Lion Television, also known as Lion TV is a British factual television production company that is a subsidiary of All3Media headquartered in London, Glasgow and Los Angeles. Founded in 1997 by former BBC documentary producers Richard Bradley, Nick Catliff and Jeremy Mills, Lion Television produced factual, scripted & non-scripted documentary programming for networks such as BBC and Channel 4.
History
In July 2001, Lion Television partnered with former head of factual at September Films, James Burstall, to launch a joint-venture production company which was called Leopard Television with the newly launched company would be based at Lion Television's headquarters and would share Lion's American offices as James Burstall became the new company's president & CEO.[1]
On 23 June 2003, Lion Television expanded its American production services by opening a Los Angeles production office based in Los Angeles with Lion Television's former head of its New York office, Ciara Byrne, would head Lion Television's new production office based in Los Angeles via executive director.[2] Five months later on 13 November of that year, Lion Television breached into the Asian production service with the establishment of its Beijing office via a joint venture with Chinese television network Phoenix Television