When we launched The Garden in 2010 we said our purpose was:

"to make cutting edge, ambitious, distinctive factual programmes for major broadcasters in the UK and internationally; and to be the most ideal production company we can be, where programme-makers can do their very best work and that always delivers exceptional television.”

Since then we’ve produced more than 300 hours of some of Britain’s most memorable factual television, topped industry peer polls and won numerous BAFTA, RTS and Broadcast Awards.

Our purpose remains exactly the same.

Latest News

5th July 2019 Broadcast
The Garden plants double BBC science order
ITV Studios indie returns to Claridge’s for engineering series and scores BBC3 medical pilot.

12th May 2019 The Guardian
BBC Two’s Exceptional Gun No. 6 Wins BAFTA
The Guardian’s Mark Lawson says Gun No. 6, tracing the history of a multiply murderous firearm, was as technically skilful as it was journalistically urgent.

12th May 2019 BAFTA
Gun No. 6 Wins BAFTA Award For Best Single Documentary
Beats off competition from Driven: The Billy Monger Story and My Dad, The Peace Deal and Me.

8th May 2019 Broadcast
‘Freshening up The ‘Garden’
Following the departure of one of its co-founders, the 24 Hours in A&E producer’s management team are breaking new ground.

25th April 2019 The Sun
Kids as young as four are stranded in London with just a map to guide them back to their parents for new ITV show. Planet Child looks at how much freedom UK children have compared to other countries.
A new TV show will see a group of children let loose in London, with only a map to guide them across the city.

24th April 2019 Mail Online
Cousins, aged five and six, are tasked with navigating their way around London with no adults in daring TV experiment on Planet Child.
Planet Child looks at how much freedom UK children have compared to other countries.

9th April 2019 Express
Teenager to undergo life-changing spine operation that Princess Eugenie had.
Operation: Live will feature teenager Chloe Donhou undergoing surgery that will transform her body and life.

9th April 2019 Metro
Operation: Live viewers praise ‘amazing’ surgeons as they perform kidney transplant for father who wants to save his son.
Channel 5’s Operation Live saw an organ donation from father Daniel to his 33-year-old son Eugene, who has the long-term autoimmune disease Lupus which resulted in kidney failure.

4th April 2019 New Statesman
“He won’t be the last”: What did a mother whose son was fatally stabbed tell Theresa May?
In a private Downing Street meeting, Roseann Taylor, who lost her 18-year-old son last year, as featured in 24 Hours in Police Custody, warned the Prime Minister about Britain’s escalating knife crime crisis.

4th April 2019 Broadcast
ITV takes global look at child development with new show, Planet Child.
Twin doctors Chris and Xand van Tulleken to feature in three-part series from The Garden.

28th March 2019 Broadcast
The Garden’s BAFTA-nominated Channel 5 documentary Operation: Live has secured a recommission.
Kidney donor transplant will be featured in three-part follow-up.

28th March 2019 BAFTA
The Garden secures a hat trick of BAFTA nominations.
24 Hours in A&E has been nominated in the Factual Series category, Operation: Live in the Live Event category and Gun No. 6 in the Single Documentary category.

25th March 2019 The Telegraph
24 Hours in Police Custody’s Unmissable knife crime episode was an urgent, unnervingly close look at street violence.
Telegraph review of the episode which gives a close-up view of two violent incidents in Luton, and lays bare the grim truth about the wave of knife attacks that has engulfed Britain.

5th March 2019 Radio Times
Latest series of 24 Hours in Police Custody is ‘Immaculate and satisfying’
24 Hours in Police Custody shows the way the law works, says Alison Graham for the Radio Times.

5th March 2019 Broadcast
The Garden Opens Yorkshire Office
Anna Dickeson hired as Creative Lead, The Garden Yorkshire

29th January 2019 Daily Mail
Stab victim’s cousin features in 24 Hours in A&E after falling on his grave and hurting her leg
Katrina Burton, 26, tore ligaments in her leg after she jumped over a fence.

24th January 2019 Broadcast
The Garden Productions Ranked #2 in Broadcast’s Best Places to Work in TV 2019
Broadcast’s list, published this week, features 30 companies, who hail from London, Manchester, Bristol, Glasgow, York and Belfast.

