The Association of True Crime Producers, the new industry body set up to establish best practice guidelines for the TV crime genre in the UK and Ireland, has added five new members.

U.K. -based factual specialist FirstLookTV has partnered with Melbourne-based distributor LGI Media. FirstLookTV will work with LGI in the Crime and History genres originating titles in Australia and Asia.

UK-based factual specialist FirstLookTV has announced an Australian distribution deal with Melbourne-based Distributor LGI Media.

UK Midlands-based Factual specialist FirstLookTV today announced an Australian hook-up with Melbourne-based Distributor LGI Media. The partnership marks the further expansion of FirstLookTV’s distribution collaborations throughout the global market.

NEWS BRIEF: UK-based factual prodco FirstLookTV (FLTV) has signed a distribution deal with Australia’s LGI Media.

FirstLookTV, the longest established indie production company in the Midlands, today announces a triad of senior hires in a new growth strategy aimed at capitalising on its US and UK True Crime hits, Meet Marry Murder, My Lover My Killer and #Dead2Me.

UK-based factual prodco FirstLookTV has made a trio of senior hires in a new growth strategy aimed at capitalising on its US and UK True Crime series Meet Marry Murder, My Lover My Killer and #Dead2Me.

FirstLookTV has made a triad of senior hires in a new growth strategy aimed at capitalizing on its U.S. and U.K. true-crime hits Meet, Marry, Murder; My Lover My Killer; and #DEAD2ME.

FirstLookTV has appointed Lucy Middelboe as Head of Business, Andie Clare as Director of Production, and Rachel Bowering as Creative lead on Development. The appointments form part of FirstLookTV’s business development strategy, which will primarily focus on new and existing production development, social media and international collaborations.

True crime producer First Look TV has secured a fourth series of A Killer’s Mistake for a ten-partrun. Distributed by Blue Ant Media (UK), the series will premiere on linear on Quest Red andstreaming via Discovery+ in the UK next year.

True-crime indie FirstLookTV is to deliver a fourth series of A Killer’s Mistake (10×60’) ahead of 2024.

UKTV has made its first true crime commission for free-to-air channel W and streaming service UKTV Play with Red Flag (8 x 60’) produced by First Look TV.

Televisual’s exclusive annual report into the TV indie sector, the Production 100, is out now with Avalon in the number one spot once again.

Charlie Brooker’s pastiche in Loch Henry serves to reinforce the importance of the documentary staple in popular culture but also its serious societal value, argues FirstLook’s Will Hanrahan

FirstLookTV is honored to be a founding member of the new Association of True Crime Producers, where we are helping to establish best practices for the genre.

It’s journalism 101: news reporters should not ‘have an interest’ in one side of an argument over another. By being ‘disinterested,’ they can be trusted to offer balance and fairness.

True Crime indie, FirstLookTV, has been commissioned by 5Star/Paramount to produce a 10-part documentary series, Sleeping With My Murderer.

I don’t like secrets. They allow wrongdoing to go unexposed. But there are many secrets kept each day that affect the lives of us all – and in some cases, cost lives.