Yorkshire scripted indie Duck Soup Films is to wind up production after more than a decade in business.
The producer of International Emmy-nominated BBC drama Lost Boys & Fairies [main picture] will cease active development and production from January 2026.
Duck Soup will continue to manage and oversee existing IP and is looking at suitable homes for its existing slate of TV and film projects.
The company said in a statement: “Maintaining an indie focused on bold, authored content in today’s climate is increasingly untenable for a small company like ours.
“We simply don’t have the resources to sustain our work as producers developing in-house at the level we aspire to, and the market will no longer support it.”
Duck Soup was founded in 2015 by Libby Durdy, Jessica Brown-Meek and Bekki Wray-Rogers, who met working on Warp Films’ 2006 film This is England and went on to collaborate on C4’s spin-off series.
Fremantle took a 25% stake in Duck Soup, which was also backed by Channel 4’s Indie Growth Fund.
It also made C4 drama Dreamers.
