About Us
Optomen
is an independent television production company known for the flair,
originality and attention to detail we bring to our productions. We’re in the
top 30 independent production companies in the
We’re
passionate about television, and pride ourselves on making high quality
programmes that viewers love. We’ve made shows for all UK broadcasters
including: Great British Menu, Mary, Queen of Shops and The Naked Chef for
BBC2; Police, Camera, Action for ITV; Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, The F Word
and Jump London for Channel 4; Market Kitchen for UKTV Food; Great British
Christmas for Sky One; Hannah Glasse: The First Domestic Goddess for BBC4; and
Japanese Schoolgirls for Discovery UK.
We’re
proud to have won lots awards for our programmes, including an International
Emmy, three BAFTAs, three Royal Television Society awards, three Indie awards
and two Glenfiddich awards for food programming. Televisual magazine’s Peer
Poll awarded us 7th place in the top ten most respected
In
the USA Optomen has produced directly for, or co-produced with, Fox, HBO,
A&E, Discovery, TLC, PBS and Food Network. In 2002, we launched Optomen
We have our own distribution arm – Optomen International – which sells our completed programmes worldwide (global hits include The F Word, Kitchen Nightmares, Great British Menu and Police, Camera, Action) and we’re now successfully selling our own programme formats with shows in production across the globe from Russia (The Naked Chef) to the USA (Kitchen Nightmares). We’re also well known for the exploitation of ancillary rights, with best-selling books published to accompany The F Word, Great British Menu, Kitchen Nightmares, Two Fat Ladies and The Naked Chef.
