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Production CompanyTelevisionDocumentary

Rare-TV

Belfast, United Kingdom(approximate location)

Rare TV is an award-winning factual television production company based in London, Belfast and Dublin, producing documentary and factual programmes for major UK and international broadcasters.

Who works there

  • Matt ColeCreative Director
  • Emma BarkerDirector of Content
  • Mike WallFinancial Director
  • Edward HartExecutive Producer
  • Claire RiddellProduction Executive
  • Karen KennedyLine Producer

Listed on the company’s own site. People move on; this is not a current roster.

Contact & details

TypeProduction Company · Television · Documentary
LocationBelfast, United Kingdom
Websiterare-tv.com
Emailhello@rare-tv.com | sales@rare-tv.com | accounts@rare-tv.com
Phone0044 2896 002 432
Statusactive2026 credit i
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How their work is rated

Mostly
documentary, crime, short
Active
2010–2025

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 10 of 11 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.

Their television work

Series
1033 seasons

2010–2026

Networks
  • BBC One3
  • U&Yesterday1
  • U&Dave1
  • 5Star1
  • 5 (Online)1
  • Smithsonian Channel1

Across 9 series matched to TMDB, 344 episodes. 7 still returning or in production.

Longest runningDigging for Britain · 11 seasons

Series identified from OMDb, falling back to the credit type where OMDb had no match. Season counts are each show’s full run, not only the seasons this company was credited on.

Credits11

10 TV titles

Titles per year11 titles · busiest 2021 with 4

11 titles across 17 years, averaging 0.6 a year. The last five years hold at 0.6 a year. 9 of those 17 years carry no credit on file.

Who they work with

Notable cast
  • Sunetra Sarker2
Genres
  • Documentary9 of 10
  • Crime4 of 10

Names appearing on two or more of Rare-TV’s produced titles, across the 10 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.

Same website and phone

These listings share this company’s domain and switchboard. Usually a group operating under several names, or a company that was renamed.

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