Nine Lives Media

Nines Lives Media is a Manchester-based television production company started in September 2007 by Cat Lewis. The company makes documentaries, fact-ent formats, drama documentaries, children's programmes and current affairs for all the major UK broadcasters and for American channels. Nine Lives is one of two companies with an output deal for Channel 4's current affairs strand, Dispatches.

Nine Lives Media
IndustryTelevision
FoundedSeptember 2007
Headquarters
Manchester
,
UK
Key people
Cat Lewis, CEO
Mike Lewis, Joint Creative Director & Executive Producer Steve Boulton, Executive Producer
Websitewww.ninelivesmedia.co.uk

TV current affairs programming

Channel 4 Dispatches – Nine Lives is one of two companies with an output deal for Channel 4's current affairs strands. The company has produced many Dispatches programmes including most recently:

  • Britain's Benefit Experiment – An investigation into the government's plans to cut working tax credits.
  • Aldi's Supermarket Secrets – Dispatches goes undercover to investigate the secrets behind Aldi’s Success.
  • 999, Where's my Ambulance? – Morland Sanders investigates the tricks used by some ambulance trusts to massage their figures.
  • Where's My Missing Mail? – Dispatches goes undercover to investigate damaged deliveries, late arrivals and missing parcels.

BBC Panorama – Nines Lives has produced several Panorama programmes including most recently:

  • Jobs for the boys? – Former England and Arsenal footballer Sol Campbell investigates why the unemployment rate for young black British men is roughly double that of their white counterparts.
  • Gangs, Guns & The Police – Panorama examines the rise of gang war in Salford and asks whether police have lost control of the streets in this community.
  • Can You Trust Your Bank? – The Panorama team goes undercover to test whether staff in Britain's high street banks have learnt the lessons from the massive penalties imposed for mis-selling insurance and investment products.
  • Failed by the NHS, BBC Three – An investigative documentary following presenter Jonny Benjamin, who has schizophrenia and depression, as he travels the country meeting other young people with mental health problems who have not been given adequate care by Britain's health service.
  • The Anti-Social Network, BBC Three – BBC Broadcaster Richard Bacon hunts down and confronts three online bullies – including his own – and finds unmasking these so called 'trolls' can be a dangerous pursuit.
  • A&E: When Patients Attack, Channel 5 – Meet the security guards who protect the staff and patients at one of the UK's biggest hospitals, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.

TV documentaries
  • CBBC My Life
  • I am Leo – a documentary in which 13-year-old Leo tells the story of his journey to get his first 'male' passport and be accepted as a boy.
  • Me, My Dad and His Kidney – follows Raphael Havard and his father through every aspect of a kidney organ transplant operation.
  • Marvellous Messy Minds – follows Libby, Ethan and Oliver as they attempt to control their mental health to achieve some simple goals.
  • The Trouble With Mobility Scooters, BBC One – Britain now has 300,000 mobility scooters on its roads and pavements – more than any other country in Europe. This documentary for BBC One explores how the machines give independence to many users.
  • Ruby Wax's Mad Confessions, Channel 4 – Comedian Ruby Wax takes viewers into The Priory and supports three successful business people as they come to terms with their mental health problems.
  • Small Teen, Bigger World, BBC Three – A documentary series following the life of sixteen-year-old Jasmine Burkitt who is only 3 feet 8 inches tall and fits clothes designed for a seven to eight-year-old
  • I Survived 9/11, bio. – This documentary revealed three accounts from British people trapped in and below the Twin Towers on that day
  • Age Gap Love, Channel 5 – viewers meet six of Britain's biggest age gap lovers, who are determined to prove that being from different generations is no barrier to romance
  • Pound Shop Wars, BBC One – This series goes behind the scenes of Poundworld, one of Britain's biggest retailers, and finds out how they keep getting shoppers through the door and expanding their business despite such low profit margins
  • Britain's Flashiest Families, Channel 5 – A documentary following people who love to spend and appear to have more money than sense as the UK comes out of recession.

TV drama documentaries
  • Myra Hindley: The Untold Story, Channel 5 – A three part drama documentary series telling the story of Britain's child serial killer, Myra Hindley.
  • Nightmare in Suburbia, – A total of five series of the programme were made for the Crime and Investigation Network.

Awards

Since being founded in 2007, Nine Lives Media has won two BAFTAs, a national RTS Award, an International Emmy, and several North England awards. In January 2016 Nine Lives Media was named one of the 50 most creative companies in England by Creative England.[1]

References
  1. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/manchester-firms-top-creative-talent-10762797
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