Karl Beattie is an English television director, producer and cameraman. Beattie and wife

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co-own and run

Antix Productions Antix Productions is a television production company founded by Yvette Fielding and Karl Beattie in 2001. The company have produced shows for broadcasters such as Living and ITV in the UK and Travel Channel in the United States. Their output ...

Career

Karl Beattie's documented life has references to him teaching martial arts within the US. In 2002, Karl Beattie and Yvette Fielding, established their own television production company,

. Their first production was ''

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'' for the British TV channel

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, along with a number of spin offs including ''

Most Haunted Live! ''Most Haunted Live'' is a spin-off of the paranormal reality television series '' Most Haunted'' and was also produced by Antix Productions. The show consists of paranormal investigations broadcast live over a period of one or more nights, ...

''. In 2006 he created, produced and directed '' Ghosthunting With...'', a paranormal show for ITV2 which features Yvette Fielding leading various celebrities around haunted locations. In 2008 Karl and Yvette Launched The Paranormal Channel later known as The Unexplained Channel which ran for 2 years.

Controversy

In 2004, Beattie was the subject of media attention when it was claimed he was the only living samurai outside Japan, something he denies, as one of only eight foreigners to have ever been awarded the title. The samurai class was officially abolished in 1868, though Beattie claims that the title lives on in him via his Japanese instructor, Otsu Maeda. There were claims of showmanship being used in the TV show ''

'' on

Living TV Sky Witness is a British pay television channel owned and operated by Sky, a division of Comcast. The channel primarily broadcasts drama shows from the United States, aimed at the 18–45 age group. An Italian version of Sky Witness, named S ...

, including the 2015 ''Most Haunted Live'', but the claims have been rejected by Beattie on Twitter. Three days after the live show Beattie staged a reconstruction to explain what some viewers claimed was faked. With his reconstruction, he showed the episode was not faked explaining how the camera cable is attached to his belt to prevent it snagging - a standard procedure in broadcasting In 2005 the regulator, OFCOM, said a high degree of showmanship that puts it beyond what we believe to be a generally accepted understanding of what comprises a legitimate investigation". "On balance, we consider that overall Most Haunted/Most Haunted Live should be taken to be a programme produced for entertainment, As such this programme should be seen in the light of shows where techniques are used which mean the audience is not necessarily in full possession of the facts."

Personal life

Karl Beattie met

while they were working on '' City Hospital''. They have a daughter Mary, and Karl is stepfather to Yvette's son, Will. They live on a farm in Sandbach,

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. He is a vegetarian and a Freemason. Karl is also distantly related to Television Presenter

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and Musical Theatre Star

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References

External links

Antix Productions Official Website
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Karl Beattie Profile Official Website
British television presenters British television producers Living people 1967 births People from Sandbach {{UK-tv-bio-stub