Good Lad

Good Lad, LLC is a British film and television production company founded in 1981 by Jacob Howells and Kian Richards Burton. It is a subsidiary of StudioCanal.

History
This companies history all started when Jacob meet Kian at school (Michael was a new student by that time) and shared a lot in common, they became close friends. Later on in the late 1970s, Jacob wanted to do a career in the television world, Kian didn't want to do it at first, but was reluctant after finding out he was making a variety show. Kian wanted to name the game show Zoom, but since he found out that the name was trademarked by WGBH for there show, Zoom. Jacob suggested the name "Rocketship". The show was broadcasted on ITV for Season 1, and would be co-produced with Thames. Jacob named the company in honor of a drawing he did at school called "Good Lad" which dates back to about October 20 1966. Rocketship became an instant success on ITV, and later Channel 4. Later when Season 2 was in production, they became bored with making Rocketship and decided to move on to movies, this left only a week episodes of Rocketship's Season 2 before they suspended production temporally. They made 2 films in 1982, both distributed by Pathé. The films were a major success, and they helped the studios financially. Pathé decided to buy the Good Lad company for over 7.5 billion dollars, including TV productions and film distribution (both theatrical and video via Guild). They began making movie slowly yet surely, with most of them being huge hits at the box office. By the time 1990 came, they had produced 27 movies and 13 shows. 1990 brought out "Miss Daizer", the crew originally wanted the film to be released by Warner Bros., but failed after multiple tries, they coshed Pathé like always. Jacob got married to Millie Sutton during the set. Millie also did a similar drawing to Jacob's "Good Lad", which she named "Good Lass" and was made 10 days after "Good Lad". Nowadays, Good Lad has made 67 films and 26 shows, all owned my the company themself.

Ownership of the Good Lad library
Currently, StudioCanal owns the copyrights and overall rights to the Good Lad films and television shows. Criteion owns the worldwide home video rights to most of the Good Lad films (alblet with a "Good Lad" label, and almost no mention of Criteion on the covers).