TV Crime Consulting | TV & Film Crime Consultant

Assisting Writers & Producers Nationwide

Areas of Expertise

Law Advice

Jeanette gives advice to writers and producers in all areas of Law with a specific interest in criminal law

On Set Advisory

Jeanette has worked directly with a number of Directors during filming of Court and Police Scenes

Crime Investigations

Jeanette can advise writers and production departments about how to create authentic representations of criminal investigations

Criminal Interviews

Jeanette has specialist knowledge in all aspects of criminal interviews including minors, vulnerable witnesses and suspects

Police Powers

Assisting writers and producers to ensure scripts and productions are accurate with current legislation and common law powers of search, seizure and detention.

Court Scenes

Advising writers and producers to ensure legal scripts follow current court procedures and rules to ensure authentic court scenes

Script notes

Jeanette has worked on a number of productions reading scripts and providing notes to the script editors and writers.

Costume Advice

Advising on costumes found in all court rooms and police scenes.

Development

Jeanette has worked with a number of writers in the development stage/pitch stage of TV projects.

About

Jeanette is a practising Barrister. Her career has seen her practise predominately in Criminal Law prosecuting and defending serious crimes, some with extensive media coverage. She also has experience of family court proceedings and inquests.

Jeanette provides consultancy on TV shows both in scripted and unscripted working closely with writers, producers, script editors and development to ensure that their work is as authentic as possible whilst striking the balance with 'artistic licence'.

Within Jeanette's practise as a Criminal Barrister she has often been called on in local and national press recently appearing as a contributor 'Expert' on Sky's 'Meet, Marry, Murder' on the Crime & Investigation Channel/Netflix discussing a double murder she was instructed.

Jeanette in her spare time has often worked as a Support Artist in TV gaining valuable experience on set which has assisted her ability to advise productions. She has even made it onto the screen as a Barrister in a number of the shows she been legal consultant such as Netflix's Toxic Town and the BBC prison drama 'Time'.

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Jeanette loves TV and feels it is very important that those involved in producing TV take seriously their responsibility to ensure that it is current, plausible and authentic as it can be for the audience.

You can catch Jeanette discussing this on the Sky News Daily Podcast here 'How do TV Crime Dramas get it right' where she discussed her role in the Happy Valley Tommy Lee Royce's escape court scene.

Jeanette is available as consultant in all areas of your project from initial pitch and treatement to writers room and development. She can provide script notes and advise on set. You can catch her IMDb profile here.

On the side of her consultancy work, Jeanette is working on her own slate of writing projects - you won't be surprised to know that these are based on crime/court stories & she is currently looking for representation. In January 2025 she obtained a book deal and is currently hard at work writing a Bio/Memoir of her very interesting journey to become a Barrister.

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