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.
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.
September 2023
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?
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.
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.
Read moreJune 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…
Read moreJune 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.
Read moreJune 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.
Read moreMarch 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?
Read moreJanuary 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.
Read moreOctober 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.
Read moreSeptember 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.
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
Read moreOctober 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?
Read moreJuly 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…
Watch nowMay 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.
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.
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
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.
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.
See moreApril 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.
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.
Read moreSeptember 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?
Read more6 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.
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 My5September 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)
Watch on All4June 2019
One Day That Changed My Life – Series 2 for BBC 1 (10 x 45mins)
Factual series following everyday people receiving life changing results starting on Monday 24th June on BBC1 at 11am and then daily.
Watch on iPlayerApril 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”
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 My5September 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
Watch on iPlayerWent live: June 2017
Red Bull digital content series in association with Puma.
Featuring Oleg Cricket a 25-year-old Instagram star who is absolutely not afraid of heights.
He travels all around the world and performs incredible stunts on top of high buildings.
See more at Red BullFirst 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.
Watch on iPlayerFirst 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