Brighton post house The Edit, which works on The Repair Shop, has a new owner

The Edit^2,3, the post-production studio at 96 Church Street, has been bought by Family Tree Group, which owns the Brighton documentary maker Middlechild Productions. The price wasn’t disclosed. The Edit will keep operating autonomously, and the people who have run it in recent years stay in charge.

The studio does the work that comes after filming, from online editing and colour grading to sound mixing and digital delivery. Its credits include The Repair Shop, Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr, Garden Rescue and Saving Lives at Sea. When the tenth series of Saving Lives at Sea featured Brighton RNLI, the studio told its followers to tune in to “our local Brighton RNLI crew”.

Founder Dave Austin moves to a non-executive director role. Claire Hamilton, the post-production executive, and Sharman Finn, the technical director, will lead the business.

“The Edit will stay independent in how we run things, but we have the wider reach of the group behind us,” Finn said in the announcement. Hamilton said she was excited to keep working with the team “at our fantastic facility”.

The two firms know each other already. Middlechild’s Coastguard: Search and Rescue SOS is on The Edit’s list of work, and Family Tree’s chief executive, David Sumnall, said they “already have a strong working relationship”. The group also owns Northern Child in Newcastle, Friday’s Child and Wild Child Studios.

“We celebrated our 20th anniversary last year and continue to be a hub for film and TV production in Brighton,” Austin said.