Established in 2014 by Paul Donovan and Ailish McElmeel, Deadpan Pictures is an award-winning boutique production company specialising in drama with a comic tone. We bring projects with unique voices and a distinct Irish flavour to international audiences. We are talent- friendly producers who craft content from development to production.

 

Our 2024 productions include Video Nasty for BBC, WDR and Boat Rocker and Showkids for RTE and APC Kids as well as co-producing This is not a Murder Mystery with Panenka for Studio Canal and the New 8 and Corked with Shaftesbury for AMC. Previous drama series include Northern Lights for TG4, Streamz and ZDFNeo in association with Screen Ireland and Lionsgate TV; Can’t Cope Won’t Cope which sold to Netflix and BBC and the critically acclaimed Dead Still for ZDFE, Acorn and RTE. The company also produced the series Nowhere Fast and the ratings hit The South Westerlies. Previously Deadpan co-produced International Emmy-winning Moone Boy with Baby Cow for Sky, Women on the Verge with Merman for UKTV and Departure 2 with Shaftesbury Films in Canada for Peacock and Red Arrow.

 

Film productions include Four Kids and It (2020), The Last Right (2019) and Halal Daddy (2017).