Bill Hughes has been an independent television producer and director since 1985  making over 1000 hours of music, arts, entertainment, performance and documentary programming for RTE, ITV, BBC, PBS, CBC and ABC. 

From 2001 to the present he has been a partner in Mind The Gap Films.

Bill began his television career with RTE, but left the state broadcaster to produce Vincent Hanley’s groundbreaking MT USA in 1985, the first music video show in Europe. The Write Stuff on ITV, featuring bestselling authors in their homes around the world and hosted by Anne Robinson and Henry Kelly was Bill’s first U.K. production followed by a rock music series for DEF 11 on BBC commissioned by Janet Street Porter for which he won the Music Critics Award for Best Producer. 
 

Bill formed ‘The Irish Tenors’ and wrote and produced all three of their million selling TV Specials for PBS in America as well as Ronan Tynan’s “Impossible Dream” and  “Brian Kennedy – Live in Belfast”.

In 2005 Bill was nominated for the Rose D’Or for “Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde”, his tribute performance film with Martin Sheen, Bono, Lily Tomlin, Geoffrey Rush, Annie Lennox, Liam Neeson, Joan Rivers, Ken Loach and Harvey Fierstein in the 150 strong cast.