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In September 1998 Jill Green, formerly Managing Director of Red Rooster, set up Greenlit Productions which subsequently became Greenlit Rights Limited. Greenlit signed a housekeeping deal with Red Rooster and Chrysalis Group. The first Greenlit/Red Rooster production was the prestigious psychological thriller, "Trust" directed by David Drury for ITV1. It played to audiences of 9 million, achieved huge critical acclaim, and was nominated for the RTS Best Drama Serial award. Under this deal Green then Executive Produced the Australian family feature "Selkie", which was released theatrically in Australia and premiered on Sky Movies in the UK.

"The Swap", a holiday house-swapping thriller for ITV1 reunited the producer-director team of Green and David Drury and marked Greenlit's first solo production with great success, holding an audience of over 8.5 million over two nights.  Next up was "Menace", an urban thriller for Five, which transmitted in September 2002 to critical acclaim, achieving an audience share of 8%.

"Foyle's War", Greenlit's major original series of prime time detective films for ITV1 was first transmitted in Autumn 2002 in the UK and in Winter 2003 on PBS Masterpiece Theatre in the USA. This original series has been created by Anthony Horowitz and stars Michael Kitchen, alongside guest names such as Charles Dance, Edward Fox, Robert Hardy, Bill Paterson and Corin Redgrave. The first series was presented with the Lew Grade Audience Award at the BAFTA Television Awards 2003 and was nominated for the Production Design Craft Award. The second series, transmitted by ITV1 in autumn 2003 and in the US in summer 2004, was nominated for the Drama Series award at the BAFTA Television Awards 2004. Since then the series has continued to grow in popularity around the world with the seventh and final series produced in 2009 for broadcast in 2010.

In 2007 Greenlit produced "The Man Who Lost His Head" starring Martin Clunes alongside New Zealand based South Pacific Pictures for ITV1/TV New Zealand and the six-part comedy drama "Honest" starring Amanda Redman and based on the successful New Zealand format Outrageous Fortunes for ITV Comedy.

In 2008 Greenlit produced “Caught in a Trap” a modern-day fairy tale inspired by a true crime which starred Connie Fisher in her first television role and in 2008/9 “Collision” a major new 5-part drama centring on a devastating road traffic accident.  Created by Anthony Horowitz, this high concept serial was directed by Marc Evans and stars Douglas Henshall, Kate Ashfield, Paul McGann and Phil Davis amongst a host of other names.  "Collision" formed the core of ITV1's autumn 2009 drama schedule with transmission stripped across a single week. The serial received huge critical acclaim with an average of 7.5m viewers (28.2% audience share) watching across the week.

Currently in production for 2010 is "Vexed" a 3 part comedy drama for BBC Comedy starring Lucy Punch and Toby Stephens.  Written by Howard Overman and directed by Matt Lipsey this new series takes a fresh approach to crime drama through a detective duo with real chemistry.