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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Zig Zag Productions is one of the UK’s foremost independent television production companies formed in 1999 by Danny Fenton.
Zig Zag has produced over 1000 hours of non scripted programming and has grown to become an internationally recognised, respected and award winning television producer both in the UK, USA and internationally. Zig Zag has produced programming for broadcasters including BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Five, TLC, MTV, Fox, National Geographic, Discovery, OWN, Logo and Syfy. The company has also won numerous awards including the Rose D’or for Best Format. Zig Zag’s speciality is true crime and recently produced the critically acclaimed series ‘Secrets Of The Interrogation Room’ for Crime and Investigation Channel and ‘Laura Whitmore Investigates’ for ITV.
Zig Zag was recently voted 6th in the Televisual top UK indies survey. Also rated 10th top sports producer, 7th top factual producer, and 9th in the top specialist factual producers in the most recent Broadcast Indie Survey and is consistently listed in the Realscreen Global 200 Top Independent Production Companies.
Association of True Crime ProducersAn association of television producers seeking to promote best practice within the true crime genre