Healy joins Cask Productions as executive producer
Daniel Healy, former head of production for Lucid has joined fledgling company Cask Productions as executive producer.
Healy has joined David Reilly, managing director of the newly launched company who he worked with in setting up Lucid at STV in 2006.
Lucid closed at the end of last year as part of STV’s business strategy in concentrating solely on its TV output.
Cask will look to provide production content not just in the commercial sector but also work as a TV independent having begun operating at the tail end of 2008.
Since then it has created a roster of directors which includes Simon Cracknell, Simon Hunter, Will Heap, Stevan Riley, Larry Smith, Alex Turner and John Hopkins.
It is understood that the company has already begun production work on a viral with The Union for charity Space Unlimited as well as a the creation of a You Tube channel for the Glasgow Magners Comedy Festival in conjunction with Glasgow Marketing Bureau.
Reilly told The Drum that Healy will look after the commercial side of the business as its key executive producer for commercials.
“The commercial side of the business was beginning to take off and I was in the market for a new executive producer at a senior level. Someone who could come in a join the business and when Daniel called me in December to let me know he was leaving Lucid the timing appeared to be right having known each other and gotten on very well over the years. “