BBC announces XM25 production roster for outside London
The BBC has announced its roster of companies for creative network XM25, a package initiated by the BBC which will look to create more commissions based outside of London.
This is the second year that XM25 has been created with the aim of giving independent producers in-depth access to BBC Factual and Entertainment commissioning to help develop network ideas and relationships.
The companies to make the roster are:
• Angel Eye – Glasgow
• Below the Radar – Belfast
• Blakeway North – Manchester
• Boomerang – Cardiff
• Clarity Productions – Glasgow
• Crocodile Media – Manchester
• Finestripe Productions – Glasgow
• Green Bay – Cardiff
• Icon Films – Bristol
• Isis Media – West Midlands
• Lambent Productions – Brighton
• Liberty Bell and Dene Films – Newcastle
• Lime Pictures – Liverpool
• Maverick Television – Birmingham
• Modern Television – Cardiff
• Nine Lives Media – Manchester
• Objective North – Manchester
• Real Life – Leeds
• Scarlet TV – Manchester
• Standing Stone Media – Newcastle
• Tern Television – Belfast
• The Comedy Unit – Glasgow
• Topical Television – Southampton
• Wavelength Films – Norwich
• Wild Rover Productions – Belfast
As a result of their appointment, the companies will take part in a series of intensive sessions and networking opportunities over the coming year with BBC commissioners and executives from other BBC departments including multiplatform, scheduling and marketing.
The first session will be held in London in October, with subsequent ones held in other BBC network centres.
Krishan Arora, independents executive at the BBC who will over the running of XM25, said: "I am delighted with the line-up. We were looking for innovative and creative ideas as well as sound business acumen and we found it in the companies taking part.
"Being able to offer more places allows us to further increase our relationship with the indie sector outside London and I am looking forward to strengthening those relationships and enabling the focused development of ideas."