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Bloodlands (TV Series)
''Bloodlands'' is a police procedural television series set in Northern Ireland that premiered on BBC One on 21 February 2021. It was created by Chris Brandon and developed by HTM Television, a joint venture between Hat Trick Productions and the producer Jed Mercurio. The show was renewed for a second series on 14 March 2021, with filming commencing in February 2022. ''Bloodlands'' was filmed mainly in the rural area around Strangford Lough in the east of Northern Ireland. Cast * James Nesbitt as DCI Tom Brannick * Lorcan Cranitch as DCS Jackie Twomey * Charlene McKenna as DS Niamh McGovern * Chris Walley as DC Billy “Birdy” Bird * Lola Petticrew as Izzy Brannick Series 1 * Michael Smiley as Justin “Dinger” Bell * Susan Lynch as DCI Heather Pentland * Ian McElhinney as Adam Corry * Lisa Dwan as Tori Matthews * Peter Ballance as Patrick Keenan * Kathy Kiera Clarke as Claire Keenan * Cara Kelly as Siobhan Harkin * Caolan Byrne as Ben McFarland * Valerie Lilley a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Drama
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as drama or gangster film, but also include comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as mystery, suspense or noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" explaining that these categories are additive rather than exclusionary. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC One
BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's flagship network and is known for broadcasting mainstream programming, which includes BBC News television bulletins, primetime drama and entertainment, and live BBC Sport events. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution. It was renamed BBC TV in 1960 and used this name until the launch of the second BBC channel, BBC2, in 1964. The main channel then became known as BBC1. The channel adopted the current spelling of BBC One in 1997. The channel's annual budget for 2012–2013 was £1.14 billion. It is funded by the television licence fee together with the BBC's other domestic television stations and shows uninterrupted programming without commercial advertising. The television channel had the highest reach share of any broadcaster in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digital Spy
Digital Spy (DS) is a British-based entertainment, television and film website and brand and is the largest digital property at Hearst UK. Since its launch in 1999, Digital Spy has focused on entertainment news related to television programmes, films, music and show business to a global audience. As well as breaking news, in-depth features, reviews and editorial explainers, the site also features the DS Forum. History digiNews (1999) In early January 1999, Iain Chapman launched the digiNEWS website, providing news, rumours and information on Sky's new digital satellite platform SkyDigital. At the same time, Chris Butcher launched the ONfaq website, offering similar news and information on the UK's new digital terrestrial platform ONdigital. Both sites proved to be popular, attracting a lot of attention from visitors eager for more news about these rapidly developing TV platforms. Very soon Chapman and Butcher discussed the idea of a merger of the two sites, to create the dig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor stage performance, the original inspiration comes from a scene featuring tomatoes in the Canadian film '' Léolo'' (1992). Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. History Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His objective in creating Rotten Tomatoes was "to create a site where people can get access to review ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Review Aggregator
A review aggregator is a system that collects reviews of products and services (such as films, books, video games, software, hardware, and cars). This system stores the reviews and uses them for purposes such as supporting a website where users can view the reviews, selling information to third parties about consumer tendencies, and creating databases for companies to learn about their actual and potential customers. The system enables users to easily compare many different reviews of the same work. Many of these systems calculate an approximate average assessment, usually based on assigning a numeric value to each review related to its degree of positive rating of the work. Review aggregation sites have begun to have economic effects on the companies that create or manufacture items under review, especially in certain categories such as electronic games, which are expensive to purchase. Some companies have tied royalty payment rates and employee bonuses to aggregate scores, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diarmaid Murtagh
Diarmaid Murtagh (born 28 July 1982) is an Irish actor. He portrayed Leif in the 2013 historical drama television series '' Vikings'', Dimitri in ''Dracula Untold'' (2014) and Captain Harpen in '' The Monuments Men'' (2014). Biography Murtagh was born on 28 July 1982 in Kingscourt, Republic of Ireland. He first appeared in the 2007 Irish soap opera ''Ros na Rún''. His debut film role was as Captain Harpen in the George Clooney's 2014 war film '' The Monuments Men''. Murtagh played convict Frank Mitchell in the 2019 film ''The Krays' Mad Axeman''. He is currently starring in '' Troy: Fall of a City'' as Hermes Hermes (; grc-gre, Ἑρμῆς) is an Olympian deity in ancient Greek religion and mythology. Hermes is considered the herald of the gods. He is also considered the protector of human heralds, travellers, thieves, merchants, and orator ..., messenger of Olympus. He is currently featured as “Connor” in the Netflix sci fi drama ''The one''. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Smurfit
