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. Studio Lambert won Best Independent Production Company at the Broadcast Awards in 2020, 2024 and 2025, and won Production Company of the Year at the Edinburgh TV Awards 2024.
A scripted division was established in 2015 to produce high quality drama series with British and American writers, directors and on-screen talent. The company's first scripted show, Three Girls, won five BAFTA awards in 2018. The Feed launched on Prime Video in 2019, The Nest premiered on BBC One to high ratings and acclaim in 2020, and Three Families launched in 2021. Premiering in 2024, critically rated Boarders became the company's first returning drama.
The original 'Studio Lambert' was a television adverts production company in the 1960s, 70s and 80s run by Stephen Lambert's father, Roger Lambert, a director of many television adverts.
At the start of November 2018, Studio Lambert had established a new North production office based in Manchester and created a new production division that would produce programming based in its Manchester office named Studio Lambert North, marking Studio Lambert's third production office with it being based in Manchester with Studio Lambert had appointed the executive producer of Dragon's Den, Darrell Olsen, to head Studio Lambert's new Manchetser based production unit Studio Lambert North as president of the new unit & Studio Lambert North had taken over production of Studio Lambert's shows like Naked Attraction the following year in 2019.
In September 2021 following the successful opening of Studio Lambert's Manchester-based operation & production division Studio Lambert North, back in November 2018, Studio Lambert expanded its production operations into Scotland by opening up a new production office based in the Scottish Highlands based at Inverness and in Glasgow, Scotland & launched a new Scottish production division entitled Studio Lambert Scotland, Studio Lambert had previously produced its scripted series The Nest in Scotland & the formation of Studio Lambert Scotland will produce & develop programming based in the Scottish highlands starting with the British and American adaptations of the Dutch format De Verraders originally made by All3Media's fellow production subsidiary IPTV, entitled The Traitors and The Traitors US, marking Studio Lambert Scotland's first productions.
In January 2026 following the launch of Studio Lambert's first American production subsidiary MindMeld Entertainment back in June 2025, Studio Lambert had partnered with longtime collaborators, actors and game show format creators Jon Barinholtz and Rob Belushi to formed a newly-formed & Studio Lambert's second American unscripted production & development subsidiary entitled Inner Drive Entertainment that would sit under Studio Lambert's American production division Studio Lambert USA, the new production subsidiary Inner Drive Entertainment would develop & produce unscripted television formats including game shows, challenge formats, social experiment programs, and reality-competition series with Jon Barinholtz and Rob Belushi serving as co-presidents & will work closey with Studio Lambert USA's president Jack Burgess.https://senalnews.com/en/content/all3media-and-studio-lambert-launched-a-new-us-label
Programming Title Years Network Notes Undercover Boss 2009–2021 Channel 4/ITV Also known as Undercover Big Boss Undercover Boss USA 2010–2022 CBS co-production with All3Media America Ultimate Traveller 2010 Channel 4 Southern Fried Stings 2010–2011 TruTV co-production with Zoo Productions Four in a Bed 2010–present Channel 4 Love Thy Neighbour 2011 Channel 4/More 4 The Pitch 2012–2013 AMC co-production with All3Media America and AMC Studios Girlfriends 2012–2013 ITV2 Gogglebox 2013–present Channel 4 How to Get a Council House 2013 Originally titled I Want a Council House The Million Second Quiz 2013 NBC co-production with All3Media America, Ryan Seacrest Productions, Bill's Market & Television Productions and Universal Television The People's Couch 2013–2016 Bravo co-production with All3Media America and Bravo Media ProductionsCo-owned by NBCUniversal Syndication Studios True Tori 2014 Lifetime co-production with All3Media America, Life in the Bowl Productions and Big Country Entertainment The Great Interior Design Challenge 2014–2017 BBC Two Inside Job 2014 TNT co-production with All3Media America and TNT Originals, Inc.Owned by Warner Bros. Discovery Tattoo Fixers 2015–2019 E4 Job or No Job 2015 ABC Family co-production with All3Media AmericaOwned by Disney Platform Distribution The Fear BBC Three Body Fixers 2016–2017 E4 Naked Attraction 2016–present Channel 4 as Studio Lambert North Gogglebox Ireland Virgin Media One co-production with Kite Entertainment Tattoo Artist of the Year 2017 E4 Second Wives Club E! co-production with All3Media America Three Girls BBC One Spa Wars ITVBe Buy It Now 2018 Channel 4 as Glitterbox The Circle 2018–2021 Part of The Circle franchise; co-production with Motion Content Group Race Across the World 2019–present BBC Two The Feed 2019 Virgin MediaAmazon Prime Video co-productiom with Amazon Studios, All3Media International and Liberty Global The Circle US 2020–present Netflix/Hulu co-production with Motion Content Group The Circle