Made in America
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4x40 minute episode , RTE (Ireland) 2005-6
Nominated for an Irish Film & Television Award, Best Documentary Series

This four part documentary series tells the inspiring stories of four dynamic members of an entirely new generation of Irish who landed on America in the 1990s and who have since excelled in diverse, if not unusual fields. Now in their late 30s, they are the confident, restless, ambitious children who came of age in the era of economic boom and peace talks that launched a new Ireland onto the international stage. They are the first generation to fly by choice, are better educated than any immigrant in history, and have rapidly reached higher levels of success than earlier generations, or indeed, most Americans themselves. They were born in Ireland but they were made in America.

Freefall
13x 23 mins series, 2011

This is the Ultimate Extreme Sports International Reality Competition Show, an intense year of free fall face offs between the world's most powerful military parachuting teams, culminating in the 2011 Military Olympics in Rio, Brazil.

As we go around the World in 13 Weeks following the Golden Knights' journey to the Military Olympics., this series becomes one part sports competition show, one part adventure show, one part travel show... with a touch of history, a dab of education and a world of fearlessness to create a new experience in the world of reality competition sports television. The viewer gets a behind the scenes look at what it takes to be part of the worlds' elite parachute team, the Golden Knights.

The Other Irish

10 x 50 mins series, based on the book by Karen McCarthy:
The Other Irish: The living, laughing story of how a lost tribe of rascals invented America,
Sterling Publishing, 2011

Ever since he learned that mountain music came from the forgotten first wave of Irish immigrants to America, Cracker Mackie, a lively, outspoken, adventurous fiddler from Northern Ireland has had a burning ambition to travel to America, climb the Blue Ridge Mountains and fiddle away with a bluegrass band.

Undertaking a hilarious Borat-like (but historically accurate) adventure, Mackie manages to trace his tribe's descendents en route to the mountains. Along the way he learns they are responsible for NASCAR (running moonshine during prohibition), conservative politics, at least 14 presidents, battles in every American war, hillbillies, rednecks, John Wayne, John McCain, Audie Murphy and the Evangelical movement.

During 10 52-minute episodes Mackie will drive in a NASCAR race, fiddle in the back hills, hunt with modern day Davy Crockett, get saved at a religious revival, handle snakes at a Pentecostal service and a gamut of other activities, as we learn how the Other Irish invented what is now iconiclly American and why they became its mysteriously lost tribe.

Harlem High
Series 12 x 30 mins episodes 2009
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Harlem High is a reality series that follows a year in the life of some of New York's poorest kids who escape besieged and violent City schools and get a chance - perhaps their only chance - in an innovative school in Harlem.

This is an extraordinary story of personal transformation, the real gritty, true-life portrayal of school life told like the famed fictionalized BBC series Grange Hill. It captures the lives of these lively, determined kids in and out of the classroom. It blends normal teenage life with the high states end game back on the streets. We'll follow eight freshmen students as they search for the passion and stamina within themselves to beat the odds and succeed.