Joe Ahearne is an Irish television writer and director, best known for his work on several fantasy and science fiction based programmes including Ultraviolet, Apparitions and Doctor Who.
His next major production for World was the six-episode Channel Four vampire series Ultraviolet, which Ahearne both wrote and directed.
In 2002 Ahearne directed the pilot for the Big Bear Productions horror-fantasy drama Strange, written by Andrew Marshall and broadcast on BBC One.
Ahearne both wrote and directed the two-part drama-documentary series Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets for the BBC and the Discovery Channel in 2004.
Ahearne also worked on Da Vinci's Demons, a fictional adventure TV-series created by David S. Goyer for Starz and BBC Worldwide.
[4] His next project was his the "gay thriller" B&B, produced by Hummingbird Films and starring Doctor Who actor Paul McGann.