Charles Tremayne

Charles Tremayne is a television executive who edited several network series in the UK before moving to America in 2000. He is best known for his involvement with the Granada Television investigation into the Birmingham Six case, editing World in Action on ITV, and overseeing several long running cable series in USA, including The First 48, Room Raiders, William Shatner’s Weird or What? and American Pickers.

He was portrayed by Roger Allam in the docudrama Who Bombed Birmingham? (also presented as The Investigation: Inside a Terrorist Bombing).

He came to America in 2000 to run the joint venture between The New York Times and Granada Television. In 2002 he won a News and Documentary Emmy as executive producer of a program for NOVA about bioterrorism.

In 2007 he joined Zodiak New York to run its office, before joining Cineflix Productions an Executive Vice President in 2009, becoming President in 2013.

He is Chairman of BAFTA New York: and a Fellow of the Royal Television Society.

He lives in New York with his wife, Caroline, and their two children.

Tremayne joined Granada Television’s World in Action in 1983 from the BBC where he had been a graduate news trainee. His debut program for the series is believed to be the first ‘life swap’ program on television when he challenged Conservative MP, Matthew Parris, to survive for a week on welfare payments. The controversial program was one of the highest rated programs in the series’ history. Parris later became a successful correspondent for The Times.

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