True North was founded by Jess Fowle, Andrew Sheldon and Glyn Middleton in 2002. Since then, the company has gone from strength to strength.
Jess Fowle: Creative Director
Jess started in television as an ITV trainee and spent the first ten years of her working life at a number of ITV companies including TV-am, Central and Yorkshire TV. At Yorkshire Television Jess was behind some of the highest-ever factual ratings with ITV's Nannies from Hell.
At True North, Jess has been responsible for delivering many of the company's most talked about programmes, including documentaries My Mums Used to be Men, and The Twins Who Share a Body . Jess was Executive Producer on My Fake Baby, Animal Rescue Squad, and How to Survive the Property Crisis, as well as one series of Animal 24:7
Glyn Middleton: Chief Executive
After starting his career on the prestigious First Tuesday documentary series, Glyn produced and directed numerous high-profile films for ITV, including The Unknown Victims of the Yorkshire Ripper, I’ll Be Watching You and Someone To Watch Over Me and was Deputy Editor of the current affairs series, 3D.
Glyn is Executive Producer for True North's Crime & Investigation Network series Killer Couples.
Andrew Sheldon: Creative Director
Andrew Sheldon is an award winning journalist with a 20 year career in television. He has worked extensively as a Producer, Series Producer, and Executive Producer on films like One Life: Getting Away With Murder, Real Story: Death of a Policeman and Christine Keeler - Sex Bomb.
Andrew has Executive Produced four series of Animal 24:7 as well as Sunday Life, and One Man and His Canoe: The John Darwin Story, amongst others.
Julie Heselgrave: Head of Production
Julie Heselgrave’s wealth of production expertise has been key to True North’s reputation for delivering on time, to budget and above expectation. Julie joined the company in 2002, and oversees every one of True North’s productions and line manages the rest of the production support department.
Anna Yallop: Head of Business Affairs
Anna Yallop trained as a lawyer before going on to roles as diverse as Monty Python’s legal advisor, MD of an agency for musical composers and founder of The Independent’s dedicated children’s edition.
Currently she splits her time between True North and the House of Commons where she is Assistant to Derek Wyatt, MP, chair of the All Party Internet Group and former member of the Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport.
Chris Walker: Head of Development
Chris Walker joined True North in February 2006 from BBC Manchester where he worked on high profile shows like Nurseries Undercover: The Real Story; Real Story: Boozy Doctors and BBC3’s The Story of Fairytale of New York.
In December 2006 he took on the position of Head of Development, and has made a big impact on the way True North develops ideas and targets specific broadcasters, In Summer 2007 he was named Broadcast Hot Shot by Broadcast Magazine.
Andrew Lurcuck: Head of Post Production
Andrew Lurcuck is True North’s Post Production Manager where he oversees a Unity system servicing eight edit suites.
Andrew joined True North in 2005 after nine years at YTV. Andrew is currently senior editor on Animal 24:7 and his credits include One Life: Getting Away with Murder, The Ripper Hoaxer, MacIntyre’s Big Sting and My Mums Used to Be Men.
Mark McMullen: Executive Producer
Mark’s diverse credits range from Secrets of the Dead for Channel Four/Discovery US and O'Shea's Big Adventure for Channel Four/Animal Planet to Mischief for BBC3. He’s been behind some of True North’s biggest series, including Animal 24:7, Animal Rescue Squad and Henry’s Wives with Terry Deary.
He joined True North in 2003 and recently completed the ITV RPF Executive Producer Scheme.
Sarah Hey: Series Producer
Sarah's credits including working for both the BBC's Real Story and ITV's Tonight with Trevor MacDonald current affairs strands. At True North she series produced MacIntyre’s Big Sting and series 2-5 of Animal 24:7, as well as producing and directing One Man and His Canoe: The John Darwin Story
Mark Stokes: Director of Photography
Mark Stokes is True North’s Director of Photography and is also a highly talented RTS-nominated editor.
Mark has worked for all the main British TV networks and has shot all of True North’s most high-profile output. Recent credits include The Twins Who Share a Body, My Fake Baby and Getting Away with Murder.
Mark is a passionate innovator and was the driving force behind True North’s early adoption of High Definition.
Becky Skidmore: Production Manager
Becky’s career started with a lucky break on The Bill and has included stints at Endemol, Thames, Granada and Yorkshire Television. At True North, Becky oversees the production process of every project and is known for her speed, accuracy and ability to keep calm under pressure.