Dean Baker
Production
Biography
Dean Baker is a partner at Hardy Son & Baker, the production company he founded with Tom Hardy in 2012. Baker was most recently an executive producer on the hit TV series Taboo, as well as Steven Knight’s adaptation of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. HSB has a TV first look deal with FX. Baker spent 15 years working in advertising before HSB, producing many award-winning TV commercials and founding TV content production entities within operating companies of WPP. Along with his partner Tom Hardy, Baker is set to produce Unreasonable Behaviour with Angelina Jolie directing, Once A Pilgrim with Working Title Films and Shackleton with David Heyman and Studio Canal.
Known For
Two mob families clash in a war that threatens to topple empires and lives.
MobLand
Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.
Taboo
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Great Expectations
London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.
FX's A Christmas Carol
A hit man falls for his client's wife, who happens to be the target of the assassin's latest assignment.
Blood on Snow
What if all your beliefs, Heaven, Hell , God, Life, everything you believed in was called into question? What if you began to doubt your very soul? Hallowed Ground goes where no other film will.
Hallowed Ground
Fred Dinenage looks back at some of the highlights of Meridian's first year on air.