Tuesday’s Child (an STV Studios company)

tuesdayschild.tv

HEADQUARTERS:

London, UK

RECENT PROJECTS:

The Fortune Hotel (ITV1); LEGO Masters (Fox), The Hit List (BBC One)

UPCOMING TITLES:

Am I the A**hole? (Comedy Central UK)

Launched in 2012 by Karen Smith and now maintaining offices

in London, Glasgow and Cardiff, Tuesday’s Child has carved

out a reputation as one of the UK’s more innovative

entertainment producers. Or perhaps it’s more accurate to say

it’s built that reputation block by block, with one of its first big hits

being LEGO Masters, created with the Lego Group and airing in

more than 20 territories.

The past year saw three European markets sign on for a spin-off

of the format, LEGO Masters: Out of the Box, which was

commissioned for the Netherlands, Finland and Poland. But

there were other success stories as well: the new strategic

competition format The Fortune Hotel (pictured), produced for

ITV, has performed well, racking up 5.9 million streams and with

a second season on the way. Sweden’s TV4 will air the first

international adaptation of the show, while Norway’s TV2 will

debut a celebrity version later this year.

Meanwhile, the prodco’s “playalong pop quiz” for BBC One, The

Hit List, is now seven seasons deep, and has scored

adaptations in Spain, Finland, the Netherlands and France.

The company is also making strategic expansion moves, with

the most recent being the creation of a format-focused offshoot,

Curious Cat, headed up by James Donkin, who has returned to

Tuesday’s Child after a stint in development with UK prodco

Expectation. Tuesday’s Child also bought a controlling stake in

another UK indie, Interstellar, in 2023.

Coming soon: a comedy entertainment format based on the

popular Reddit thread, Am I the A**hole?, to be hosted by

comedian Jimmy Carr. —Barry Walsh