Big Talk Studios is one of the world’s leading scripted television production companies, led by Chief Executive Kenton Allen. It has an unparalleled reputation for producing genre-defining British comedy and tonally distinctive, character-driven international drama.
Recent successes include The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin starring Noel Fielding, Hugh Bonneville and Tamsin Greig which launched on Apple TV+ to critical acclaim in March, and Stephen Merchant’s BBC / Amazon series The Outlaws, whose ‘outrageously funny’ (The Telegraph) third series hit UK screens at the end of May 2024.
Renowned for both championing new talent and attracting the biggest names in UK television alike, Big Talk has recently wrapped filming on Ludwig, a new BBC One 6 x 60’ crime dramedy starring David Mitchell as the eponymous accidental detective, and has just launched the second series of hit BBC Three comedy Peacock starring People Just Do Nothing’s Alan ‘Seapa’ Mustafa and Steve Stamp.
April 2024 saw the launch of Dinner with the Parents, the US remake of Big Talk’s Friday Night Dinner (one of Channel 4’s most successful comedies ever). This 10 x 30’ series, a co-production with CBS Studios for Amazon Freevee, transplants the chaotic, idiosyncratic family dynamics of the original to American suburbia and stars top US comedy talent Dan Bakkedahl (Veep, The Mindy Project) and Michaela Watkins (Casual, The Dropout) and Carol Kane (Taxi, The Princess Bride).
Other recent productions include a 90’ movie of apocalyptic alien comedy We Are Not Alone created by Ghosts co-creators Larry Rickard and Ben Willbond for UKTV channel Dave; two series of BAFTA-nominated Timewasters for ITV; the conclusion of Stefan Golaszewski’s critically lauded and BAFTA award-winning comedy Mum starring Lesley Manville for BBC Two; and two series of Back, the “world class” (The Guardian) dark comedy starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb and created by Simon Blackwell for Channel 4.
Big Talk’s illustrious history spans multiple film and TV hits over almost three decades and includes BAFTA award-winning comedies Rev. and Him & Her, and the revival of the much-loved Cold Feet. Winning ‘Production Company of the Year’ in 2018, a mainstay in Broadcast’s ‘Best Places to Work in TV,’ and collecting multiple awards from BAFTA, Rose D’Or, RTS, Edinburgh TV Festival, and the Writers’ Guild among others, the company is again and again rewarded for being at the forefront of UK television. In turn, Big Talk is committed to increasing diversity and access while continuing to deliver unrivalled scripted content of all shapes and sizes for audiences around the world.
