Since 2015 Brendan has been one of the busiest TV writers in the UK and internationally, bringing experience as a writer, producer and director from feature films, as well as from books and journalism.
Sherlock & Daughter, a major new eight-part international series from Starlings and StoryFirst starring David Thewlis and Dougray Scott for CW in North America, TWD in UK, SBS in Australia, Federation, Escapade, and five Nordic pubcasters, currently in production (2024) in Ireland with Brendan as writer-creator-EP, teaming up with top US showrunner James Duff (Major Crimes, The Closer).
Brendan’s recent 2022 series is Nordic hit THE MAN WHO DIED, (Elisa-Viaplay, ReelMedia, ndF), a quirky dark comedy in the vein of the Coen Brothers described as “a Finnish Fargo”. In 2024 a second season went into production in Finland, with season one on AMC+/Acorn in North America.
Also now broadcast internationally is series COLD COURAGE, for Lionsgate, Viaplay, Britbox and AMC+, now also on ITVx.
Other series development includes:
FAIRYTALE DETECTIVE – master storyteller Hans Christian Andersen tries his hand as a detective with his imaginary fairytale characters helping him crack cases. With Danny Goldman of Omega Media International.
SHADOWS, Paranormal investigations by an out of work actress and a grumpy scientist. “like Mulder and Scully for a new generation” (Blue Ant, Canada);
JUDGMENT DAY
Ingenious Media, the UK’s leading private funder for TV and film helped develop a new international criminal-legal series centred on Death Penalty trials and investigations. Now working with N9ne Studios in Paris.
M.A.D, Madmen meets The Americans at the UN in 1950s 
New York (Arena Films)
INSPECTOR FRENCH
A classic detective series set in Ireland in the 1920s, developed with BBC TV NI and NI Screen, now with Free@Last TV. Based on a series of 20 bestselling novels from the 1930s by Freeman Wills Crofts, described as “The father of the police procedural”.
UNDER THE WIRE
A miniseries originally developed with CBC and NI Screen – the fictionalised story of The Great Escape from a brand new perspective of both the men and women whose lives became entwined in one of the greatest prison-breaks in history. Brendan also wrote the bestselling book Under the Wire (Random House), set in the POW camps of WWII Germany.
AGE OF HEROES
Croton Huace Media, China’s biggest streaming TV production company commissioned Brendan to create an epic saga, Age of Heroes, a story based in Chinese and Celtic mythologies at the dawn of time, with similarities to the legends of King Arthur. It is a quest story of how a young boy living in the wilderness grows up to be a king, uniting the five tribes that make up the human race.
TIPPING POINT
TIPPING POINT, for Reel Media in Finland, is a modern eco-thriller series about an unlikely band of Nordic investigators faced with espionage, murder and a game-changing piece of software that can predict Climate Change. Inspired by the acclaimed book Sands of Sarasvati by Finnish author and scientist Risto Isomaki. Tipping Point won the 2023 Series Mania Award at the Berlin Copro market and is now being developed by Norway’s Maipo.