20th December 2018 Broadcast
ITV Studios gives Operation: Live Aussie treatment
Seven Network commissions two-night event based on C5 series.

17th December 2018 The Guardian
24 Hours in A&E review – trauma, tears and triage in real-life Casualty
High drama at St George’s in south-west London as the consistently excellent docu-series reaches its 200th episode.

14th December 2018 Broadcast
Innovation is key to longevity
As 24 Hours in A&E approaches it’s 200th episode, Executive Producer, Spencer Kelly reflects on how it has evolved.

2nd December 2018 The Guardian
Gun No. 6 review – a magisterial portrait of the misery wreaked by a single firearm
The Guardian’s Lucy Mangan says this daring documentary got closer to explaining why people resort to using guns as weapons than any other film she has seen.

1st December 2018 BBC News
Gun No. 6: The untold story of Britain’s deadliest illegal firearm
This is the story of how a single handgun was passed around a British city, ending up in the hands of as many as 11 different gunmen in the space of six years.

14th November 2018 Metro
Operation: Live viewers in awe of amazing surgeons as Channel 5 air open heart surgery
Open Heart Surgery: Live, documented the tense moment a team of surgeons replaced an aortic valve for the 69-year-old patient Kamal.

19th September 2018 The Grierson Trust
The Garden are proud to announce two Grierson nominations for 24 Hours in Police Custody and Bring Me Back to life
The Grierson Awards nominations 2018.

31st August 2018 Daily Mail
The policeman who invited TV cameras in to spy on his family for a new Channel 4 show... and was horrified by what he saw
Rob and his wife Donna agreed to take part in the channel 4 show. It would give them an unprecedented insight into the lives of their four children.

8th August 2018 The Sun
Nurse attacked twice and left with severe burns on her face, head, neck and chest after patient poured boiling water over her
The latest episode of 24 Hours in A&E features Christie who was at work in London when she was attacked.

1st August 2018 Daily Mail
Heartbreaking moment grandmother with pancreatic cancer - who outlived all but two of her six children - says she wants to 'die in her own bed' as she battles sepsis on 24 Hours in A&E
This is the heartbreaking moment a grandmother with pancreatic cancer told her family she wanted to 'die in her own bed' after being diagnosed with sepsis.

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Productions

Our Borough: Love & Hustle

‘Love’ TX 10:35pm and ‘Hustle’ TX 11:15pm on BBC ONE on Wednesday 24th July. Also available on BBC iPlayer from 10am Wednesday 24th July.

Executive Producer - Zac Beattie

Associate Executive Producer - Graeme McAulay

Series Director - Marc Williamson

Producer/Director - Lyttanya Shannon

Series Producer - Kandise Abiola

Producer - Lindsay Konieczny

Shooting AP - Jason Ferguson

Last year, as youth violence made the headlines, some parts of the capital were thrust into the spotlight. One of those areas was a corner of North London around Tottenham and Wood Green, where three young people were killed in just three months. But there’s more to life here than the headlines. What about all the young people who don’t make the news? These films go beyond the headlines to find out what life is really like. From a 12 year-old vegan-activist to a young music mogul, from young men coming out to young men facing 'stop and search'; young people are doing amazing things here.

Beyond the violence and the headlines, King is thinking about love and faces very different challenges to make his dreams come true. Amira is determined not to be distracted by the violence, to make it in the music industry and transform her life with a big payday.

24 Hours in A&E (Series 18)

TX 9pm, Channel 4. Weekly from 7th May 2019

Series Producers / Directors - Joanna Rowlands and Tom Wilde

Executive Producers - Lucie Duxbury, Spencer Kelly and Emma Tutty

Line Producer - Kate Paxton

24 Hours in A&E returns with a new series capturing dramatic and emotional stories of love, life and loss on the frontline of the NHS.

Planet Child

TX 9pm, ITV. Weekly from 1st May 2019.

Producer Directors - Christian Collerton, Gilly Goshawk, Phillip McCreery, Katy Raffin

Line Producer - Sophie Campbell

Series Producer - Tom Peppiatt

Executive Producers - Chloë Solomon, Teresa Watkins

This brand-new series, Planet Child, compares the way children are brought up in Britain in 2019 with radically different cultures across the world and asks what they can teach us about the way we’re raising our next generation.

