Urban Canyons is an award winning Television Production and Distribution company based in Manchester (UK) specialising in History and Arts programming. Client list includes Smithsonian Networks, ZDF, arte, UKTV, Planéte, SVT, RAI, NRK, ORF, SRF, DR, TVE, Nelonen, Discovery Asia, Seoul TV, Yahoo! and Adidas. Current distribution partners are Fox (Nat Geo) and ZDF Enterprises. The company was set up by Sebastian Peiter in 2005. In 2011, former A+E commissioner Richard Melman joined as Co Exec.