Patrick Spence
Managing Director, AC Chapter One & Executive Producer, Mr Bates vs The Post Office
Patrick is a BAFTA and RTS Award winning television producer. He has just joined AC Chapter One as Managing Director. His recent productions include Gwyn Hughes’ smash hit MR BATES vs THE POST OFFICE for ITV, starring Toby Jones, Monica Dolan, Ian Hart and Alex Jennings, 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 and Hollywood Critics Association nominated adaptation of Ben Macintyre’s A SPY AMONG FRIENDS for ITVX and MGM+, starring Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce, about the establishment’s response to the revelations that Kim Philby was a traitor (‘the best British espionage drama since Alec Guinness in Tinker Tailor’ Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail); George Kay’s LITVINENKO for ITVX and AMC, 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 the murder on British soil; and Pete Bowker’s 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 EP include FORTITUDE, THE A WORD, ADULT MATERIAL and PEAKY BLINDERS.