Today, there are over two billion children in the world living very different lives. All of them have different dreams for their futures, but how does where they live and how they are raised influence who they will become? Presented by twin doctors Chris and Xand Van Tulleken, this series observes children in Japan, Africa and America, living in locations as extreme as mega cities and deserts and sets out to compare how they are developing, to children across Britain.

Taking children from birth to age seven the twins conduct extraordinary experiments to test the limits of what British kids are capable of and to see what their behaviour can tell us about being a child growing up in 2019. Across the series the twins explore, how we become independent, when we learn right and wrong and the role gender plays within the modern age, in a series of unique experiments, all undertaken without parental supervision – leading to eye-opening results.

Operation: Live (Series 2)

TX Channel 5, 9th, 10th & 11th April 2019

Executive Producer – Ninder Billing

Series Producer – Emma Jay

Line Producer – Jackie McKinney-Dyer

Liaison Producer - Joy Ash

Live Director – James Morgan

Producer / Directors – Laura Mulholland, Kristin Hadland, Joe Myerscough

BAFTA-nominated series, Operation: Live, returns launching with a live broadcast of a father to son, living donor kidney transplant. With privileged access, each night this two-hour event will broadcast live, as a life-changing surgery unfolds on screen; capturing the compelling drama of every snip, cut and suture in tense, riveting real-time.

Each operation will be unmediated, with the skilled surgeon performing the procedure guiding viewers through every incision, providing their insight and thoughts as someone's life hangs in the balance.

Across three nights, viewers will witness three operations – a kidney donor transplant, a transformative spine straightening operation and vascular neurosurgery procedure – all performed in real time, on screen. This will give prime time audiences an unprecedented understanding of, and connection to, what happens in theatres across the NHS every day. It will highlight the incredible teamwork that goes into surgery and demystify a process that affects so many of us.

Cancer Research UK’s “Right Now” ad campaign (2019)

TV. Online. Out of home.

Executive Producer: Lucy Bowden

Campaign Director: Holly Challinor

APs: Cath Boggan & Sian Guerra

Researcher: Emma Salkeld

Production Manager: Jack White

Production Coordinator: Emma Taylor

Documentary advertising campaign for Cancer Research UK.

24 Hours in Police Custody (Series 8)

TX Channel 4. Weekly from Monday 11th March 2019.

Executive Producers : Simon Ford & Jessie Versluys

Series Director : Graeme McAulay

Series Producer : Amber Ronowicz

Line Producer: Georgie Emary

24 Hours in Police Custody, the BAFTA nominated series, which follows the work of Bedfordshire Police round-the-clock, returns with the first of five gripping new films which take viewers behind the scenes of police investigations into major crimes.

In a feature-length first episode, cameras follow the police as they hunt two separate stranger rapists and struggle to bring them to justice to prevent them striking again.

This is real-life drama where the facts turn out to be more compelling than fiction.

24 Hours in A&E (Series 17)

TX Channel 4. Weekly from January 8th 2019

Series Producers / Directors - Joanna Rowlands and Tom Wilde

Executive Producers - Lucie Duxbury, Spencer Kelly and Emma Tutty

Line Producer - Kate Paxton

24 Hours in A&E returns with a new series capturing dramatic and emotional stories of love, life and loss on the frontline of the NHS.

The final episode of this instalment, on 17th December, will signify a milestone for the hit show – celebrating it’s 200th episode.

Gun No. 6

From 12th October in cinemas nationwide and BBC TWO on 2nd December 2018.

Director of Photography - Lorenzo Levrini

Film Editor - Rupert Houseman

Co-Producer - Liz Collier

Associate Producer - Nicola Hill

Producer - Georgina Cammalleri

Executive Producer - Zac Beattie

Filmed and Directed by James Newton

BAFTA Award winning documentary, this is the story of Britain’s deadliest illegal gun….

