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.
DERRY GIRLS creator Lisa McGee has vowed to continue to write about the “place I come from, the place I love” as she received the freedom of the city. The writer was awarded the freedom of Derry City and Strabane at a ceremony this week. Ms McGee becomes the first woman to receive the council’s highest honour. It is an “honour and a privilege” to be recognised in a city “steeped in story and full of storytellers,” she said.
THE PATIENT concludes the only way possible: With Domhnall Gleeson strangling Steve Carell to death. After 10 episodes, Gleeson’s character, Sam Fortner—a reticent serial killer with a Kenny Chesney obsession and a day job as a restaurant inspector—reaches the breaking point he was hoping to circumvent. Vanity Fair talked to the actor, whose exciting career has included projects as varied as ABOUT TIME, EX MACHINA and STAR WARS.
LINE OF DUTY star Adrian Dunbar was spotted filming for a new ITV series in Enniskillen this week ahead of his appearance in another Channel 5 series later this month. The Enniskillen native returned to his roots with a visit to the Killyhevlin Lakeside Hotel where he was revealed to be filming for upcoming ITV series DNA JOURNEY, where famous faces delve into their family history. ADRIAN DUNBAR MY IRELAND will see the actor travelling to some of his favourite locations across the island, where viewers will get a ‘rare glimpse’ into his childhood in Enniskillen.
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.
DERRY GIRLS star Nicola Coughlan has been named TV actor of the year at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards 2022. Coughlan has seen a meteoric rise in fame in recent years due to her role in BRIDGERTON where she plays Penelope Featherington. The second season of the show debut on Netflix earlier this year, amassing 193 million viewing hours in its opening weekend.
Irish TV and theatre actress Siobhán Cullen stars as Elvira Clancy, an obituarist working at a small-town newspaper, who suddenly finds herself being paid by the obituary due to cuts. When she “accidentally” kills a nasty piece of work, she discovers she might have an untapped bloodlust, and sets her sights on other unpleasant residents of the town. Her killing spree hits a potential snag when the paper hires an attractive crime correspondent.
Mullingar native Niamh Algar has joined the ranks of the Hollywood elite, starring alongside Florence Pugh in her latest Netflix hit, THE WONDER. When asked what she misses most about home since relocating to the UK, the 30-year-old simply said: ‘the people.’ THE WONDER hits Irish cinemas on November 2 and will be globally available to stream on Netflix from 16 November.