Victoria Smurfit (born 31 March 1974) is an Irish actress. She is known for playing Orla O'Connell in the BBC television series ''Ballykissangel'', Detective Chief Inspector Roisin Connor in the ITV police procedural '' Trial & Retribution'' and Cruella de Vil in '' Once Upon a Time'' for which she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress in 13th IFTA Film & Drama Awards in 2016. Early life Victoria Smurfit is part of the Smurfit family which, through Smurfit Kappa, is one of the richest in Ireland. The family, headed by Victoria's uncle Michael Smurfit, sponsors a number of sporting events including the Smurfit European Open and the Champion Hurdle. The family is also associated with Smurfit Business School in University College Dublin (UCD). Smurfit studied for an A-level in theatre studies and subsequently went onto the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Career Smurfit gained fame for her role as Orla O'Connell in the BBC television series ''Ballykissangel'' from 1998 to 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerie Lilley
Valerie Lilley (born 14 April 1939) is a Northern Irish actress who has played many television roles on dramas such as '' Doctors'' and ''Grange Hill''. Lilley most recently appeared in BBC1's '' Casualty'' as Daisy Fennings. Prior to that Channel 4's comedy drama '' Shameless'' portraying Patty Croker (2010–2012). She also appeared briefly in a stretch on the '' Catherine Tate Show'' Lilley trained with Joan Littlewood's Arts Workshop in London during the early sixties and received an early boost, which included appearing alongside Stephen Rea. She spent many years as a stage actress throughout the UK. In 1982, she took a minor role in another local television play, Stewart Parker's ''Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain'', starring Frances Tomelty Frances Tomelty (born 6 October 1948) is a Northern Irish actress whose numerous television credits include ''Strangers'' (1978–1979), '' Testament of Youth'' (1979), ''Inspector Morse'' (1988), ''Cracker'' (1993), '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy Kiera Clarke
Kathy Kiera Clarke (possibly Keira) is a Northern Irish actress. She is best known for her role as Aunt Sarah in ''Derry Girls''. Career Film and television Clarke's first television role was as Bernadette Brennan in '' Head over Heels'' in 1993. In 1995, she appeared in an episode of ''Chandler & Co'' as Poppy Farquhar. She appeared as Rosemary in the 1996 film '' Eskimo Day.'' In 2000, she played Rosie in the film ''The Most Fertile Man in Ireland'' and a production assistant in the film '' Wild About Harry''. She also played Anna Le Page in the television series, '' Take a Girl Like You''. In 2002, Clarke played Frances in ''Bloody Sunday''. In 2003, she played Nicola Blyth in the film ''Solid Air''. In 2004, Clarke appeared as Una in the comedy series ''Pulling Moves''. She played Elizabeth Gibson in the film ''Omagh'' and played Jenifer Gaghan in two episodes of ''Silent Witness''. In 2005, she played Sinead in four episodes of ''Proof''. In 2006, she played Agnes in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Lynch
Susan Lynch (born 5 June 1971) is a Northern Irish actress. three-times an IFTA Award winner, she also won the British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 2003 film ''16 Years of Alcohol''. Her other film appearances include ''Waking Ned'' (1998), '' Nora'' (2000), '' Beautiful Creatures'' (2000), and '' From Hell'' (2001). In 2020, she was listed as number 42 on ''The Irish Times'' list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Early life Lynch was born in Corrinshego, County Armagh, Northern Ireland to an Italian mother (from Trivento) and an Irish father.Flint Marx, RebeccaSusan Lynch Biography", allrovi.com; retrieved 15 August 2011. She has four siblings; her oldest brother is actor John Lynch. Career She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, and in August 2004, she starred in ''The Night Season'' at the Royal National Theatre in London. In 2008, she was one of the leads in '' The Last Days of Judas Iscariot'' at the Almeida Theatre. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label=Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is #Descriptions, variously described as a country, province or region. Northern Ireland shares Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border, an open border to the south and west with the Republic of Ireland. In 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021, its population was 1,903,100, making up about 27% of Ireland#Demographics, Ireland's population and about 3% of the Demography of the United Kingdom#Population, UK's population. The Northern Ireland Assembly (colloquially referred to as Stormont Estate, Stormont after its location), established by the Northern Ireland Act 1998, holds responsibility for a range of Devolution, devolved policy matters, while other areas are reserved for the Government of the United Kingdom, UK Government. Northern Ireland cooperates with the Republic of Irelan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strangford Lough
Strangford Lough (from Old Norse ''Strangr Fjörðr'', meaning "strong sea-inlet"PlaceNames NI - Strangford Lough) is a large sea or in , in the east of . It is the largest inlet in Ireland and the |
