True North Productions is an independent British television production company based in Leeds

Leeds

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, West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

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, United Kingdom

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. The company creates factual programmes

Television program

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 and series in a wide variety of genres, including observational documentary

Direct Cinema

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, crime

True crime

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, current affairs

Current affairs (news format)

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, history

History

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, wildlife

Nature documentary

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, food, property

Real estate development

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, and children's

Children's television series

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 for broadcast

Broadcasting

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 by television network

Television network

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s in both the UK and the US.

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

United States

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, Australia

Australia

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, Russia

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, and Africa

Africa

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.

The company was established in 2002 by Jess Fowle, Glyn Middleton and Andrew Sheldon, three producers

Television producer

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 and directors

Television director

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 who had previously worked for Yorkshire Television

Yorkshire Television

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's documentaries department. They chose the company name as a way of highlighting its northern roots.

In June 2011, True North won three prizes at the Royal Television Society Yorkshire Awards

Royal Television Society

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, for Best Terrestrial

Terrestrial television

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 Programme (Stealing Shakespeare), Best Non-Terrestrial Programme (Britain’s Underworld) and for Independent Production Company of the Year – the latter for the third year in a row.

Current productions

• Animal 24/7: Eighth series (10 x 45') for BBC One
  BBC One
  BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
  
  , now being filmed and edited.
• To Build or Not to Build Series 2: Twenty new episodes for BBC One
  BBC One
  BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
  
   currently in edit.
• Picture of Health: New five part series for BBC One
  BBC One
  BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
  
   in production.
• Cyber Killers: Two new documentaries for Crime & Investigation Network
  Crime & Investigation Network
  Crime & Investigation Network is a British television channel which focuses on crime, investigation and mystery programming. It is owned and operated by A+E Networks UK, jointly owned by A&E Television Networks and British Sky Broadcasting and launched in July 2006.A high definition version...
  
   about the growth of murders related to social network sites, currently being filmed and edited.
• Dick & Dom Go Wild Series 2: New 20-part series for CBBC
  CBBC
  CBBC is one of two brand names used for the BBC's children's television strands. Between 1985 and 2002, CBBC was the name given to all the BBC's programmes on TV for children aged under 14...
  
   in production.

Filmography

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• Real Life: The Lottery Liar (2002, ITV1)
• Real Life: Fighting For Danny (2002, ITV1)
• 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 International)
• 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 (2009–2010, BBC One)
• Britain's Underworld (2010–2011, National Geographic International)
• 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 (CBBC, 2011)
• 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)
• I'm Pregnant With Their Baby (2011, BBC One)