Changing hands over a decade - used in eleven shootings and three murders - this is the story of Britain’s deadliest illegal gun. Made by a BAFTA award-winning team, this bold hybrid of documentary and drama charts every shooting of Gun No. 6, to confront us with the realities of modern gun crime. The film honours the lives lost to Gun No. 6, through the testimony of loved-ones left behind, but it also asks us to listen to the perpetrators of violent crime too. This film explores why men pick up guns and the shockwaves that follow each shooting, for the victims, the police, communities and perpetrators.

As governments and news headlines wrestle with the reality of gun and knife crime, Gun No. 6 explores our relationship with violence.

Operation: Live

TX Channel 5, 13th, 14th & 15th November 2018

Executive Producer – Ninder Billing

Series Producer – Emma Jay

Line Producer – Jackie McKinney-Dyer

Producers – Alice McMahon-Major, Vivienne Perry

Live Director – James Morgan

Producer / Directors – Laura Mulholland, Ben Wilson, Anabelle Marshall

With privileged access, each night this two-hour event will broadcast live, as a life-changing surgery unfolds on screen; capturing the compelling drama of every snip, cut and suture in tense, riveting real-time.

Across three nights, viewers will witness three operations – an aortic valve replacement, a total knee replacement and a right hemicolectomy – all performed in real time, on screen. This will give prime time audiences an unprecedented understanding of, and connection to, what happens in theatres across the NHS every day. It will highlight the incredible teamwork that goes into surgery and demystify a process that affects so many of us.

24 Hours in A&E (Series 16)

TX Channel 4. Weekly from November 12th 2018

Series Producers / Directors - Sophie Jones and Michael Tuft

Executive Producers - Spencer Kelly, Emma Tutty, Lucie Duxbury

Line Producer - Melissa Hameed

24 Hours in A&E returns with a new series capturing dramatic and emotional stories of love, life and loss on the frontline of the NHS.

The final episode of this instalment, on 17th December, will signify a milestone for the hit show – celebrating it’s 200th episode.

Spying On My Family

TX Channel 4. Thursday 6th September 2018, 9pm.

Executive Producers: Spencer Kelly, Kate Collier

Producer/Director: Chris Taylor

Editor: Graham Cox

Line Producer: Victoria Thomas

Senior Producer: Annie Tetchner

Producer: Mahi Iftikhar

Ever wondered what your loved ones get up to when you’re not around? In this extraordinary experiment, The Kirks from Essex get a chance to find out. For one week, the family will see into every corner of each other’s lives, every social media post and text message laid bare. Cameras will track their every move, and – using cutting-edge smartphones – they’ll be able to watch each other 24/7.

The Sex Clinic: Artist in Residence

TX Channel 4. Sunday 22nd July 2018, 10:10pm.

Producer/Director: Vic Silver

Executive Producer: Zac Beattie

Producer: Hannah Keep

Film Editor: Johnny Wagener

Camera: Brent Gundesen

Additional Producer: Jemma Gander

Senior Development Producer: Liz Collier

Production Manager: Jackie McKinney-Dyer

Bryony Kimmings is a bold, sweary, performance artist, who’s best known work is a song about vaginas. Launching a new strand where artists immerse themselves in unlikely and fascinating places, this film sees Bryony take up residency in one of Britain’s busiest sexual health clinics, where 2000 people are treated each week. She fearlessly asks patients to open up about the most intimate details of their sex and love lives, follows them home and creates extraordinary performances for them. She makes a radical dating guide for newly-single Trevor, a musical performance about sexual confidence for carefree millennial, Salome, and helps two sex-workers, Jodi and Tina, lead a party-parade through a city where sex is often easier to find than love.

Police Tapes

TX 9.00pm, Thursday 21st June, 5th July & 12th July

Executive Producer – Ninder Billing

Series Director – Sam Eastall

Camera – Luke Menges & Brendan Easton

Producer – Kristin Hadland

Editor – Esther Gimenez

Line Producer – Jackie McKinney-Dyer

With exclusive access to the police’s own evidence, Police Tapes goes behind the scenes of complex and high profile murder investigations. On the shoulder of the detectives who led the case, each episode tracks the remarkable twists and turns of the investigation, to reveal what was happening behind the headlines and the extraordinary measures that detectives use in the interview room, and on the ground. Susanna Reid meets the families who look to the police to discover how and why their loved ones died, and the detectives at the heart of the investigation, tasked with uncovering the truth.

