FUNDAMENTAL ENTERTAINMENT & TV LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03038943 · ltd · incorporated 1995-03-28
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 27.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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Net worth
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Television programme production activities
Sector: Information & communication
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 82-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 82). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 27.1y

65/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 27.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
12 officers (3 active, 12 linked, 6 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
11 connected companies via shared directors
78
Filing history
87 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees200100

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (38 events)Click to expand
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  4. 2022-12-17
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  5. 2021-12-29
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  6. 2021-05-27
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    OVERETT, Mark Victor resigned
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  7. 2021-05-27
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  8. 2021-03-17
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  9. 2019-12-22
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  10. 2018-12-18
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  11. 2017-12-18
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  12. 2016-12-13
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  13. 2016-04-01
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  14. 2015-12-30
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  15. 2015-03-30
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  16. 2015-01-09
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  17. 2011-07-15
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    LEWIS, John Michael resigned
    director
  18. 2011-02-23
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    ALLSOPP, Roger Alan resigned
    director
  19. 2001-09-18
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    LEWIS, John Michael appointed
    director
  20. 1999-05-27
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  21. 1999-03-01
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    HUNT, Robert Paul appointed
    secretary
  22. 1999-03-01
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    HUNT, Robert Paul appointed
    director
  23. 1999-03-01
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    GOUGH, John Norman Barford resigned
    secretary
  24. 1998-06-18
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    GOUGH, John Norman Barford appointed
    secretary
  25. 1998-06-18
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    SMITH & WILLIAMSON LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  26. 1998-06-18
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    ALLSOPP, Roger Alan appointed
    director
  27. 1996-05-10
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    SKEVINGTON, Colin David resigned
    secretary
  28. 1996-05-10
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    SMITH & WILLIAMSON LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  29. 1996-05-10
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    SKEVINGTON, Colin David resigned
    director
  30. 1995-03-28
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    Company incorporated
    As FUNDAMENTAL ENTERTAINMENT & TV LIMITED
  31. 1995-03-28
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    GOUGH, John Norman Barford appointed
    director
  32. 1995-03-28
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    SKEVINGTON, Colin David appointed
    secretary
  33. 1995-03-28
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    RM REGISTRARS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  34. 1995-03-28
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    RM REGISTRARS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  35. 1995-03-28
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    OVERETT, Mark Victor appointed
    director
  36. 1995-03-28
    ➕
    SKEVINGTON, Colin David appointed
    director
  37. 1995-03-28
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    RM NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  38. 1995-03-28
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    RM NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

83/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 31 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 82 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 82 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 31 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 31 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
  • supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr John Norman Barford Gough
Individual · British · DOB 06/1944 · age 82
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1995-03-28
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC59113 — Television programme production activities

Registered office

147 Hempstead Road
Watford
Hertfordshire
WD17 3HF

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-05
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-11
Last: 2026-03-28

Officers (3 active · 9 resigned)

HUNT, Robert Paul→
secretary · appointed 1999-03-01
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Active
GOUGH, John Norman Barford→
director · ~82y · appointed 1995-03-28
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Active
HUNT, Robert Paul→
director · ~76y · appointed 1999-03-01
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Active
GOUGH, John Norman Barford→
secretary · appointed 1998-06-18 · resigned 1999-03-01
Resigned
SKEVINGTON, Colin David→
secretary · appointed 1995-03-28 · resigned 1996-05-10
Resigned
RM REGISTRARS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1995-03-28 · resigned 1995-03-28
Resigned
SMITH & WILLIAMSON LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 1996-05-10 · resigned 1998-06-18
Resigned
ALLSOPP, Roger Alan→
director · ~81y · appointed 1998-06-18 · resigned 2011-02-23
Resigned
LEWIS, John Michael→
director · ~72y · appointed 2001-09-18 · resigned 2011-07-15
Resigned
OVERETT, Mark Victor→
director · ~66y · appointed 1995-03-28 · resigned 2021-05-27
Resigned
SKEVINGTON, Colin David→
director · ~65y · appointed 1995-03-28 · resigned 1996-05-10
Resigned
RM NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1995-03-28 · resigned 1995-03-28
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
Mortgage debenture1 property27/05/1999—
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Recent filings (87 total)

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2024-12-19
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2024-04-29
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2023-05-23
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2022-06-01
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2021-12-29
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2021-05-27
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2021-05-27
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2021-03-17
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2020-03-31
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