12 Yard Productions was founded in 2001 by the creative team behind the worldwide hit The Weakest Link and Hat Trick Productions. 12 Yard has gone on to become one of the world’s most successful entertainment format creators, producing hit formats including the BBC’s long-running daytime quiz Eggheads, Saturday night BBC1 lottery formats In It to Win It and Who Dares Wins, primetime feel-good format Big Star’s Little Star for ITV, and Coach Trip and Celebrity Coach Trip for Channel 4. The company was acquired by ITV in 2007.
