Open Media

Open Media is a British television production company.

Best known for the discussion programme After Dark, Open Media has produced over 400 hours of television for all the main UK network broadcasters, making entertainment series and factual specials which have sold all over the world, as well as being responsible for communications and corporate media for some of Britain's most important businesses.

Open Media’s clients include BBC TV, the ITV network and Channel 4. Open Media was founded in 1987 and has been nominated for many awards by the Royal Television Society and the British Academy BAFTA.

Entertainment

Entertainment series include Don't Quote Me and The Secret Cabaret.

Factual

Factual series and specials include James Randi: Psychic Investigator, The Talking Show, The Greatest F***ing Show on TV, Opinions, Brave New World, Weird Thoughts, The Great Pot Debate, The Mediator, Orient: Club For A Fiver, Natural Causes, Superpowers?, Theme Park Heaven, The Big Sleep, Secrets of the Psychics and The Spy Machine.

Stars

Stars of Open Media productions include Simon Drake, Ricky Jay, Andrew Neil, James Randi, Jerry Sadowitz and John Wells.

The Open Media series Is This Your Life? featured extended and in-depth interviews with Jeremy Beadle, Ian Botham, Morris Cerullo, Max Clifford, Germaine Greer, Olivia Newton-John, Albert Reynolds, Jimmy Savile, Peter Tatchell and Fatima Whitbread.

Open Media has produced talks by Edward de Bono, Linda Colley, James Goldsmith, Paul Hill, Dusan Makavejev, G.F. Newman, Dennis Potter, Andrew Roberts, George Soros and Norman Stone. One such - an Opinions talk for Channel 4 in 1993 by Alan Clark - was described in his diary (later published) as "It was good. Clear, assured, moving. I looked compos and in my 'prime'. Many people saw it. All were enthusiastic. Today acres of coverage in The Times."

Two different Open Media productions were featured during the 25th anniversary of Channel 4 in autumn 2007: both The Secret Cabaret [1] and After Dark [2] were shown again on More4 during the celebratory season.

See also

• After Dark
• List of After Dark editions
• The Secret Cabaret
• Secrets of the Super Psychics
• The Spy Machine

and

• Anthony Clare
• Uri Geller
• Helena Kennedy
• James Randi
• Jerry Sadowitz
• Gordon Thomas
• John Underwood
• Tony Wilson

and

• Leyton Orient F.C.

External links

• Open Media
• Open Media staff - past & present
• IMDB