Kieran Doherty is an Irish writer and TV format creator based in Belfast

Belfast

Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly...

, Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

. He co-created the international TV entertainment formats Secret Fortune

Secret Fortune

Secret Fortune is a BBC National Lottery game show that is broadcast on BBC One. It began on the 12 February 2011 and is hosted by Nick Knowles.-Format:...

 and Take the Money and Run

Take the Money and Run

Take the Money and Run is a 1969 comedy film written by Woody Allen and Mickey Rose, and directed by and starring Woody Allen. It is an early mockumentary, chronicling the life of Virgil Starkwell, a bungling petty thief...

 as part of a creative partnership with Matthew Worthy

Matthew Worthy

Matthew Worthy is a British television Producer. He co-created the entertainment formats Secret Fortune and Take The Money and Run as part of a creative partnership with Kieran Doherty, while working for UK independent production company Wild Rover Productions.- Career :Worthy began his career at...

, while working for UK independent production company Wild Rover Productions

Wild Rover Productions

Wild Rover Productions is a television production company located in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was started by Philip Morrow in 1999 and has since become one of the UK's most successful regionally based entertainment companies....

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Secret Fortune

In 2008 Doherty and Worthy created the high-stakes quiz-show Secret Fortune

Secret Fortune

Secret Fortune is a BBC National Lottery game show that is broadcast on BBC One. It began on the 12 February 2011 and is hosted by Nick Knowles.-Format:...

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In 2010 the UK network broadcaster BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 commissioned a nine part series of Secret Fortune for Saturday night BBC One

BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...

. This series was broadcast in February 2011 – with viewing figures reaching over 7 million. A second series was commissioned after just four episodes – and was filmed in May/June 2011.

In 2011 US network broadcaster CBS commissioned a pilot of Secret Fortune – co-produced by Wild Rover Productions and Nigel Lythgoe

Nigel Lythgoe

Nigel Lythgoe is an English television and film director and producer, and former dancer in the Young Generation and choreographer. He is noted for being the producer of the shows Pop Idol and American Idol as well as being a creator, executive producer and a regular judge for So You Think You Can...

, who is an Executive Producer of American Idol

American Idol

American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...

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Take the Money and Run

In 2007 Doherty and Worthy created the high stakes reality show Take the Money and Run

Take the Money and Run (TV series)

Take the Money and Run was a reality game show that premiered on August 2, 2011 as part of the ABC network's 2011–12 primetime schedule. The series is unscripted and involves contestants trying to hide a briefcase filled with $100,000 from professional detectives and other investigators. The show...

. A pilot was commissioned in by UK network broadcaster BBC in 2008.

In 2010 it was announced that Take the Money and Run received a six-episode order for show production by ABC

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

 with Jerry Bruckheimer

Jerry Bruckheimer

Jerome Leon "Jerry" Bruckheimer is an American film and television producer. He has achieved great success in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction. His best known television series are CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Eleventh Hour, Without a Trace, Cold Case, The...

 as executive producer along with Amazing Race creators Bertram van Munster

Bertram Van Munster

Bertram van Munster is the co-creator and executive producer of The Amazing Race. He is also the creator of Profiles from the Front Line and was the Executive Producer on Oprah's Big Give and Take the Money and Run ....

 and Elise Doganieri

Elise Doganieri

Elise Doganieri is the Co-Creator and Co-Executive Producer of the CBS reality show The Amazing Race. Doganieri's other credits include serving as show producer of ABC's "Profiles From the Front Line" as well as producer and story editor on the pilot for Paramount's "Wild Things."The Amazing Race...

. This series will be broadcast in August 2011.

Find Me The Funny

In 2008 Doherty and Worthy created the stand-up reality competition Find Me The Funny. A six part series was broadcast by BBC One NI in 2009.

The David Meade Project

In 2010 Worthy and Doherty created The David Meade Project, a four part series featuring mentalist David Meade for BBC NI. It aired in January 2011. A second series of six episodes was commissioned by BBC NI in 2011 and will air in Autumn 2011. Both series are Executive Produced by Doherty.

The Big Bumper Science Quiz

In 2006 Doherty co-created and co-wrote the live, interactive TV special The Big Bumper Science Quiz. It aired on BBC One NI on the 11 January 2006.

The Ulster Way / Teethgrinder

Doherty began his writing career in radio, writing two series of The Ulster Way for BBC Radio Ulster

BBC Radio Ulster

BBC Radio Ulster is one of two Northern Irish BBC radio stations, the other being BBC Radio Foyle located in the city of Derry. BBC Radio Ulster is located at Broadcasting House in the Ormeau Avenue area of Belfast city centre...

. He then moved into television, contributing material to the BBC One NI sketch show Teethgrinder

Teethgrinder

Teethgrinder was a single released by the band Therapy?, taken from their Nurse album. It was released on October 19, 1992 through A&M Records. The single reached number 30 in the UK Singles Chart, and number 19 in the Irish Singles Chart....

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Sesame Tree

Doherty wrote five episodes for series one and two of the children's TV show Sesame Tree

Sesame Tree

Sesame Tree, a version of Sesame Street made entirely in Northern Ireland, is produced by Belfast based production company Sixteen South Television and Sesame Workshop. The first episode aired on BBC Two in Northern Ireland on 5 April 2008 with the first series subsequently airing nationwide on...

, a Sesame Workshop

Sesame Workshop

Sesame Workshop, formerly known as the Children's Television Workshop , is a Worldwide American non-profit organization behind the production of several educational children's programs that have run on public broadcasting around the world...

 and Sixteen South

Sixteen South

Sixteen South Limited is a Belfast, Northern Ireland-based production company that specializes in children's media. Founded in 2007, it is the company behind Sesame Tree, the Northern Irish co-production of Sesame Street and Big City Park...

 production. The first episode aired on 5 April 2008. The series went on to win the international CINE Golden Eagle Award in 2009 and 2011.

Doherty was re-commissed to write a further 4 episodes of the second series of Sesame Tree for CBBC

CBBC

CBBC is one of two brand names used for the BBC's children's television strands. Between 1985 and 2002, CBBC was the name given to all the BBC's programmes on TV for children aged under 14...

. This series aired in November 2010.

Big City Park

Doherty was also commissioned to write 5 episodes of Big City Park, a Sixteen South production for CBBC which aired in August 2010. Big City Park was awarded a CINE Golden Eagle award in 2011.

The Pajanimals

Doherty has recently been commissioned to write 4 episodes of the new Jim Henson Workshop format Pajanaimals. This will air on the US cable channel Sprout in 2011.