Chapman Entertainment Limited (04162019): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2012-11-06
- Administrators
- Antony David Nygate, Sarah Megan Rayment
- Administrators' firm
- BDO
- Formerly
- Chapman Productions Limited
- Incorporated
- 2001-02-16
- Location
- London
- Industry
- 59113 Television programme production activities
Why it went into administration
- Funding withdrawn / unable to refinance
- Cash flow / liquidity pressure
- Sustained trading losses
- Management failings / irregularities
From the administrators' statement
The company was incorporated on 16 February 2001 as a producer and licensor of children’s TV programming Since its incorporation the company has produced and continues to license the pre-school titles of Fifi and the Flowertots (from May 2005 onwards), Roary the Racing Car (May 2007), Little Charley Bear (January 2011) and Raa Raa the Noisy Lion (May 2011).
The TV programming of each titte is broadcast in numerous territories worldwide, and subsequent product licenses have been agreed with, over the course of the company’s incorporation, approximately 250 licensees for a variety of different products. Over 125 licence agreements currently remain active
In the UK, where the company’s key market lies, Fifi and the Flowertots and Roary the Racing Car are both broadcast on Channel 5, with Little Charley Bear and Raa Raa the Noisy Lton being broadcast by the BBC
Administrators' statement of proposals (2013-01-07) · Companies House register