UK production company Wild Nest Pictures has secured screen rights to Jon Ransom’s debut novel The Whale Tattoo, which last week won a Polari prize, one of…
From left Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney. Photo: PA. Inset: From left Tim McInernay and Tom Brittney. Former Impartial Reporter journalist Trevor Birney of Fine Point Films is teaming up with Grantchester star Tom Brittney of Wild Nest Pictures to develop a TV drama based on his and fellow Northern Ireland journalist Barry McCaffrey’s controversial arrests in 2018. Trevor and Barry were detained in August 2018 over the alleged theft of a police watchdog document from the Police Ombudsman’s Office which appeared in their film ‘No Stone Unturned’ about the murder of six Catholic men shot dead by the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in Loughinisland in 1994.