True North Productions

iD Distribution

iD Distribution has had huge success distributing True North's programmes all over the world in the past three years. It has licensed Animal 24:7 to National Geographic International (as well as broadcasters in Portugal, Russia and Belgium), sold MacIntyre's Big Sting throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East and negotiated deals for our Crimefighters series to be transmitted in the USA and Australia. It has also ensured that one-off documentaries like Secrets of the Royal Kitchen, My Mums Used to be Men, Trapped Inside my Body and The Boy They Call Chucky are shown right across the globe. Most recently it has licensed My Fake Baby to high-profile broadcasters in Australia, New Zealand and the USA and Animal Rescue Squad to National Geographic Channel International, and to Thailand.

My Fake Baby  (HDCAM)  - Back From The Dead: The John Darwin Story (HDCAM); My Mums Used To Be Men (HDCAM) - The Boy They Call Chucky (HDCAM)  - The Ripper Murdered My Mum (HDCAM) USA Only - Getting Away With Murder (HDCAM) - USA Only - The Woman Who Can’t Stop Lying (HDCAM) - USA Only - The Ripper Hoaxer: The Real Story (HDCAM) - Children of the Miners' Strike (HDCAM)  - MacIntyre's Big Sting - Secrets of the Royal Kitchen - Crimefighters - Animal 24:7 series one, two and three - Animal Rescue Squad series one and two; The Lottery Liar - Trapped Inside My Body

Passion

Passion Distribution has responsibility for selling True North’s two crime series, Killer Couples, and Killer in the Family, both commissioned in HD for the UK’s Crime & Investigation Network. Killer Couples (4x60) explores infamous cases in which two people formed a deadly duo to abduct, rape, torture and murder their victims, including the notorious Moors Murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. It is presented by internationally-acclaimed crime writer, Mark Billingham. Killer in the Family is a 6 x 60’ series examining infamous cases where wives and children have been killed by their nearest and dearest in so-called “family wipeouts”. It’s presented by criminal behavioural psychologist, Laura Richards. Both series has already been sold to France, New Zealand, Australia and Sweden. Passion has also the rights to license True North’s 5 x 30’ exciting new self-build series, To Build Or Not To Build, originally made for BBC One and presented by Kristian Digby.

Killer Couples (HDCAM); Killer In The Family (HDCAM); To Build Or Not To Build

ITV Global Entertainment

ITV Global Entertainment has the rights to sell one of True North's most high-profile and successful documentaries - Death of a Policeman. Its biggest sale to date is to the giant US network CBS, which aired it as Rage on the Run in its 48 Hours Mystery strand. The show has also sold to Australia and to the Crime & Investigation Network in the UK.

In April 2009, IGEL also took on sales for True North's latest Extraordinary People commission, The Man Who Shared His Liver, which follows people willing to risk their lives to save a loved on by donating almost half their liver, in pioneering live transplants. The programme has been quickly snapped up in Australia, New Zealand, Denmark and Belgium.  Michaela's Animal Road Trip follows Michaela Strachan as she tours Britain’s wildlife centres.

Death of a Policeman, The Man Who Shared His Liver, Michaela's Animal Road Trip

RDF Rights

RDF Rights represent True North's most recent Channel 4 documentary Addicted To Surrogacy and the heartwarming story of Calendar Girls - 10 Years On. The first, which tells the stories of the women hooked on having babies for other people, has been licensed to numerous broadcasters in Denmark, Singapore, Norway, Belgium, Finland, Israel and Australia, as well as to BBC America. The latter tells the remarkable story - now a major feature film starring Helen Mirren - of a group of women from the Women’s Institute, who dared to bare all for a charity calendar.

Addicted to Surrogacy, Calendar Girls - 10 Years On

Electric Sky

Electric Sky is successfully selling two of True North’s successful crime shows – Killer On The Run and Angel of Death to broadcasters in Australia, New Zealand, Sweden and Finland. The first tells the story of US fugitive David Bieber, who fled his native Florida after gunning down a rival bodybuilder, only to shoot an unarmed British policewoman in cold blood. The second reveals how detectives used the experience learned on the Harold Shipman investigation to flush out a nurse at Leeds General Infirmary who had been murdering elderly patients. Electric Sky is also responsible for selling series four and five of the hugely successful BBC1 series, Animal 24:7.

Animal 24:7 (series four and five) – Killer On The Run – Angel  of Death

BBC Worldwide

BBC Worldwide licenses the programmes that True North makes for the prestigious ONE life series to broadcasters around the world. To date, it has struck deals for The Woman In Me, Asleep at the Wheel, The Ripper Murdered My Mum, The Woman Who Can't Stop Lying and Getting Away with Murder to be screened in a number of countries, including New Zealand, Spain, Israel, South Korea, Denmark and Belgium. It has recently licensed several of these films to the UK's Crime and Investigation Network, as well as selling How to Survive the Property Crisis.

ONE life: The Woman In Me - ONE life: Asleep at the Wheel - ONE life: The Ripper Murdered My Mum (HDCAM) - ONE life: Getting Away With Murder  (HDCAM) - ONE life: The Woman Who Can't Stop Lying - How to Survive the Property Crisis