Caroline Grist is a television producer who focuses on true crime and justice documentaries. She developed the cold case TV investigative series The Eleven, Children of the Snow,[1] and The Clown and the Candyman, and the international returning true crime series Hours to Kill.
Caroline began her career in the UK as a journalist, writing for publications like London’s newspaper, The Independent.[2] Her TV work included the BBC programs Crimewatch and Out of Court. She produced documentaries for Channel 4, and worked on ITV Granada’s long-running investigative series World In Action.
She moved to the US to work on the TV venture between The New York Times and ITV Granada, working as a development producer on programs for the Investigative Reports series on A&E, including a critically-acclaimed two-hour special, Anatomy of 9/11.[3] While at ITV Caroline developed the series pilot of Decoding Disaster for Discovery. She is a member of BAFTA New York, founding a scholarship to mentor young filmmakers in memory of her father John F. Grist.[4]
At Cineflix, Caroline developed true crime TV including A Time to Kill,[5] known as the returning international series Hours to Kill. She developed other productions including I Escaped: Real Prison Breaks and Missing and Endangered, plus the major cold case investigations The Eleven[6] for A&E/Amazon, Children of the Snow for ID/Hulu, and The Clown and the Candyman for Discovery+.
In 2020 she set up First Story, an independent TV production company with her partner Charles Tremayne.