Timeline Television Limited
Registered name: TIMELINE TELEVISION LIMITED
Part of Timeline Television Group Limited groupTimeline Television Limited made a £1m loss in the year to 28 Dec 2025 (revenue not disclosed).
Timeline Television Limited reported a loss of £1m in the year to 28 Dec 2025; its revenue was not disclosed. It had 127 employees. The company is classified under “television programming and broadcasting activities” and is based in Reading; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Reading, South East
- Age
- 19 yrs · since 2006
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently. From the filing: “The immediate and ultimate parent company is Timeline Television Group Limited, a company registered in England and Wales. Group financial statements are prepared by the ultimate parent company and av”
Key figures
This company published its profit but not its turnover, so revenue and margins are not disclosed. We never estimate them.
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2021 | 29 Dec 2022 | 28 Dec 2023 | 28 Dec 2024 | 28 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Profit only |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £41.1m | £61.3m | £48.2m | £35.9m | — |
| Cost of sales | £30m | £46.2m | £35.7m | £23.7m | £20.9m |
| Gross profit | £11m | £15.2m | £12.5m | £12.1m | — |
| Operating profit | £3.4m | £3.6m | −£1.9m | £127k | — |
| Profit before tax | £3.2m | £2.6m | −£3m | −£1.2m | −£1.8m |
| Profit after tax | £2.7m | £2.5m | −£1.8m | −£1.7m | −£1m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.7m | £2.5m | −£1.8m | −£1.7m | −£1m |
| Staff costs | £7.6m | £13.2m | £13.2m | £9.8m | £8.8m |
| Employees (average) | 226 | 266 | 213 | 148 | 127 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | 6.7% | 4.1% | −3.8% | −4.8% | — |
| Gross margin | 26.9% | 24.7% | 26% | 33.9% | — |
| Revenue per employee | £182k | £231k | £226k | £242k | — |
| Profit per employee | £12.1k | £9.5k | −£8.6k | −£11.6k | −£8.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲49.3% | ▼21.4% | ▼25.6% | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▼7.6% | ▼172.7% | — | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲17.7% | ▼19.9% | ▼30.5% | ▼14.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £141k | £27k | £4.4k | £762 | £3k |
| Net assets | £6.4m | £8.9m | £6.9m | £5.2m | £4.1m |
| Fixed assets | £16.5m | £25.6m | £23.2m | £20.5m | £18.2m |
| Current assets | £14m | £20.6m | £12.8m | £8.7m | £8.9m |
| Debtors | £5.8m | £12.5m | £5.1m | £2m | £3.2m |
| Deferred income | £2.1m | £2.8m | £979k | £708k | £1.8m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- —
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£8.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- ▼20%
- Now £4.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▲288%
- Now £3k
- Headcount
- ▼14%
- Now 127
- Deferred income
- ▲149%
- Now £1.8m
- Fixed assets
- ▼11%
- Now £18.2m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Timeline Television Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Timeline Television Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (2)
- Timeline Television North LimitedFigures not disclosed
- TTR Racing LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 28 Dec 2025 (profit −£1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 14 Oct 2026
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