Wall to Wall Media (production company)

Wall to Wall Media

Type	Subsidiary
Industry	TV Production
Founded	London, 1987
Headquarters	London (UK)
Key people	Leanne Klein (CEO)
Products	Child Genius New Tricks Who Do You Think You Are? Long Lost Family Drugs, Inc. Underworld, Inc. UK's Best Part-Time Band Frontier House George Orwell: A Life in Pictures Colonial House The Edwardian Country House Man on Wire Ancient Egyptians Smallpox 2002 The Day Britain Stopped
Parent	Warner Bros. Television Productions UK (Time Warner)
Website	http://www.walltowall.co.uk

Wall to Wall Media, part of Warner Bros. Television Productions UK (formerly Shed Media Group), is an independent television production company that produces event specials and drama, factual entertainment, science and history programmes for broadcast by networks in both the United Kingdom and United States.

In January 2009, Wall to Wall's first feature film Man on Wire won a BAFTA award for Outstanding British Film and followed this success with an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Previously, the company had won a Peabody Award in 2000 for The 1900 House.

Wall to Wall joined the Shed Media Group in November 2007.

The company's name derives from negative references made in the mid-1980s, by then BBC Director-General Alasdair Milne and in the title of a book by Financial Times journalist Chris Dunkley, to "wall-to-wall Dallas" as a possible aftereffect of the coming deregulation of UK broadcasting. Future BBC2 controller Jane Root, among the company's founders, considered this a negative, puritanical and conservative view of the medium's possibilities (ref. NME, May 17, 1986) and the name "Wall to Wall Television" was adopted as a conscious celebration of the medium, which its founders considered the "establishment" of the time to be frightened of.

Long Lost Family: six series for ITV- total 43 episodes with more in production.

Back In Time For...: five series for BBC Two - total 22 episodes, with more in production.

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