shinawil
ireland
LARRY BASS
CEO
MARY CALLERY
Head of International, Executive Producer
AARON FARRELL
Head of Drama
NIALL MURPHY
Head of Business Affairs
Company Profile
Since its inception in 1999, ShinAwiL has produced some of the biggest and most well-loved TV shows in Ireland including: DANCING WITH THE STARS, HOME OF THE YEAR, DRAGONS' DEN, and THE APPRENTICE.
In 2017, the company began developing a slate of scripted projects alongside our non-scripted ventures, forming fruitful partnerships with a variety of international co-producers. With projects backed by Screen Ireland, RTÉ, and various international distributors and studios, and several exciting projects in development, we continue to produce and develop a diverse slate of prestige scripted content.
Some of our credits to date include: MISS SCARLET & THE DUKE for A&E International/Element 8, which premiered on PBS Masterpiece in 2021, upcoming feature film THE MIRACLE CLUB with Zephyr Films and starring Dame Maggie Smith, Laura Linney, & Kathy Bates, and 6-part Irish thriller CLEAN SWEEP with Incendo (Canada). Starring Charlene McKenna and Barry Ward, CLEAN SWEEP follows Shelly Mohan, who seems like an unassuming mother, but when a dark secret emerges from her past, she makes a fatal choice to prevent the truth from surfacing, and must hide in plain sight from her detective husband as the police begin closing in.
Larry Bass
Mary Callery
Aaron Farrell
Upcoming Projects
COSTIGAN 2022/2023
Format: Series 6x50’
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Screenplay: Gary Duggan
Status: Financing
Vi Costigan, a former Merseyside Police detective is released from prison after unjustly serving time and painfully strains to reconnect with her family.When an old acquaintance and former lover is framed for murder, she investigates the crime from the opposite side of the law, competing with, and aiming to expose the corrupt police unit who turned her life inside out.
LOTTIE PARKER 2022/2023
Format: Series 6x50’
Genre: Crime, Drama
Screenplay: Lauren McKenzie
Status: Financing
The story takes place in an Irish midlands town, Ragmullin (population 20,000), just after Christmas. A woman’s body is found in the cathedral, strangled. Susan Sullivan, a public servant, has no enemies but no friends nor family either. When her colleague is found hanging from a tree some hours later, Detective Inspector Lottie Parker needs to find out how the two deaths are connected and why their bodies have the same tattoo on their thighs. Her investigation leads her to St. Angela’s, a children’s home from where in the seventies her own brother went missing never to be seen again. For Parker, recently widowed and juggling three children, a mother she can’t stand, and the biggest case of her career so far, everything is personal. The past will not stay buried…
Borderline 2023/2024
(In coproduction with Further South Productions)
Format: Series 6x45’
Genre: Police, Drama
Screenplay: John Forte
Status: Financing
When the body of a hen-party goer washes up on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic, PSNI officer Boyd must work with the abrasive Garda Regan to solve the crime across the divide - no matter how little either one of them wants to do so. With all eyes on their collaboration, Regan and Boyd must find the killer, and some common ground, or risk the reputations of both of their departments.