Productions

The Flicker Productions team have a long running track record of producing award winning television for major UK broadcasters as well as content for international brands.

Kate Garraway

Kate Garraway

September 2023

In this follow up film to the Kate Garraway: Finding Derek hit documentary, Kate will focus on her new life with Derek.

38 MINUTES TO LIVE

38 MINUTES TO LIVE

August 2023

This documentary looks at the events of January 13, 2018, when people across Hawaii received an emergency alert to their phones informing them of an incoming ballistic missile attack. Focusing on the 38 minutes during which they faced the end of the world and their own mortality, it poses the question: What would you do if you really did have only minutes to live?  

UNTOLD #3

UNTOLD #3

November 2023

A new episode for Channel 4’s current affairs strand UNTOLD coming!

UNTOLD  has the remit-defining, noisy and bold journalism that aims to hold power to account with intelligent, brave, compelling, and cheeky documentary making.

Ellie Simmonds: Finding My Secret Family

Ellie Simmonds: Finding My Secret Family

ITV

July 2023

Ten days after she was born, Ellie was placed for adoption, and has often wondered if this decision was taken after her parents were told she had a disability. Now she wants to find her birth mother, and gain a wider understanding about why children from diverse backgrounds are more likely to be placed for adoption.

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OnlyFans Got Me Fired : UNTOLD

OnlyFans Got Me Fired : UNTOLD

June 2023

Meet OnlyFans creators who lost their jobs after their accounts were discovered. Flicker investigates for UNTOLD what their rights are, and lifts the lid on a world of shame, money and tentacles…

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Katie Piper’s Jailhouse Mums

Katie Piper's Jailhouse Mums

June 2023

UKTV’s free-to-air entertainment channel W has commissioned brand new UKTV original series, Katie Piper’s Jailhouse Mums (5 x 60′). Broadcaster, author and philanthropist, Katie Piper immerses herself in the United States judicial system to follow the delivery and often complicated processing of babies and children in some of the most talked about prisons in the US. Produced by Flicker Productions, Katie Piper’s Jailhouse Mums will air on W and UKTV Play in 2023.

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Wayne Couzens: Killer in Plain Sight

Wayne Couzens: Killer in Plain Sight

June 2023

Channel 5 has commissioned Flicker Productions to produce 1 x 90’ documentary Wayne Couzens: Killer in Plain Sight – a year-long investigation into the story of a serving Met Police Officer, Wayne Couzens, who used his powers to rape and ultimately kill.

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Kathy Burke: Growing Up

Kathy Burke: Growing Up

March 2023

Kathy Burke explores what getting old means to us and the new freedoms that young people of today have, as she asks; should we fight or accept old age, and what is it like growing up nowadays?

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Life After Love Island: UNTOLD

Life After Love Island: UNTOLD

January 2023

What’s life like for reality TV stars after the show ends? Will Njobvu speaks to former Love Islanders who’ve made it big and those who haven’t. With Wes Nelson, Coco Lodge, Paige Turley and more.

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Kelsey Parker: Life After Tom

Kelsey Parker: Life After Tom

October 2022

A new 6 part series for ITVBe that follows Kelsey Parker as she negotiates and navigates life after the death of her husband, Tom Parker, in Kelsey Parker: Life After Tom.

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Finding The Cornish Dream

Finding The Cornish Dream

September 2022

With its magnificent coastlines, dramatic wilderness, world-renowned beaches, charming villages and market towns, it’s hardly surprising Cornwall has become the most sought-after location to live in the UK.

We shed light on this phenomenon with a documentary series that gets us inside Cornwall’s ever growing, diverse property market. 

Ellie Simmonds: A World Without Dwarfism?

Ellie Simmonds: A World Without Dwarfism?

February 2022

Paralympian Ellie Simmonds will reflect and draw on her own experiences and ask wider questions about the relationship between science, diversity and disability.

This is a subject close to my heart. Growing up these drugs weren’t available to me and had they been, I don’t know what my parents would have done. But I wouldn’t change myself. I love who I am and I am glad that I have dwarfism because I think my body is strong and beautiful — Ellie Simmonds

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Hunting The Football Trolls

Jermaine Jenas

October 2021

Ex-footballer and TV pundit Jermaine tracks the huge rise in online abuse of Black players. Coming face to face with a troll, he asks are social media firms doing enough about racism?

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Kathy Burke: Money Talks

Kathy Burke: Money Talks

July 2021

Kathy Burke returns with a series looking at money.

Money…it’s all we ever talk about. Who has it, who hasn’t, who deserves it, who doesn’t and who has won and lost it all. We appear to be a society obsessed with the pursuit of wealth… 

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The Truth About Police Stop and Search

The Truth About Police Stop and Search

May 2021

Statistics show that black men are nine times more likely to be stopped and searched by the police than white men. In this documentary we gave camera equipment to 40 black men and teenagers to record their interactions with police officers. It’s fronted by former England international footballer Jermaine Jenas.

Kate Garraway: Caring For Derek

Kate Garraway: Caring For Derek

February 2022

In this follow up film to the Kate Garraway: Finding Derek hit documentary, Kate will focus on her new role as Derek’s carer after his return to the family home.

Kate Garraway: Finding Derek

Kate Garraway: Finding Derek

July 2021

In a special one-off film for ITV, Kate Garraway offers an intimate insight into coping with the impact of Covid-19 as her husband Derek Draper remains seriously ill a year on from contracting the virus.

