Spelthorne Community Television

Spelthorne Community Television is a London-based television production company started in November 2015 by Sacha Baron Cohen and Andrew Newman, specialising in scripted comedy and comedy entertainment programmes.
History
Spelthorne Community Television is named after the district from which Baron Cohen’s character Ali G came from. Baron Cohen’s relationship with Newman and Channel 4 reaches back to the 1990s. Baron Cohen made his debut in 1998 on Channel 4’s “,” where he worked with Newman, who was the show’s producer. Baron Cohen’s TV series “Da Ali G Show” also aired on Channel 4. It won two BAFTA TV awards and garnered several Emmy Award nominations in the U.S, where it played on HBO.
The show’s success led to his move into movies with “Ali G Indahouse” (2002), “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” (2006), which was Oscar nominated and saw Baron Cohen awarded best actor at the Golden Globes in 2007, and “Brüno” (2009).

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