ITV Studios America
Co-based in Sherman Oaks, California and New York City, ITV Studios America produces programming primarily for US networks, such as: Fox's Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, Sit Down, Shut Up, and Nanny 911; NBC's Hit Me Baby One More Time and Little Friends; CBS' Eleventh Hour; VH1's But Can They Sing? and Celebrity Fit Club; A&E's Airline, The First 48 and House of Dreams; and MTV's Room Raiders.
In 2006 Granada, in association with FremantleMedia North America, produced Gameshow Marathon, an American version of Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon for CBS.
Television movies from Granada and ITV Studios America include: Molly Shannon in 12 Days of Christmas Eve; Jason Priestly in The Reality Of Love; Farrah Fawcett in Hollywood Lives, based on Jackie Collins’ best selling novel; Anne Heche in Dead Will Tell; Melanie Griffith in Lethal Seduction; Jon Voight and Cary Elwes in Pope John Paul II (2005) Aidan Quinn and Mary-Louise Parker in Unexpected Journey; and Susan Sarandon in Icebound.
Until recently the Chief Executive Officer of ITV Studios was David Gyngell, son of the late Bruce Gyngell, the former managing director of former ITV breakfast franchisee TV-am and Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television.
The company was formerly Granada America but was re-branded in May 2009.
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