Avalon is a multi-award-winning talent management, live promotion and television production and distribution group with offices in London, Los Angeles and New York. Avalon Distribution, the group’s international sales arm, sells Avalon’s catalogue of over 3000 hours of finished programming and formats worldwide.
Avalon is the UK’s largest independent television studio. Avalon’s numerous ground-breaking series include Breeders (FX/Sky), Catastrophe (Amazon/Channel 4), Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly (Channel 5), Flatbush Misdemeanors (Showtime), Heir Hunters (BBC), Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), Not Going Out (BBC), Starstruck (HBO Max/BBC3), Taskmaster (Channel 4), The Russell Howard Hour (Sky) and Workaholics (Comedy Central). Avalon’s productions have won numerous awards including Emmys, BAFTAs, Peabodys and Rose d’Ors.
back2back is an independent, Brighton-based TV production company producing award-winning popular factual series and documentaries. Combining a creative development and production team with state-of-the-art edit, filming and dubbing facilities, back2back has a reputation for delivering irreverent, unexpected and entertaining television for the UK and international markets.
CMG Productions is a female founded and led production company specialising in unscripted. Headed up by ex-Viacom international colleagues Claire McArdle and Rebecca Knight, CMG has a focus on international and access led stories. They have produced numerous documentaries on the overlap of crime and sport including on fraud, match fixing, the abuse of female athletes in elite running, and human trafficking in football. Their programming has appeared on Netflix, Paramount +, Peacock, ITV, Sky Documentaries, Showmax and Via Play among others.
Content Kings is a fully independent production company comprising two divisions – television and feature films. They produce ground-breaking, premium content aimed at global audiences. Just a month after officially launching, Content Kings announced its first TV commission in 2021. Accused of Murdering Our Son – The Steven Clark Story was a primetime true-crime documentary for ITV exploring the story of Charles and Doris Clark, who were arrested on suspicion of murder 28 years after their son went missing. They have since been commissioned to make shows for Channel 5, Sky History, Reelz, Crime & Investigation and Paramount +. Across the team they have created award-winning television for, amongst others: ITV, BBC, C4 and C5, Netflix, NBC, FOX and SKY, and have years of experience in both scripted and unscripted television across a range of genres.
Founded by award-winning TV exec Derren Lawford in 2022, DARE Pictures is a London based, international, inclusive and entrepreneurial studio with a passion for insightful and impactful documentaries, drama and film, beautifully and boldly told.
DARE stands for diversity, allyship, representation and empowerment and we aim to reflect that in everything we do. That’s why we’re a magnet for established and emerging, award-winning directors, authors, writers and producers from around the world who are all dedicated to bringing compelling true stories and original IP to life.
We’re also a production partner of choice broadcasters, streamers directors and talent for journalistically tricky and editorially punchy programmes with an emphasis on both empathy when it comes to our contributors and quality in terms of our editorial execution.
FirstLookTV is an internationally established television production company creating a broad range of factual content. We have produced 100s of hours of high quality, innovative programming from factual, specialist factual, documentary and investigative programmes to studio entertainment. Our powerful, story-led content has produced high ratings and won us multiple awards.
Our current content is now seen in America, Canada, throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Africa and Asia including China and India, on Netflix, Amazon Prime, A&E networks, BBC, UKTV, Discovery and Channel 5…to name a few.
Flicker Productions have carved out a reputation for producing award-winning, ground-breaking factual television.
Over the last five years we have been the creative force behind some of the most watched and talked about documentaries for major broadcasters including ITV, C4 and C5.
Known for our innovative approach and compelling impactful storytelling, we tackle contentious subjects and make them accessible for a broad audience. Recently we have successfully expanded into the true crime genre and are currently in production with a range of exciting projects for C4, Sundance and Sky.
Winner of Broadcast Emerging Indie of the Year and Edinburgh TV Festival’s Small Indie of the Year, multiple National Television Awards, Content Innovation Award, Criminal Justice award-winners and Grierson nominated in recent years, our commitment to creative excellence, evidenced by over 100 hours of content is clear to see.
Independent production company, Good TV, is a true crime producer newcomer, starting up in late 2021 with the hit prison documentary, HMP Wakefield: Evil Behind Bars. Following seven ‘Evil Behind Bars’ films about high security prisons, other true crime titles which combine documentary and drama include Broadmoor Hospital, Donovan: The Man Who Took Shannon and James Bulger: The Trial, which was nominated for an award. We’re in production on a series about famous Trials and new true crime format.
High Rock Media makes engaging and entertaining content, taking people on a journey of discovery. Our approach is to marry traditional programme making with new technologies and innovation to create unique and compelling shows.
