Optomen Shows
We’ve made shows for all UK broadcasters including: Great British Menu, Mary, Queen of Shops and What To Eat Now for BBC2; Police, Camera, Action for ITV; Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, The F Word and Heston's Feasts for Channel 4; Market Kitchen for Good Food; The Business Inspector for Five; and Ration Book Britain for Yesterday. In the US we've made hit shows for a wide range of broadcasters including Kitchen Nightmares for FOX; Worst Cooks In America for Food Network; Monsters Inside Me for Animal Planet and Samantha Brown's Great Weekends for The Travel Channel.
Great British Waste Menu follows four of the nation’s top chefs – Angela Hartnett, Richard Corrigan, Matt Tebbutt and Simon Rimmer – as they journey deep into the heart of Britain’s food waste problem, exploring how and why we throw away and reject huge quantities of perfectly edible food.
The nation’s favourite retail guru, Mary Portas, is back and this time Mary has swapped fashion boutiques to work with local independent shops.
The Lady is the longest running women's weekly magazine in Britain, but this old girl needs a new lease of life. Can new editor Rachel Johnson save this quirky British institution?
To mark the 70th anniversary of the beginning of food rationing in Britain, chef and passionate food lover Valentine Warner turns culinary time traveler to explore the food and recipes that kept wartime Britain alive.
Superchef Gordon Ramsay is hosting an action packed special on FOX combining great food with adrenaline-fuelled entertainment.
In Gordon’s Great Escape we see Gordon Ramsay leave his hectic professional life behind him as he embarks on a pilgrimage for fresh flavours.
Informative, funny, and packed full of great recipes, What To Eat Now: Summer is the six month story of what we should be eating come the summer and the definitive guide to summer cooking with an exciting new BBC TWO talent at the heart of it
Chef Heston Blumenthal becomes a gastronomic timelord as he travels back in time to culinary worlds that have gone untasted for centuries to create spectacular and unforgettable feasts.
Self-made millionaire Hilary Devey dishes out her no-nonsense advice to struggling entrepreneurs in this brand new troubleshooting series.
The nation’s favourite retail guru, Mary Portas, is back and this time she’s transforming Britain’s charity shops and the way we perceive them.