children of the
doomed voyage

In 2005 we produced Love Child a two part history of adoption. Running in the 11.15 p.m. slot it achieved 2.4 million and a 28% share, ITV1’s best figures for a late night documentary for three years. It also had a help-line response of 8,000- the biggest help-line response in ITV’s history.

We have begun working with international partners like U.S. The History Channel. We also won our first BBC4 commission with Little Kinsey, the story of the unknown Kinsey Report of 1949, which was one of the highlights of BBC4’s Lost Decade season and which attracted huge interest, becoming a major news item. 2005 also saw Testimony making its first Timewatch for BBC2, with the deeply moving story of The Children of the Doomed Voyage.

recent productions

In the last five years we have produced very successful one-offs in the Channel 4 Secret History strand like the award winning The Affair and Britain’s Boy Soldiers.

We have also made highly rated popular biographies for Channel 4 like The Real Tom Jones (2002) and The Man Who Predicted 9/11 (2005), which achieved an audience of 3 million making it one of the most popular serious factual programmes on the channel in the year.

2005 saw Testimony making its first films for Five. This began with the critically acclaimed Bad Boys of the Blitz for Five’s high profile Revealed strand. This was followed by Secrets of the Dating Agency, also a Revealed.

We have built a close relationship with ITV in recent years. This has involved making series for ITV West like Hope and Glory (2004) which looked at the impact of the Commonwealth on the south west and the growth of ethnic minority groups in the area. And in 2005 we produced the award winning The West at War. We have a growing portfolio of ITV network commissions.

In 2003 we produced The 50s and 60s In Living Colour, a 3 x 60 minute series for ITV1 (2003). This won the Focal International Award for Best Use of Archive in a Factual Production.