Hat Trick Productions

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.hattrick.com
Employees: 22

Hat Trick has a trick or two up its, er, sleeve when it comes to creating comedy programming. Hat Trick Productions is one of the top independent TV producers in the UK, specializing in comedy and other light entertainment aired by the BBC and other networks. Among the company's hits are "The Kumars at No 42", "Have I Got News For You", "Father Ted", and "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" (The company produced both UK and US versions of the latter.) Investment firm Kleinwort Capital owns about 45% of Hat Trick Productions; the remainder is owned by former spouses (and current co-managing directors) Jimmy Mulville and Denise O'Donoghue, who founded the production company in 1989.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending June, 2008:
Sales: $32.1M

Officers:
Managing Director: Jimmy Mulville
Head of Production: Laura Djanogly
Finance Director: Neil Forster

Competitors:
Endemol
RDF Media
Shed Media

Hat Trick Productions

Type	Limited
Founded	1986
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom
Website	www.hattrick.com

Hat Trick Productions is a British independent television production company. It was founded in 1986 by Rory McGrath (who left in 1992^[1]) Denise O'Donohue and Jimmy Mulville, and mainly makes comedy programmes.

Contents 1 Current Shows 2 Former Programmes 3 References 4 External links

Current Shows

• Outnumbered
• Have I Got News For You
• The Armstrong and Miller Show
• Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire
• The Omid Djalili Show
• It's Only A Theory

Former Programmes

• Bodies
• Chelmsford 123
• Drop the Dead Donkey
• Father Ted
• Game On
• This is David Lander
• Worst Week
• Norbert Smith - a Life
• Harry Enfield's Television Programme
• If I Ruled The World
• Jeffrey Archer - The Truth
• The Kumars at No. 42
• Who Dares Wins
• News Knight with Sir Trevor McDonald
• Paul Merton: The Series
• Room 101
• Whose Line Is It Anyway?
• Round the Bend
• The Worst Week of My Life
• Trevor's World of Sport
• Fairy Tales

References

1. ^ "Rory McGrath punched on TV". BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1781905.stm. Retrieved April 14, 2007. 

External links

• Official Website of Hat Trick Productions

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