Shed Media

Above: Shed Media, a television production company which is based close to Pentonville Road.

The company was founded in 1998 by former Granada TV executives Eileen Gallagher, Brian Park and Maureen Chadwick.

The creative “culture” in the company does not have a good reputation. Ideas are supposedly derivative, “me too” and lack originality. Imposed quotas on the amount of “indie” productions commissioned by major channels is supposed to have distorted supply and led to an increase in the number of these sub-standard productions (“there’s nothing wrong with being populist, but their populism is out of touch”).

Shed productions have populist (and slightly trashy) themes and include Bad Girls, Footballers’ Wives, Rock Rivals. A recurring leitmotif of their dramas is a feisty forty-something outwardly-hard female character who (eventually) turns out to have a heart of gold. Supposedly these characters are based on Eileen Gallagher herself.

Their PR is handled by Sharon Makin of Makin PR.