Northern Pictures

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Northern Pictures
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryTelevision
GenreTelevision production
Founded2010
FounderSue Clothier
Headquarters
Sydney
,
Australia
Key people
Peter Anderson (MD) [1]
ServicesTelevision program production
Parent Blue Ant Media
Divisions Australian Geographic
Website northernpictures.com.au

Northern Pictures is an Australian-based television production company, which develops and produces unscripted and factual television programs for multiple television channels in Australia and internationally. The company was founded by Sue Clothier in 2010. [2]

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In 2013, Clothier sold the company to David Haslingden, a media executive who also acquired New Zealand company NHNZ around the same time, through his Racat Group. [3] In the same year, the company formed a joint venture with Keshet International to operate Keshet Australia. [4]

In 2017, Haslingden sold his production company holdings (including Northern Pictures) to Canadian company Blue Ant Media. [5]

In 2018, the Australian Geographic publication was sold to Northern Pictures. [6]

Northern Pictures employs a number of staff including Peter Anderson (Managing Director), Karina Holden (Head of Factual), Catherine Nebauer (Head of Kids & Scripted) & Tosca Looby (Factual Series Producer/Director).

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  1. ↑ Groves, Don (7 February 2018). "Peter Anderson named MD of Northern Pictures as Sue Clothier moves to new role". If.com.au.
  2. ↑ "Northern Pictures strikes the right balance". The Australian. 4 October 2015.
  3. ↑ Delaney, Colin (20 February 2013). "Incoming Nine chairman David Haslingden buys Northern Pictures". Mumbrella.
  4. ↑ Boon, Cameron (29 May 2013). "Keshet Media Group pushes into Australian with Northern Pictures partnership". Mumbrella.
  5. ↑ Knox, David (26 May 2017). "Northern Pictures sold in Canadian deal". TV Tonight.
  6. ↑ Tutty, Josie (2 March 2018). "Bauer Media sells Australian Geographic to Northern Pictures". Mumbrella. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  7. ↑ Knox, David (24 January 2024). "Returning: Better Date than Never". TV Tonight. Retrieved 9 October 2024. Production Credit: A Northern Pictures production. Developed and produced in association with the ABC with development support from Screen Australia.
  8. ↑ Knox, David (19 March 2015). "Renewed: Shaun Micallef's Stairway to Heaven, Changing Minds". TV Tonight. Retrieved 9 October 2024. Changing Minds series 2 will continue to challenge the stigmas, taboos and myths around mental illness as it meets the patients living with mental health problems and follows the staff who are helping them get back to their everyday lives.
  9. ↑ Knox, David (19 September 2013). "Airdate: Kakadu". TV Tonight. Retrieved 9 October 2024. This four part series has been filmed across 12 months, by Northern Pictures and Beach House Productions.
  10. ↑ Knox, David (11 February 2015). "Airdate: Life on the Reef". TV Tonight. Retrieved 9 October 2024. Produced by Northern Pictures in association with Screen Australia, Screen Queensland, PBS, Arte France and ABC TV.
  11. ↑ Knox, David (7 June 2019). "7 year saga: SBS abandons Carlton documentary". TV Tonight. Retrieved 9 October 2024. The 3 part series from Northern Pictures looked at the Italian migrant history of the inner Melbourne suburb, with local identity Mick Gatto as a key figure, and was commissioned after the success of Nine's Underbelly.
  12. ↑ Knox, David (19 September 2013). "Airdate: Kakadu". TV Tonight. Retrieved 9 October 2024. This four part series has been filmed across 12 months, by Northern Pictures and Beach House Productions.
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