Barny Bee TV is an independent television production company based at MediaCityUK, developing returnable factual entertainment formats with a focus on the businesses and communities that hold British high streets together.
Barny Bee TV develops returnable factual entertainment formats focused on independent business, community, and the high streets that hold British towns together. Built by an independent business owner with ten years of lived experience, our formats are designed to deliver real outcomes for the people who appear in them, measured at the return visit, not just at the relaunch.
We build formats designed to grow with their audience over multiple series. Three-show franchises with planned escalation and a clear long-term broadcast life.
Our formats are built around return visits. Real metrics. Real stories of what actually happened after the cameras left. No curated endings.
Founded by a creator who spent ten years building independent businesses. Every structural decision in our formats traces back to something he experienced personally.
Our formats are designed from the ground up for global licensing. Strong UK proof of concept that translates cleanly into territory adaptations worldwide.
A returnable factual entertainment format focused on independent business and the communities at the heart of Britain's high streets. Built for broadcaster commitment across multiple series, with international format potential designed in from day one.
The complete creative bible, including format structure, episode architecture, and franchise strategy, is available to bona fide co-production partners under a standard mutual non-disclosure agreement. We welcome serious conversations.
Start a ConversationJared Byrom grew up in Runcorn, Cheshire, one of seven children, six brothers. He started working at thirteen, presented community radio for nearly six years from the age of seventeen, and opened his first independent business at twenty-three, building it himself with the help of his brothers.
Across the decade that followed he expanded too quickly, lost businesses to the pandemic, was undercut by people he had personally trained, and rebuilt his entire model from the ground up. Today the business runs without him, the proof that those lessons worked.
Barny Bee TV was founded to bring that experience, and the format that emerged from it, to a wider audience. Every structural decision in Saving the High Street traces back to something Jared lived through personally.
Are you a PACT-registered independent looking for distinctive returnable formats with international potential? We're actively seeking co-production conversations with the right partner.
Working in finance, marketing, operations, digital, mindset, or hospitality with an existing public profile and an interest in on-screen work? We'd love to hear from you.
Running a struggling independent business and curious about being part of the format? We're not casting yet, but we are listening, and we'd like to know you exist.