Don’t Miss New Irish Drama on RTE supported by Screen Ireland
Posted: 18th August 2021
Screen Ireland is delighted to welcome RTÉ’s new season of programming. The new season promises hours of unmissable homegrown drama.
“We are delighted to welcome RTE’s Autumn programme which includes four new Screen Ireland funded TV dramas - THE DRY, KIN, HIDDEN ASSETS AND SMOTHER SEASON 2. We can’t wait for Irish audiences to have the opportunity to view these knockout Irish TV dramas on RTE created by a wealth of Irish screen talent in front of an behind the camera, all filmed on location in Ireland.
These new Irish dramas will go on to be sold around the world, showcasing Irish stories and talent to audiences around the globe. Screen Ireland is delighted to be working with RTE together with a range of Irish and international producers, broadcasters and financers to support new Irish TV drama. ”
New Irish Drama on RTE
Kin is an eight-part Irish crime drama with a stellar cast including Charlie Cox, Clare Dunne, Aidan Gillen, Ciaran Hinds, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Sam Keeley, Emmet J. Scanlan and Yasmin Seky. A boy is killed. And his family embark on a gangland war with an international cartel, a war that is impossible to win. It’s David and Goliath. Out-numbered, out-financed and out-gunned. The Kinsellas find themselves holed up in their Dublin stronghold while their businesses fail, and family members and associates are picked off. But they have something the cartel does not, the unbreakable bonds of blood and family. A world of drugs and guns and murder and loyalty and family and men.… and a woman. Kin is produced by BRON Studios and Headline Pictures, in association with RTÉ, AMC, Nordic Entertainment Group and Creative Wealth Media with support from Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI).
Hidden Assets is about family, power and the corrosive effects of boundless greed - a story set in Co Clare, small town Ireland and the world’s diamond capital, Antwerp. A routine raid sees the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) expose a link between a wealthy Irish family, a stash of rough diamonds and a series of deadly bombings in Belgium. But nothing is as it seems, as by the book Belgian Chief Inspector Christian De Jong and unexpected CAB Detective Emer Berry are thrown together in a heart-pounding race to halt a further horrifying terror attack in Antwerp. Commissioned by RTÉ and Acorn TV in association with Screen Ireland and Screen Flanders, Hidden Assets is produced by Irish production company Saffron Moon and co-produced by leading Belgian producer Potemkino & Canada’s Facet 4.
The Dry When Shiv Sheridan returns to Dublin after years partying in London, she is sober and just about keeping her herself on track - but being back home with her wonderful (and complicated) family makes staying on ‘the dry’ much harder than she had expected. The Dry is an irreverent, funny, and moving 8x30minutes comedy-drama series by the award-winning Irish screenwriter and playwright Nancy Harris, directed by Paddy Breathnach (Rosie) and produced by Element Pictures. Both hilarious and deeply touching, it aims to be an honest depiction of an Irish family in denial, struggling as best they can through the various mires of loss, grief, addiction and love and surviving it with characteristic humour, one day at a time. Produced by Element Pictures for RTÉ, Britbox and ITV Studios and supported by Fís Eireann/Screen Ireland.
Smother - Series 2 Still picking up the pieces after the death of Denis and the cover up that followed, Val Ahern’s world is rocked once again when a stranger turns up on her doorstep. The stranger introduces himself as Finn - Denis’ estranged son, and his existence is an unwelcome surprise for the family. Abandoned to grow up in foster care in Britain, Finn wants to get to know his family but his appearance coincides with what seems to be an orchestrated campaign against the family, as each of the Ahern daughters has their lives targeted and exposed. As Val’s daughters, initially hostile towards Finn, start to warm to him and invite him into their clan, conflict between the girls and Val ensues. Can Finn break up the family Val has fought so hard to protect? And just what other family secrets has Val buried along the way as she strives to protect the family name? Smother is a Treasure Entertainment and BBC Studios production for RTÉ, in association with the WRAP Fund and Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland.