STARZPLAY UK, LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-06-30 (in 1mo)
Last filed for 2024-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-04-14 (in 11mo)
Last made up 2026-03-31
Watchouts
Cash
£7M
+80.4% vs 2023
Net assets
£2M
+10.1% vs 2023
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
£317K
-57.5% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Material uncertainty over going concern
The directors intend to liquidate the company within 12 months of the approval of the financial statements and therefore do not consider it to be appropriate to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.
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4 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £49,731,294 | £21,135,264 | |
| Operating profit | £669,603 | -£2,697,575 | |
| Profit before tax | £745,970 | £317,029 | |
| Net profit | £581,970 | £170,400 | |
| Cash | £4,075,211 | £7,351,443 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,691,027 | £1,861,426 | |
| Net assets | £1,691,027 | £1,861,426 | |
| Equity | £1,691,027 | £1,861,426 | |
| Average employees | — | — | |
| Wages | £530,079 | £312,756 |
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 | 2023-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 1.3% | -12.8% | |
| Net margin | 1.2% | 0.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 39.6% | -144.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 91.1% | 87.2% | |
| Current ratio | 1.10x | 1.15x |
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
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“The directors intend to liquidate the company within 12 months of the approval of the financial statements and therefore do not consider it to be appropriate to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- STARZPLAY UK, LIMITED · parent
- StarzPlay Direct UK, Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The international streaming service STARZPLAY was rebranded to LIONSGATE+ on 29th September 2023.”
- “This restructuring resulted in the shutdown of operations in France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Nordics as of March 31, 2023, and the shutdown of operations in Germany, Austria, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain in May 2023.”
- “In November 2023, due to the continued negative outlook, the company announced it will exit all LIONSGATE+ international territories, including the UK, and officially ceased operations in the UK in May 2024.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 10 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RYSAFFE SECRETARIES | Corporate Secretary | 2021-03-11 | — | — |
| HIRSH, Jeffrey Adam | Director | 2025-07-16 | Jan 1972 | American |
| MACDONALD, Scott Donald | Director | 2025-07-16 | Sep 1961 | American |
Show 10 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEPTUNE SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2019-04-01 | 2021-03-11 |
| BARGE, James | Director | 2019-09-06 | 2025-07-21 |
| BENOIT, Sandra | Director | 2024-04-03 | 2025-07-21 |
| BERG, Corii David | Director | 2019-04-01 | 2019-09-06 |
| CLARY, Andrew Paul | Director | 2020-12-18 | 2025-07-21 |
| DAWSON, Nicole | Director | 2023-03-01 | 2023-07-14 |
| KAMASA, Zygmunt Jan | Director | 2019-04-01 | 2020-07-27 |
| LEE, Audrey Yun-Ping | Director | 2025-07-16 | 2026-05-01 |
| PEARCEY, Nicola Jane | Director | 2019-04-01 | 2020-12-18 |
| SMITH, Katie | Director | 2020-07-27 | 2023-03-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starz Entertainment Corp. | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2024-04-22 | Active |
| Lions Gate International (Uk) Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2019-04-01 | Ceased 2024-04-22 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 46 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-04-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2026-04-21 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2026-01-21 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2026-01-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-19 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous extended | |
| 2025-11-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-03 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-05-03 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-04-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-04-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 11
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 4
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-03-31 vs 2023-03-31
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Turnover
-57.5%
£49,731,294 £21,135,264
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Cash
+80.4%
£4,075,211 £7,351,443
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Net assets
+10.1%
£1,691,027 £1,861,426
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Employees
—
Not reported
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Operating profit
-502.9%
£669,603 -£2,697,575
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Profit before tax
-57.5%
£745,970 £317,029
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Wages
-41%
£530,079 £312,756
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