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June 2024

Former NBCU Exec and former Acorn Exec join Irish Soho Moon as Executive Producers.
Irish production company Soho Moon (Hidden Assets, Death and Nightingales) has hired a former NBCUniversal SVP as Executive Producer across its drama and documentary slate and a former AMC Acorn and RTÉ Commissioner/ Executive Producer, as Consulting Executive Producer.
Gillian Rose and Shane Murphy join the company as it ramps up its development slate and will work closely with Soho Moon founder James Mitchell. 
Dublin-based Soho Moon originates and produces television drama series. The company owns rights in a distribution catalogue of some 31 titles.
Soho Moon works in partnerships with a number of Irish and international production companies:
  • with Saffron Pictures (producers Siobhán Bourke and Kathryn Lennon) in a joint venture, Saffron Moon, now commencing production of Season 3 of police thriller Hidden Assets (RTÉ Ireland; Acorn TV US), lead writer Peter McKenna (Kin); Lost In France, a romantic comedy series written and created by Barry Devlin (lead singer of legendary Irish band Horslips and writer Ballykissangel, My Mother and Other Strangers) for production in 2025;
  • with Australian co-producer Corner Table Productions (producer Marion Pilowsky), Saffron Moon has developed a Maeve Binchy short story, Anner House, a contemporary romance, adapted by writer Elaine Murphy (stage adaptation of Circle of Friends) to be shot in South Australia in 2025;
  • with Mammoth Films (producer Jane Doolan) and Canadian co-producer Shaftesbury Films (producer Christina Jennings), Soho Moon has developed spy thriller The Reluctant Contact, a novel, adapted by author Stephen Burke.
Gillian will continue to be based in the US and Shane will be based in London.
James Mitchell said: “Gillian is well positioned to help us with global partnerships, pre-sales and co-productions and has great relationships plus a deep understanding of the international market and distribution; Shane has been a friend and valued adviser for some time now. This is a perfect moment in Soho Moon’s growth for Gill to come on board, helping to further our ambitions in which Shane plays a significant part.”
Gillian Rose added: “I am delighted to join Soho Moon and excited to work on such interesting projects. I believe there is real potential here for us to establish international partnerships with streamers and local broadcasters for many of these projects.”
Shane Murphy commented: “James and I have worked together in one capacity or another for nearly a decade. I look forward to working across his full slate, in which there is already plenty of international interest.”
Gillian Rose was Senior Vice President, TV and Film Distribution, at NBCUniversal in New York for the past four and a half years and left the company at the end of March 2024. Prior to this she worked for Sky’s distribution arm, Sky Vision, for three years, having joined from PBS Distribution, where she was Managing Director.
Shane Murphy was Group Head of Drama & Comedy at RTÉ for 3 years. Prior to this he was Managing Director of Acorn Media Enterprises, Commercial Director in Tiger Aspect and Head of Acquisitions and Co-Production in Fremantle.
Soho Moon was set up by James Mitchell, the producer/executive producer of a large body of television and film projects, working with co-producers in the US, Canada, Australia, the UK, France, Germany and South Africa, mostly through his previous production company, Little Bird.
A selection of James’s productions includes:
European cinema: Croupier (Film Four/WDR/ARTE Cinema) directed by Mike Hodges, starring Clive Owen; Invincible (Fine Line/Film Four) directed by Werner Herzog, starring Tim Roth; Werner Herzog’s feature documentary Klaus Kinski Mein Liebster Feind (ARTE/WDR).
Irish cinema: December Bride directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan, starring Donal McCann and Ciarán Hinds, winner Special Jury Prize European Film Awards; A Man Of No Importance (Sony Pictures Classics), directed by Suri Krishnamma, written by Barry Devlin, starring Albert Finney and Brenda Fricker; Into The West (Miramax), directed by Mike Newell, written by Jim Sheridan, starring Gabriel Byrne and Ellen Barkin.
Television drama: TV series co-productions The Writing On The Wall (WDR/BBC) starring Denis Haysbert and William H. Macy; Relative Strangers (WDR/RTÉ) starring Oscar winner Brenda Fricker; TV movie All For Love (BBC/WDR/France 2), directed by Harry Hook, written by Allan Cubitt, starring Jean-Marc Barr and Richard E. Grant; the iconic The Irish R.M., based on the Somerville & Ross stories for Channel 4, ITV and Masterpiece Theatre; Troubles for ITV based on J.G. Farrell’s Booker prize winning novel; FIPA winner The Hanging Gale for BBC1, written by Allan Cubitt, starring the four McGann brothers; In The Border Country for Channel 4, directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan, winner of Best TV Drama awards at Banff and Chicago and No Tears for RTÉ, starring Brenda Fricker and Maria Doyle Kennedy, winner of Best Series award at Monte Carlo.
Recent credits include television drama Death and Nightingales for BBC2, based on Eugene McCabe’s novel, written and directed by Allan Cubitt, starring Matthew Rhys and Jamie Dornan; drama documentary Citizen Lane for RTÉ in association with Screen Ireland, written by Mark O’Halloran, directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan, starring Tom Vaughan-Lawlor and Michael Gambon.