Founded by Fintan Maguire who has 20 years of experience in the industry, working with BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky. Fintan set up High Rock Media after 5 years as Director of Factual at Rumpus Media, before that he was an exec producer at Spun Gold and Crackit Productions. Fintan has been trusted with delicate and privileged access to big institutions, making documentaries and series with the British Royal Family, the National Trust and Border Force. He has worked across multiple genres including true crime, popular factual and features. He has worked with (and created shows for) on screen talent including Laura Whitmore, Sir Tony Robinson, Gregg Wallace (MBE), and Alan Titchmarsh (MBE).
We are an independent production company with over 67 years in the business of seeking and sharing truth. Whatever we do, we’re driven by the simple belief that stories built on trust empower us all.
We create award-winning factual content for major brands, digital platforms, global streamers and international broadcasters. Whether it’s documentaries, sport, news, podcasts or live events, we’re always committed to telling authentic, human-led stories and bringing truth to life.
Based in Brighton and in Newcastle, Middlechild produce unscripted content in the UK for the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, UKTV, and Discovery Networks. We produce observational documentary series, and single current affairs and specialist factual films. Whether following someone’s unique working life, recounting a very personal experience, or making a topical, issue-led film, we pride ourselves on building respectful relationships with those in front of the camera, and the talent behind it.
Monster Films was founded in 2016 by David Howard and Rik Hall. Their aim was to start a company with a truly independent ethos, a strong community spirit, and a collective commitment to making ground-breaking, visually visceral content for broadcasters worldwide. Since then, they’ve gone on to build a reputation as one of the UK’s foremost producers of serial and feature documentaries, but our core values remain as strong as ever, as we continue to look for new stories and exciting new ways to tell them.
MY Entertainment, founded by Michael Yudin in 2000, is a successful independent production company based in New York. Known for its innovative formats and high production values, MY Entertainment has forged strong relationships globally, co-producing series and developing original formats.
With over 40 producers in 15 countries, the company has delivered thousands of hours of content across various genres for networks like Discovery, A&E, National Geographic, and more. Notable series include Ghost Adventures and Breaking Borders. One Foot Forward Entertainment, MY Entertainment’s premium content division, focuses on non-scripted entertainment for streaming services, with partnerships including LeBron James’ SpringHill Company and Mark Wahlberg’s Unrealistic Ideas. In 2022, MY Entertainment was acquired by Media Content Services, expanding its reach within the media group.
Launched in 2007, Nine Lives is one of the UK’s most successful independent production companies with offices in Greater Manchester’s MediaCity, Birmingham and Liverpool.
The company recently created ITV’s highest rating non-scripted true crime format, TIKTOK – Murder Gone Viral, is a biggest independent supplier to BBC One’s flagship current affairs strand, Panorama and also delivers programmes for all the major channels in the UK and America. In 2022 the company launched A True Story on YouTube which has quickly built 250,000 subscribers and is providing an important new revenue stream.
North One is a globally recognised producer of world class factual entertainment, sports and live event TV programming.
Starting out as the sports television wing of the Chrysalis Media Group, the company was responsible for Channel 4’s seminal coverage of Italian football throughout the 1990s, as well as breaking out into factual entertainment with the gigantically successful Saturday night ‘Top Ten’ franchise. The company was the first acquisition of what is, today, a global powerhouse – All3Media – becoming North One Television in 2004.
More ground-breaking sports contracts followed, along with further expansion in factual entertainment and documentary, with long running series such as The Gadget Show, Travel Man and some sixty hours of programming (so far) with lorry mechanic, motorbike racer and TV daredevil Guy Martin.
In the realm of access documentary, a new, cutting edge perspective on police access – Sky Coppers – looking at the work of the airborne drone unit of the West Midlands police force – has been a big hit for Channel 4.
Peninsula is an award-winning content production company based in Dublin and New York. Our core skill set lies in our ability to produce high quality factual and factual-entertainment programming for television stations and other platforms globally.
We’re best known for our true crime productions, but the Peninsula team has been involved in the creation and development of numerous high-profile television series and one-off documentaries. Our work has appeared on television networks all over the world.
Phoenix is jointly owned and run by Founding Partners Jaimi West and Miles Jarvis who worked together for 17 years at three different production companies before setting up Phoenix in 2017.
We are experts at creating and delivering innovative, high quality, returnable non-scripted series and premium factual. As passionate programme makers we thrive on developing and producing programmes under three editorial pillars: Specialist Factual, Crime and Factual Entertainment/Reality.
Producing Partners is an EMMY AWARD WINNING development and production company responsible for numerous hit series for networks like HBO MAX, Amazon Studios, Disney+, Food Network, HBO, TV Globo, Smithsonian, PBS, Globoplay, All Arts and many others. The company has been nominated ten times for the New York Emmy Awards and has produced series in the genres of true crime, arts, entertainment, gastronomy, and others. Among its recent highlights are “A Brutal Pact – The Murder of Daniella Perez”, which has quickly become the most watched Original series on HBO MAX, and the upcoming MAX series “Bateau Mouche”.
