Company type | Limited company |
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Industry | Television production |
Founded | 1986 |
Founders | |
Headquarters | London, England, UK |
Key people | Geoffrey Perkins (former director) |
Website |
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Hat Trick Productions Limited [1] is an independent British production company that produces television and radio programmes, mainly specialising in comedy, based in London. [2] [3]
Hat Trick Productions was founded in 1986 by Rory McGrath, Jimmy Mulville, [4] and Denise O'Donoghue. Its first commission was Chelmsford 123, a situation comedy for Channel 4. [5] Two years later, Geoffrey Perkins became company director, and helped to produce shows such as Father Ted, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and Have I Got News for You. [6] Perkins left the organisation in 1995, to become head of comedy for BBC Television. [6]
Hat Trick International struck a first look deal with Cardiff Productions [7] and has a joint venture with British television writer Jed Mercurio called HTM Television, [8] with this production company responsible for dramas such as Bloodlands [9] [10] with James Nesbitt and the forthcoming DI Ray with Parminder Nagra. [11] [12]