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Not to be outdone by her Derry Girls pal Nicola Coughlan stealing the Bridgerton honours, Saoirse-Monica Jackson has bagged a role in the new DC movie, The Flash. The comic book adaptation is due to hit screens in 2022 by which time Jackson, AKA Erin Quinn, will hopefully have finished filming the third series of the aforementioned IFTA-winning comedy, which has been delayed by Covid…

Talking of Bridgerton, Calam Lynch is the latest Irish thesp to land a role in the Netflix bonkbuster, which has just reconvened for the shooting of season two.
Having previously featured in Dunkirk and the Prom episode of Derry Girls, he’s set to play Theo Sharpe, a printer’s assistant and proto social justice warrior. An Oxford University graduate, Lynch is appearing too in the upcoming Terence Davies film, Benediction, about English poet, writer and soldier Siegfried Sassoon…

Also signing up to a new DC movie project, Black Adam, is Pearse Brosnan who’s playing Doctor Fate opposite Dwayne Johnson…

Black Panther star Letitia Wright has bagged the lead in Provision, the story of a young woman fleeing persecution in Nigeria who ends up in Ireland’s Direct Provision system. Fellow Hollywood heavyweight Josh O’Connor features as a sympathetic security guard in the latest film from Michael Inside director Frank Berry…

There’s going to be one more series of Killing Eve for The Phantom’s pal David Holmes to soundtrack. As with the previous three seasons, there’s a new writer in the much-garlanded shape of Laura Neal whose credits include Sex Education and Secret Diary Of A Call Girl. Shooting commences early in the summer, with a provisional spring 2022 transmission date…

Norn Iron writing duo Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn follow up The Salisbury Poisonings with Blue Lights, a police procedural about rookie cops in Belfast. It’s described by the BBC as a “fast-paced, frightening, and funny insight into what happens when the idealism of the police college classroom meets the reality of life, in a precinct that’s as starkly divided as it is terrifyingly dangerous”…

The company who brought you Peaky Blinders, Tiger Aspect, have acquired the film and TV rights to Louise O’Neill’s After The Silence thriller, which was published last year. It follows a documentary crew’s attempts to find out exactly what happened ten years ago when a young girl died at a high society party…

Censor, a new independent Irish horror starring Niamh Algar, will (fingers and all other protrusions crossed) receive its domestic and UK release on July 2 courtesy of those nice Vertigo Releasing people. A big hit at the Sundance festival, the “love letter to the VHS ‘video nasty’ horror classics of the past” focuses on a female film censor shocked by the parallels between a new movie and the earlier mysterious disappearance of her sister…

Model and actress Nadia Forde has created The Lido, a new RTÉ comedy set in a 1980s Italian-run Dublin chipper. Based on Nadia’s family experiences, the lead writer is Rioghnach Ní Ghrioghair who with her director’s hat on recently managed to wrap her own short, Don’t Go Where I Can’t Find You, in February…

Following on from past roles in Vikings, Game Of Thrones and Black 47, Laurence O Fuarain steps it up a gear with a starring turn in Netflix’s The Witcher: Blood Origin. As previously revealed by The Phantom, the showrunner is Declan de Barra, a Waterford musician and screenwriter who’s arrived in Hollywood via-Australia...

Poldark and Ripper Street man Eoin Lynch has joined the cast of The Power, Amazon’s 10-part adaptation of the cult Naomi Power sci-fi novel of the same name. Also on board as one of the directors is Neasa Hardiman whose CV includes Jessica Jones and Happy Valley.