Company Overview

Lion Television was founded in 1997 by Jeremy Mills, Nick Catliff and Richard Bradley. Since then Lion has become one of the most successful independent production companies in the United Kingdom.

The company currently has over 200 production staff at its London, Glasgow, New York, and Los Angeles bases. Overseeing all staff and productions is Shahana Meer, who became a company Director in 1999 having been with the company from its outset.

Lion is one of the few independent television companies noted for its strong relation with international broadcasters in Europe - Scandinavia, Italy, France, and Ireland, Australia, Canada, and the United States.

In the US the slate of programmes includes productions for the CBS network, as well as Fox, PBS (WGBH, WNET and OPB), Discovery Channel, Discovery Health, E! Entertainment, Animal Planet, National Geographic, The Learning Channel, The Travel Channel, HBO, Court TV, A & E and MSNBC.

In June 2004 Lion became part of the All3Media group.

Interactive
Lion Interactive is a multi-purpose facility developing ideas and content for internet, mobile, broadband and interactive TV platforms. The department has produced sites for major clients including Channel 4 and PBS in America and received a number of accolades, including an RTS award, Learning on Screen award and BAFTA nominations. Past credits include: the long-running History Detectives Website, numerous Empires websites for PBS and Playing it Straight and Hajj for Channel 4...Find out more.