True North Productions

True North Productions is an independent British television production company based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.^[4] The company creates factual programmes and series in a wide variety of genres, including observational documentary, crime, current affairs, history, wildlife, food, property, and children's for broadcast by television networks in the UK, US and China.

Its programmes have been sold via distributors to broadcasters throughout the world and as a result have been screened in numerous countries, including but not limited to the United States, Australia, Russia, and Africa.^[5][6][7]

The company was established in 2002 by Jess Fowle, Glyn Middleton and Andrew Sheldon, three producers and directors who had previously worked for Yorkshire Television's documentaries department. They chose the company name as a way of highlighting its northern roots.^[8]

In June 2011, True North won three prizes at the Royal Television Society Yorkshire Awards, for Best Terrestrial Programme (Stealing Shakespeare^[9]), Best Non-Terrestrial Programme (Britain’s Underworld^[10]) and for Independent Production Company of the Year – the latter for the third year in a row.^[11]

Programming

Current productions

• The Valleys: Series 3 for MTV in pre-production;
• Junior Vets: Series 2 for CBBC - ten half-hour episodes in editing;
• Animal Frontline: Series 2 for BBC One - ten half-hour episodes in pre-production;
• Designed In China - three hour-long episodes for CCTV-9 China and France O in production;
• My Derelict Dream Home: Series 2 for UKTV Home - fifteen hour-long episodes in production;
• Building The Dream Series Two - in production for More4.

Filmography

NOTE: Source for this section as follows:^[12]

• Real Life: The Lottery Liar (2002, ITV1)^[13]
• Real Life: Fighting For Danny (2002, ITV1)^[14]
• Secrets of the Royal Kitchen (2002, Five)
• Killer in the Woods (2003, Five)
• Steamtown (2003, BBC Two)
• Crimefighters (2004-6, ITV1)
• Who's Taking Your Daughter Home, Tonight? (2004, ITV1)
• MacIntyre’s Big Sting (2004-6, Five)
• ONE life: The Woman In Me (2004, BBC One)
• Frock 'n' Roll (2004, ITV1)
• Flying Scotsman Comes Home (2004, BBC Two)
• Real Life: Children of the Miners' Strike (2004, ITV1)
• Steaming Back To Scarborough (2004, BBC Two)
• Boots And Suits: The Changing Face of the BNP (2004, ITV1)
• ONE life: Asleep At The Wheel (2004, BBC One)
• Headline Crime (2004, ITV1)
• Real Story: Death of a Policeman (2004, BBC One)
• The Sage, Gateshead: A Celebration (2004, BBC Two)
• People's War: Bombs And Bread (2005, BBC Two)
• People's War: A Woman’s Place (2005, BBC Two)
• ONE life: The Ripper Murdered My Mum (2005, BBC One)
• Saving Zain (2005, ITV1)
• Xposed (2005, ITV1)
• My Yorkshire (2005-8, ITV1)
• Real Life: The Boy They Call Chucky (2005, ITV1)
• Trapped Inside My Body (2005, ITV1)
• Henry's Wives, with Terry Deary (2005, BBC Two)
• Real Families: My Mums Used To Be Men (2005, ITV1)
• The Way We Were (2006-8, ITV1)
• Ripper Hoaxer - The Real Story (2006, BBC One)
• Terry Deary’s Twisted Tales (2006, ITV1)
• Fiery Fred: A Yorkshire Legend (2006, BBC One)
• Working The Sea: The Lifeboat (2006, BBC Two)
• The Way We Worshipped (2006, ITV1)
• ONE life: Getting Away With Murder (2006, BBC One)
• Animal 24/7 (2006–10, BBC One)
• Ghosts of Christmas Past (2006, BBC Two)
• ONE life: The Woman Who Can't Stop Lying (2007, BBC One)
• Extraordinary People: The Twins Who Share A Body (2007, Five)
• Christa Does Bollywood (2007, BBC One)
• Building Britain (2007, BBC One)
• The Way We Were On Holiday (2007, ITV1)
• Saving Planet Earth (2007, BBC Two)
• My Fake Baby (2008, Channel 4)
• Animal Rescue Squad (2008-9, Five)
• Sunday Life (2008, BBC One)
• One Man And His Canoe: The John Darwin Story (2008, ITV1)
• Down The Line (2008, BBC Two)
• How To Survive The Property Crisis (2008, BBC One)
• Real Crime: Killer on the Run (2008, ITV1)
• Real Crime: Angel of Death (2008, ITV1)
• Shannon: The Mother of All Lies - a Panorama Special (2008, BBC One)
• Anne Diamond's War On Fat (2009, Sky Real Lives)
• Killer Couples (2009, Crime & Investigation Network)
• Cutting Edge: Addicted To Surrogacy (2009, Channel 4)
• In Search of England’s Green And Pleasant Land (2009, BBC One)
• Churchill's German Army (2009, National Geographic Channel)
• Calendar Girls - Ten Years On (2009, BBC One)
• Extraordinary People: The Man Who Shared His Liver (2009, Five)
• Youth Hostelling - The First 100 Years (2009, BBC Two)
• Michaela’s Animal Road Trip (2009, Five)
• Dispatches: Cops On The Cheap? (2009, Channel 4)
• Panorama: Freed To Offend Again? (2009, BBC One)
• Killer in the Family (2009, Crime & Investigation Network)
• To Build Or Not To Build (2009–2011, BBC One)
• Britain's Underworld (2010–2011, National Geographic Channel)
• Food Fighters (2010–2011, BBC One)
• Cumbrian Murders - The Untold Story (2010, Discovery Europe)
• Stealing Shakespeare (2010, BBC One)
• Real Crime: PC Sharon Beshenivsky - Death on Duty (2010, ITV1)
• Dick & Dom Go Wild (2011, CBBC)
• Panorama: Forgotten Heroes (2011, BBC One)
• My Dad's Army (2011, ITV1)
• The Big Flutter - Grand National On Film (2011, BBC One)
• Britain's Toughest Cops (2011, Discovery Europe)
• Jon Venables: What Went Wrong? (2011, BBC One)
• What The Neighbours Did (2011, UKTV Home)
• I'm Pregnant With Their Baby (2011, BBC One)
• Battle of Wills (2011, Crime & Investigation Network)
• Stormchaser: The Butterfly and The Tornado (2011, BBC Three)
• Inside The Riots: Panorama (2011, BBC One)
• Murder On The Social Network (2011, Crime & Investigation Network)
• Married, Single, Dead (2011, Crime & Investigation Network)
• When Life Means Life (2012, Crime & Investigation Network)
• Bloody Tales of the Tower (2012, National Geographic Channel)^[15]
• Dispatches: Undercover Undertaker (2012, Channel 4)^[16]
• Panorama: Life and Debt – A Greek Tragedy (2012, BBC One)^[17]
• The Valleys (2012, MTV)
• Panorama: How Safe Is Your Hospital? (2012, BBC One)^[18]
• Witness: Beast of Bermondsey (2013, Crime & Investigation Network) ^[19]
• Compare Your Life (2013, Channel 4)^[20]
• The Valleys: Series 2 (2013, MTV)^[21]
• Animal Frontline (2013, BBC One)^[22]
• Bloody Tales (2013, National Geographic Channel)^[23]
• My New Hand (2013, BBC One)^[24]
• Junior Vets (2013, CBBC)^[25]
• Beauty School Cop-Outs (2013, MTV)
• Building The Dream Series One (2013, More4)
• When Life Means Life Series Two (2013, Crime & Investigation Network)
• Hens Behaving Badly (2013–14, Five)

References

External links

• Official website