Steve Coogan’s Production Company Baby Cow Tease New Alan Partridge, Eye U.S. Expansion
variety.comK.J. Yossman Baby Cow are the production company behind some of the U.K.’s best-loved comedy shows, including “Gavin and Stacey” with James Corden and Ruth Jones, Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding’s “The Mighty Boosh” and “This Time With Alan Partridge” starring Steve Coogan as the cringe-worthy fictional television host.
It was a prescient Coogan who founded Baby Cow alongside producer Henry Normal in 1998, long before talent-led production companies were a thing.
In 2016 BBC Studios took a majority stake in the company, with Coogan staying on as a shareholder and creative director. He also stars in many (although not all) of the company’s projects – which span TV, film, comedy and drama – including the recent Channel 4 series “Chivalry,” in which he plays an old-school film producer getting to grips with a changing world opposite Sarah Solemani, and upcoming feature film “The Lost King,” about an amateur historian who finds the remains of King Richard III in a Leicester city car park (the film is set to premiere at TIFF next month).
With Baby Cow having effectively conquered the U.K., the studio is now eyeing the U.S. market. Last spring, Sarah Monteith (pictured above), formerly of BBC Studios, was appointed CEO of Baby Cow, with part of her remit being to amplify the company’s footprint within the U.S.
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