The Bord Gáis Energy Theatre was the venue this morning as RTÉ unveiled its autumn TV schedule.
Amy Huberman, Rory Keenan and Neil Morrissey star in Striking Out, an Irish legal system four-parter that with Morrissey on board is likely to follow Red Rock and the back for a second season Bridget & Eamon onto UK screens as well.
Elaine Cassidy plays the lead in Acceptable Risk, a War of Independence drama from the makers of the flawed but popular Rebellion, while My Mother And Other Strangers “follows the fortunes of the Coyne family and their neighbours as they struggle to maintain a normal life after a huge United States Army Air Force airfield with 4,000 service men and women lands in the middle of their rural Northern Irish parish in 1943.” The heavyweight cast includes Mad Men’s Aaron Staton and Hattie Morahan of Beauty And The Beast fame. Writing duties fall to Barry Devlin who continues to moonlight as a member of Horslips.
Actress and playwright Stefanie Preissner makes her TV bow in “six-part, darkly comic drama” Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope, which also features Dollhouse’s Seána Kerslake and Nika McGuigan who was previously to be seen in Philomena.
The comedic offerings don’t end there with a second series of the Rubberbandits Guides and the new Des Bishop: This Is Ireland.
Body dysmorphia, drug culture, online bullying and transgenderism will be examined in Vogue Williams – On The Edge while author Louise O’Neill fronts Reality Bites: Asking For It, which delves into the subject of sexual consent.
Pauline McLynn presents Painting The Nation, an eight-part search for Ireland’s finest amateur Leonardo da Vinci while the Irish East Enders spin-off, Redwater, and Dancing With The Stars are sure to be big ratings-grabbers.
There are also new vehicles for Tommy Tiernan and Nathan Carter, while Enda Kenny gets the documentary treatment.