Company Pictures is an independent British television production company which has produced drama programming for many broadcasters. It was set up in 1998 by

Charles Pattinson Charles Pattinson (sometimes credited as Charlie Pattinson) is a British television producer. His initial career was in the theatre, where he was an assistant director at the Royal Court Theatre in the mid-1980s. In 1985 he moved into television, ...

and George Faber, colleagues at

BBC Films BBC Film (formerly BBC Films) is the feature film-making arm of the BBC. It was founded on 18 June 1990, and has produced or co-produced some of the most successful British films of recent years, including '' Truly, Madly, Deeply'', '' Alan Pa ...

. Their first film was '' Morvern Callar'', which was credited as a co-production with BBC Films as they had begun developing it while still employed there. In 2003 Company Pictures became part of

All3Media All3Media Limited is a British worldwide independent television, film and digital production and distribution company based in London, England. The All3Media group comprises more than 40 production and distribution companies from across the U ...

. The founders, Pattinson and Faber, left in 2012 to set up another independent production company, and John Yorke became managing director until 2015. He was succeeded by Michele Buck, former joint managing director of Mammoth Screen. For both artistic and fiscal reasons, when producing the TV series '' The White Queen'', Company Pictures entered into collaboration with a Flemish production house. This enabled them to film in the medieval cities of

Ghent Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded i ...

and

Bruges Bruges ( , nl, Brugge ) is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country, and the sixth-largest city of the country by population. The area of the whole city a ...

, while receiving tax-breaks as a European co-production and for investment in Flanders.J. Verheul, "British Flanders", in ''Screening European Heritage: Creating and Consuming History on Film'', edited by Paul Cooke and Rob Stone (Springer, 2016), pp. 37-39.

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