24 Hours in Police Custody (Series 7)

TX Channel 4. Weekly from Monday 21st May 2018.

Executive Producers : Simon Ford & Jessie Versluys

Series Director : Graeme McAulay

Series Producer : Amber Ronowicz

Line Producer: Georgie Emary

24 Hours in Police Custody, the BAFTA nominated series, which follows Bedfordshire Police’s detective work, round-the-clock, is returning to Channel 4 with a special feature length first episode.

“Body in the Grass” is the first of eight very different real life crime stories, taking the viewer into the heart of live police investigations. Each case is followed in forensic detail as the officers race against time to disentangle the evidence and build a case which they then put to their suspects in interview.

Cameras follow in intimate detail the twists and turns of a case which is disturbing and psychologically challenging.

This is real life crime drama at its most intense.

24 Hours In A&E (Series 15)

TX Channel 4. Weekly from Wednesday 16th May 2018

Series Producers - Sophie Jones and Michael Tuft

Series Editor - Lucie Duxbury

Executive Producers - Spencer Kelly and Emma Tutty

Line Producer - Melissa Hameed

24 Hours in A&E returns with a new series capturing dramatic and emotional stories of love, life and loss on the frontline of the NHS.

24 Hours in Police Custody (Series 6)

TX Channel 4. Weekly from Monday 19th February 2018

Executive Producers : Simon Ford & Jessie Versluys

Series Director : Graeme McAulay

Series Producer : Amber Ronowicz

Line Producer: Georgie Emary

24 Hours in Police Custody returns to Luton Police Station with compelling stories of attempted murder and human trafficking. With 24 hours to find the evidence to release or charge, we follow detectives as they interrogate their suspects and piece together a case.

24 Hours In A&E (Series 14)

TX Channel 4. Weekly from Tuesday 2nd January 2018

Series Producers - Sophie Jones and Michael Tuft

Series Editor - Lucie Duxbury

Executive Producers - Spencer Kelly and Emma Tutty

Line Producer - Melissa Hameed

24 Hours in A&E returns with a new series capturing dramatic and emotional stories of love, life and loss on the frontline of the NHS.

The Murder of Becky Watts: Police Tapes

TX 9.00pm, Thursday 9th November.

Channel: ITV1

Editor and Series Director: Sam Eastall

Camera: Luke Menges

Series Producer: Liz Collier

Producer: Laura Vaughan

Line Producer: Jackie McKinney-Dyer

Executive Producer: Ninder Billing

Presented by Susanna Reid

Featuring incredible video footage revealing for the first time how detectives used strategy and skill to catch the killers of Becky Watts.

Summer To Save My Life

TX 10:50pm, Thursday 2nd November.

Channel: C4

Film and Directed by: Jonathan Taylor

Film Editors: Jake Martin, James Dowd, Tom Dixon-Spain

Executive Producers: Emma Tutty, Kate Collier

Senior Producer: Liz Collier

Producer: Sophie Mohammed

Production Managers: Anthony Wise, Janine Melton

This intimate documentary follows cancer patients who are undergoing cutting-edge immunotherapy treatment, which boosts the body's natural defences to fight cancer, without debilitating side effects

My Week As A Muslim

TX Date: Monday 23rd October 2017

Channel: C4

Time: 21:00

Execs: Fozia Khan, Jenny Midl & Magnus Temple

Series Producer: Sam Ornbo

Production Manager: Nicolanne Cox

Bring Me Back To Life

TX 10pm, Wednesday 30th August 2017

Channel: C4

Filmed and Directed by: Graeme McAulay

DV Director: Alana McVerry

Producer: Jen Kerrison

Executive Producers: Nick Curwin, Magnus Temple &

Kate Collier

In emotional interviews addressed directly to Taylor himself, his friends and family tell the story of his life so far and what makes that life so worth saving. The film also documents each twist and turn of Taylor’s medical journey with messages from the doctors and nurses looking after him, explaining what they are doing to support his life, to give him the best chance they can to help him recover.

