A production company for the 21st century

In a little over a decade, the British production company Kudos has amassed an impressive catalogue of television and film, creating original, popular, award-winning work with flair and intelligence and a keen sense of emerging talent. Whether tackling edgy subject matter or crafting mainstream entertainment, Kudos has become, under the leadership of Joint Managing Directors Stephen Garrett and Jane Featherstone, an international force as a production entity of quality and distinction.

Since 1992, Kudos has built a track record of acclaimed programming, from the current worldwide hit drama series Spooks (titled MI5 in the US) to the critically lauded feature film Pure. The latest success for the team has been with the wickedly entertaining series Hustle, about a band of resourceful con artists, while the recently announced launch of Kudos Pictures, a new stand-alone production company created with former Film Four head Paul Webster, promises a rich new source of product. With an already impressive list of projects for the big and small screens - the rehab-set love story Comfortably Numb, a provocative coming-of-age drama about a 14-year-old girl called Pleasureland and the Pete Postlethwaite/Rachel Griffiths feature about working class life, Among Giants - the new Kudos Pictures is destined to make a mark in the film world.

From the outset Kudos made a name for itself with a wide-ranging slate that highlighted clever reality-based programming and sharp fictional entertainment, from the edgy BAFTA-nominated medical drama Psychos to the International Emmy Award-winning The Magician's House to the Grammy-nominated feature length Radiohead documentary Meeting People is Easy. The company has a firm belief in nurturing talented writers, which led Psychos creator David Wolstencroft to work again with Kudos to create the smash hit Spooks, a show whose prescient storylines and piercing characterizations - including Matthew Macfadyen's starmaking central role - have proven to be enormously popular across a wide spectrum of the TV-watching demographic – both in the UK and internationally. The Financial Times called Spooks nothing less than "total commitment TV."

In short, Kudos is a production company for the 21st century: forward thinking, smart, and dynamic.