Production CompanyTelevision

Deadpan Pictures

27/28 Marino Mart, Ireland

Established by Paul Donovan and Ailish McElmeel, Deadpan Pictures is an award-winning production company specialising in drama with a comic tone.

From their site

Images from Deadpan Pictures’s own website.

Who works there

  • Paul DonovanCo-Founder
  • Ailish McElmeelCo-Founder
  • Trisha FloodProduction Executive

Listed on the company’s own site. People move on; this is not a current roster.

Contact & details

TypeProduction Company · Television
Location27/28 Marino Mart, Ireland
Websitedeadpanpictures.ie
Emailinfo@deadpanpictures.ie
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How their work is rated

Average rating
6.4IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

9 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards

3 wins from 24 nominations across all awards

Northern Lights poster
Highest rated
Northern Lights
2023
7.5560 votes
Halal Daddy poster
Lowest rated
Halal Daddy
2017
4.8225 votes
Mostly
drama, comedy, crime
Active
2016–2025
Rotten Tomatoes
54%
Best known for
The Last Right

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 13 of 15 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.

Their television work

Series
88 seasons

2016–2026

Television rating
7.0IMDb

Their films average 5.7, so the television rates 1.3 higher.

Networks
  • Acorn TV2
  • BBC One Northern Ireland1
  • TG41
  • RTÉ One1
  • RTÉ21
  • U&W1

Across 7 series matched to TMDB, 48 episodes. 2 still returning or in production.

Longest runningCan't Cope, Won't Cope · 2 seasons

Series identified from OMDb, falling back to the credit type where OMDb had no match. Season counts are each show’s full run, not only the seasons this company was credited on.

Credits15

7 films · 7 TV titles

Titles per year15 titles · busiest 2020 with 3

15 titles across 11 years, averaging 1.4 a year. The last five years hold at 1.2 a year. 2 of those 11 years carry no credit on file.

Quality over time8 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
468their average 6.4200020102020

Their 2010s work is their strongest, averaging 6.6 across 4 titles. 6 of 8 rated titles sit above their 6.4 average.

Who they work with

Writers
  • John Morton2
Genres
  • Comedy8 of 12
  • Drama7 of 12
  • Short2 of 12

Names appearing on two or more of Deadpan Pictures’s produced titles, across the 12 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.

Works with10 companies

Companies that appear alongside Deadpan Pictures on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

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