Bailiwick Productions
Elevated and Entertaining Content
About Bailiwick Productions
Founded in 2022, Bailiwick Productions is a film production company focusing on elevated television series and feature film making, founded by screenwriter and producer, Patrick Roche. Working with industry professionals and a growing network of financiers and producers, Bailiwick is hitting the ground running, with three projects in development.
The Diver
Live-action / Drama / Thriller
With his sailboat and young family marooned off the coast of Maine, Peter hires a local diver to cut them loose. But when tensions between the men boil-over, a fateful accident forces them into an intimate family dinner where the two men vie for power with dire consequences.
Trophy Kids
Broad Comedy - Feature
When a group of parents start wagering on their kid’s little league games, word of the gambling syndicate spreads throughout the suburbs, stoking town rivalries that pit parents against kids, coaches against referees and even the friendly local Punjabi-owned trophy store against the mob.
Somebody’s Hero
Documentary - Television Series
"Ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances." In partnership with the Carnegie Hero Foundation, and P3, Somebody’s Hero is a harrowing and heartwarming series, based on true events and exploring the heroic acts of everyday people and the lives they touch. With tasteful and moving recreations and storytelling, Somebody’s Hero is the kind of hopeful television America needs, showcasing the everyday people from all walks of life who defy logic and risk their own lives to save complete strangers.
King Tide
Historical Drama - Limited TV series
Based on True Events: Portland Maine, 1850 is a maritime boomtown, where one wealthy sea captain builds his empire around a clandestine wharf enterprise, Irish xenophobia and the dawn of prohibition, led by hysterical Mayor, Neil Dow.
Other projects in development
The Insurrectionist
Satirical Espionage/Thriller - Television Series
The insurrectionist follows an imbedded Russian disinformant and his target, a reddit troll and Q-Anon conspiracy theorist that ascends in the ranks of hysterical politics, leading the Russian spy to question his allegences.
The Enclave
Satirical Spy Comedy - Feature
Set in the coastal Hamlet of Camden, Maine, a group of retired CIA agents have settled into a life of quiet desperation, fraught with their former influence and glory. When a brilliant environmentalist is poisoned at the annual global summit on marine science, the community must dust off their old spy tactics and solve a conspiracy that risks the future of the worlds marine ecosystems.
Food Chain
Sci-fi/Comedy - Television Series
In a desperate bid to save his family’s organic grocery store from bankruptcy, hapless proprietor, and amateur disc golfer, Billy Philbrick, signs up for Mammoth Corp’s experimental, robot-assisted retail program.... But when the sleek and personable robots start to organize and fraternize with his customers, Billy's staff of misfit organic grocers find themselves on the front lines of humanity's battle for workplace relevance. "Parks and Rec meets West World"