Award-winning factual producer Proper Content is set to shutter amid tough market conditions.
Founder David DeHaney, who set up the company in 2016, announced the decision to cease trading and appoint an administrator on Thursday.
“This has been a very difficult decision,” says DeHaney. “We have had nearly 10 years of making some of the industry’s most talked-about shows; entertaining programmes with social purpose. And that is exactly what I set out to do. But we want to do more, so much more, and the current environment does not support us in making that step-change.”
Proper Content, one of the industry’s few Black-led independents, was known for a wide-range of factual content ranging from recent BBC documentary “P Diddy: Rise and Fall” to royal docuseries “The King’s Guard” for Channel 5, which ran for two seasons, to the multi-award winning Channel 4 show “The School That Tried to End Racism,” which took home a BAFTA, a Venice TV Award, a Rose d’Or and a Grierson Award.
Despite growing the company to a turnover of £6 million ($8 million) the economic landscape proved too tough to continue.
