As well as inventing the international hit Footballers’ Wives, Paul Marquess was Executive Producer of The Bill and Family Affairs – and Head Of Drama at Thames Television. Paul also Series Produced Brookside and Hollyoaks for C4. He created Murder Investigation Team for ITV – as well as Crime Stories for ITV Daytime and five series of improvised police drama Suspects for C5 – which was remade in both Germany and The Netherlands. Paul created and Executive Produced four series of crime drama London Kills (Acorn TV in North America and BBC1 in the UK) – and has written a number of episodes. Paul has recently completed production on series 4 of Hope Street, the Northern Irish drama he co-created with Susanne Farrell for the BBC and Britbox North America. He also wrote the first and last episodes of the series.

David McLoughlin’s producing career spans over twenty five years. He cut his producing teeth with the film version of the Colum McCann short story ‘Fishing the Sloe Black River’, which he produced in 1995. Following which he gained extensive production experience working with a number of leading Irish production companies on major feature features such as Jim Sheridan’s The Boxer as Trainee Producer, and the Noel Pearson produced Dancing at Lughnasa directed by Pat O’Connor with Meryl Streep in the lead role. This culminating in him being appointed Head of Production with Irish Screen, which at the time was the principal Irish producer of BBC commissioned movies and television dramas. In his producing role with Irish Screen, he co-produced for BBC Films Vicious Circle, starring Ken Stott, and The American, starring Matthew Modine, as well as the BBC drama serial Aristocrats, directed by David Caffrey. He was the Producer for Irish Screen of its feature film When the Sky Falls for Sky Pictures, with Joan Allen in the lead role, as well as the feature version of the Spike Milligan book Puckoon, which featured Richard Attenborough and Elliot Gould amongst the ensemble cast. He laterally produced a number of feature and television projects through his own production company, Distinguished Features including Dead Bodies, with Andrew Scott winning the best actor IFTA for his lead performance, and the Alan Gilsenan directed Zulu 9, having previously produced Alan’s earlier feature film All Souls’ Day. David was selected by the Irish Film Board as the Irish producer for the European Film Promotion ‘Producer on the Move’ initiative at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003. David continued his producing roles, diverted for a time from film to opera production as Chief Executive of Wexford Festival Opera. David returned to the world of film and television production to join the producing team in Metropolitan Films International. Recent productions on which David has been engaged as Executive Producer for Metropolitan include all three seasons of ‘Harry Wild’, starring Jane Seymour, the drama series for Dynamic Television, AMC, ZDF, & RTÉ; ‘Silver’, a feature film for Amazon Studios and Germany’s Constantin Film; which is currently in post production, and season two of ‘KIN’, the highly successful crime drama for BRON Studios, Headline Pictures, AMC, Viaplay, Screen Ireland and RTÉ, which recently completed its Irish premiere screening on RTÉ. Previous productions on which David has been engaged in a producing role include; the six-part futuristic drama ‘Moonhaven’ for AMC Studios, and ‘Redemption’, a six-part drama for ITV, Virgin Media Television, Screen Ireland, and the BAI Sound & Vision Fund, which won the best drama award at the Royal Television Society Ireland Awards 2023. David is currently co-producing the US feature film ‘Anniversary’ for Fifth Season and Lionsgate, starring Diane Lane and Kyle Chandler, which recently completed its Irish shoot. David is a former Chief Executive of Screen Producers Ireland and is currently Vice-Chair of its Film and Television Drama Committee. He was recently appointed to the Steering Group of the National Talent Academy (East) for Film & TV. In 2002 he co-founded, and was the chair for the first five years, of the Dublin International Film Festival.

Since forming Deadpan Pictures with Paul Donovan in 2014, Ailish and Paul have produced some of the most critically acclaimed TV shows to come out of Ireland, including Can’t Cope Won’t Cope, and Dead Still, establishing Deadpan Pictures as the comedy drama production company in Ireland. In 2024 Ailish is currently in production or post production on four drama series; Video Nasty, a 6 x 30’ comedy-drama series with a horror twist for BBC, Virgin Media Television, WDR (Germany) in association with Screen Ireland/ Fis Eireann and Northern Ireland Screen. With Boat Rocker Studios handling international rights. Irish Blood, a 6 X 1hour murder mystery for AMC/ AcornTV. A coproduction with Shaftsbury in Canada with Alicia Silverstone in the lead; This is Not a Murder Mystery, a 6 X 60’ darkly comic period murder mystery for the New8 and Studio Canal made in coproduction with Panenka in Belgium; Showkids a 6X 30’ family comedy written by Hugh O’Connor from RTE and APC Kids. In 2023 Ailish produced Northern Lights, a 6 x 1 hour drama series for TG4, Streamz and ZDFNeo in association with Screen Ireland and Lionsgate TV. Previous productions include The South Westerlies, a 6 x 1 hour ratings hit for both RTE and Acorn Women On The Verge, a co-production with Merman for UKTV and RTE, the critically acclaimed Can’t Cope Won’t Cope for RTE / Netflix / BBC3. Nowhere Fast for RTE and the multi-award winning web series, Burning Wishes. Ailish also produced the feature film Halal Daddy (2017) under Deadpan. Prior to establishing Deadpan Pictures Ailish was Head of Production and Producer for Grand Pictures. She is a graduate of Inside Pictures 2019, TransAtlantic Partners 2013, Eave 2007 and holds a diploma from UCLA in Film Development and a B.Sc in Film and Broadcasting from DIT. She was a founding member of the Irish Chapter of Women in Film and Television.