Hat Trick pays out interim dividend of £1m, £900,000 of which goes to founder Jimmy Mulville and wife
The production company behind Have I Got News For You has bounced back into the black after launching the hit panel show in the US for the first time.
Hat Trick, which also makes Mastermind, Derry Girls and Whose Line is it Anyway?, reported pre-tax profits of almost £857,000 last year. In 2023, the company reported a pre-tax loss of £377,000.
However, turnover at the company, the maker of hits including Father Ted, Trigger Point and Outnumbered, fell almost 28% from £48.4m to £35m year on year.
The return to profit came as Hat Trick successfully debuted a 10-episode series of Have I Got News for You in the US on CNN in the run-up to last November’s US presidential election, with a further 20 episodes running this year.
