The Financial Times has reported that the company has appointed Ingenious Media and Bridgewell to handle to a possible entry to the stock market.
Shed was established in 1998 by four ex-Granada Television staffers and took off after ITV commissioned 'Bad Girls'. It followed this up with football soap opera 'Footballers' Wives', which has sold well internationally and notched up its third series on ITV last year.
Shed is currently producing a new series for ITV looking at the lives of men and women in the army. The show has a working title of 'Bombshell' and will feature a cast of around 12 actors. It is due to air in January 2005.
The script is being written by creators of 'Footballers Wives', Ann McManus and Maureen Chadwick, who are writing the first episode. The will be one 90-minute opener show, followed by six one-hour episodes.
Shed Productions also makes the long-running drama 'Bad Girls', which is set in an all-female prison.
The flotation follows the breakdown of merger talks with rival independent production company Hat Trick, which is behind 'Father Ted' and 'Have I Got News for You'.
A wave of mergers are expected in the indie market, which has already seen firms come together. The BBC also recently pledged to increase its indie quota.
Earlier this week, another indie Mersey Television, the production company behind Channel 4 teen soap 'Hollyoaks', appointed advisers in a move signalling the £50m business could be up for sale.
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