Brazil 2020 Netflix The Circle France Celebrity Watch Party Fox co-production with All3Media America The Hustler 2021 ABC Three Families BBC One Lovestruck High 2022 Amazon Prime Video co-production with Amazon Studios The Traitors 2022–present BBC One as Studio Lambert Scotland The Traitors US 2023–present Peacock as Studio Lambert Scotland Celebrity Race Across the World BBC One Squid Game: The Challenge Netflix co-production with The Garden Boarders 2024–2026 BBC Three The Anonymous 2024 USA Network Buy It Now USA 2024 Amazon Prime Video An American adaptation of Buy It Nowco-production with Amazon MGM Studios The Celebrity Traitors 2025–present BBC One as Studio Lambert Scotland The Grand Tour 2026–present Amazon Prime Video co-production with Amazon MGM StudiosMonopolyTBANetflixco-production with Hasbro Entertainment
2023 Celebrity Gogglebox (Channel 4) Celebrity Race Across the World (BBC One) Dance 100 (Netflix) Four in a Bed (Channel 4) Gogglebox (Channel 4) How to Get Rich (Netflix) Naked Attraction (Channel 4) Race Across the World (BBC One) Rise and Fall (Channel 4) Squid Game: The Challenge (Netflix) Surviving Paradise (Netflix)
2021 Celebrity Gogglebox (Channel 4) Four in a Bed (Channel 4) Gogglebox (Channel 4) Naked Attraction (Channel 4) Reunion Road Trip (E!) The Celebrity Circle (Channel 4) The Circle UK (Channel 4) The Circle US (Netflix) The Hustler (ABC) Three Families (BBC One)
2020 Celebrity Gogglebox (Channel 4) Celebrity Watch Party (FOX) Four in a Bed (Channel 4) Gogglebox (Channel 4) Naked Attraction (Channel 4) Race Across the World (BBC Two) The Circle Brazil (Netflix) The Circle France (Netflix) The Circle US (Netflix) The Nest (BBC One)
2019 Buy It Now for Christmas (Channel 4) Celebrity Gogglebox (Channel 4) Four in a Bed (Channel 4) Gogglebox (Channel 4) Naked Attraction (Channel 4) Race Across the World (BBC Two) Tattoo Fixers: Extreme (E4) The Circle UK (Channel 4) The Feed UK (Virgin TV/Prime Video)
2018 Buy It Now (Channel 4) Celebrity Undercover Boss (CBS) Club Rep Wars (E4) Four in a Bed (Channel 4) Gogglebox (Channel 4) Naked Attraction (Channel 4) Nightmare Pets SOS (BBC One) Tattoo Fixers (E4) The Big Life Fix (BBC Two) The Circle UK (Channel 4) Top of the Shop with Tom Kerridge (BBC Two) Undercover Boss US (CBS)
2017 Alone with the In-Laws (BBC Two) Body Fixers (E4) Common Sense (BBC Two) Doctor in the House (BBC One) Four in a Bed (Channel 4) Gogglebox (Channel 4) Gogglesprogs (Channel 4) Naked Attraction (Channel 4) Reunion Road Trip (E!) Second Wives Club (E!) Sketch's Prison Ink (All4) Spa Wars (ITVBe) Tattoo Artist of the Year (E4) Tattoo Fixers (E4) Tattoo Fixers on Holiday (E4) The Big Life Fix (BBC Two) The Great Interior Design Challenge (BBC Two) The Secret Chef (ITV) Three Girls (BBC One) Undercover Boss US (CBS) Vlogglebox (E4)
2016 Body Fixers (E4) Four in a Bed (Channel 4) Gogglebox (Channel 4) Gogglesprogs (Channel 4) How to Get a Council House (Channel 4) Just Jillian (E!) Naked Attraction (Channel 4) Pitch Slapped (Lifetime) Tattoo Fixers (E4) Tattoo Fixers on Holiday (E4) The Big Life Fix (BBC Two) The Great Interior Design Challenge (BBC Two) The People%27s Couch (Bravo)
2015 At Home with Steph and Dom (Channel 4) Doctor in the House (BBC One) Four in a Bed (Channel 4) Gogglebox (Channel 4) How to Get a Council House (Channel 4) Job or No Job (ABC Family) Tattoo Fixers (E4) The Fear (BBC Three) The People%27s Couch (Bravo) Three in a Bed (Channel 4) Undercover Boss US (CBS) Travel Guides (ITV)
2014 Four in a Bed (Channel 4) Gogglebox (Channel 4) How to Get a Council House (Channel 4) Inside Job (TNT) Steph & Dom Meet Nigel Farage (Channel 4) The Great Interior Design Challenge (BBC Two) The Kitchen (BBC Two) The People%27s Couch (Bravo) You Can't Get the Staff (Channel 4)
2013 Be the Boss (A&E) Four in a Bed (Channel 4) Girlfriends (ITV2) InRealLife (Documentary film) Model Employee (VH1) Supermarket Superstar (Lifetime) The Insider (BBC Three) The Million Second Quiz (NBC) The People%27s Couch (Bravo) The Pitch (TV series) (AMC) Trouble Next Door (OWN)
2012 Be the Boss (A&E) Diamond Divers (Spike) Four in a Bed (Channel 4) Girlfriends (ITV2) Kurt Sutter's Outlaw Empires (Discovery Channel) Love for Sail (Lifetime) Rat Bastards (Spike) The Pitch (TV series) (AMC)
2011 Come Bell Ringing with Charles Hazlewood (BBC Four) Four in a Bed (Channel 4) Love Thy Neighbour (Channel 4) Southern Fried Stings (TruTV) The Fairy Jobmother UK (Channel 4) The Flaw (Documentary film) Three in a Bed (Channel 4)
2010 All at Sea (ITV) Come Clog Dancing: Treasures of English Folk Dance (BBC Four) Denise and Fearne's Charity Trek (ITV2) Four in a Bed (Channel 4) Mel B: It's a Scary World (Esquire Network) Paradise Lost (ITV) Seven Days (Channel 4) Southern Fried Stings (TruTV) The Fairy Jobmother UK (Channel 4) The Fairy Jobmother US (Lifetime) Three in a Bed (Channel 4) Ultimate Traveller (Channel 4)
2009 Benefit Busters (Channel 4) Out of My Depth (ITV) Paradise Lost (ITV)
Awards Studio Lambert won Best Independent Production Company at the Broadcast Awards in 2020, 2024 and 2025, and won Production Company of the Year at the Edinburgh TV Awards 2024.
The Traitors UK has won multiple BAFTA Television Awards, Edinburgh TV Awards, RTS Programme Awards and BPG Awards.