Blue Lights co-creator reveals it took years to get the go-ahead for cop drama

Derry woman Louise Gallagher reveals she originally pitched idea for popular show in 2015 Blue Lights executive producer Louise Gallagher with actress sister Bronagh (Credit: Belfast Film Festival) The co-creator and executive producer of Blue Lights has told how she ‘visualised’ the hit TV cop show almost a decade ago but had to wait until ‘the timing was right’ for it to be made. Derry woman Louise Gallagher originally mooted the idea of a homegrown police drama to Stephen Wright, former head of drama at BBC Northern Ireland, back in 2015..