Universal International Studios (formerly known as NBCUniversal International Television Production and NBCUniversal International Studios) is a British international television production company that is a division of American television production group Universal Studio Group which is also part of

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and its headquarterd in London, England with offices in

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. The company owns seven production companies and produced scripted and unscripted programmes for the international markets along with foreign adaptations of NBCUniversal's formats.

History

Universal International Studios had their beginnings when their American parent mass media & entertainment conglomerate

had entered the international television production business when they've launched an international TV production division based in London, England named NBCUniversal International Television Production that will focus on format licensing and developing scripted and reality programming including local adaptations of NBCUniversal's formats for the UK and international markets as part of NBC Universal International’s expansion into TV production by their then-new president Peter Smith with former NBC Universal Television Studio (now Universal Television) president Angela Bromstad heading the new international production division. In February 2010, NBCUniversal International Television Production established a joint venture television production subsidiary with

's British film & television production sibling

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dedicated to produce drama and comedy programmed based in London named Working Title Television. In May 2011, NBCUniversal International Television Production expanded their global footprint with the acquisition of a majority stake in Australian film & television production house Matchbox Pictures, marking NBCUniversal International Television Production's expansion into the Australian television market outside of the UK as Matchbox Pictures became a subsidiary of the former with them globally distributing Matchbox's projects alongside the latter's founders Tony Ayres, Helen Bowden, Penny Chapman, Michael McMahon and Helen Panckhurst who continued to run the acquired company.NBCUniversal International Television Production would later take full control of Australian film & television production company Matchbox Pictures three years later in late-January 2014. In December 2013, NBCUniversal International Television Production had pushed into the unscripted television programming genre by launching a dedicated unscripted television production development unit joining NBCUniversal International Television Productions's fellow other owned in-house unscripted production companies namely British studios Monkey Kingdom and Chocolate Media, Australian production house Matchbox Pictures and Canadian production studio Lark Productions - which NBCUniversal International Television Production has a strategic partnership with the Canadian studio being joined into the new unscripted unit as their senior VP of factual & entertainment David Mortimer overseeing the new division. In November 2021, NBCUniversal International Studios announced their rebranding of the international production subsidiary of Universal Studio Group and renamed it to Universal Internarional Studios in order to match their alignment with it's parent company Universal Studio Group and it's sibling American scripted television production studios

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and unscripted production studio Universal Television Alternative Studio with the renamed international production division continued to work on their original scripted & unscripted content for international networks including Comcast-owned Sky worldwide alongside NBCUniversal's own streaming service

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and licensing NBCUniversal's formats.

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