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RDF Media Group is a British television
British television

British television broadcasting started in 1936, and now has a collection of free and subscription services over a variety of distribution media, through which there are up to 600 channels for consumers as well as on-demand content....
 production company founded in 1993 by David Frank. It was floated on the Alternative Investment Market
Alternative Investment Market

The Alternative Investment Market is a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange, allowing smaller company to initial public offering stock with a more flexible financial regulation than is applicable to the Main Market....
 in 2005.

television productions are mainly in the factual, entertainment, drama and children’s programming genres. Notable RDF Media productions include:



content-creating divisions of RDF; The Foundation, IWC Media, Presentable, Radar, RDF Television, RDF USA
RDF USA

RDF USA is the US arm of publicly traded media entity, RDF Media Group.RDF USA is a television production company with offices in Los Angeles and New York....
, and Touchpaper Television, work under the holding group RDF Content.






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RDF Media Group is a British television
British television

British television broadcasting started in 1936, and now has a collection of free and subscription services over a variety of distribution media, through which there are up to 600 channels for consumers as well as on-demand content....
 production company founded in 1993 by David Frank. It was floated on the Alternative Investment Market
Alternative Investment Market

The Alternative Investment Market is a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange, allowing smaller company to initial public offering stock with a more flexible financial regulation than is applicable to the Main Market....
 in 2005.

Programming

RDF television productions are mainly in the factual, entertainment, drama and children’s programming genres. Notable RDF Media productions include:

  • Faking It
    Faking It

    Faking It was a television programme originating on UK Channel 4 which has spawned various international remakes, including a US version which began in 2003 on the TLC network....
     Channel 4 & TLC BAFTA Best Features award 2001 & 2002
  • Wife Swap
    Wife Swap

    Wife Swap is a reality television programme, produced by United Kingdom independent television production company RDF Media and created by Stephen Lambert ....
     Channel 4 & ABC BAFTA Best Feature award 2003
  • Secret Millionaire
    Secret Millionaire

    The Secret Millionaire is a reality television show which originated in the UK, in which millionaires go, incognito, into impoverished communities and agree to give away tens of thousand of pounds ....
     Channel 4
  • Location, Location, Location
    Location, Location, Location

    Location, Location, Location is a popular Channel 4 property programme, presented by Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer and produced by IWC Media, part of the RDF Media Group....
     Channel 4
  • Relocation, Relocation Channel 4
  • Shipwrecked: Battle of the Islands
    Shipwrecked: Battle of the Islands

    Shipwrecked: Battle of the Islands is a reality television programme which is broadcast on Channel 4 on the popular teenage segment T4 and is produced by RDF Media....
     Channel 4 - T4
  • Scrapheap Challenge
    Scrapheap Challenge

    Scrapheap Challenge is an engineering game show produced by RDF Media and broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. In the show, teams of contestants have 10 hours in which to build a working machine that can do a specific task, using materials available in a scrapheap....
     Channel 4 a.k.a Junkyard Wars TLC
  • Don't Forget the Lyrics Fox & Sky One & Astro Ria
    Astro Ria

    Astro Ria is a Malaysian 24 hour Malay language television network broadcast on the Astro satellite television service. It was one of the first 22 channels to commence broadcast on Astro in 1996....
  • Ladette to Lady
    Ladette to Lady

    Ladette to Lady is a reality based series that first aired in the United Kingdom on ITV in June 2005. The series was produced by UK-based RDF Media....
     ITV
  • Holiday Showdown
    Holiday Showdown

    Holiday Showdown is a reality television programme, produced by United Kingdom independent TV production company RDF Media, which first aired in 2003 on ITV in the United Kingdom....
     ITV
  • Masters And Servants
    Masters And Servants

    Masters And Servants is a reality television show by RDF Media, which aired in the summer of 2003 on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. There were four episodes, but the show was not since recommisioned....
     Channel 4
  • The Century of the Self
    The Century of the Self

    The Century of the Self is an acclaimed documentary by filmmaker Adam Curtis released in 2002....
     BBC2
  • The Queen's Castle BBC 1
  • Rock School
    Rock School

