About

Rapido Television is one of the UK's best known television producers, responsible for launching names like Antoine de Caunnes, Graham Norton, Johnny Vaughan and Sara Cox.

Originally financed by Richard Branson's Virgin Group, Rapido Television now boasts an enviable track record of over one hundred successful terrestrial-TV programme titles, and has been a major influence on British culture for over ten years.

It's BAFTA-winning library of over forty thousand broadcast tapes includes hit series such as Eurotrash, Passengers, Unzipped (Graham Norton), Rock Babylon (Graham Norton), Fortean TV, Naked City (Johnny Vaughan), Carnal Knowledge (Graham Norton), Here's Johnny (Johnny Vaughan), Rapido (Antoine de Caunnes), The Girlie Show (Sara Cox) and Baadaas TV (Ice-T). Numerous factual and educational productions include the award-winning Eddie Izzard series, Channel Hopping, Brigette Bardot biography The Reluctant Goddess and highly regarded The Write Stuff. In addition to the above names, Rapido presenters - from Paul Kaye (aka Dennis Pennis!) to Vernon Kay - have helped earn the company its reputation for discovering and developing new talent.