About
Philip is CEO of Big Mountain, established in 2005.
IFTA (Irish Film & TV Awards) winner and IFTA Nominee (TV3's The Tenements).
Currently board member SPI (Screen Producers Ireland)
Member PACT (UK TV Producers trade association)
TRC International TV Formats Programme.
Big Mountain is one of the most innovative content companies in the UK and Ireland.
We specialise in reality and unscripted formats for all platforms.
Our shows have been licensed & sold internationally.
Genealogy Roadshow first aired in Ireland has been licensed and made for PBS, now in season two with double the order. Represented worldwide by Fremantle Media.
Craftmaster our hit RTE format is represented worldwide by Nordic and has been licensed to a US production company.
Addicts' Symphony was a hit for Channel 4 (UK) with massive media coverage from The Sun, Daily Mail, The Guardian, Independent, Evening Standard, the Telegraph to a two page feature in Radio Times. Items features on ITV's This Morning, Radio 4's Saturday Live, BBC3 to BBC Breakfast News.
Currently in production for an ITV1 6-part series for network.
We are known for hybrid scalable series that connect with audiences, have ‘real transformative’ processes at their core, forging new ways into subjects that bring them alive.
Titles include; Genealogy Roadshow (RTE, PBS), Life in the Tenements(TV3), Life in the Big House (TV3), The Lost Village (RTE1), CraftMaster (RTE1), Traffic Blues (RTE1) and Going Wild (TG4).
Music mentoring/event titles include; JAM (RTE Young Peoples), Opry (BBC NI/TG4) and iG (BBC NI).
Offices and teams in Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland and London.
We are currently working with RTE, TG4, TV3 in Ireland and BBC, Sky, C4, and Five in the UK.
E-learning
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