Private | |
Industry |
Television production Mass media |
Founded | 1988 |
Headquarters |
London, United Kingdom New York City, United States |
Key people
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Patricia Llewellyn (CEO, Optomen UK) Maria Silver (President, Optomen USA) |
Parent | All3Media |
Website | www |
Optomen is an independent television production company, with Optomen Television Ltd. for the United Kingdom and Optomen Productions Inc. (launched in 2002) for the United States.
Optomen produces a variety of television shows for many UK broadcasters including BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky1, Good Food and Discovery. Meanwhile in the US, Optomen has produced directly for, or co-produced with, Fox, HBO, A&E, Discovery, TLC, PBS and Food Network with many more to come.
Optomen International is its distribution arm which sells its completed programmes worldwide, the most popular being The F Word, Kitchen Nightmares, Great British Menu and Police Camera Action!.
Optomen has also published books to accompany the following programmes: The F Word, Great British Menu, Kitchen Nightmares, Two Fat Ladies and The Naked Chef.
The company has won many awards over the years, including an International Emmy, three BAFTAs, three Royal Television Society awards, three Indie awards and two Glenfiddich awards.