Objective Media Group (OMG), previously known as Objective Productions, is a media production company. It has produced shows including The Cube, Lingo, The Gold, Feel Good, Peep Show, Fresh Meat, and Toast of London. The company has offices in London, Manchester, Glasgow, Scotland and Los Angeles, California.
Objective has won a number of awards including BAFTA,[1] RTS Awards,[2] British Comedy Awards,[3] Rose d'Or,[4] Monte Carlo Golden Nymphs and the South Bank Show.
Objective Productions was founded in 1991 as Objective Productions by Andrew O'Connor.
On 15 August 2007, British independent powerhouse group All3Media acquired Objective Productions in order to expand its TV production and distribution.[5]
On 24 September 2015, Objective announced that they would undergo a creative restructure.[6]
On 17 December 2015, Objective announced that they had launched a factual entertainment label with Deborah Sargeant in which it was named Second Star Productions.[7] However, on 22 April 2022, after the departure of Deborah Sargeant, the founder of Second Star Productions, Objective Media Group folded its factual entertainment label Second Star Productions into All3Media's fellow production subsidiary Betty TV.[8]
On 6 January 2016 following the establishment of Objective Productions' factual entertainment label Second Star Productions a month prior in December 2015, Objective Productions launched a second production label which its an entertainment subsidiary entitled Panda Television with Objective Productions appinted former Wall to Wall Media exeuctive Moira Ross to head Panda Television as the role of CCO.[9][10] Two weeks later on the 22nd of that month, Objective Productions partnered with former head of Objecitve's comedy production state & former BBC in-house comedy executive Ben Farrell (who had returned to Objective after leaving to join the BBC back in 2014) to launch a new comedy production label that would handle all of Objective's comedy production state while Ben Farrell would head up Objective's new comedy label under the role of CCO; the new comedy label would soon be named Objective Fiction.[11][12]
On 20 May 2019, Objective Media Group had established its then-unnamed creative production label based in Manchester with former BBC executives Pam Cavannagh and Dympna Jackson would head up Objective's new unnamed creative production outfit as co-presidents; the name for Obejctive's new Manchester-based creative production label would later be named Purple Productions.[13]
In June 2020, Objective Media Group teamed up with Neil Forsyth to form a new production label under Objective's comedy production division Objective Fiction called Tannadice Pictures that would produce all of Neil Forsyth's upcoming programming state.[14]
In August 2022, Objective Media Group's parent All3Media had merged its production subsidiairy Maverick Television UK into Objective Media Group's Glasgow-based Scottish production division Objective Media Group Scotland as the latter's parent Objective had formed a new production label based in OMG Scotland's Glasgow office named 141 Productions alongside a London office with Toby Stevens, head of OMG's Scottish division OMG Scotland, and Maverick Television UK’s Creative Director Hannah Brownhill would run the new production label[15][16]
On 18 January 2023, Objective and its parent company All3Media announced that they had sold producer Main Event Media, which was founded by Jimmy Fox in 2017, to Religion of Sports in an exclusive production deal with the latter now being a production arm under the former.[17]
In May 2024, Objective Media Group consolidated two of its unscripted production labels which were London-based gameshow & unscripted entertainment label Triple Brew Media and factual & lifestyle programming label Betty TV (also based in London, which Obejctive Media Group's parent All3Media acquired it from Discovery (now Warner Bros. Discovery) in 2017) as Objective Media Group had the two production labels merged alongside their production states into a new then-untitled unscripted entertainment production label.[18] One month later on 26 June of that year folllwing the merger Objective Media Group's two production labels Betty TV and Triple Brew Media into forming one then-untitled unscripted entertainment label, Objective Media Group had named the new unscripted entertainment production label Objecitve Entertainment with its parent appointed Neale Simpson to head the parent's new unscripted entertainment outfit Objective Entertainment under the role of managing director whilst Bett TV joint creative director Helen Cooke joining the new label Objective Entertainment as creative director.[19][20]
Four months later in September of that year following Objective naming its new unscripted label as Objective Entertainment back in May, Objective Media Group's new unscripted production studio Objective Entertainment had taken over the unscripted production state such as The Only Way Is Essex and Celebs Go Dating from All3Media's fellow production subsidiary Lime Pictures (whom Objective had previously produced Fresh Meat with them) when Lime Pictures had shuttered its London production office as Rebecca Kenny-Smith who formerly headed Lime's London office joined Objective Entertainment to head the production takeover of the brands.[21][22]
Part of All3media, Objective Media Group is led by Layla Smith[23] and is composed of the following companies:
