Tall Tales & Murder commissioned by RTÉ and BBC for two series
Currently in Post Production - Production Designer Emma Lowney.
BBC Northern Ireland and RTÉ, have commissioned two six-part series of new drama Tall Tales & Murder, in association with Screen Ireland. The show is written by Stuart Carolan - the writer and creator of RTÉ's smash-hit crime drama Love/Hate, one of the most critically acclaimed and successful Irish dramas ever produced - and is co-created with double EMMY and Directors Guild of America Award winner Chris Addison (Veep, Breeders, The Thick of It). Tall Tales & Murder is produced by Avalon (Breeders, Starstruck, Catastrophe), in association with Ireland-based Metropolitan Pictures (KIN).
This darkly comedic crime drama will star Ella Lily Hyland (Black Doves, Towards Zero, Silent Roar), Aidan Gillen (Love/Hate, Game of Thrones, KIN), Philippa Dunne (Amandaland, Derry Girls, The Woman in the Wall) and Packy Lee (Peaky Blinders). Co-commissioned by RTÉ and BBC Northern Ireland, in association with Screen Ireland, filming began this week in the Republic of Ireland, with the first series set to premiere in 2026. Tall Tales & Murder will be distributed internationally by Avalon.
The story is based on the much loved eight-book Dublin Trilogy by Caimh McDonnell.
Stuart Carolan, Writer and Executive Producer, said: “I’ve been a fan of the brilliant Chris Addison since The Thick of It - it’s been incredible fun working with him to bring this insane story to life.”
Chris Addison, Director and Executive Producer, said: “I’m frankly giddy with delight to get to team up with the twisted and highly original mind of Stuart Carolan to create this show. We’ve taken Caimh’s wonderful novel as a jumping off point and ended up with what I like to think of as a dark and delicious screwball drama.”
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"A nerve-shredding watch”: Katherine Kelly’s new crime drama, In Flight, will take you on a turbulent journey
Streaming on Chanel 4 - Production Designer Emma Lowney.
The new series will see Katherine play flight attendant Jo, whose whole life is turned upside down when she finds herself blackmailed into using her job to smuggle drugs. With her son’s life at the centre of negotiations, it’s a situation no mother would ever want to find themselves in.
The six-part series follows Katherine Kelly as single mum Jo, a flight attendant whose son is serving a 15-year sentence in a Bulgarian prison for a murder he swears he didn’t commit. When Jo is approached by a gang who knows all about her son, she finds herself blackmailed into using her job to smuggle drugs.
Good news - In Flight is coming soon! The series will air on Channel 4 from Tuesday 12th August.
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Irish-Dutch-Belgian co-production Whitetail set to bow at Toronto
Movie Review (TIFF 2025): ‘Whitetail’ Will Linger As One of the Best Films of the Year
World Premier TIFF 2025 Centrepiece - Production Designer Emma Lowney.
Dutch director Nanouk Leopold’s seventh feature provides uncommonly vivid views of southern Irish scenery and the driven, haunted woman (Natasha O’Keeffe) at the story’s core.
A slow-burn thriller about reckoning with trauma and containing the furies that threaten to reduce everything to ashes, Whitetail is rife with the same tightly coiled tension that exists deep within its protagonist. It’s just as remarkable for its vivid portrayal of its Irish setting, which director Leopold captures with great authenticity.
Set against the haunting landscapes of County Kerry and County Cork, Whitetail is a slow-burning, emotionally charged drama that explores grief, memory and the blurred lines between past and present. Jen (Natasha O'Keeffe, from Peaky Blinders and Sherlock), a conservation ranger working in the same forest where her younger sister tragically died years earlier, finds her routine disrupted by the unexpected reappearance of Oscar (Aaron McCusker, from Bohemian Rhapsody [+] and Dexter), a former boyfriend. As poachers begin leaving violent marks on the land she fiercely protects, Jen is forced to confront the emotional legacy she has long suppressed.
The cast is rounded off by Andrew Bennett, Simone Kirby, Rory Nolan and Aidan O'Hare. Key creatives include DoP Frank van den Eeden, production designer Emma Lowney, art director Stephen Park and composer Stephen Rennicks.
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Housewife of the Year review: Award-winning documentary unearths the sad stories behind an Irish TV relic
Winner of Best Irish Feature Documentary at the Galway Film Fleadh 2024 -
Production Designer Emma Lowney.
A lesser documentary might have gone down the point-and-snigger route: “Look at this! Can you believe how backward Ireland was in those days?”
Instead, Cassidy uses the Housewife of the Year competition, absurd as it was, as a jumping off point for a look at how generations of women were subjugated by the State and the church – which were basically one and the same entity – sometimes with the collusion of their husbands and parents..
Vivid and moving as their recollections are, there’s a remarkable lack of bitterness here. The Housewife of the Year show may have been a symbol of a repressive society, but some of them look back on it with a certain degree of affection.
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SisterS S1 Airing on AMC & Crave
Premier on AMC 17th May 2023
https://premieredate.news/tv-series/9518-sisters-amc.html
SisterS
SisterS is a dark comedy-drama about two women, born continents apart, in Canada and in Ireland, who discover they are half-sisters and embark on a road trip to find their alcoholic father. The project marks the writing debuts of the real-life best friends Sarah Goldberg and Susan Stanley, who will also star.
SisterS is Irish-Canadian co-production, the IFC original series is produced by Peer Pressure and Shaftesbury, in association with Mermade. AMC Networks’ IFC and streaming service Sundance Now hold the US rights to the series, Crave in Canada, and RTÉ in Ireland. Fremantle will distribute the series in all other territories.
“We are thrilled to be making Sisters, a character-driven comedic drama about how the absence of a parent in childhood can affect life in your thirties, and the macabre humour that can come with trauma,” Goldberg and Stanley said in a statement.
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Production Designer Mark Geraghty, Set Decorator Emma Lowney
Silver charts the story of 17-year-old Liv who moves to London with her mother Ann and little sister Mia. When Liv meets the mysterious Henry, everything changes. He belongs to a secret circle that possesses the ability of ‘lucid dreaming’. But little do they know that the fulfillment of their dreams comes with a high price.
The movie (which has franchise potential given its source material) will be filmed shortly in London and Dublin in German and English. The Prime Video launch is slated for 2023.
Amazon and Constantin last year teamed up on drama series We Children from Bahnhof Zoo, which starred Austrian-Australian actress McKinnon. Krymalowski got her breakout in 2019 box office hit When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit while Rhys Mannion got his feature debut in 2022 SXSW drama It Is In All Of Us. Chaneil Kular is best known for Netflix’s hit series Sex Education.
Constantin is well known for movie franchises including Resident Evil and German hit Fuck You Goethe.
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