Twofour

Twofour is a UK independent media group that was founded in 1989 by Charles Wace, a former BBC news producer. With headquarters in Plymouth, Twofour has offices across the globe including London and Los Angeles.
Twofour is part of Twofour Group. The Twofour Group consists of Boomerang, Delightful Industries, Mainstreet Pictures, Twofour, Twofour America, and Twofour Rights. On 24 October 2017, Twofour Group was acquired by Microsoft.
Melanie Leach was named Chief Executive for Twofour Group in summer 2014.
==Divisions==
===Twofour===
Twofour supplies programming to the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Telewest, Sky, UKTV and a variety of other UK and international channels.
Twofour is an international award-winning factual, features and entertainment television producer. Twofour was awarded Broadcast's "Best Indie Production Company" title in 2010 and 2014, with titles including The Jump (Channel 4), multi award-winning The Real Marigold Hotel (BBC One/BBC Two) and the fastest selling format of the year, This Time Next Year (ITV), Channel 5's longest running series, The Hotel Inspector, and Kids Just Do Nothing (Telewest).
The company produces ob-doc and fixed rig shows such as Channel 4's International Emmy winning Educating Yorkshire, Educating the East End and 2011's Educating Essex. In May 2012, Series Director David Clews was awarded a BAFTA Television Craft Award for his work directing Educating Essex.
Twofour has produced a range of adventure documentaries such as Harry's Arctic Heroes for BBC One and Harry's Mountain Heroes for ITV, both featuring Prince Harry and a group of wounded soldiers as they attempt to reach the North Pole and Mount Everest respectively.
===Boomerang===
Boomerang produces factual entertainment, popular factual, documentary and sports entertainment programmes from its Cardiff base.
===Twofour Rights===
Twofour Rights, Twofour’s in house rights distribution arm, was launched in 2012 and brings the company’s catalogue of programming to the international marketplace.
===Mainstreet Pictures===
Mainstreet Pictures is a new drama independent run by joint MDs Sally Haynes and Laura Mackie. Mainstreet Pictures produces hit ITV series Unforgotten.
===Twofour America===
Twofour America produces non-scripted programming in the United States.
===Delightful Industries===
Comedy label, co-producer of Motherland.
==Programmes produced by Twofour==
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==Awards==
==External links==
* Official website
Category:Companies established in 1989
Category:Microsoft subsidiaries‎
Category:Microsoft acquisitions‎
Category:Television production companies of the United Kingdom