Overnight ratings were 4.5m on March 23rd

The highest-rating documentary on any UK channel in the last three years

It is ITV’s biggest Tuesday night factual performance in over a decade

A Baby Reindeer’s First Christmas

A Baby Reindeer’s First Christmas

December 2020

This documentary from Flicker Productions and Maramedia takes us to the stunning Scottish Highlands to a community of dedicated herders who live alongside their antlered wards, and follows a group of young reindeer preparing for their first ever Christmas in a year like no other.

Dom Digs In

Dom Digs In

April 2021

Having previously plunged into intriguing environments in the USA, this new series sees presenter Dominic Littlewood digging-in closer to home, highlighting the UK’s most essential workers across different industries that look after us day in day out.

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Dom Does America 2

Dom Does America 2

April 2024

In this follow up ten-part BBC One series Dom Littlewood will immerse himself within US institutions and emergency services for 24 hours, from policing and prisons to hospitals.

Dom Does America

Dom Does America

November 2019

In this new ten-part BBC One series Dom Littlewood will immerse himself within ten key US institutions and emergency services for 24 hours, from policing and prisons to hospitals.

Dom Does Americia is a Flicker Productions series starting on BBC 1 from November 11th for ten days. The Executive Producer is Colleen Flynn and it was commissioned by Julie Shaw for BBC One daytime.

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Reggie Yates Meets World

Reggie Yates Meets World

September 2019

Reggie Yates Meets World 4 x 60 for MTV

Young people, facing uncertain futures, are being tempted with new ways to better their lives. In this series Reggie Yates enters these worlds to see if they deliver on their promises, or if they have a darker side?

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Bad Girls Behind Bars Series 2

Bad Girls Behind Bars Series 2

6 x 60 series for Channel 5 on air in early 2020

“THE REAL OITNB” The Sun 17.01.19

BAD Girls Behind Bars is a second series for Channel 5 which follows women in an American prison.

Airport 24 / 7: Thailand

Airport 24 / 7: Thailand

September 2019

Thailand is one of the favourite long-haul holiday destinations for Brits and over 10 action-packed episodes, this series will give you an insight into the inner workings Phuket International Airport, one of South East Asia’s busiest transport hubs.

Watch on My5
Kathy Burke’s All Woman

Kathy Burke’s All Woman

September 2019

Documentary with Kathy Burke (3 x 60 mins) for Channel 4

Broadcast in August 2019

Channel 4’s best performing new series at 10pm in 2019

Television audience was well over 1 million per episode

Huge hit with the online audience on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram

(Photo copyright @rankinarchive)

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One Day That Changed My Life
Life After Lock-Up

Life After Lock-Up

April 2019

3 x 60 mins Documentary for Channel 4

Every year over 70,000 people are released from prison. They are each given a discharge grant of £46 and a travel pass to get home. Statistics show that over half will return to prison within a year.

Financial Times / Mail On Sunday – 4 Stars

The Guardian “A striking new series”

The Daily Telegraph “An absorbing series”

The Sun “Thought-provoking”

C5 Bad Girls Behind Bars

C5 Bad Girls Behind Bars

January 2019

“THE REAL OITNB” The Sun 17.01.19

BAD Girls Behind Bars is a new 4 part documentary for Channel 5 which follows women in an American prison.

Bad Girls Behind Bars takes a look at the lives of women imprisoned in the Western Massachusetts Regional Women’s Correctional Centre and is narrated by actress Kathy Burke.

Watch on My5
One Day That Changed My Life

One Day That Changed My Life

5 x 45 mins

September 2018

One Day That Changed My Life – Series 1 for BBC 1 (5 x 45mins) – First shown September 2018

Factual series following everyday people receiving life changing results which received great reviews from press and the public.

Daily Telegraph, Review – What to Watch

Sunday Times, Culture – Critic’s Choice

Mail On Sunday, Event – Pick Of The Day

The Guardian Guide – Pick Of The Day

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Red Bull TV: Branded Content
The Insider: Reggie Yates

The Insider: Reggie Yates

3 part series

First shown: September 2017

Series 2 of The Insider

Episode 1: The Insider: Reggie Yates in a Refugee Camp

Reggie is in the Middle East to spend a week living and sleeping in the largest refugee camp in Iraq – alongside 30,000 Syrian refugees.

Episode 1: The Insider: Reggie Yates – US Jail Guard

A year after spending a week living as an inmate, Reggie is heading back to jail. Only this time, he’ll be working as a guard.

Episode 1: The Insider: Reggie Yates on an African Waste Dump

Reggie heads to Ghana to live on one of the largest e-waste dumps in the world.

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Trump’s War On The Border

Trump's War On The Border

First shown: September 2017

Flicker gained exclusive and unprecedented access to the US Border Force, vigilante groups and immigrant populations living on the American / Mexican border for the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2017.

Directed by double BAFTA-award-winning, Lee Phillips and Commissioned by Commissioning Editor, News and Current Affairs Siobhan Sinnerton for Channel 4.

Daily Telegraph, Review – What to Watch
Sunday Times, Culture – Critic’s Choice
Mail On Sunday, Event – Pick Of The Day
The Guardian Guide – Pick Of The Day
The Sun, TV Magazine – Peek At The Week

Watch on All 4