Part of Lit Events the Costa Del Sol’s premiere events planning, design and supply company Lit Studios is the audio-visual section of the ever expanding company.

This department has a wide selection of AV kit, television monitors, cameras, video screens, conference microphones, computer and satellite equipment. If fact everything you need from a basic conference to a live television outside broadcast from your theatre or sports ground.

In our headquarters we also have two studios, a multipurpose large studio and a smaller podcast presentation studio.

Lit Studios is under the direction of Mark Kenyon who along with Tristan Harper are joint directors and owners of Lit Events.

Mark trained with the BBC, joining as a trainee electronic engineer in 1981.

Whilst qualifying in electronics at the BBC’s own training college BBC Wood Norton he was posted to BBC Television Centre in London. His first job was in Television Recording Dept. There he worked as an operational engineer in Telecine (TK - showing real 35mm or 16mm film on television) and Video Tape (VT) with the one and two inch tape formats in use at the time.

Following his graduation he moved to BBC Studios in the Lighting Department as a Vision Engineer ( also known as Racks or Shader), during this  period he had training attachments as a Cameraman, Sound Operator and Video Effects Supervisor gaining him his first on screen credit on

Top of The Pops in April 1986.

Shortly afterwards Mark was promoted to Lighting and Vision Supervisor, this post entailed operation the lighting console and acting as assistant Lighting Director. During this period he took the BBC’s Lighting Director’s course and was promoted to LD in 1992. As a staff lighting designer he worked on a wide selection of the BBC’s most famous shows, attended a Director of Photography Course at Kodak and was the BBC’s representative on the National Illumination Council.

In 1997 Mark left the BBC to become freelance and was then able to work for a huge variety of TV producers such as ITV, LWT, NBC, MBC, NOS. He has lit TV shows in the UK, USA, Ireland, China, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Lebanon, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, Egypt, Philippines, Austria and Spain.

Mark has received a number of nominations and awards for his work.

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• BAFTA

          • 2014 Winner: Strictly Come Dancing Special Award

          • 2019 Nominee: Strictly Come Dancing

          • 2018 Nominee: Strictly Come Dancing

          • 2017 Nominee: Strictly Come Dancing

          • 2017 Nominee: Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

          • 2016 Nominee: Strictly Come Dancing

          • 2011 Nominee: Strictly Come Dancing

• Knight of Illumination Awards

          • 2016 Winner: Strictly Come Dancing

          • 2012 Winner: Strictly Come Dancing

          • 2009 Nominee: Last Choir Standing

          • 2009 Nominee: Gladiators

          • 2008 Nominee: Strictly Come Dancing

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• Royal Television Society Awards

          • 2011 Nominee: Strictly Come Dancing

          • 2007 Nominee: Any Dream Will Do

          • 2002 Nominee: Party at the Palace for Her Majesty's Golden Jubilee

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Some notable work as a Lighting Designer.

Strictly Come Dancing, Weakest Link, America’s Got Talent, X Factor China, Party at the Palace 2002,  Live Earth (Wembley), The Brits 1999,

The Eurovision Song Contest 1999 (Israel),  Consultant LD to BBC News, The Voice,  Britain’s Got Talent, X Factor UK, 

Parkinson (BBC / ITV 180 episodes), Blind Date (120 episodes), Noel’s House Party (100 episodes), Jet Set (90 episodes), Fame Academy,

Children in Need,  Comic Relief, Sport Relief, How do you solve a problem like Maria? ( Sound of Music), Any dream will do (Joesph), I’d do anything (Oliver), Last Choir Standing, a huge range of live News, Current Affairs, Political Debates and Children’s productions.