Adrian Dunbar is best known to audiences for his role of Ted Hastings in the BBC’s hugely popular LINE OF DUTY, but now the Irish actor is turning his hand to another detective role – this time for ITV. In upcoming drama RIDLEY, he will play a retired DI who finds himself lured back into service when his former assistant calls on him to help crack a complex murder case. As filming for the new show commences in Lancashire, a first look image has been released.
RTÉ television turned 60 on New Year’s Eve, and RTÉ is marking the occasion with a special photographic exhibition at the National Photographic Archive in Dublin. Ireland on the Box explores six decades of television in Ireland, through entertainment, drama, sport, music, education and news and current affairs programming. Curated by RTÉ Archives, and supported by the National Library of Ireland, the exhibition tells the story of a nation through the television it consumed.
She cut her teeth in comedy, but actor Justine Mitchell’s natural wit won’t be seen too much in her upcoming roles, which include the second season of SMOTHER and 2022’s most hotly anticipated TV series based on Sally Rooney’s CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS.
Released in Irish cinemas in October, this dark Irish comedy scored 91% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes, with writer/director Rachel Carey winning the Discovery Award at the Dublin International Film Festival. Starring Pauline McLynn (FATHER TED) and Victoria Smurfit (ONCE UPON A TIME), it tells the story of a group of stylists at a Dublin hair salon who inadvertently become community heroes when they take on the members of a local gang.
RIVERDANCE: THE ANIMATED ADVENTURE is coming to Netflix beginning from January 14. The movie describes the essence of magic in singing and dancing in vastly different ways. It exemplifies Ireland’s heritage, natural beauty, and culture. And it delivers to the stage a unique universe filled with laughter and emotion that was created in their thoughts’.
PEAKY BINDERS fans rejoice! The BBC dropped the trailer for the highly anticipated sixth (and final) season of its award-winning 1920s crime drama on New Year’s Day. The drama-ridden trailer, which features the haunting voiceover of Murphy saying, “This will be the end of it,” is filled with gunshots, fist fights, and fire. It also highlights the return of Oswald Mosley (Sam Clafin), Arthur Shelby (Paul Anderson), Ada Shelby (Sophie Rundle) and Gina Gray (Anya Taylor-Joy).
Maynooth hearthrob, Paul Mescal, shines as Will in the new Netflix release, THE LOST DAUGHTER. Based on the novel by Elena Ferrante, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s opening gambit as a writer-director is a brave charge at source material defined by flashbacks and interweaving subplots.
Jamie Dornan spent five months in South Australia filming THE TOURIST. Dornan plays The Man, who is chased off the road by a truck in the South Australian outback. When he wakes up in hospital, he has no memory of who he is, save for a note in his pocket directing him to a meeting the next day at Gloria’s Diner.