Lime Companies

Lime Pictures, with bases in Liverpool and London, produces world-class, cutting-edge programming, covering a wide range of genres from reality drama, through to kids scripted to Channel 4’s multi- award-winning daily soap, Hollyoaks. With more than 30 years’ experience in producing content for global audiences, it produces for all platforms, both linear and VOD, and has played a pioneering role in the launch of new formats as well as using television as a way of on-screen storytelling, and as an off-screen platform, to communicate with a younger audience.

Lime Pictures’ extensive catalogue of programming includes worldwide Netflix hits Dance

Monsters, Zero Chill and double Emmy award-winning Free Rein, Hollyoaks for Channel 4, Vinnie Jones: In The Country for Discovery+, Match Me in Miami for ROKU, and the BAFTA award-winning reality series The Only Way Is Essex for ITVX. Productions for Paramount+ include Geordie Shore (the highest rated series outside of North America), Geordie OGs, True Love or True Lies, Love at First Lie: Who’s A Couple and Who’s A Con and Are You The One? UK. Lime Pictures also produces E4’s highly successful Celebs Go Dating as well as ITVX’s Georgia and Tommy: Baby Steps and Drama Queens.

Lime Pictures is part of All3Media.

At Lime Pictures Digital we are changing the way that audiences can access content by allowing our show characters to have a 360 existence outside of linear TV. Our team produce original content for online social media platforms, and we also recently produced a world-first partnership with Hollyoaks and the Home Office for a VR experience highlighting Women’s Safety. The last year has seen investment into digital innovation from broadcasters including Netflix, BBC, ITV, Channel 4, E4, Sky, C5 and MTV. Whether it is promotional content or a complementary documentary strand, all of the digital projects tell an inclusive story which is the heart of Lime Pictures’ ethos – Great stories, Brilliantly told.

From the North and from the heart, Wise Owl Films are a multi-award-winning team of programme makers from across many different genres of factual and factual entertainment television – from surprising docuseries about life in an ever-changing Britain to shows celebrating our popular culture, and social histories revealing untold stories about our nation. Over the last 20 years the team here at Wise Owl have worked with some of Britain’s best-loved talent and have told the stories of some of the best loved names in music and comedy. 

Recent commissions include BBC music documentaries When Tina Turner, When Motown and When Nirvana Came to Britain, More4 series Amanda Owen’s Farming Lives, BBC2 documentary The Hacienda: The Club That Shook Britain, Channel 4’s My Second Hand Home, and Channel 4.0’s Box Fresh.

Lion TV is one of the UK’s leading producers of factual television and content. With bases in London, New York and Glasgow and particular experience in Asia, Lion have been making multi-Emmy, BAFTA, RTS award-winning shows for the last 25 years. At Lion, we produce for the world’s biggest broadcasters and content providers including Netflix, BBC, Microsoft, National Geographic, Channel 4, PBS, Sky and Smithsonian. 

Recent series include the multi-BAFTA award winning; Horrible Histories (BBC), Sexy Beasts (Netflix), Arctic From Above (Sky/ NBCU), Mary Beard’s Forbidden Art (BBC2), Homes Under the Hammer (BBC), and Inside the Tower of London (C5). Lion also has a stellar track-record in documentaries including Secrets of The Saqqara Tomb (one of the top five documentaries in Netflix history) and Stolen (BBC’s highly commended art heist series).