{"id":858869,"date":"2026-09-24T11:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858869\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:06:13","slug":"small-prophets-indie-blue-house-hires-shaunna-obrien-from-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858869\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Small Prophets&#8217; Indie Blue House Hires Shaunna O&#8217;Brien From Sister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/small-prophets\/\" id=\"auto-tag_small-prophets\" data-tag=\"small-prophets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Small Prophets<\/a> co-producer <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/blue-house-productions\/\" id=\"auto-tag_blue-house-productions\" data-tag=\"blue-house-productions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blue House Productions<\/a> has hired a development executive from <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sister\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sister\" data-tag=\"sister\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sister<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShaunna O\u2019Brien joins the Manchester label as Development Producer and will identify and develop original projects. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBlue House said it is currently in development on several originals across comedy and comedy drama, with further announcements to come. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBlue House is run by Gavin &amp; Stacey director Christine Gernon and Emma Strain, a former VP of BBC Studios LA. The company is formally announcing itself to the world this month and was one of the indies behind Small Prophets, the top-rated and critically-acclaimed BBC comedy<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/08\/apple-tv-buys-small-prophets-mackenzie-crook-1237055193\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> that recently sold<\/a> to Apple TV. Mackenzie Crook\u2019s series, which will soon roll cameras on Season 2, stars Pearce Quigley as an eccentric man who starts trying to create magical spirits to see if he can learn if his lover will return to his life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tO\u2019Brien joins from Liz Murdoch and Jane Featherstone\u2019s Sister, where she worked across the slate especially in the north of England on shows like the BBC\u2019s The Split Up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cWe are serious about making great comedy with brilliant people and built Blue House Productions to be a home for those exceptional people to come and do their best work, knowing they\u2019ll be properly backed,\u201d said Gernon and Strain. \u201cAnd if that sounds like somewhere you want to make something, come and find us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Small Prophets co-producer Blue House Productions has hired a development executive from Sister. Shaunna O\u2019Brien joins the Manchester&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[362580,88,362581,16181,355922,92],"class_list":["post-858869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-blue-house-productions","tag-entertainment","tag-shaunna-obrien","tag-sister","tag-small-prophets","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}