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Pilgrim Films

London, United Kingdom(approximate location)

Television producer Craig Piligian founded Pilgrim Films and Television in 1997. Piligian, who began his career in the news business, first became a producer of non-scripted programming in 1991, with the shows Emergency Call and Real Stories of the Highway Patrol . With more than 625 episodes produced, Real Stories became the first successful launch and sustained production of a syndicated reality strip.

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Images from Pilgrim Films’s own website.

Who works there

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  • Craig PiligianPresident, CEO & Executive Producer Gretchen
  • Gretchen StockdaleVice President & General Counsel Brett Boyds
  • Brett BoydstunVice President of Finance & Operations Johnn
  • Gould VicePresident of Programming & Business Developm
  • Heath BanksVice President of Production News discovery

Listed on the company’s own site. People move on; this is not a current roster.

Contact & details

TypeDistributor · Television · Film
Social
Statuslikely activesite live, last 2015 i

How their work is rated

Average rating
6.9IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

4 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards
Oscars0of2nominations0%

16 wins from 46 nominations across all awards

Box office
$8m

Combined US gross, 1 of 8 titles

Mostly
reality-tv, thriller, adventure
Active
1997–2014
Rotten Tomatoes
82%
Best known for
Shadow of the Vampire

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 7 of 8 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.

Their television work

Series
318 seasons

2012–2014

Networks
  • Discovery2

Across 2 series matched to TMDB, 149 episodes. 1 still returning or in production.

Longest runningFast N' Loud · 14 seasons

Series identified from OMDb, falling back to the credit type where OMDb had no match. Season counts are each show’s full run, not only the seasons this company was credited on.

Credits9

3 films · 2 TV titles

  • 2014 · TV

    Produced

  • 2012 · TV

    Produced

  • 2000 · Film

    Produced

  • 1998 · Film

    Produced

  • 1997 · Film

    Produced

  • 2015

    Produced

  • 2014

    Produced

  • 2008

    Produced

  • 1994

    Distributed

Titles per year8 titles · busiest 2014 with 2

8 titles across 19 years, averaging 0.4 a year. The last five years hold at 0.0 a year. 12 of those 19 years carry no credit on file.

Who they work with

Directors
  • Bharat Nalluri2
Writers
  • Caspar Berry2
Notable cast
  • Richard Rawlings2
Genres
  • Reality-TV3 of 7
  • Thriller2 of 7

Names appearing on two or more of Pilgrim Films’s produced titles, across the 7 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.

Works with6 companies

Companies that appear alongside Pilgrim Films on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

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