Irish actress Charlie Murphy is set star in new Netflix drama OBSESSION. The four-part series is a contemporary adaptation of Josephine Hart’s 1991 novella, DAMAGE. The story centers around a dangerous love triangle that emerges when the enigmatic Anna Barton (played by Charlie) embarks on a passionate affair with her fiance’s father, William, a top surgeon. The tense, erotic thriller joins Netflix on April 13.
Belfast-born Ciaran Hinds plays Sir Martin Angelis in TREASON, now on Netflix. The drama follows Adam Lawrence, trained and groomed by MI6, whose career seems set. But when the past catches up with him in the form of Kara, a Russian spy with whom he shares a complicated past, he is forced to question everything and everyone in his life.
Ballincollig native Aidan O’Callaghan is set to play Kareg in the four-episode spin-off. The 34-year-old made his first on-screen debut in 2014 in KILL DAY, a post-apocalyptic TV series set in 2050’s Britain. But Aidan has been well acclaimed for his role in the English TV show EASTENDERS, where he played the antagonistic barman, Lewis Butler earlier this year.
In the new film version of Emma Donoghue’s richly absorbing novel THE WONDER, we confront what the march of history and colonialism has done to Ireland. The film opens in 1862, ten years after the Great Hunger, in a windswept midlands village where a local girl called Anna O’Donnell is somehow hale and hearty after forty days of refusing food since her eleventh birthday. THE WONDER will is now available on Netflix via link below.
Niamh Algar is in good company, joining the likes of Florence Pugh, Ciarán Hinds and Toby Jones on this tragic yet compelling story set 13 years after the Great Famine. Adapted from the bestselling novel by Emma Donoghue (of Room fame), The Wonder is inspired by true stories of the 19-th century ‘fasting girls’ phenomenon and tells the tale of a young girl who claims to have gone months without eating – subsisting solely on manna from heaven.
HEART OF STONE is set to be one of Netflix’s big blockbusters of 2023, and we’ve now got our first look at the upcoming spy thriller starring Wonder Woman’s Gal Gadot and Irish actor Jamie Dornan. Fans got a sneak peek at HEART OF STONE on Saturday as part of Tudum: A Netflix Global Fan Event. With five distinct celebrations, Tudum: A Netflix Global Fan Event includes first-look photos, never-before-seen footage, new trailers, behind-the-scenes access, celebrity appearances, interviews, and more from over 100 of Netflix subscribers’ favourite series, films and specials.
THE WONDER, Netflix’s upcoming film which is set in the Irish Midlands in 1862, will be released on the streaming platform on November 16. The psychological thriller, which is an adaptation of the Emma Donoghue novel of the same name, with a cast that includes Florence Pugh, Ciarán Hinds, Niamh Algar, Brían F O’Byrne, Elaine Cassidy and her daughter, Kíla Lord Cassidy, has Chilean director Sebastián Lelio (A Fantastic Woman, Gloria) behind the lens.
PEAKY BLINDERS returns to Netflix with six more episodes in the violent life of the Shelby family. After COVID-related production delays and the death of lead actress Helen McCrory, Peaky creator Steven Knight has said series 6 will be its last, with the action moving to feature-length film territory and perhaps even spinoffs. For now, Tommy Shelby is trying to keep it all together as the end of Prohibition brings new opportunity and the chance for more catastrophe.