Patrick Spence

Patrick is a BAFTA Award winning television producer. He has recently joined AC Chapter One as Managing Director. He was until recently Creative Director, ITV Studios.
His recent production include Gwyn Hughes’ smash hit MR BATES vs THE POST OFFICE for ITV, starring Toby Jones and Monica Dolan, about hundreds of sub-postmasters fighting back against the Post Office in what has now been accepted as the largest miscarriage of justice in British legal history; Alex Cary’s BAFTA nominated adaptation of Ben Macintyre’s A SPY AMONG FRIENDS for ITVX, starring Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce, about the establishment’s response to the revelations that Kim Philby was this country’s greatest traitor; George Kay’s LITVINENKO for ITVX, starring David Tennant, about the Metropolitan Police’s ten year investigation – now accepted as the most dangerous and complex in their history – to prove that Putin had ordered a murder on British soil; and Pete Bowker’s Special RTS Award winning RALPH AND KATIE for BBC1 and Disney+, written and directed by disabled talent, about the early days of marriage for a couple with Downs Syndrome.
Past credits as Executive Producer include Steven Knight’s PEAKY BLINDERS, starring Cillian Murphy, Helen McCrory and Paul Anderson; Jack Thorne’s THE EDDY for Netflix, directed by the Academy Award winning Damien Chazelle, about a jazz club in contemporary Paris; Lucy Kirkwood’s BAFTA nominated ADULT MATERIAL for C4, starring Hayley Squires and Rupert Everett; the Academy Award winning John Ridley’s GUERRILLA for Showtime and Sky Atlantic, starring Idris Elba, Freida Pinto, and Babou Ceesay; Pete Bowker’s THE A WORD, for BBC1 and Sundance; Simon Donald’s FORTITUDE for Sky Atlantic and Amazon, starring Stanley Tucci, Dennis Quaid, Michael Gambon, Sofie Grabol and Richard Dormer; and Pete Bowker’s BAFTA Award winning MARVELLOUS, for BBC2, starring Toby Jones.
Patrick was until 2010 Head of Drama, BBC Northern Ireland, where he commissioned and executive produced the Bafta, RTS, WGA, BPG and Prix Europa Award winning serial OCCUPATION (Pete Bowker) and the Bafta, RTS and Sundance Film Award winning single film FIVE MINUTES OF HEAVEN (Guy Hibbert), as well as the Bafta nominated dramas HANCOCK AND JOAN (Rik Cottan), MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (David Nicholls) and MURPHY’S LAW (Russell Lewis). Credits from his earlier career include launching and executive producing WAKING THE DEAD, executive producing SILENT WITNESS; and his first job was as script editor on CRACKER.