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ardy Pictures is an award-winning independent production company specialising in red-blooded factual drama and documentaries.
The company was founded by Justin Hardy, Sue Horth and Lucy Bassnett-McGuire in 2005, to capitalize on a collective love of history. The company has since achieved consistent critical and awards success and increased turnover year-on-year.
The company’s first production, Trafalgar Battle Surgeon, won the RTS Award for Best History Film, 2005.
A Harlot’s Progress, broadcast in 2006, received two BAFTA nominations and paved the way for the recent hit Channel 4 series, City of Vice, RTS Judges’ Award winner 2008 and nominee for RTS and Writers’ Guild Best Drama Series.
The Relief of Belsen, a powerful medical drama highlighting the unsung heroes of the Second World War, won Best Single Drama at the Broadcast Awards 2008 and has received BAFTA, RTS, Grierson and Televisual nominations.
1066, an original two-part drama plunging the audience into the infamous year of three battles, screened in May 2009, accompanied by a unique BAFTA-nominated online battle game which has been played more than 8 million times.
The company’s first Northern Ireland commission, BBC4 drama Spanish Flu - The Forgotten Fallen, aired to ciritical acclaim in August 2009. The company’s first series for Five and the History Channel, True Horror, will transmit in November 2009.
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21 June 2010
Two Hardy Pictures films will transmit in Channel 4's upcoming Bloody Foreigners season. The Untold Battle of Trafalgar will lead at 9pm on Monday 28th June, with The Untold Great Fire of London following at 8pm on Wednesday 30th June.
01 March 2010
'1066 - The Battle for Middle Earth' has been shortlisted in the History category at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards 2009, marking Hardy Pictures' fifth RTS Nomination.
17 January 2010
BBC Northern Ireland have commissioned Hardy Pictures and Canadian indie Galafilm to produce a special documentary tracing one Armagh family's extraordinary famine ancestry.
20 November 2009
1066 won Best Online Game at the British Interactive Media Awards 2009! Huge congratulations and thanks to our partners at Preloaded; play the game here.
The History Channel will broadcast Hardy Pictures' True Horror series on successive Monday nights at 10pm, starting with Werewolf on 16th November 2009
27 October 2009
Preloaded and Hardy Pictures' hit online game for 1066 has received a Best Interactive nomination at the 2009 Children's BAFTAs, to be held in London in late November.
20 October 2009
BAFTA Scotland have named Bill Paterson one of their three nominees for Best Actor 2009, for his performance as Dr. James Niven in Spanish Flu - The Forgotten Fallen.
19 October 2009
1066 has been shortlisted for Best Online Game at the British Interactive Media Awards 2009. Congratulations to our partners at Preloaded and best of luck for November 19th.
03 May 2009
2 x 90' original drama, '1066 - The Battle for Middle-Earth' will be broadcast on successive evenings, Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th May, at 9pm on Channel 4. Watch out for trailers and play the game on www.channel4.co.uk/1066
Hardy Pictures' five part series City of Vice has been nominated Best Drama Series, to be decided at the Royal Television Society Awards on March 17th.
21 January 2009
The medieval crime caper Heist has been recognised for its visual and narrative innovation by the History Makers Awards 2009. The awards ceremony will be held in New York on January 29th.
05 December 2008
'Bow Street Runner', the City of Vice online game produced by LittleLoud for C4 Education, has won the Interactive Award at the Childrens BAFTAs 2008.
25 November 2008
City of Vice has won the Royal Television Society Judges' Award in recognition of the entire production team's special achievement.
12 November 2008
Channel 4 Head of Programmes Julian Bellamy launched original two-part drama 1066 as Justin Hardy's most daring film yet. Scheduled for February 2009.
09 November 2008
Hardy Pictures have openend a new office in Belfast for factual drama, specialist factual and regional content production.
18 October 2008
The Relief of Belsen has been nominated Best Drama-Documentary at the Grierson Awards for excellence in documentary film-making. The ceremony will be held on November 20th 2008.
23 October 2008
Writers Clive Bradley and Peter Harness have been recognized by the Writers Guild of Great Britain for their work on City of Vice, nominated in the Best Drama Series category. The ceremony will be held on November 23rd 2008.
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