True crime is no longer a volume business for commissioners, Woodcut Media’s Koulla Anastasi tells ScreenMDM, requiring a shift in focus to “quality and distinctiveness,” she says.

Woodcut Media and Sphere Abacus will launch the eight-part true-crime series Horror at the Hotel—already presold to 5, Crave, and Radial Entertainment—at MIPCOM.

BBC Select has commissioned from Woodcut Media the six-part series Ancients: The Greatest Finds, which Woodcut International will be rolling out at MIPCOM.

Hitler’s Games: Berlin 1936 in Colour and The Space Race in Colour from Woodcut Media have been presold to Channel 4.

Among the U.K.’s most successful and well-regarded indies, Woodcut Media is building out a full IP management ecosystem across production, distribution, and D2C via YouTube, Kate Beal, founder and CEO, tells ScreenMDM in the latest edition of our Real Talk strand. Beal is an accomplished producer and the founder of…