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Studio Lambert

Studio Lambert is a British television production company based in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Los Angeles. It creates and produces scripted and unscripted programs for British and American broadcasters, cable networks and streaming platforms. It is part of Banijay UK, the British division of Banijay Entertainment, the global production group. Stephen Lambert, creator of many global formats, launched the company in 2008. Tim Harcourt joined in 2012, first as head of development then becoming chief creative officer. The company quickly grew a reputation on both sides of the Atlantic for making "innovative" and popular unscripted shows. Studio Lambert is known for many productions including award-winning global hits Undercover Boss, Gogglebox, The Traitors UK and The Traitors US as well as Race Across the World, The Circle and Four in a Bed. In 2022, it was announced Netflix had given Studio Lambert a series order for the biggest reality competition ever, Squid Game: The Challenge – a co-production with The Garden, featuring 456 players and a prize of $4.56m. In the 2024 Broadcast Magazine survey of independent UK production companies, Studio Lambert ranked #3 by size of turnover. In 2019 and in 2024, the same survey ranked the company #1 in its peer poll.…

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Studio Lambert is a British television production company based in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Los Angeles. It creates and produces scripted and unscripted programs for British and American broadcasters, cable networks and streaming platforms. It is part of Banijay UK, the British division of Banijay Entertainment, the global production group. Stephen Lambert, creator of many global formats, launched the company in 2008. Tim Harcourt joined in 2012, first as head of development then becoming chief creative officer. The company quickly grew a reputation on both sides of the Atlantic for making "innovative" and popular unscripted shows. Studio Lambert is known for many productions including award-winning global hits Undercover Boss, Gogglebox, The Traitors UK and The Traitors US as well as Race Across the World, The Circle and Four in a Bed. In 2022, it was announced Netflix had given Studio Lambert a series order for the biggest reality competition ever, Squid Game: The Challenge – a co-production with The Garden, featuring 456 players and a prize of $4.56m. In the 2024 Broadcast Magazine survey of independent UK production companies, Studio Lambert ranked #3 by size of turnover. In 2019 and in 2024, the same survey ranked the company #1 in its peer poll.…

Key claims

  1. date of establishment: 2015 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
  2. date of establishment: 2019 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of establishment is "2015". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. The record states that the date of establishment is "2019". What evidence would count against this claim?
  4. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  5. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376661234

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