Founded by award-winning producer Kate Beal in 2014, Woodcut Media is a pioneering operation with a diverse team at its core, whose main ethos is to provide an honest and trusted voice – creating programming that tells incredible human stories with creativity, authenticity, and care. We are a certified B Corporation.

As well as being one of the leading true crime doc producers in the UK, Woodcut also specialises in a broad range of standout unscripted content covering factual entertainment, specialist factual, and premium/talent led programming.  

Titles include Titanic In Colour (Channel 4), WW2: Women on the Frontline (Channel 4), Fatal Family Feuds (Oxygen), The Murder of Sandra Rivett and Murder at First Swipe (Amazon Prime Video),  long-running series World’s Most Evil Killers/Britain’s Most Evil Killers, Fiennes: Return to the Wild with Joseph and Sir Ranulph Fiennes, World’s Most Dangerous Prisoners (Filmrise/Paramount UK), Cut from a Different Cloth,  Mandela, My Dad, and Me, both featuring Idris Elba, Hitler: A Life in Pictures, and Paranormal Captured to name just a few. 
 
In 2020, Woodcut launched Woodcut International, a boutique content distribution company representing a growing portfolio of Woodcut and other selected producers’ content around the world. 

In 2024, we launched a suite of youtube channels, True Crime Uncut, History Uncut and The Essential Guide with the aim of creating content directly for the consumer.  

Woodcut is an active contributor to the wider television community and we were thrilled to receive our B Corp certification at the end of 2024. To learn more about the B Corp movement please see here LINK.  

We are members of PACT with our founder, Kate Beal, on PACT Council. We’re also proud to be founding members of the Association of True Crime Producers and we have enthusiastically signed the We Are Doc Women 50/50 pledge. We are also an ‘Industry Friend’ of the Film and TV Charity.

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