Box TV Limited is a UK-based production company specialising in film and television drama, subsidiary of production and distribution group DCD Media. Founded in 2000 by award-winning producer Gub Neal, formerly Head of Drama at

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and Controller of Drama at

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, Box TV's core team also included executive producers Justin Thomson-Glover and Patrick Irwin. The team were joined by Adrian Bate, formerly Head of Film & Drama at Zenith Entertainment, in October 2006. Box TV was acquired in December 2005 by DCD Media. Box TV has since been merged into DCD Drama and its core team have all left.

Programmes

Notable Box TV productions include: *

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one off drama starring Zoe Tapper and Anna Madeley for

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based on the novel by

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* The Last Enemy starring Max Beesley and Robert Carlyle for

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* The Wind in the Willows adaptation of

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's classic of children's literature starring

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and Bob Hoskins for

(Christmas drama 2006/audience 5.3m) * Bon Voyage for

(broadcast in October 2006/ audience 4.4m) * Sweeney Todd starring Ray Winstone for

, (broadcast December 2005/audience 6.6m) * Gunpowder, Treason and Plot

Awards

In June 2008 Anna Madeley won Best Actress' award at the Monte Carlo Television Festival for her role in Affinity. In June 2007 Bon Voyage won Best Mini-Series award at the Monte Carlo Television Festival. Other awards include FIPA Awards 2005 – Fipa d’Or for Gunpowder, Treason and Plot

References

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External links

Box TV DCD Media
Television production companies of the United Kingdom