TV Productions

Henry Cole was educated at Eton and has gone on to forge a career spanning some 32 years in the TV and movie industry. The owner of a television production company - HCA Entertainment - Henry is best known worldwide as aTV presenter immersing himself in his lifelong passion for motorcycles and the tinkering and restoring of vintage machinery.

Currently he’s the presenter of World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides (Travel Channel Worldwide), The Motorbike Show (ITV4 and Discovery Networks), Shed and Buried (ITV and Travel Channel Worldwide), The Motorbike Show Special: Steve McQueen’s Motorcycles, Find It, Fix It, Flog It (Channel 4) and more recently Find It, Fix It, DriveIt (More4).

As well as television presenting, Henry runs the production company that makes all the shows he fronts ... and a whole lot more he doesn’t.

HCA Entertainment has produced - and Henry has directed - countless factual series for broadcasters including ITV, Channel 4, Sky 1, Channel 5, UKTV, Travel Channel, Discovery Networks, NBC and BBC. These include Grimefighters, Kensington Wives, Men Brewing Badly, London’s Greatest Hits, Supersize Grime, The Skulls of Sanctuary, Frontline Stories, Discovering Gardens and The Real Filth Fighters!

Henry has directed over 70 TV commercials for brands like Flora, Mastercard, Top Up TV, Dixons, TFL, Amstrad and many other household names.

In addition Henry has produced and directed TV and Theatrical movies, including Mad Dogs and Englishmen (starring Elizabeth Hurley, C Thomas Howell and Joss Ackland), Dead Funny (starring Elizabeth Pena and Andrew McCarthy) and Princess in Love starring Christopher Villiers and Julia Cox.

Gladstone Motorcyles

Henry is also the boss of Gladstone Motorcycles - not named after Henry’s great-great Uncle, William Ewart Gladstone the Prime Minister, but his great uncle Dick ‘Redbeard’ Gladstone, a true British eccentric who instigated Henry’s passion for classic British motorcycles at the tender age of eight! Gladstone Motorcycles manufactures the finest bespoke British custom motorcycles for discerning hooligans.

In 2013 Henry set a world land speed record for a pre-1955 750cc motorcycle, riding a Brough Superior on the Bonneville Salt Flats.

Henry is very public about his battle with Heroin addiction between the ages of 19 and 24. He is now three decades clean, but remains heavily involved in trying to help other addicts and share his experience in battling addiction.

Along with motorcycles Henry is passionate about fishing, classic tractors, cycling and most importantly his dog Jelly Bean, wife Janie and his two sons, Charlie and Tom!

Find out all about Henry’s rollercoaster life story and love of sheds in his books; A Biker’s Life and The Life Changing Magic of Sheds.

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Frequently asked questions

HCA Entertainment (my production company) is run by a small team of people from an office in one my sheds. Most of the time we're out filming, either in one of the other sheds, or on location.

We receive a huge number of emails and messages on social media from fans and fellow enthusiasts and there isn't time to respond to them all, so we've tried to answer the most commonly asked questions here. Thank you for watching our programmes and sharing our passion.

See Henry On TV for all information about Henry's programmes and where you can see them (including catch-up).

Drop us a line by email with a list of what's in your shed and some photos. Please bear in mind that, for the show to work, we need to see a selection of things we might buy in each location, otherwise there won't be much rummaging or haggling.

EMAIL THE PRODUCTION TEAM

Please check your Junk Mail folder, in case the reply was caught by a spam filter. The production team will always try to respond to emails but so many people get in touch it might be that we weren’t able to help you out.

Unfortunately we can’t answer specific questions about items, locations and music on the shows - Henry and the team make so many programmes we’d need a full time archivist to know every detail

Sorry, but that isn't possible. With 250,000 followers on social media, Henry can’t respond to your comments personally, because it would keep him occupied day and night. The team monitors things and tries to answer most questions.

You’ll find a list of public events that Henry will be attending at Events. Henry is very approachable and always tries to make time to chat with people. Feel free to ask for a selfie, he won’t mind! The same goes for Guy, Allen and Fuzz.

We don’t generally sell items from the shows online, so the best way to buy something from Henry and the team is to visit an autojumble where they have a stall. These are often arranged at short notice, so Follow Henry on Facebook or Instagram for announcements.

Sam Lovegrove is busy restoring two Brough Superior motorcycles that were severely damaged in the 2021 fire at the Top Mountain Crosspoint Motorcycle Museum in Austria.

See Sam explain things in his own words in this clip from The Motorbike Show