    Rock School is a British reality TV series starring Gene Simmons , in which he has a short time to turn a class of school children into a fully fledged Rock music Musical ensemble, at the end of which they must perform in a supporting slot for a leading rock band....
     Channel 4
  • Banzai
  • The Basil Brush Show CBBC
  • The Queen's Sister
    The Queen's Sister

    The Queen's Sister is a 2005 in television United Kingdom television movie directed by Simon Cellan Jones. The screenplay by Craig Warner is a semi-fictionalized account of the life of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, the younger sister of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, from 1952 until the mid-1970s....
     Channel 4
  • City of Vice
    City of Vice

    City of Vice is a British historical crime drama television series set in Georgian era London and was first screened on 14 January 2008 on Channel 4....
     Channel 4
  • Monarchy : The Royal Family at Work BBC1 (see below)
  • Escape from Scorpion Island
    Escape from Scorpion Island

    Escape from Scorpion Island is a Bafta nominated BBC children's TV adventure game show in which ten contestants compete for three weeks to 'escape from an exotic island'....
     CBBC


Corporate structure

The content-creating divisions of RDF; The Foundation, IWC Media, Presentable, Radar, RDF Television, RDF USA
RDF USA

RDF USA is the US arm of publicly traded media entity, RDF Media Group.RDF USA is a television production company with offices in Los Angeles and New York....
, and Touchpaper Television, work under the holding group RDF Content. RDF Rights & Management is the holding group for the divisions Pangea Management, RDF Management, and RDF Rights, the rights exploitation and talent management businesses.

Awards

RDF received Broadcast magazine
Broadcast magazine

Broadcast is a weekly magazine for the United Kingdom television and radio industry. It covers a wide range of news and issues affecting the professional broadcast market in the UK....
's ‘Best Production Company of the Year Award’ for 2002, 2004 & 2006, the only company to win this coveted award on more than one occasion. Several of its programmes have won BAFTA, RTS, and Rose D'Or awards. http://www.rdfmedia.com/rdfmedia/about/awards/

Tiaragate Affair

In July 2007 RDF found itself at the centre of controversy when the BBC showed a trailer to journalists of an RDF documentary
Documentary film

Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality. Although "documentary film" originally referred to movies shot on film stock, it has subsequently expanded to include video and new media productions that can be either direct-to-video or made for a televis...
 series, A Year with the Queen, that seemed to show the monarch storming out of a photoshoot with celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz

Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz is an United States portrait Photography whose style is marked by a close collaboration between the photographer and the subject....
. It later emerged the Queen was walking into the shoot. Stephen Lambert
Stephen Lambert (media executive)

Stephen Lambert is a British media executive responsible for creating formatted documentary programs such as the award-winning Wife Swap, Faking It and Secret Millionaire....
, RDF's Chief Creative Officer, took responsibility for making a misleading edit for a trailer that was shown to international co-producers, although the promotions company Red Bee subsequently edited the trailer that was shown to journalists. Both the BBC and ITV
ITV

ITV is a public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television network of British television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC....
 froze all new commissions from RDF until the completion of an independent inquiry - the Wyatt Report
Will Wyatt

Will Wyatt is a United Kingdom media consultant and company director, formerly a journalist, television producer and senior executive at the BBC....
 - into the Tiaragate affair. Stephen Lambert resigned from the company as an independent inquiry into the affair was published on 5th October 2007. That report, commissioned by the BBC, said that no-one "consciously set out to defame or misrepresent the Queen in the tape" but also that "RDF edited the footage of the Queen in a cavalier fashion". Both Peter Fincham
Peter Fincham

'Peter Fincham' is a United Kingdom television producer and executive, currently the Director of Television for the ITV network. He was also formerly the Controller of BBC One, the primary television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation, until his resignation on October 5 2007, following criticism over the handling of the A Year w...
, Controller of BBC One
BBC One

BBC One is the primary television channel of the BBC . It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular public television service with a high level of ....
, and his Head of Publicity, Jane Fletcher, also resigned following the report.

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