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Box TV Limited

UK-based production company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 18, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Box TV Limited is a UK-based production company specialising in film and television drama, and a subsidiary of the production and distribution group DCD Media. It was founded in 2000 by Gub Neal, a former head of drama at Channel 4 and controller of drama at Granada Television. Box TV's core team also included executive producers Justin Thomson-Glover and Patrick Irwin. Adrian Bate, formerly head of film and drama at Zenith Entertainment, joined the team in October 2006.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Box TV Limited” as uK-based production company. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Limited, UK-based and production.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Limited, UK-based and production providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Box TV Limited”, the useful work is to connect “uK-based production company” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 18, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2000 and 2006.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Box TV Limited” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.