Independently Family Run Since 1963
Independently Family Run Since 1963
Family run since its founding in 1963, DLT Entertainment is a leading company in the television and video production industry. Its innovations have lead to new ways to produce and market programs around the world. Just as the company has evolved as the television landscape has changed, DLT has now expanded into live entertainment and talent representation.
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Production
Production
Three's Company, Too Close For Comfort, My Family, Benny Hill, Dara O'Briain's Go 8 Bit, and As Time Goes By are but a few shows produced by DLT Entertainment over the years. Today original development is based out of the London office with development based on existing formats based in the New York and London.
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Distribution
Distribution
Since 1963, DLT Entertainment has built an impressive history of success — producing and distributing its own programs, and marketing programs produced by others in the U.S. and around the world.
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Theater
Theatre
Starting with a minority share in 1986, today DLT owns 100% of the Shaftesbury Theatre and is London's longest tenured theatre owner. In addition to producing its own shows, DLT has general managed third party productions at the Shaftesbury and other venues..
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Talent Representation
Talent Representation
DLT Entertainment UK Ltd either wholly or partly own a number of UK Talent Agencies to create synergy between the talent management business and television production as well as live production. The agencies operate independently of DLT and always with the best interest of their clients at the forefront of any deal.
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Live Comedy
Live Comedy
DLT Entertainment UK Ltd has continued its expansion into live performance with key investments in live comedy promoters to further the synergy between the talent management business and television production. Just like the talent agency investments, these companies operate independently of DLT and always with the best interest of their clients at the forefront of any deal.
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Audio Production
Audio Production
In 2020, DLT expanded into the world o audio production with the release of podcasts When No ones Watching. In 2021 DLT produced Very Modern Quests, its first podcast for Audible. 2024 saw the release of Time Of The Week on BBC Radio 4
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DLT Entertainment is a family owned independent TV production and distribution company that has achieved unrivaled success in the industry. Its innovations have fostered the growth of program sales, co-productions, format sales, and new methods of production and distribution in The United States, The United Kingdom, and around the world which are now industry standards.
Its business has expanded to include ownership of London's Shaftesbury Theatre, London's largest independently owned theater, ownership stakes in a number of United Kingdom based talent agencies and live comedy promoters, and has recently expanded into podcasting and audio production.
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DLT Entertainment Expands Sponsorship Of The Edinburgh Comedy Awards to include both Newcomer and Comedy Awards.
As live comedy grows to a whopping 39% of the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Programme, DLT expands its sponsorship to both the DLT Entertainment Newcomer Award as well as The Donald and Eleanor Taffner Comedy Award in honor of DLT's founders.
Congratulations to The Don and Eleanor Taffner Best Comedy Award winner Amy Gledhill and The DLT Entertainment Newcomer Award Winner Joe Kent Walters!
DLT Entertainment Acquires Juniper Productions, Expanding Its Portfolio in Factual Programming
Juniper Productions, renowned for its high-quality political programming, was founded by Samir Shah, who recently stepped down from the company to take up the prestigious role of BBC Chair. Shah’s leadership at Juniper Productions led to a robust slate of award-winning content, making it a key player in the British television landscape. The acquisition by DLT Entertainment follows Shah’s departure and represents a new chapter for the company as it continues to thrive under new ownership
Christian Brighty, Jessica Knappett, and Colin McFarlane Star In The Many Wrongs of Lord Christian Brighty
4 x 30 Minute Episodes Starting 11PM, 24TH AUGUST 2024 on BBC Radio 4.
Inverting the familiar worlds of BBC Period Dramas, Jane Austen, Poldark and Bridgerton, The Many Wrongs Of Lord Christian Brighty follows a hedonistic Regency-era aristocrat (Christian Brighty) who has an epiphany and decides he must right all his many past wrongs.
Eleanor Lang Appointed Chief Executive Of The Shaftesbury Theatre
Eleanor Lang, who is currently Executive Director of Stratford East, takes over the role currently held by James Williams in November 2024.
Williams - who has led the Shaftesbury Theatre for over 20 years, during which time he has overseen the most successful artistic and financial period in the history of the theatre - will continue to work alongside Eleanor in an advisory capacity.
Table Reads: New Comedy Script Showcase
Monkey Barrel 4 - 11:20 AM - Jul 30 to Aug 25In the spirit of The Edinburgh Fringe, DLT Entertainment and Monkey Barrel Comedy have joined forces to try something new. Each day of The Fringe a table read of new comedy script will be performed by your favorite talent at The Fringe.
The Department of Happiness will be read from July 30 through August 7
Wenches will be read from August 8 through 13 and August 20 through 22
Roll With It will be read from August 14 through 19 and August 23 through 25.
Time Of The Week: New Character Comedy Series Launches 11pm 6th July on BBC Radio 4
Time Of The Week parodies live women’s current affairs and talk shows and stars BAFTA award winning actress Sian Clifford and is Created by award-winning comedian and former BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour producer Lorna Rose Treen and Jonathan Oldfield.
Listen on BBC Radio 4 Extra.
DLT Companies Have 70 shows At This Year's Edinburgh Fringe
DLT Entertainment UK Limited and its affiliated companies Blue Book Artist Management, Gag Reflex Productions, The Soho Agency, Milburn Browning Associates, and Impatient Productions combined are either representing or producing 70 shows at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
See a list of DLT shows at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Mrs. Doubtfire Extends Run To 2025, Adds Sunday Show At The Shaftesbury Theatre
The hit musical
Mrs. Doubtfire has extended its run until 2025 and added a Sunday show!.
After losing custody in a messy divorce, Out-of-work actor Daniel creates the alter ego of Scottish nanny Euphegenia Doubtfire in a desperate attempt to stay in their lives. As his new character takes on a life of its own, Mrs. Doubtfire teaches Daniel more than he bargained for about how to be a father.
Read the reviews: What's On Stage | The Times | Timeout | The Telegraph | City AM
Fuller Voices Re-Brands As Bedford Square Voices (BSV)
Retaining a portfolio of over 70 existing clients, the re-brand is bolstered by the addition of Alexei Sayle, Georgina Cudby, Michelle Ogundehin, Craig Blake, and Bruce Langley to their books and follows the recent departure of Becky Fuller from Fuller Voices Ltd.
Under the interim leadership of Michele Milburn, co-owner of BSV and Managing Director of MMB Creative, working alongside advertising executive Tania Feeley, the company is now poised to seize new opportunities and drive unprecedented growth.
BBC Streams 11,000,000 hours of My Family
At the 2023 BBC Comedy Festival held in May in Cardiff, Wales, Jon Petrie, BBC Director of Comedy, announced the incredible success that MY FAMILY is enjoying on BBC iPlayer where over 11,000,000 ours of the classic family comedy were watched on iPLayer in 2022 alone.
Watch on iPlayer.
Next Stage of Shaftesbury's Master Plan Completed
The 1911 bar is the latest in a series of major works which have been undertaken at the Grade II listed building including a second private hospitality space, the Taffner Suite, a cutting-edge air-conditioning system to reduce energy costs, a lift which allows people with mobility issues, and the addition of thirteen spaces for wheelchairs in the Theatre’s auditorium.
Donald Taffner, Jr. Int’l Emmy Gala Chairman
In honor of DLT Entertainment's 60th Anniversary, Donald Taffner, Jr. was the 2023 Chairman of the International Emmy Awards Gala where programs from around the world compete to be recognized at the prestigious International Emmy® Awards with over one thousand international broadcasting, production, and distribution executives convene to celebrate the best in global television.