Studio Lambert

Studio Lambert is a British television production company based in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Los Angeles. It creates and produces scripted and unscripted programs for British and American broadcasters, cable networks and streaming platforms. It is part of Banijay UK, the British division of Banijay Entertainment, the global production group.^[1]

Stephen Lambert, creator of many well-known global formats, launched the company in 2008. Tim Harcourt joined in 2012, first as head of development then becoming chief creative officer.^[2] The company quickly grew a reputation on both sides of the Atlantic for making "innovative" and popular unscripted shows.^[3] Studio Lambert is known for many productions including award-winning global hits Undercover Boss, Gogglebox, The Traitors UK and The Traitors US as well as Race Across the World, The Circle and Four in a Bed. In 2022, it was announced Netflix had given Studio Lambert a series order for the biggest reality competition ever, Squid Game: The Challenge – a co-production with The Garden, featuring 456 players and a prize of $4.56m.^[4]

In the 2024 Broadcast Magazine survey of independent UK production companies, Studio Lambert ranked #3 by size of turnover.^[5] In 2019 and in 2024, the same survey ranked the company #1 in its peer poll.^[6][7] Studio Lambert won Best Independent Production Company at the Broadcast Awards in 2020, 2024 and 2025,^[8][9][10] and won Production Company of the Year at the Edinburgh TV Awards 2024.^[11]

A scripted division was established in 2015 to produce high quality drama series with British and American writers, directors and on-screen talent.^[12] The company's first scripted show, Three Girls, won five BAFTA awards in 2018.^[13][14] The Feed launched on Prime Video in 2019,^[15] The Nest premiered on BBC One to high ratings and acclaim in 2020,^[16] and Three Families launched in 2021.^[17] Premiering in 2024, critically rated Boarders became the company's first returning drama.^[18]

The original 'Studio Lambert' was a very successful television adverts production company in the 1960s, 70s and 80s run by Stephen Lambert's father, Roger Lambert, a director of many well-known television adverts.

At the start of November 2018, Studio Lambert had established a new North production office based in Manchester and created a new production division that would produce programming based in its Manchester office named Studio Lambert North, marking Studio Lambert's third production office with it being based in Manchester with Studio Lambert had appointed the executive producer of Dragon's Den, Darrell Olsen, to head Studio Lambert's new Manchetser based production unit Studio Lambert North as president of the new unit & Studio Lambert North had taken over production of Studio Lambert's shows like Naked Attraction the following year in 2019.^[19][20]

In September 2021 following the successful opening of Studio Lambert's Manchester-based operation & production division Studio Lambert North, back in November 2018, Studio Lambert expanded its production operations into Scotland by opening up a new production office based in the Scottish Highlands based at Inverness and in Glasgow, Scotland & launched a new Scottish production division entitled Studio Lambert Scotland, Studio Lambert had previously produced its scripted series The Nest in Scotland & the formation of Studio Lambert Scotland will produce & develop programming based in the Scottish highlands starting with the British and American adaptations of the Dutch format De Verraders originally made by All3Media's fellow production subsidiary IPTV, entitled The Traitors and The Traitors US, marking Studio Lambert Scotland's first productions.^[21]

In January 2026 following the launch of Studio Lambert's first American production subsidiary MindMeld Entertainment back in June 2025, Studio Lambert had partnered with longtime collaborators, actors and game show format creators Jon Barinholtz and Rob Belushi to formed a newly-formed & Studio Lambert's second American unscripted production & development subsidiary entitled Inner Drive Entertainment that would sit under Studio Lambert's American production division Studio Lambert USA, the new production subsidiary Inner Drive Entertainment would develop & produce unscripted television formats including game shows, challenge formats, social experiment programs, and reality-competition series with Jon Barinholtz and Rob Belushi serving as co-presidents & will work closey with Studio Lambert USA's president Jack Burgess.^[22][23][24]