Raised By Wolves Production Team

6 March 2015

IAN FITZGIBBON – DIRECTOR

Ian Fitzgibbon was born in Dublin and raised in Brussels, Belgium. He is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin where he took a degree in French and Spanish. He trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London and has a long and extensive acting career principally on English television where his credits range from Prime Suspect to Father Ted.

Between Dreams, one of his first short films was selected for competition at the Venice Film Festival. His first feature, the critically acclaimed A Film With Me In It, had its North American premiere at TIFF 2008. It was nominated for numerous Irish film awards and it went on to win the special jury prize for best international film at the Istanbul International Film Festival. Perrier’s Bounty, his second feature, starring Brendan Gleeson, Cillian Murphy and Jim Broadbent, received its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in 2010 prior to its UK and US release. 

Death of a Superhero, starring Andy Serkis and Thomas Brody-Sangster, had its world premiere at The Toronto Film Fest and was acquired by Tribeca Films for distribution in America. It was awarded the audience prize and the jury prize at Les Arcs European Film Festival and best film and best director at the Irish Film and Television Awards. To date it has won over 20 international awards at European film festivals. 

His extensive television directing includes two seasons of Threesome, Moone Boy: Series 2, starring Chris O’Dowd, for which he won an IFTA as best television director, Trying Again written by Simon Blackwell, and The Awkward Age written by and starring Dylan Moran for Sky’s Little Cracker series. 

His most recent projects are Nurse (BBC 2) produced by and starring Paul Whitehouse and Raised by Wolves (Big Talk/Channel 4) written by Caitlin and Caroline Moran. 

 

CAROLINE NORRIS – PRODUCER

For the past 5 years Caroline has run the multi award winning show, 'Horrible Histories' which she co-devised for Lion Television. Caroline also executive produces the spin off game show, 'Gory Games'. Her comedy producing credits include the BAFTA award winning 'Armstrong & Miller Show', 'Dead Ringers', and 'Dead Boss'. She has recently produced ‘Trying Again’ for Sky and also completed comedy series ‘Raised by Wolves’, for Channel 4, written by Caitlin Moran and Caroline Moran.

 

CAROLINE LEDDY – EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

A graduate of BBC Radio's production trainee scheme, Caroline joined Talkback Productions in 1986 to produce Brass Eye with Chris Morris, as well as the pilot of Big Train and a series of They Think It's All Over. She then became a Commissioning Editor for Comedy at Channel 4 in 1987 and two years later became Head of Comedy at the channel. Her many commissions include Smack The Pony, Trigger Happy TV, Green Wing, Brass Eye Paedophilia Special, The IT Crowd, Free Agents, The Inbetweeners and Friday Night Dinner. She also commissioned and executive produced Annie Griffin's Festival for Film Four, and was an Executive Producer on Chris Morris's Four Lions and both Inbetweeners movies.

 

KENTON ALLEN – EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Kenton Allen is CEO of Big Talk Productions. He is a multi-award-winning producer who holds the record for the most individual awards for the Situation Comedy in the history of BAFTA, with wins for “Rev.”, “The Royle Family” and “Him & Her”. Other notable credits include the Oscar-winning film “Six Shooter”, the comedy series  “Free Agents” (US series),  “A Young Doctor’s Notebook”, “Friday Night Dinner”, “The Job Lot “, “Cockroaches” and drama series “The Town”, “Youngers” and the major BBC1 drama “Our Zoo”. Kenton has led the dynamic growth of Big Talk Productions over the past 6 years, including BBCW’s investment in Big Talk in 2008, culminating in the sale of Big Talk to ITV Studios in 2013. 

Kenton is Executive Producer on the multiple series Big Talk currently has on-air in the UK including the upcoming comedy series “Raised by Wolves” written by Caitlin & Caroline Moran. He is leading the company’s growth into internationally co-produced drama and all activity in North America, where Big Talk has a number of original and changed format comedy and drama projects in development with the major US cable and broadcast networks. 

