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Eddie MorganEDDIE grew up in Preston, Lancashire. He started in TV at Brook Lapping, before working at Juniper, ITV and Newsnight. He helped to launch and run BBC2’s Culture Show in Glasgow and London. He produced the Brilliant Ideas series on global artists for Bloomberg, China on Film for Channel News Asia and Lillian Bilocca for BBC4.
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Terry WilsonTERRY is an award-winning multimedia producer. He’s directed TV ads for BBC Media Action and produced video content for Tate Modern and National Theatre among others. Terry has also worked on major cross-platform marketing campaigns for BBC Global News.
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Michelle TofiMICHELLE graduated with a First from London Metropolitan University in Film and Broadcast Production in 2011. She specialises in cinematography and self-shooting, with credits for several feature films, BBC, Sky Arts and Channel 5. Corporate clients include Ray-Ban, Adidas and the Guardian. Michelle is interested in LGBTQI community, lives and stories.
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Sarah HullSARAH is a hugely experienced Production Manager having worked on a wide variety of live and recorded outside broadcasts, live cinema, webcasts and TV documentaries. She trained as an oboist and loves music programmes.
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Alison GristALISON is an experienced Producer Director. Trained at the BBC, she’s at home making one-off programmes, including a feature-length documentary film, as she is creating a series. She also enjoys directing and producing live shows for TV and worldwide cinema. She loves the challenge of working out how to tell a story that will intrigue viewers from the very beginning.
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Tony PhillipsTONY started out as an actor, training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He did American Studies at UEA, where he recently completed his PhD. An experienced radio and podcasting creator and executive, his career has taken him from producing, reporting and commissioning editor at BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4 to Vice President at WNYC Studios, New York and Broccoli Content/Sony Music in the UK. Most recently, Tony wrote and presented an Archive on 4 for Radio 4 on the tragic life of David Oluwale.
Who we are
At Northern Town we aim to make the most daring, entertaining and outstanding TV possible. We’re a diverse team with wide experience of the indie sector, BBC and ITV, and different walks of life. We’re a real indie – not owned by a bigger group or private money. We can move fast and put every penny on screen. We’re small enough to care and big enough to cope.
Statues Redressed, nominated for Broadcast Best Content Partnership 2022, was filmed in Liverpool for Sky Arts in 2021. It was the first city in the world to take over its statues to give them a whole new look.
Marina Abramovic Takes Over TV, an epic night of performance art for Sky Arts in 2021, was BAFTA nominated for Best Filming, Broadcast nominated Best Original Programme and won a special commendation from Prix Italia.
Craftivism – Making a Difference with Jenny Eclair, for BBC4 in 2021.
The Sarah Maple Show in 2020, sitcom meets video art for Sky Arts, was nominated for the Aesthetica Art Prize.
Get Creative, in the lockdown of Spring 2020 for the BBC, was made with Antony Gormley, Cynthia Erivo, Jools Holland, Shazia Mirza, Es Devlin, Paul Smith, Simon Callow and Rana Begum. It was nominated for the Prix Italia.
Other recent programmes include Final Say – ‘moving, candid and striking’ (The Observer) – Sky Arts 2019; a drama doc with Maxine Peake The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca for BBC4 and You Asked, Art Answered for BBC and Google in 2020.
Our biggest commission is an 80 episode series Brilliant Ideas for Bloomberg TV – the biggest arts series ever made.
We make digital content for non-broadast clients, including 100 museums and galleries around the UK. In 2021 we worked with ART UK and BBC Teach to launch the Superpower of Looking.
We’re always developing new ideas – from one-off films and live events to formats and factual entertainment. We love working with other people, organisations, indies and anyone with a great idea.
So if that’s you, get in touch.
