Sky Studios
Sky Studios is a production company founded by Sky in June 2019 with assets from the now defunct Sky Vision. It develops, produces and funds original drama, comedy and documentary, and has investments in a number of production businesses in the UK and US: Love Productions, Blast Films!, Sugar Films, True North Productions, Chrysalis Vision, True to Nature, Longboat Pictures and The Lighthouse in the United Kingdom; Jupiter Entertainment, Talos Films, Znak & Co. and Catalina Content in the United States.
As part of the launch of Sky Studios, the broadcaster also announced that they would double their spend on original productions to over $1.3 billion over the next five years.
In September 2019, Sky Studios announced they were launching a US-arm called The Hive, based in New York and Tennessee, utilising expertise from Jupiter Entertainment. In December 2021, Sky Studios sold their minority stake in Bad Wolf to Sony Pictures Television.
Sky Studios Elstree
In December 2019, Sky announced plans to develop Sky Studios Elstree. The facility is being built at Rowley Lane, Borehamwood, located close to the existing Elstree Studios. The final sound stage to be completed was opened by the Duke of Edinburgh in March 2023 and the completion of the whole project was celebrated with Pop Up Cinema screenings for local residents in October 2023. The studio provides production space for Sky's original content as well as film and TV productions from NBCUniversal, which is owned by Sky's parent company Comcast.The facility has 13 stages ranging from 10,000 sq ft to 30,000 sq ft. The site also houses post-production facilities and an on-site screening cinema.
Filmography
- Paddington in Peru
- Wicked
- Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
- Jurassic World Rebirth
- Wicked: For Good
- Wuthering Heights
- ''Werwulf''
Partnerships
Original productions
| Year | Title | Original network | Notes | Refs. |
| 2021 | Murder at the Cottage: The Search for Justice for Sophie | Sky Crime | with Hell's Kitchen, Dare Films, Sky UK | |
| 2021 | Shark with Steve Backshall | Sky Nature | with True to Nature, Sky UK |
| Year | Title | Original network | Notes | Refs. |
| 2021 | Steve McQueen: The Lost Movie | Sky Documentaries | with Associated Rediffusion Productions, Sky UK | |
| 2021 | Bruno v Tyson | Sky Documentaries | with Workerbee, Sky UK | |
| 2021 | Hawking: Can You Hear Me? | Sky Documentaries | with Atlantic Productions, Sky UK |
Upcoming
;Scripted series- Impero – for Sky Italia – with Èliseo Entertainment, Sky Italia
- Greenpeace Inside - Mission: Saving the Planet - for Sky Documentaries – with M.E. Works, Constantin Dokumentation, Sky UK