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The company, Cactus TV, was founded in 1994 by Simon Ross and his wife Amanda Ross. Cactus TV specializes in a broad range of entertainment features and chat shows. Many of its productions are based around Amanda Ross’ passion for things such as cookery and books along with big scale entertainment shows. Cactus TV has so far produced 37 distinct titles in the UK, these were for 9 different channels including ITV and Channel 4. They are renowned for providing outstanding programming to all of the British major broadcaster and were ranked the third biggest supplier to the BBC in 2017’s Broadcast Independent Survey. They have also provided over 210 hours of original content for ITV meaning that they were ranked ITV’s fourth biggest supplier. Cactus TV have also produced the British Soap Awards which is the the highest rated entertainment show on ITV for three years running. Richard and Judy, which was one of Channel 4’s biggest ever commissions, was made daily by Cactus TV for over 8 years. One of the BBC’s most recognizable and hugely popular shows was the live cooking show, Saturday Kitchen Live. This was created by Cactus TV and has even has spin-offs such as the Sunday morning show, Saturday Kitchen Best Bites. The Saturday Kitchen Brand has eve expanded further to include Kitchen Garden ve with the likes of the Hairy Bikers. Cactus TV was under the ALL3Media umbrella however left this in 2012. Due to the culinary routes of some of the shows, Amanda Ross has opened the Cactus Kitchen Cookery School in partnership with Michel Roux Jr. Cactus TV has an unrivaled reputation within the industry due to pioneering advertiser-funded content and programming. Over the last 10 years Amanda has broken record-breaking TV deals with major UK brands which include Galaxy and Specsavers. Cactus TV creates programs aimed at different target audience however most of the programs they create are family friendly. Most of the programs they create are for entertainment, this even includes programs which are more educational.