BBC STUDIOS PRODUCTIONS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-28 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-14
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£0
-100% vs 2024
Net assets
£64M
-37.9% vs 2024
Employees
1,350
-11.9% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£14M
-68.2% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- BBC STUDIOS PRODUCTIONS LIMITED 2018-10-01 → present
- BBC STUDIOS LIMITED 2015-02-27 → 2018-10-01
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £451,000,000 | £422,000,000 | |
| Operating profit | £42,000,000 | £13,000,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £44,000,000 | £14,000,000 | |
| Net profit | £41,000,000 | £11,000,000 | |
| Cash | £3,000,000 | £0 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £122,000,000 | £143,000,000 | |
| Net assets | £103,000,000 | £64,000,000 | |
| Equity | £103,000,000 | £64,000,000 | |
| Average employees | 1,533 | 1,350 | |
| Wages | £91,000,000 | £88,000,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 9.3% | 3.1% | |
| Net margin | 9.1% | 2.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 34.4% | 9.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 63.6% | 80.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.56x | 1.26x | |
| Interest cover | 42.00x | 13.00x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- National Audit Office
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Company's financial statements have been prepared on the going concern basis. The Directors remain satisfied with the Company's funding and liquidity position. The Company's forecasts and projections, taking account of reasonably possible changes in trading performance, show that the Company should be able to operate within the level of its current facilities for a period of no less than 12 months from the date of signing these accounts. After making enquiries, the Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the annual report and accounts.”
Group structure
- BBC STUDIOS PRODUCTIONS LIMITED · parent
- BBC Studios Multi Genre Productions Limited 100%
- BBC Comedy Productions Limited 100%
- BBC Grafton House Productions Limited 100%
- BBC Natural History and Factual Productions Limited 100%
- BBC Studios Kids and Family Productions Limited 100%
- Mortimer Productions Limited 100%
- Nice and Accurate Productions Limited 100%
- BBC Studios Productions (Clifton) Canada Incorporated 100%
- BBC Studios Productions (Clifton) Limited 100%
- BBC Studios Productions (Kidnapped) Limited 100%
- BBC Studios Productions (Time2) Limited 100%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CORRIETTE, Anthony | Secretary | 2017-03-31 | — | — |
| BENNETT, Zai | Director | 2025-10-01 | May 1974 | British |
| FREEMAN, Martyn Edward | Director | 2022-04-25 | Oct 1964 | British |
| JONES, Amanda Jane | Director | 2025-09-08 | Dec 1974 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLANKFIELD, Andrew Morris | Director | 2015-02-27 | 2016-12-20 |
| BULFORD, Anne Christine | Director | 2016-12-20 | 2017-09-18 |
| BURGESS, Lorraine Yasmin | Director | 2022-04-01 | 2024-06-26 |
| FUSSELL, Thomas Cyrus | Director | 2024-03-28 | 2025-10-01 |
| FUSSELL, Thomas Cyrus | Director | 2019-03-07 | 2022-04-01 |
| HALL, Anthony William, Lord | Director | 2016-12-20 | 2017-09-18 |
| LEE, Francis Ralph | Director | 2018-12-19 | 2024-03-28 |
| LINSEY, Mark Raymond | Director | 2016-12-20 | 2018-12-19 |
| MALLETT, Anna Celia, Dr | Director | 2016-12-20 | 2019-03-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bbc Ventures Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-12-20 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 59 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-03-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-12-19 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-12-08 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-07-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-05-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-05-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-04-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-04-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-04-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-07-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 1
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
-6.4%
£451,000,000 £422,000,000
-
Cash
-100%
£3,000,000 £0
-
Net assets
-37.9%
£103,000,000 £64,000,000
-
Employees
-11.9%
1,533 1,350
-
Operating profit
-69%
£42,000,000 £13,000,000
-
Profit before tax
-68.2%
£44,000,000 £14,000,000
-
Wages
-3.3%
£91,000,000 £88,000,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers