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The Farm Group
TypeTelevision Post-Production, Visual Effects
Country
UK, USA
FoundedNovember 1998
HeadquartersWilliam Blake House, 8 Marshall Street, London, W1F 7EJ
RegionsLondon, Bristol, Manchester, Los Angeles
OwnerWPP, The Farm Post Production Limited
Official website
farmgroup.tv

The Farm Group is a television post-production company that is based in London, England, with offices in Bristol, Manchester, and Salford, along with a US office in Los Angeles. The Farm Group is known for its colour grading (colour correction), video editing, visual effects, and audio dubbing (mixing) on both television programmes and high end drama. The Farm Group is a part of the WPP plc group of companies.

History[edit]

Founding:[edit]

The Farm Group was founded as The Farm Post Production Ltd in 1998 by Nicky Sargent and Vikki Dunn. They opened the first facility, ‘The Farm’, on Soho Square in London.

Expansion:[edit]

After opening ‘The Farm’ on Soho Square, ‘The Shed’ opened shortly afterwards on Dean Street later in January 1999, mainly catering for off-line video editing using Avid technology.

2000 saw the company open ‘Home’ on Richmond Buildings, just off Dean Street in Soho. ‘Home’ was London’s first full service HD TV post production facility. Due to the success of ‘Home’ and its other facilities, The Farm Group opened ‘Uncle’ in 2003, opposite the original BBC Television Centre in White City. Uncle’s name was a mirror of the BBC’s nickname Auntie. As the huge Westfield London White City complex began construction in 2007, Uncle was re-located and increased in size to a newly fitted 20,000 sq/ft building on Livonia St. W1.

In 2013, The Farm Group opened ‘William’ a 15,000 sq/ft facility located in William Blake House, so named as it occupies the sight of the birth place of the artist William Blake.

In 2016 with The Farm’s original building on Soho Square being re-developed for residential] use, the Group moved into their new headquarters on Newman Street. The new 33,000 sq/ft facility enabled ‘The Farm’ to become London’s first full service UHD, HDR, Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos facility.

Regional Expansions:[edit]

Los Angeles: In 2011, The Farm Group opened their LA facility, ‘Farm LA’.

Salford: In 2011, The Farm Group was awarded the contract to provide operational and technical services to BBC North located at Media City in Salford.

Bristol: In 2004, The Farm Group opened ‘Reality Lab’ at Bristol Paintworks. In 2013, The Farm’s Bristol operations moved to The Bristol Bottle Yard studios. In 2016, The Farm Group opened a new facility on Whiteladies Road. In 2019, The Farm relocated its Bristol operations into a 10,000 sq/ft space in Grade II listed building Edgecumbe Hall.[1]

Manchester: In 2018, opened facility ‘Farm Manchester’, located in the ABC building[2], near old Granada Studios.

Awards[edit]

