Game: The Challenge – a co-production with The Garden, featuring 456 players and a prize of $4.56m.{{Cite news|url=https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/squid-game-reality-competition-series-casting-call|title=Do You Want to Play the 'Squid Game'? Now You Can|work=Tudum|date=14 June 2022|access-date=15 September 2023}} In the 2024 Broadcast Magazine survey of independent UK production companies, Studio Lambert ranked #3 by size of turnover.{{Cite news|url= https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/table/indie-survey-table-2024/5191798.article|title= Indie Survey Table 2024|work=Broadcast|date=21 March 2024|access-date=2 April 2024}} In 2019 and in 2024, the same survey ranked the company #1 in its peer poll.{{Cite news|url=https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/indie-survey-2019/studio-lambert-circles-in-on-top-spot/5137871.article|title=Peer poll: Studio Lambert circles in on top spot|work=Broadcast|date=21 March 2019|access-date=26 January 2021}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/indie-survey-2024/peer-poll-top-10-revealed/5191692.article|title=Peer Poll: top 10 revealed

|work=Broadcast|date=20 March 2024|access-date=2 April 2024}} Studio Lambert won Best Independent Production Company at both the 2020 and 2024 Broadcast Awards.{{Cite news|url=https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/winners/best-independent-production-company-studio-lambert/5146888.article|title=Best independent production company: Studio Lambert|work=Broadcast|date=5 February 2020|access-date=26 January 2021}}{{cite news |title=2024 Broadcast Awards winners revealed |url=https://virginradio.co.uk/entertainment/134629/2024-broadcast-awards-winners-revealed |access-date=2 April 2024 |publisher=Virgin Radio |date=9 February 2024}}

A scripted division was established in 2015 to produce high quality drama series with British and American writers, directors and on-screen talent.{{Cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2015/02/susan-hogg-joins-studio-lambert-from-bbc-1201371971/|title=BBC Veteran Susan Hogg Joins Studio Lambert As Scripted Programming Chief, Head Of Drama|work=Deadline.com|date=12 February 2015|access-date=26 January 2021}} The company’s first scripted show, Three Girls, won five BAFTA awards in 2018.{{Cite news|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/2018-04-23/bafta-craft-tv-awards-2018-winners-list-full/|title=Three Girls and Game of Thrones lead Bafta TV Craft Awards 2018|work=Radio Times|date=23 April 2018|access-date=26 January 2021}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/may/13/bafta-tv-awards-2018-full-list-of-winners|title=Bafta TV awards 2018: full list of winners|work=TheGuardian.com|date=13 May 2018|access-date=26 January 2021}} The Feed launched on Prime Video in 2019,{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2019/tv/global/channing-powell-the-feed-canneseries-1203186633/|title='Walking Dead' Writer Channing Powell Plugs Into Dystopian Thriller 'The Feed'|work=Variety|date=11 April 2019|access-date=26 January 2021}} The Nest premiered on BBC One to high ratings and acclaim in 2020,{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52278494|title=Quiz and The Nest: Dramas score highly in Easter TV battle|work=BBC News|date=14 April 2020|access-date=26 January 2021}} and Three Families launched in 2021.{{Cite web|url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2021/three-families-cast |title= Cast confirmed for BBC One drama Three Families, from the producers of Three Girls |work=BBC Media Centre |date=7 April 2021|access-date=16 December 2021}}

The original 'Studio Lambert' was a very successful television adverts production company in the 1960s, 70s and 80s run by Stephen Lambert's father, Roger Lambert, a director of many well-known television adverts.

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Awards

Studio Lambert won Best Independent Production Company at the 2020 and 2024 Broadcast Awards.{{Cite news|url=https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/winners/best-independent-production-company-studio-lambert/5146888.article|title=Best independent production company: Studio Lambert|work=Broadcast|date=5 February 2020|access-date=26 January 2021}}{{cite news |title=2024 Broadcast Awards winners revealed |url=https://virginradio.co.uk/entertainment/134629/2024-broadcast-awards-winners-revealed |access-date=2 April 2024 |publisher=Virgin Radio |date=9 February 2024}}