Based in New York City and Brazil, PRODUCING PARTNERS was founded by directors Guto Barra and Tatiana Issa, who have produced and directed numerous documentary films and television series, amassing a long list of awards and accolades.
This established and successful landmark factual producer has recently expanded and now makes a broad range of prime-time Popular Factual and Specialist Factual entertainment.
Working for UK, American and European broadcasters, our current commissions include documentary and formatted factual series, feature length drama docs, landmark history, natural history and science event programming.
The company works collaboratively with the best freelance producers, directors, show runners and execs in the business to create brilliant teams that deliver intelligent and entertaining factual programming.
We are committed to ensuring that Rare TV is a caring and creative place to work.
Redeeming Features is an award-winning, East London-based production company, known for magnifying underrepresented voices, their relationships with A-list talent and for bringing original and inspiring stories to a global audience.
Founded by award-winning TV producer, Victoria Williams, and award-winning filmmaker and BAFTA long-listed actor and director, Nathanael Wiseman, the company prides itself on its working-class roots and on championing diversity, inclusion, and a strong work ethic. The company’s first feature film release was the true crime drama Hard Tide, currently streaming worldwide on Amazon Prime and Netflix USA after a successful European and USA theatrical run. Most recently, the company has completed the feature documentary The Good Fight, about mental health and the redemptive power of sport, starring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and a host of well-known athletes, which will be touring the USA, UK and Europe in the coming year. RF are currently in development on a slate of original scripted and non-scripted projects.
Tony Carne and Trevor Drane are the principles of production and rights owning business Revelation Films.
Revelation is a BAFTA nominated production company with a proven track record in creating quality original programming. Launched in the early 90s, Revelation introduced the nation to Paul O’Grady with Lily Savage Live: Paying The Rent, catapulting O’Grady’s career from gigging stand-up to primetime national treasure, and the company has gone on to produce high quality documentaries which deliver both exclusive authenticity and detail.
Title Role Productions have been producing compelling, world renowned television since 2005. We pride ourselves on great stories, told with journalistic integrity and visual flair. Just as importantly, we care about the people, places and organisations that we work with. Our productions are often delivered on a big scale, but sometimes it’s the smallest details which prove to be the most telling.
Marc Sigsworth and Elaine Carlton created Turquoise Television to work with our contributors to make compelling, insightful and innovative films and series for mainstream broadcasters that aim to help us understand today’s world in a way that fascinates and entertains our audience. Marc’s film Stabbed for BBC 1 was nominated for the Grierson award and Prisons Uncovered: Out of Control? was nominated for the RTS award. Elaine previously worked at the ITV studios company MultiStory Media (previously known as Shiver) where she worked on such programmes as the RTS award winning documentary “Living with Michael Jackson” and the RTS shortlisted The Greatest Gift.
At Turquoise Marc and Elaine have made Jill Dando: The 20 Year Mystery for ITV; Who Murdered Meredith Kercher? for Paramount +; Dark Water: The Murder of Shani Warren and The Vanishing of Suzy Lamplugh for C5 of which the Times newspaper wrote: “This excellent meticulous documentary film did what documentaries should – highlight new evidence and help to create new momentum for the case to be reinvestigated.”
Founded by award-winning producer Kate Beal in 2014, UK indie prodco Woodcut Media is a female-led operation with a diverse team at its core, whose main ethos is to provide an honest and trusted voice – creating programming that tells incredible human stories with creativity, authenticity, and care.
As well as being one of the leading true crime doc producers in the UK, Woodcut also specialises in a broad range of standout unscripted content covering factual entertainment, specialist factual, and premium/talent led programming. Titles include confessions of a psycho killer and becoming Ian Brady (Amazon Prime Video), long-running series World’s Most Evil Killers/Britain’s Most Evil Killers (8 seasons), Fiennes: Return to the Nile with Joseph and Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Cut from a Different Cloth, Mandela, My Dad and Me, both featuring Idris Elba, Hitler: A Life in Pictures, and Paranormal Captured to name just a few.
Yeti Television are a multi-award-winning production company based in Cardiff whose motto is creativity, curiosity, collaboration. We make a range of programmes from popular factual formats through to high-end specialist factual, and love to shine a light on stories, people and places you wouldn’t ordinarily see. We work with all the major UK broadcasters and our content sells globally. Yeti was named Multi-Channel Production Company of the Year at the 2023 Broadcast Digital Awards and is the only Welsh indie in Channel 4’s Indie Growth Fund.
Association of True Crime ProducersAn association of television producers seeking to promote best practice within the true crime genre