About
Baby Cow Productions
Baby Cow Productions is a multi-award-winning production company which produces high quality scripted comedy and drama for television, film and digital platforms. It has a reputation for pushing the boundaries of established genres, telling compelling and universal stories with unconventional characters at their heart.
In TV, after its success last year, becoming the biggest comedy ever on ITVX, Alan Carr’s semi-autobiographical comedy ‘Changing Ends’ came back for series two in July 2024, starring Oliver Savell, Shaun Dooley and Nancy Sullivan. Written by Alan Carr, co-written by Gabby Best and was co-created with Simon Carlyle. Series 3 and 4 have since been recommissioned, due to go into production in 2025.
2 x 60 drama 'Brian & Maggie' from writer James Graham and directed by Stephen Frears is due to be released on Channel 4 in early 2025. Helmed by Steve Coogan as politician-turned-journalist Brian Walden and Harriet Walter as Margaret Thatcher, this drama recounts the end of a political era and a long-term friendship, tensely reconstructing the seismic LWT interview which would reshape national opinion and, in many ways, signalled the end of Thatcher’s premiership. After which, Brian and Margaret would never speak again…
Alan Partridge’s brand new 6 x 30 comedy documentary series ‘And Did Those Feet… with Alan Partridge’ from Steve Coogan and Rob & Neil Gibbons will be released on BBC One in 2025.
‘Live at the Moth Club’, written by Alex Owen and Ben Ashenden, starring a host of comedy talent including Jamie Demetriou, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Natasia Demetriou and Mark Heap was released in December 2022 and is on UKTV Play. Two series of ‘This Time with Alan Partridge’, written by Steve Coogan, Rob and Neil Gibbons and starring Steve Coogan and ‘The Witchfinder’, written by Neil and Rob Gibbons and starring Daisy May Cooper and Tim Key, are currently on BBC iPlayer. Channel 4 drama commission ‘Chivalry’, written and starring Steve Coogan and Sarah Solemani, is on All 4.
In film, ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island', starring Carey Mulligan, Tim Key and Tom Basden and written by Tim Key and Tom Basden is in production and due to be released in 2025. It is produced by Baby Cow Productions and distributed by Focus Features. Stephen Frears' ‘The Lost King’, starring Sally Hawkins and Steve Coogan and written by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope, was released in cinemas in October 2022.
In Podcasts, three series of Award Winning ‘From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast’ are available on Audible, alongside six episodes of Lolly Adefope’s mock interview series ‘Fanmail’ starring Brett Goldstein, Mae Martin, Diane Morgan, Charlotte Ritchie, Kiel Smith-Bynoe, Katy Wix and many more.
Previous TV credits include Alan Partridge, Gavin & Stacey, The Trip, Uncle, The Mighty Boosh, Red Dwarf, Nighty Night and Camping, while film output includes Stan & Ollie, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa and the Oscar-and Golden Globe nominated Philomena.
Baby Cow Productions was co-founded in 1999, by Steve Coogan and Henry Normal with Sarah Monteith as CEO. BBC Studios became a company shareholder in 2008 and has been its majority owner since 2016, with Coogan remaining a shareholder.
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STEVE
COOGANCreative Director
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SARAH
MONTEITHChief Executive Officer
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JONATHAN
MERRELLFinance Director
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RUPERT
MAJENDIEHead of Development
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DAVE
LAMBERTProducer / Director
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JOE
FRASERProducer / Director
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KELLY
MCGOLPINExecutive Producer
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LIZ
DARAMOLAAssociate Development Producer
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SARAH
CRYSTALCommercial Director
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RONAN
MCCABEBusiness Affairs Associate
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JUSTINE
RANDLEHead of Production
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EMILY
BETTSProduction Manager
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GEMMA
DAVIESExecutive Assistant to CEO and Office Manager
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ANNA
STOCKTONExecutive PA to Steve Coogan
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LILY
BAMBERExecutive Assistant to Sarah Monteith and Rupert Majendie