In 2023, The Traitors UK won a BAFTA Television Award,{{Cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2023/05/the-traitors-wins-best-reality-constructed-factual-bafta-tv-awards-1235364859/|title='The Traitors' Wins Best Reality & Constructed Factual – BAFTA TV Awards|work=Deadline.com|date=14 May 2023|access-date=15 September 2023}} Edinburgh TV Award,{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66613793|title=Edinburgh TV Awards: Doctor Who regeneration wins TV moment of the year|work=BBC News|date=25 August 2023|access-date=15 September 2023}} RTS Programme Award{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2023/global/awards/rts-programme-awards-2023-winners-1235566730/|title=Kate Winslet, Kit Connor, 'The Traitors' Among Winners at U.K.'s Royal Television Society Awards|work=Variety|date=28 March 2023|access-date=15 September 2023}} and BPG Award. {{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2023/global/news/derry-girls-this-is-going-to-hurt-the-traitors-broadcasting-press-guild-awards-2023-1235563482/|title='Derry Girls,' 'This is Going to Hurt,' 'The Traitors' Take Top Honors at U.K. Broadcasting Press Guild Awards|work=Variety|date=24 March 2023|access-date=15 September 2023}} The Traitors US earned an Emmy Awards nomination and won for Outstanding Casting for a Reality Program. {{Cite news|url=https://www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/the-traitors-emmy-nomination-all-star-cast|title=Peacock's Murder-Mystery Series The Traitors Scores Emmy Nomination For All-Star Cast|work=NBC|date=12 July 2023|access-date=15 September 2023}}

Gogglebox has won numerous awards. In 2014 and 2022, it won a BAFTA in the Reality & Constructed Factual category.{{cite web |url=https://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=gogglebox|title=BAFTA Awards Search - Gogglebox| date=September 2023|website=BAFTA|access-date=18 September 2023 }} From 2015 to 2018, in 2021 and in 2022, it won a National Television Award.{{Cite web |last=Awards |first=National Television |title=Winners {{!}} National Television Awards |url=https://www.nationaltvawards.com/winners |access-date=2023-09-08 |website=www.nationaltvawards.com |language=en}} The format won a Rose d’Or Award in 2014.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29249967|title=Gogglebox wins Rose d'Or international TV award|work=BBC News|date=18 September 2014|access-date=18 September 2023}}

Race Across the World won a BAFTA in 2020 for Best Reality & Constructed Factual.{{cite web |url= https://www.bafta.org/television/reality-constructed-factual-0|title=Reality and Constructed Factual -Race Across the World|date=4 June 2020 }} It also won a Broadcast Award in 2021 for Best Popular Factual Programme{{Cite news|url=https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/winners/best-popular-factual-programme-race-across-the-world/5159832.article|title=Best popular factual programme: Race Across The World|work=Broadcast|date=27 May 2021|access-date=18 September 2023}} and has been nominated twice for the Grierson Awards.{{Cite news|url= https://www.televisual.com/news/bbc-leads-grierson-nominations/|title= BBC leads Grierson nominations|work=Televisual|date=15 September 2023|access-date=18 September 2023}}

Undercover Boss is a two-time Emmy Awards-winning series,{{cite web|last=Andreeva |first=Nellie |url=https://deadline.com/2012/09/2012-emmys-creative-arts-awards-analysis-336633/ |title=2012 Emmy Creative Arts Awards - The Analysis |date=16 September 2012 |publisher=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=20 April 2013}} which has been nominated multiple times for the Critics%27 Choice Television Awards.{{Cite news|url= https://realscreen.com/2012/06/06/hoarders-undercover-boss-vie-for-critics-choice-prize/|title= "Hoarders," "Undercover Boss" vie for Critics' Choice prize|work=Realscreen|date=6 June 2012|access-date=18 September 2023}}

BBC One limited drama series Three Girls won five BAFTAs including the award for Best Mini-Series.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-44102374|title=Bafta TV Awards: Britain's Got Talent, Love Island and Blue Planet II win|date=13 May 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=13 May 2018}} It won Best TV Drama at Prix Italia 2018,{{cite web|url=https://www.rai.it/prixitalia/news/2019/04/Premiazione-2018-97cada3b-beae-4585-a64b-fb30701fec6f.html|title=Prix Italia 2018 Winners| access-date=18 September 2023|website=RAI}} alongside winning awards at the RTS Programme Awards,{{cite web| title = RTS Programme Awards 2018, In Partnership with Audio Network| website = UK RTS| date = 13 October 2017| url = https://rts.org.uk/award/rts-programme-awards-2018-partnership-audio-network| access-date = May 16, 2018}} BPG Awards,{{cite web|url= http://www.broadcastingpressguild.org/bpg-awards/2018-2/|title = BPG Awards 2018 |date= 16 May 2018|access-date= 17 May 2018|website= Broadcasting Press Guild Association}} Broadcast Awards{{cite web|url= https://broadcastawards.co.uk/winners-2018/|title= Winners 2018 |date=February 2019|access-date= 19 May 2018|website= The Broadcast Awards}} and Edinburgh TV Awards.

The Circle won the C21 International Format Award for Best Competition Reality Format in 2019.{{Cite news|url= https://www.c21media.net/news/itv-leads-way-in-format-awards/|title= ITV leads way in Format Awards|work=C21Media|date=4 April 2009|access-date=18 September 2023}}

References

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External links

  • {{Official website|http://www.studiolambert.com}}

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Category:British companies established in 2008

Category:Mass media companies established in 2008

Category:Television production companies of the United States

Category:Television production companies of the United Kingdom

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Category:All3Media