Paul Donovan is a Canadian television and film writer, director and producer best known as the creator of the science-fiction TV series LEXX. He co-founded Salter Street Films (SSF) with his brother Michael Donovan.Donovan was born in Canada on June 26, 1954. He grew up interested in science and film, and earned a B.Sc. in Physics from Dalhousie University, and graduated from London Film School. In 2009 he was awarded an honorary doctorate of Law from Dalhousie. The IMDb credits South Pacific 1942 as the first film he directed, and in 1981 the Donovan brothers founded Salter Street Films, a television and film production company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Salter Street Films was named after the street in Halifax where Michael and Paul had been living.Paul Donovan has continued as an independent producer and director. In 2006, he created a new Canadian miniseries, a period political drama called The Conclave set in the 15th century, released in 2018 on Amazon Prime. The show stars Brian Blessed and features former Lexx star Brian Downey as a scheming monk. Downey has been a regular in Donovan's work since the 1980s, dating back at least to George's Island in 1989. In 2010, Paul wrote and directed "Blissestrasse", a low-budget feature set in Berlin, and from 2013 to 2017 Paul produced, wrote and directed "Clay's P.O.V.", a comedy travel POV series shot in Europe.