In order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Companies Act 2006, we have prepared for your approval the financial statements of Scandal Productions Ltd for the period ended 31 October 2024 set out on pages2 to 7 from the company’s accounting records and from information and explanations you have given us.

As a practising member firm of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), we are subject to its ethical and other professional requirements which are detailed at http://www.icaew.com/en/members/reaulations-standards-and-guidance/

This report is made solely to the Board of Directors of Scandal Productions Ltd, as a body, in accordance with the terms of our engagement letter dated 11 September 2024. Our work has been undertaken solely to prepare for your approval the financial statements of Scandal Productions Ltd and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the Board of Directors of Scandal Productions Ltd, as a body, in this report in accordance with ICAEW Technical Release 07/16 AAF. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than Scandal Productions Ltd and its Board of Directors as a body, for our work or for this report.

It is your duty to ensure that Scandal Productions Ltd has kept adequate accounting records and to prepare statutory financial statements that give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit of Scandal Productions Ltd. You consider that Scandal Productions Ltd is exempt from the statutory audit requirement for the period.

We have not been instructed to carry out an audit or a review of the financial statements of Scandal Productions Ltd. For this reason, we have not verified the accuracy or completeness of the accounting records or information and explanations you have given to us and we do not, therefore, express any opinion on the statutory financial statements.

The directors of the company have elected not to include a copy of the profit and loss account within the financial statements.true

For the financial period ended 31 October 2024 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 with respect to accounting records and the preparation of financial statements.

The member has not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the period in question in accordance with section 476.

These financial statements have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

Scandal Productions Ltd is a private company limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is 10-12 Russell Square, 6th Floor, London, WC1B 5EH.

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with FRS 102 “The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland” (“FRS 102”) and the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 as applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime. The disclosure requirements of section 1A of FRS 102 have been applied other than where additional disclosure is required to show a true and fair view.

The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the company. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £.

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention, modified to include the revaluation of freehold properties and to include investment properties and certain financial instruments at fair value. The principal accounting policies adopted are set out below.

Atruet the time of approving the financial statements, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Whilst the company is in a net liability position, it has the support of its parent to operate as a going concern. Thus the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.

The current reporting period covers the 8 month period from 18 March 2024 to 31 October 2024. The prior reporting period covered the 12 month period from 19 March 2023 to 18 March 2024. As a result, the two reporting periods presented in these financial statements are not directly comparable.

Turnover represents income from the company's principal trading activities and is stated exclusive of VAT.

In respect of long-term contracts for on-going services, turnover represents the value of work done in the period, including estimates of amounts not invoiced. Value of work done in respect of long-term contracts for on-going services is determined by reference to the stage of completion.

The "percentage completion method" is used to determine the appropriate amount to recognise is a given period. The stage of completion is measured by the proportion of contract costs incurred for work performed to date compared to the estimated total contract costs. Costs incurred in the period in connection with future activity on a contract are excluded from contract costs in determining the stage of completion. These costs are presented as stocks, prepayments and other assets depending on their nature, and provided it is probable they will be recovered.

Cash and cash equivalents are basic financial assets and include cash in hand, deposits held at call with banks, other short-term liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less, and bank overdrafts. Bank overdrafts are shown within borrowings in current liabilities.

The company has elected to apply the provisions of Section 11 ‘Basic Financial Instruments’ and Section 12 ‘Other Financial Instruments Issues’ of FRS 102 to all of its financial instruments.

Financial instruments are recognised in the company's balance sheet when the company becomes party to the contractual provisions of the instrument.

Financial assets and liabilities are offset, with the net amounts presented in the financial statements, when there is a legally enforceable right to set off the recognised amounts and there is an intention to settle on a net basis or to realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously.

Basic financial assets, which include debtors, are initially measured at transaction price including transaction costs and are subsequently carried at amortised cost using the effective interest method unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the transaction is measured at the present value of the future receipts discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial assets classified as receivable within one year are not amortised.

Financial liabilities and equity instruments are classified according to the substance of the contractual arrangements entered into. An equity instrument is any contract that evidences a residual interest in the assets of the company after deducting all of its liabilities.

Basic financial liabilities, including creditors, bank loans, loans from fellow group companies and preference shares that are classified as debt, are initially recognised at transaction price unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the debt instrument is measured at the present value of the future payments discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial liabilities classified as payable within one year are not amortised.

Debt instruments are subsequently carried at amortised cost, using the effective interest rate method.

Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Amounts payable are classified as current liabilities if payment is due within one year or less. If not, they are presented as non-current liabilities. Trade creditors are recognised initially at transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

Equity instruments issued by the company are recorded at the proceeds received, net of transaction costs. Dividends payable on equity instruments are recognised as liabilities once they are no longer at the discretion of the company.

Changes in the fair value of derivatives that are designated and qualify as fair value hedges are recognised in profit or loss immediately, together with any changes in the fair value of the hedged asset or liability that are attributable to the hedged risk.

The tax credit represents the sum of the tax currently recoverable and deferred tax.

The tax currently recoverable is based on relievable losses arising in the period as the result of television programme tax relief legislation. Relievable losses differ from net losses as reported in the profit and loss account because they include an additional deduction relating to qualifying television programme development expenditure and exclude items of income or expense that are taxable or deductible in other years and as well as items that are never taxable or deductible. The company’s tax position is calculated using tax rates that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting end date.

Transactions in currencies other than pounds sterling are recorded at the rates of exchange prevailing at the dates of the transactions. At each reporting end date, monetary assets and liabilities that are denominated in foreign currencies are retranslated at the rates prevailing on the reporting end date. Gains and losses arising on translation in the period are included in profit or loss.

In the application of the company’s accounting policies, the directors are required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying amount of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised where the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods where the revision affects both current and future periods.

The estimates and assumptions which have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amount of assets and liabilities are as follows.

The key accounting estimate within the financial statements for this Company is the valuation of the High-End Television tax credit available. The estimate is based on the assessment of the value of qualifying expenditure as per HMRC legislations and guidance plus assessment of the qualification of the underlying production as eligible for the tax relief.

The average monthly number of persons (excluding directors) employed by the company during the period was:

The company currently had 2 charges outstanding at the period end.

Coutts & Company holds a fixed and floating charge of the company's property, intellectual property rights and assets. This charge was satisfied in full on 13 December 2024.

Coutts & Company holds a fixed and floating charge over the company's present and future rights, title and interest in and to the television series and it's assets. This charge was satisfied in full on 13 December 2024.

The immediate parent company is Blueprint Television Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales.

The directors do not consider there to be a single ultimate controlling party.

The company has taken advantage of the exemption under paragraph 33.1a of FRS102 from disclosing transactions entered into between two or more members of a group, where any subsidiary undertaking which his a party to the transaction is wholly owned by a member of that group.