Year Award Category Award recipient Work
2001 EMMY Awards[3] Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Graphic and Artistic Design Aidan Farrell, The Farm Group Ultimate Guide: The Human Body, Windfall for Discovery Channel
2001 Royal Television Society, Craft and Design Awards[4] Picture Manipulation Aidan Farrell, The Farm Group Beyond the fatal shore - ‘Money, Class & Power’, Oxford Television for BBC
2004 Royal Television Society, Craft and Design Awards[5] Picture Enhancement Aidan Farrell, The Farm Group Men of Iron, Windfall Films for Channel 4
2004 Royal Television Society, Craft and Design Awards, Judges’ Award Visual Effects, Picture Enhancement Aidan Farrell, The Farm Group Windfall Films for Channel 4
2005 Royal Television Society, Craft and Design Awards[6] Sound - Drama Nigel Edwards (The Farm Group), Nick Cox (The Farm Group), Phil Barnes and Zane Hayward Murder Prevention, World Productions for Five
2008 Royal Television Society, Craft and Design Awards[7] Tape & Film editing entertainment & situation comedy The Farm editing team Deal or No Deal, The Farm for Endemol for Channel 4
2009 Royal Television Society, Craft and Design Awards[8] Tape and Film editing entertainment and situation comedy The Farm editing team The X Factor (Series 6), Talkback Thames in association with Syco TV for ITV1
2009 Royal Television Society, Craft and Design Awards[8] Effects - Picture Enhancement Aidan Farrell, The Farm Group Wallander (Series 1), Left Bank Pictures/ Yellowbird / TKBC Production with Ard Degeto, WGBH Boston and Film I Skane for BBC One
2010 Royal Television Society, Craft and Design Awards (nomination)[9] Picture Enhancement Perry Gibbs, The Farm Group Misfits, Clerkenwell Films for E4
2010 British Academy Television Craft Awards, British Academy of Film and Television Arts[10] Entertainment Production Team Entertainment Production Team The X Factor
2011 Royal Television Society, Craft and Design Awards[11] Effects - Picture Enhancement Sonny Sheridan, The Farm Group Eric and Ernie, BBC Wales in association with blue door adventures for BBC Two
2011 Royal Television Society, Craft and Design Awards[11] Sound - Drama Glen Marullo. Nigel Edwards (The Farm Group), Linda Murdoch & Lee Crichlow The Shadow Line, A Company Pictures / Eight Rooks / Baby Cow Production in association with Cinemax and Isle of Man Films for BBC Two
2013 Royal Television Society, Craft and Design Awards[12] Effects - Picture Enhancement Aidan Farrell, The Farm Group Utopia Series 1, Kudos for Channel 4
2014 Broadcast Tech, Young Talent Awards[13] Colourist Daniel Gill, The Farm Group
2016 Royal Television Society, Craft and Design Awards[14] Editing - Sport Nicholas Perry (The Farm Group), John Nicholson, Simon Livingstone & BBC Sport Production team Olympics 2016 (opening ceremony opener), BBC Sport & Karma for BBC One
2016 PromaxBDA UK Awards - Gold[15] Best Newcomer Aidan Hackett, UKTV creative UKTV creative
2016 PromaxBDA UK Awards - Silver[15] Best Writing UKTV creative Drama Q1 Brand Trail
2016 PromaxBDA UK Awards - Gold[15] General Channel Image Spot UKTV creative Really - Brand
2016 PromaxBDA UK Awards - Silver[15] General Channel Image Spot UKTV creative Alibi Q2 Brand Trail
2016 PromaxBDA UK Awards - Gold[15] Best Use Of Animation UKTV creative Dave - Christmas
2017 Royal Television Society, Craft and Design Awards[16] Picture Enhancement Dan Gill, The Farm Group Hospital - Series 2, Label 1 for BBC Two
2017 Royal Television Society, Craft and Design Awards (nomination)[16] Sound - Entertainment and Non-Drama: Sound Team Gary Kelly, The Farm Group Ambulance - Series 2, Dragonfly Film and TV for BBC Two
  1. ^ "Facility to move into 10,000 sq ft Edgecumbe Hall".
  2. ^ "The ABC Buildings".
  3. ^ "News & Documentary Emmy Awards (2001)". IMDb.
  4. ^ "RTS Craft and Design Winners 2001". Royal Television Society. 2011-01-24.
  5. ^ "RTS Craft and Design Winners 2004". Royal Television Society. 2011-01-24.
  6. ^ "RTS Craft and Design Winners 2005". Royal Television Society. 2011-01-24.
  7. ^ "RTS Craft and Design Winners 2008". Royal Television Society. 2011-01-24.
  8. ^ a b "RTS Craft and Design Winners 2009". Royal Television Society. 2011-01-24.
  9. ^ "RTS Craft and Design Winners 2010". Royal Television Society. 2011-01-24.
  10. ^ "Television Craft in 2010 | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org.
  11. ^ a b "RTS Announces Winners of Craft & Design Awards 2011". Royal Television Society. 2012-09-06.
  12. ^ "RTS announces winner of Craft & Design Awards 2013". Royal Television Society. 2013-11-19.
  13. ^ Bevir2014-11-07T10:11:00+00:00, George. "Broadcast TECH Young Talent Awards winners revealed". Broadcast.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ "Craft & Design Awards 2016". Royal Television Society. 2016-06-21.
  15. ^ a b c d e "Search Award Winners". promaxbda.org.
  16. ^ a b "Craft & Design Awards 2017". Royal Television Society. 2017-06-05.
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