 

ABOUT BIG TALK

Big Talk is one of the UK's leading film and television production companies. It has an outstanding slate of original film and television comedy and drama, and a track record of nurturing talent both emerging and established since the company began with Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright’s cult television series ‘Spaced’. Big Talk was named ‘Production Company of the Year’ at the 2014 Edinburgh TV Awards.

Comedy is, and always has been, the beating heart of Big Talk Pictures and Productions, often overlapping and conspiring with other genres. Led by Chief Executive Kenton Allen and Managing Director Matthew Justice, over the last six years the company has expanded significantly into drama and, alongside it, so has the breadth and scope of the film material being developed and produced. This includes: ‘Rev.’ (BBC2) and ‘Him & Her’ (BBC3), which both separately won the BAFTA-award for situation comedy,  ‘Friday Night Dinner’ (Channel 4), ‘Threesome’ (Comedy Central), ‘Ambassadors’ (BBC Two) and ‘Chickens’ (Sky 1). New in 2015 is ‘Cockroaches’ (ITV2), a comedy series set in a post-apocalyptic world, written by Freddy Syborn, and starring Daniel Lawrence Taylor, Esther Smith and Jack Whitehall. Filming has recently completed on ‘Raised By Wolves’, written by Caitlin Moran and Caroline Moran (Channel 4), and ‘Brotherhood’ (Comedy Central), a studio-sitcom by new writers Patrick Carr and Paul McKenna; and later in the year will be ‘Crashing’ (Channel 4), from multi-award-winning actress and playwright Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and a third series of ‘The Job Lot’ (ITV2), starring Sarah Hadland and Russell Tovey.

Big Talk Productions continued to make its mark in drama programming throughout 2013 with the second series of ‘A Young Doctor’s Notebook & Other Stories’ (Sky Arts), starring Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe, which won a Broadcast Award in 2014 for Best Multi-Channel Programme. ‘Youngers’ (E4), proved to be a big hit and returned for its second series in 2014. New titles in 2014 included Nick Frost vehicle ‘Mr Sloane’ (Sky Atlantic) from Emmy-award winning writer and director Robert Weide, and the major BBC1 drama series ‘Our Zoo’.

In film, Nira Park’s relationship as Edgar Wright’s producing partner was cemented with the 2003 release of cult-comedy, ‘Shaun of the Dead’ - the first installment of Wright’s iconic ‘Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy’ starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. ‘Shaun’ was followed by 2007 box office hit ‘Hot Fuzz’, and 2013’s ‘The World’s End’. The three films combined have amassed a box office of over $150 million and the Hot Fuzz DVD is owned by 1 in 3 homes in the UK.

To date, Big Talk Pictures’ credits also include: Wright's 'Scott Pilgrim vs The World', starring Michael Cera; Greg Mottola’s 'Paul', written by and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost with Kristen Wiig; Joe Cornish’s critically acclaimed 'Attack the Block'; the multi-award winning 'Sightseers', directed by Ben Wheatley and written by / starring Alice Lowe and Steve Oram; and Jeremy Lovering's 'In Fear', which debuted internationally to critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013.

2014 saw the release of salsa rom-com ‘Cuban Fury’, written by BAFTA winning newcomer Jon Brown, directed by James Griffiths and starring Nick Frost, Chris O’Dowd, Rashida Jones, Ian McShane and Olivia Colman. New for 2015 is BritListed romantic comedy ‘Man Up’, penned by Tess Morris, directed by Ben Palmer, and stars Lake Bell and Simon Pegg.

As well as developing new projects with both Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, Nira Park and Big Talk Pictures are currently producing ‘Grimsby’ – Sacha Baron Cohen’s new action-comedy, directed by Louis Leterrier and starring Baron Cohen and Mark Strong.

Big Talk continues to work with some of the most exciting voices in both the UK and the US to bring fresh, dynamic, authored stories to screen.