Caroline Grist

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Caroline Grist is a television producer who focuses on true crime and justice documentaries. She developed the cold case TV investigative series The Eleven, Children of the Snow, [1] and The Clown and the Candyman, [2] and the international returning true crime series Hours to Kill.

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Work in the UK

Caroline began her career in the UK as a journalist, writing for publications like London’s newspaper, The Independent . [3] Her TV work included the BBC programs Crimewatch and Out of Court. She produced documentaries for Channel 4, and worked on ITV Granada’s long-running investigative series World In Action.

USA

She moved to the US to work on the TV venture between The New York Times and ITV Granada, working as a development producer on programs for the Investigative Reports series on A&E, including a critically-acclaimed two-hour special, Anatomy of 9/11. [4] While at ITV Caroline developed the series pilot of Decoding Disaster for Discovery. She is a member of BAFTA New York, founding a scholarship to mentor young filmmakers in memory of her father John F. Grist. [5]

At Cineflix

At Cineflix, Caroline developed true crime TV including A Time to Kill, [6] known as the returning international series Hours to Kill. She developed other productions including I Escaped: Real Prison Breaks and Missing and Endangered, plus the major cold case investigations The Eleven [7] for A&E/Amazon, Children of the Snow for ID/Hulu, and The Clown and the Candyman for Discovery+.

In 2020 she set up First Story, an independent TV production company with her partner Charles Tremayne.

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References

  1. ↑ "Children of the Snow". Hulu. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  2. ↑ The Clown and the Candyman , retrieved 2021-01-28
  3. ↑ "The cost of caring for Linda: Caroline Grist meets the mother awarded". The Independent. 2011-10-23. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  4. ↑ Sreenivasan, Sreenath (2002-09-09). "TELEVISION REVIEW; How the Twin Towers Fell And 102 Minutes Unfolded (Published 2002)". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  5. ↑ "Caroline Grist and Charles Tremayne". www.bafta.org. 2017-07-31. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  6. ↑ "A Time to Kill | Watch Full Episodes & More!". Investigation Discovery. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  7. ↑ "Caroline Grist". IMDb. Retrieved 2021-01-15.


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