Shed Productions

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Television production
Founded	1998; 27 years ago (1998)
Founders	Ann McManus Maureen Chadwick Eileen Gallagher Brian Park
Defunct	2015; 10 years ago (2015)
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom
Key people	Eileen Gallagher Brian Park Maureen Chadwick Ann McManus Liz Lake Ros Taylor Lee Mason Spencer Campbell
Products	Bad Girls Bad Girls: The Musical Footballers' Wives Footballers' Wives: Extra Time Footballers' Wives TV The Fugitives Bombshell Waterloo Road Rock Rivals Hope Springs
Parent	Warner Bros. Television Productions UK
Website	www.shedproductions.com

Shed Productions, part ofWarner Bros. Television Productions UK, was an independent UK television production company, specialising in contemporary, original drama programming and content. It was established in 1998 by Eileen Gallagher,Brian Park,Ann McManus andMaureen Chadwick, who previously worked together atGranada Television. As of October 2015 it no longer exists as a company with all properties folded intoWall to Wall.^[1]

Shed's first major production, the hit dramaBad Girls was commissioned byITV in the summer of 1998 and proved to be a huge success with viewers, becoming one of the UK's most consistently successful dramas during its eight-series run.

In 2000, following the success ofBad Girls, Shed won a major new commission for primetime ITV,Footballers' Wives. During the five series it was on air,Footballers' Wives became probably the most talked-about UK drama of recent times and spawned the popular ITV2 spin-offFootballers' Wives Extra Time, and factual entertainment seriesFootballers' Wives TV which aired on ITV2 in 2005.

2005 also saw Shed's first foray into the realms of children's television when seven-part dramaThe Fugitives was commissioned byCITV. StarringMaureen Lipman,Jack Ellis andMelanie Hill, the show centred on two runaway teenagers and tackled head-on the serious subject of human cloning.

In 2006, Shed received its first commission fromBBC One,Waterloo Road, a drama series about a failing comprehensive school in Rochdale. After proving to be a huge hit with viewers, especially the valuable 16- to 24-year-old audience,Waterloo Road was immediately re-commissioned by the BBC for a second series. Remaining consistently popular with the viewers, seven series ofWaterloo Road have so far been aired (as of 2012). In November 2011, it was announced by the BBC and Shed Media that production on the show would be relocating from Rochdale toGreenock,Scotland as part of the BBC's aim to produce more programming in the country. A further 50 episodes were commissioned for broadcast between 2012 and 2014, with the first to begin airing from September 2012. Filming on the eighth series began in April 2012 at the formerGreenock Academy, and began airing from August 2012. Production on a ninth series began on 1 April 2013.It was announced on 2 April 2014 that series 10 would be the final series of the show, production on Series 10 ended in August 2014.^[2] In September 2021, it was announced thatWaterloo Road would return with a new series, with production returning to theGreater Manchester area.^[3][4]

One-off dramaCatwalk Dogs – written byMen Behaving Badly creatorSimon Nye and starringKris Marshall andGeorgia MacKenzie – aired on ITV1 in 2007 and introduced viewers to the world of dog shows. This was followed in 2008 byRock Rivals, another ITV commission that starredMichelle Collins andSean Gallagher as Karina and Mal Faith – the bickering judges on a phenomenally successful TV talent show.

In 2008, BBC One commissionedHope Springs, a new eight-part drama from Shed Productions throughBBC Scotland. The show, which will starAnnette Crosbie andAlex Kingston,^[5] is about four female ex-cons who find themselves in hiding in a remote Scottish village called Hope Springs after their plans to start a new life in Barbados go awry. Filming has begun in summer 2008 in the Lowland village of Wanlockhead. The series began airing on BBC One on Sunday 7 June 2009.

Following on fromHope Springs will beDirty Something, a drama series set around the lives and loves of Notting Hill Tories.^[6][7]

1.^Bombshell has never been broadcast in the UK. It was produced in 2004 and initially intended to air on ITV1 in February 2005; however, it never did. The series first premiered in New Zealand on TV One in 2006.

2.^Waterloo Road was recommissioned for a new series in 2021, and commenced airing in January 2023, with production returning toGreater Manchester.

• Bad Girls: Most Wanted (2004)
  • Presented byJack Ellis, this behind-the-scenes special broadcast onITV2 following the Series Six finale and ranked the top 10 most popular prisoners of the series with additional outtakes, bloopers, and scenes from the then upcomingBad Girls: The Musical.
• Footballers' Wives: Exposed (2004)
  • Behind-the-scenes documentary of the series.
• Catwalk Dogs (2007)
  • Television film broadcast onITV.

AfterFootballers' Wives proved such a hit with US viewers when it was broadcast onBBC America, US networkABC commissioned a pilot for an American version of the show, namedFootball Wives. Although based on the UK original and using similar plots, the pilot featuredAmerican football rather thanassociation football, and a completely new cast, includingLucy Lawless,Gabrielle Union,Eddie Cibrian,Kiele Sanchez, andJames Van Der Beek.

The pilot was not picked up due to budget reasons, however a number of websites have speculated thatFootball Wives was shelved due to potential conflicts with theNational Football League.^[8]

Bad Girls - The Musical is an original British musical that was developed by the creators of the television series,Maureen Chadwick andAnn McManus, in collaboration with composer and lyricistKath Gotts, and directorMaggie Norris.

Bad Girls – The Musical takes as its starting point the original core characters from the first series ofBad Girls on TV, and loosely follows the storyline of the first series, most notably, the suicide of Rachel Hicks and the relationship between Wing Governor Helen Stewart and inmate Nikki Wade.

Following a successful workshop production in November 2004 at the New Players Theatre,London, the musical went on to premiere at theWest Yorkshire Playhouse inLeeds in 2006. The subsequent West End production began previews at theGarrick Theatre in August 2007 and officially opened in September 2007. Despite positive reviews, the musical closed less than two months later due to poor ticket sales, with the final performance staged on 17 November 2007.

Note: On average,Bad Girls was Shed Productions' highest rated and most successful production.
Note: As Shed Productions are now defunct as of 2015, the recent revival ofWaterloo Road is produced underWall to Wall Media and Rope Ladder Fiction, therefore the eleventh series will not appear here.

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