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Established in 1998, television production highlights include Elizabeth I (winner of three Golden Globes), all seven series’ of Shameless (Channel 4: BAFTA and RTS awards), six series’ of Wild at Heart, four series’ of Skins (E4/Channel 4), seven George Gently films (BBC 1), Einstein and Eddington starring David Tennant (BBC 1/HBO), Generation Kill written by the creators of The Wire (HBO), The Devils Whore (Channel 4: 3 RTS and 2 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards) and an adaptation of Martina Cole’s best selling novel The Take starring Tom Hardy and Brian Cox (Sky 1: Best Multi-channel Programme, Broadcast Awards 2009).
In the past Company Pictures has produced The Lakes by Jimmy McGovern, A Young Person’s Guide to Being a Rockstar (RTS award Best Serial) for Channel 4 and Warner Bros, North Square (Channel 4: winner Best Series Press Guild), Not Only But Always… (Channel 4: BAFTA winner: Rhys Ifans Best Actor), The Rotters’ Club (BBC), and Life and Death of Peter Sellers (HBO: winner of two Golden Globe Awards for Best TV Movie and Best Actor for Geoffrey Rush and 15 Emmies).
Company has made five feature films with some of the UK’s leading directing talent including films by Roger Michell, Stephen Hopkins, Penny Woolcock, Shane Meadows and Lynne Ramsey.
Amongst its numerous awards Company Pictures won Best Independent Production Company at the 2005 and 2008 Broadcast Awards and the European Producers of the Year Award at the 2004 Monte Carlo Awards.
Since October 2004 Company Pictures has been a part of the All3 Media group.
George Faber
George Faber joined the BBC as a production trainee in 1984 and worked as a script editor, producer and executive producer in the Drama Department before becoming Head of Single Drama from 1993 to 1997. In this capacity, Faber was responsible for the entire BBC output of films and plays – some 35 productions each year with an annual budget of £25 million. He was responsible for 13 feature films during that time, including award-winning Antonia and Jane (Beeban Kidron) and Priest (Jimmy McGovern/Antonia Bird), TwentyFourSeven (Shane Meadows), My Son the Fanatic (Hanif Kureishi/Udayan Prasad), Persuasion (Roger Michell), Cold Comfort Farm (John Schlesinger) and Her Majesty Mrs Brown (Jeremy Brock/John Madden).
Over a four year period in the early 1990s Faber was Executive Producer of Screenplay, an annual season of 12 original films for the BBC. During his tenure, the Screenplay productions garnered more than 25 awards at UK and international TV and film festivals. They also helped launch the careers of many of Britain’s leading writers and directors, including Danny Boyle, Beeban Kidron, Gillies MacKinnon, Michael Winterbottom and Lucy Gannon.
In 1998 he set up Company Pictures with Charles Pattinson where he has been executive producer on all TV output and producer on the feature films Titanic Town, A Room for Romeo Brass and Morvern Callar.
Charles Pattinson
An assistant director at the Royal Court Theatre in 1984, Charles Pattinson joined the BBC as a production trainee in 1985 and was rapidly promoted to producer in the Drama Department. From 1992 to 1997 he produced a variety of award-winning dramas and single series.
As a producer for BBC Films, Pattinson made the films Bitter Harvest (which he co-wrote with Winsome Pinnock), The Vision Thing, starring Derek Jacobi and Sin Bin, starring Pete Postlethwaite.
From 1994 to 1996, Pattinson produced the highly acclaimed epic 11-hour serial of Peter Flannery’s Our Friends In The North. Directed by Stuart Urban, Pedr James and Simon Cellan Jones, the series won 12 major television awards; the Best Serial BAFTA, Prix Europa and Writer’s Guild awards.
In 1996 and 1997, Pattinson produced five part series The Lakes, written by Jimmy McGovern and was executive producer for Saigon Baby starring John Hurt and Kerry Fox. He was Executive Producer on Paul Pawlikowski’s feature The Stringer starring Anna Friel, which was selected for the 1998 Director’s Fortnight at Cannes.
In 1998 he set up Company Pictures with George Faber where he has been executive producer on all TV output and producer on the feature films Titanic Town, A Room for Romeo Brass and Morvern Callar.

