Dragonfly is a British television production company owned by

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. It has produced factual programmes for

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, ITV,

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, Channel 5,

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and

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History

The company was prominent in 2002, tested in 2003 and formed in 2004 and its output mainly consists of documentary series such as ''Kill It Cook It Eat It'', '' The Hotel'', ''World's Toughest Trucker'', ''Beat The Ancestors'' and ''

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''. Its documentary for Channel 4 ''

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'', based on a maternity ward, won the Best Factual Series

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in 2010.

References

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