Channel X

For other uses, see Channel X (disambiguation).

Channel X

Founded	1987
Founder	Jonathan Ross Alan Marke
Headquarters	United Kingdom
Subsidiaries	Channel X North Channel X Hopscotch
Website	www.channelx.co.uk

Channel X Productions is a UK comedy and entertainment company with a 22–year history of producing programmes for all of the major broadcasters. The company specialises in scripted broken and narrative comedy, comedy-entertainment formats and game shows.

The company was formed in 1987 by Jonathan Ross and Alan Marke, and the former made his television presenting début as a stand-in presenter for Channel X program The Last Resort.

Channel X's Manchester based subsidiary, Channel X North won its first commissions in 2009, netting deals at the BBC and Channel 4. In 2020, a new subsidiary was launched named Channel X Hopscotch, in partnership with Hopscotch Films to produce comedy and drama set and made in Scotland.

Selected shows

• The Last Resort with Jonathan Ross
• Saturday Zoo with Jonathan Ross
• Vic Reeves Big Night Out
• Sean's Show
• Shooting Stars
• The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer
• Bang Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer
• Catterick
• Popetown
• Blunder
• Modern Toss
• Snuff Box
• So Awkward
• Detectorists

Online

Channel X also produced an online comedy drama series called Chelsey OMG which aired on social networking website Bebo. By February 2009 the show had amassed almost 2,000,000 views.

External links

• Channel X Website