The National Talent Academy for Film & TV Drama and Ardán present the six selected candidates/teams that will pitch at the FÍS TV Summit in February 2025.  

FÍS TV Summit 2025 will take place in the Radison Red Galway on Thursday February 6th.

The six selected finalists will take part in a Pitching Workshop led by Michael Zam, leading up to the final Live Pitch to the FÍS audience on February 6th. 

The FÍS TV Summit industry audience will hear the six teams’ five-minute pitches for their proposed TV series and a panel of industry experts will award a €1,000 prize to the best pitch. The winners will be announced later in the evening at the Networking Session after the FÍS TV Summit. 

The pitching event finalists and their proposed TV series are:

1. Jordan Murshed – It Takes Two 
Millie and her partner Lucas are unexpectedly forced to give up the apartment they’ve been ‘housesitting’, and move back into Lucas’s family home temporarily, but realise they may be stuck here far longer than they first anticipated. 

2. Niamh O’Connor – Mapping Keira 
When a dormant serial killer is linked to a new victim, a detective obsessed with catching him puts her own daughter at risk to track him down — using geo-profiling techniques. 

3. Rachael O’Kane & Katie Murphy – Surviving 22 
Roisin navigates grief during her thriving twenties in the aftermath of her brother’s suicide, as she tries to piece her heart and family back together (badly). 

4. Samuel Jay Patrick & Oran Fitzpatrick – Diving 
A young photographer dives into Dublin’s ‘80s rock scene aspiring to turn his passion into a profession. Yet to keep his dream alive he must become a ruthless manager, risking losing the family he found in a fractured band. 

5. Sarah-Jane Scott – Unleashed 
Everyday superwoman and single mam Corina and her true crime obsessed, rich glam-mam BFF Ann Marie, have been singlehandedly keeping their respective shit shows on the road for way too long, and have finally had enough. 

6. Sheena Lambert – Billy & Kick 
The story of how the tragic romance between JFK’s favourite sister, Kathleen Kennedy, and William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington almost destroyed the entire Kennedy political dynasty and brought one of England’s oldest aristocracies to its knees.