--- name: "George Kane" canonical: "https://film.one/person/george-kane" fi1m_id: "george-kane" imdb_id: "nm1753260" tmdb_id: 1562388 wikidata_id: "Q127050040" roles: ["Director"] reviewed_on_fi1m: 4 average_fi1m_score: 78 average_as: "director" average_over: 4 updated: "2026-10-07T20:07:46.801331+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # George Kane ## Identity George Kane - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/george-kane - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** george-kane - **IMDb ID:** nm1753260 - **TMDB ID:** 1562388 - **Wikidata ID:** Q127050040 - **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q127050040, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1753260/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1562388 Director. ## Details - **Work:** Director - **Active:** 2014–present - **Average Fi1m score:** 78, as director, over 4 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 80 (2), 2020s 77 (2) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 79 to 80 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Genres:** Comedy 4, Drama 4, Crime 3, Mystery 3, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1 - **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q127050040, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1753260/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1562388 ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*How to Get to Heaven from Belfast*](https://film.one/tv/how-to-get-to-heaven-from-belfast.md) (78) - **Apple TV:** [*Ludwig*](https://film.one/tv/ludwig.md) (76) - **Peacock:** [*Brassic*](https://film.one/tv/brassic.md) (76) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on George Kane > George Kane directs ensemble comedy with a taste for physical mischief. His shared work on *How to Get to Heaven from Belfast* earns our recommendation, though the friendships are more convincing than some of the efforts to amuse. In *How to Get to Heaven from Belfast* (2026), the dancing is a welcome break from chasing the mystery. We relaxed during those scenes, because the performers could make the programme enjoyable without another elaborate predicament. Kane shares directing duties with Michael Lennox and Rachna Suri, so it would be rash to claim every successful scene for him. Still, the ease of those passages fits a career built around ensemble comedy and physical performance. The early sketch work and first feature, the mockumentary *Discoverdale* (2012), help explain that preference for a comic sequence with room to develop on its own. Regular work with Big Talk followed in the mid-2010s, including *Crashing* (2016) and *Timewasters* (2017–19). Episodic and road-trip structures recur in his work, allowing sketch-like scenes within longer stories. That approach makes sense for a director who collaborates with actors on physical business and improvisation within scripted comedy: a scene need not depend entirely on the next line. The return to features with *Apocalypse Clown* (2023) brings dark, physical and surreal comedy to the foreground. Kane also co-wrote it; his feature-writing partners are Demian Fox, Shane O’Brien and James Walmsley. Those credits make the features worth exploring alongside the television work. That taste for unruly comedy needs some restraint, as Lisa McGee’s *How to Get to Heaven from Belfast* demonstrates. The three friends convince us, and the programme’s willingness to let them lose their dignity is a substantial pleasure. Moving between a rural Irish chase and scenes built around friendship gives the directors plenty to manage, but the plotting wanders and some of the silliness feels forced. It is good company, and we would not want tidiness at the expense of those performers. Start there, with some patience for the mystery and rather more interest in the friends. ## Biography George Kane is a director of television comedy and drama. A graduate of Ireland's National Film School, he began with self-produced comedy pilots and shorts before directing series such as *Sketchy With Diarmuid Corr* for BBC NI. He is known for directing episodes of *Timewasters* (2017–2019), *Crashing* (2016), *Flack* (2019), *Brassic* (2021), *Wedding Season* (2022), *Inside No. 9* (2022–2024), *The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin* (2024) and three episodes of *How to Get to Heaven from Belfast* (2026). He also directed the feature film *Apocalypse Clown* (2023), which won Best Irish Film at the Galway Film Fleadh. Kane received a BAFTA nomination for Best Scripted Comedy for *Timewasters*. *Sources: tvmaze.com, imdb.com, georgekane.com, curtisbrown.co.uk, northernirelandscreen.co.uk.* ## On Fi1m (4) - *How to Get to Heaven from Belfast* (2026), Fi1m 78, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/how-to-get-to-heaven-from-belfast.md) - *Ludwig* (2024), Fi1m 76, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/ludwig.md) - *Brassic* (2019), Fi1m 76, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/brassic.md) - *Inside No. 9* (2014), Fi1m 84, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/inside-no-9.md) ## Complete filmography (14) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *How to Get to Heaven from Belfast* (2026), series, Director — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/how-to-get-to-heaven-from-belfast.md) - *Helpless* (2025), Thanks - *Ludwig* (2024), series, Director — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/ludwig.md) - *The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin* (2024), series, Director - *Apocalypse Clown* (2023), Writer, Director - *Wedding Season* (2022), series, Director - *Brassic* (2019), series, Director — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/brassic.md) - *Flack* (2019), series, Director - *Bounty* (2018), Director - *Timewasters* (2017), series, Director - *Discoverdale* (2016), Director - *Crashing* (2016), series, Director - *Inside No. 9* (2014), series, Director — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/inside-no-9.md) - *Sugar Stick* (2009), Editor --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. 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