Professor Green: Living in Poverty

TX BBC THREE. Launches 1st August 2017

Filmed and Directed by: Chris McLaughlin

Executive Producer: Zac Beattie

Producer: Hannah Keep

Additional Producer: Jemma Gander

Production Manager: Janine Melton

In this intimate documentary, Professor Green sets out to uncover what life is like for young people living on the breadline today. Over several months he spends time with 10 year-old Kelly Louise, whose family have just been evicted from their home. They can’t afford a deposit on a new property and, facing the possibility of being homeless, Kelly Louise’s life is turned upside down.

Professor Green: Is it time to legalise weed?

TX BBC THREE. Launches 25th July 2017

Filmed and Directed by: Chris McLaughlin

Executive Producer: Zac Beattie

Producer: Hannah Keep

Additional Producers: Gussy Sakula-Barry, Carl Callam

Production Manager: Janine Melton

Professor Green, aka Stephen Manderson, embarks on a uniquely personal film to take an in-depth look at our relationship with Britain’s most popular illegal drug and explores the arguments for and against legalisation.

24 Hours In A&E (Series 12,13)

TX Channel 4. Weekly from Wednesday 31st May 2017

Series Producer/Directors: Lucie Duxbury, Gemma Brady and Martin Conway

Executive Producers: Spencer Kelly, Emma Tutty and Hamo Forsyth

Line Producer: Nisha Patel

The RTS award-winning 24 Hours in A&E provides a dramatic and revelatory insight into love, life and loss on the frontline of the NHS. Filmed around the clock, each programme focuses on people treated within the same 24-hour period at St George’s hospital in south west London, which has one of Britain’s most advanced and busiest A&E departments.

24 Hours In Police Custody (Series 5)

TX Channel 4. Weekly from Monday 5th June 2017.

Executive Producers: Simon Ford, Hamo Forsyth, Flavia Taylor

Series Producer/Director: John Douglas

Line Producer: Elaine Campbell

Senior Line Producer: Laura Matthews

The BAFTA nominated series 24 Hours in Police Custody, which follows Bedfordshire Police’s detective work, round-the-clock, has returned with five new films about major crimes. Throughout the series, cameras follow each case in forensic detail as the officers race against time to disentangle the evidence and build a case which they then put to their suspects in interview.

Rich Dog, Poor Dog

TX Channel 4, Thursday 9th March 2017 11pm.

Executive Producer: Zac Beattie

Producer Director: Jenny Evans

Production Manager: Sophie Campbell

DV Directors: Jules Endersby and Seb Feehan

Extremely British Muslims

TX Channel 4 Weekly from Thursday 2nd March 2017 10pm.

Series Producer: Fozia Khan

Series Director: Paddy Wivell

Executive Producer: Zac Beattie

Production Manager: Jackie McKinney-Dyer

Britain’s Busiest Motorway

TX ITV Weekly from 21st February 2017

6x 60mins

DV Director: Tom Sweetland, Sam Wildman

Executive Producer: Steph Weatherill

Producers/Directors: Georgie Burrell, David Harris

Production Manager:Jackie McKinney

Cancer Research UK’s “Right Now” ad campaign (2016)

Cancer Research UK’s “Right Now” ad campaign.

Cinema. TV. Online. Outdoor.

Director: Olly Lambert

Executive Producer: Lucy Bowden

Producers: Hayley Reynolds, Merle Currie, Catherine Stefanini

Production Manager: Georgina Emary

The award winning documentary ad campaign that shows the day-to-day experiences of cancer patients, returns for a second year.

24 Hours In Police Custody (Series 3, 4)

TX Channel 4. Weekly from Wednesday 20th April 2016.

Executive Producers: Simon Ford, Hamo Forsyth, Flavia Taylor

Series Producer/Director: John Douglas

Line Producer: Elaine Campbell

Senior Line Producer: Laura Matthews

24 Hours In A&E (Series 10, 11)

TX Channel 4. Weekly from Tuesday 20th October 2015

Series Producers: Alex Sunderland, Jackie Waldock

Executive Producer: Spencer Kelly

Series Director: Bruce Fletcher

Line Producer: Emily Freshwater

24 Hours in A&E returns with a new series capturing dramatic and emotional stories of love, life and loss on the frontline of the NHS.

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