Whoniverse2 Ltd
Registered name: WHONIVERSE2 LTD
Part of Sony Group Corporation groupWhoniverse2 Ltd made £6.8m revenue and £0 profit in the year to 31 Oct 2025. read from filing text
Whoniverse2 Ltd’s revenue was £6.8m in the year to 31 Oct 2025, with £0 profit and 14 employees. The company is classified under “television programme production activities” and is based in Cardiff; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Cardiff, Wales
- Age
- 3 yrs · since 2023
- 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 company's immediate parent company is Bad Wolf Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Oct 2024 | 31 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £32.8m | £19.6m | £6.8m |
| Cost of sales | £40.5m | £25m | £8.4m |
| Gross profit | −£7.7m | −£5.4m | −£1.6m |
| Profit before tax | −£4m | £0 | £0 |
| Profit after tax | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Profit (best available) | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Staff costs | £5m | £2.6m | £449k |
| Employees (average) | 125 | 124 | 14 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Gross margin | −23.6% | −27.8% | −24% |
| Revenue per employee | £262k | £158k | £486k |
| Profit per employee | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.1m | £32.7k | £6k |
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Current assets | £12.4m | £8.4m | £2.8m |
| Debtors | £11.3m | £8.4m | £2.8m |
| Deferred income | £3.8m | £2m | £99.4k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- −24%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £486k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £0
- 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
- 1.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 40.6%
- 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
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £6k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 14
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £99.4k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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
- Sony Group Corporation (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Columbia Pictures Corporation Limited75–100%
- Sony Pictures Television Production UK Limited50–75%
- Bad Wolf Ltd75–100%
- Whoniverse2 Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (19)
- Whoniverse1 LtdLiquidationRev. £7m · Profit £0
- Bad Wolf (TWK) LtdRev. £5m · Profit £4k
- Bad Wolf (DG) LtdLiquidationRev. £2.8m · Profit £1.7k
- Bad Wolf (Alex) LtdFigures not disclosed
- Bad Wolf (HDM) LtdFigures not disclosed
- Bad Wolf (HDM3) LimitedRev. — · Profit £0
- Bad Wolf (Ihs) LtdFigures not disclosed
- Bad Wolf (IHS2) LtdLiquidationFigures not disclosed
- Bad Wolf (IND3) LtdRev. — · Profit −£164k
- Bad Wolf (IND4) LtdFigures not disclosed
- Bad Wolf (IND5) LtdFigures not disclosed
- Bad Wolf (Red) LtdLiquidationRev. — · Profit −£278k
- Bad Wolf (RED2) LtdFigures not disclosed
- Bad Wolf (RED3) LtdFigures not disclosed
- Bad Wolf (TLD) LtdFigures not disclosed
- Bad Wolf (Tobs) LtdRev. — · Profit £276k
- Bad Wolf (Tobsx) LtdFigures not disclosed
- Bad Wolf (TWB) LtdRev. — · Profit £301k
- Bad Wolf Studios Wales LtdFigures 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 31 Oct 2025 (profit £0), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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