Wall to Wall, part of the Shed Media Group, is an independent television production company that produces event specials and drama, factual entertainment, science and history programmes for broadcast by networks in both the UK and US.
In January 2009 Wall to Wall's first feature film Man On Wire won a BAFTA award for Outstanding British Film and followed this success with an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
Wall to Wall joined the Shed Media Group in November 2007.
The company's name derives from negative references made in the mid-1980s, by then BBC Director-General Alasdair Milne and in the title of a book by Financial Times journalist Chris Dunkley, to "wall-to-wall Dallas" as a possible aftereffect of the coming deregulation of UK broadcasting. Future BBC2 controller Jane Root, among the company's founders, considered this a negative, puritanical and conservative view of the medium's possibilities (ref. NME, May 17, 1986) and the name "Wall to Wall Television" was adopted as a conscious celebration of the medium, which its founders considered the "establishment" of the time to be frightened of.
Famous quotes containing the word wall:
“A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again and look with terror at the wall, until one day he begins afresh to beat his head against it; and once again he will faint. And so on endlessly and without hope. One day he will wake up on the other side of the wall.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)