'Taken Down' police drama starts on RTÉ

RTÉ's latest police procedural Taken Down began this week. The six-part series is set in Dublin and involves asylum seekers and a murky underworld of trafficking and prostitution.

New Karen Perry novel already set for TV

Karen Perry’s latest thriller, Your Closest Friend (2018), has been optioned for UK television. It takes place in London on the night of a terror attack:

'Love/Hate' team shoot new drama in Dublin

The team behind RTÉ's Love/Hate series have started filming Taken Down, a new Irish crime drama set in Dublin.

Spiral Pictures' Stuart Carolan, Love/Hate director David Caffrey and executive producer Suzanne McAuley have been  joined by crime fiction writer Jo Spain.

The cast includes Lynn Rafferty (above) who played Nadine in Love/Hate, as well as Brian Gleeson, Orla Fitzgerald and Barry Ward. Rafferty plays a detective  investigating the death of a young Nigerian migrant close to a Direct Provision centre.

BBC green light for Tana French drama series

The BBC has given the green light for an eight-part adaptation of Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series of novels. Deadline reports that filming will begin in Dublin and Belfast next year. Euston Films and Veritas Entertainment Group optioned the rights in 2015 and have joined up with Irish production company Element Pictures.

Tom Vaughn-Lawlor in 'Maze' drama

Video: Chris O'Dowd in latest 'Get Shorty'

Chris O'Dowd and Ray Romano are set to star in the 10-episode reimagining of Elmore Leonard's thriller comedy novel Get Shorty, and Epix has just released the official trailer.

Irish film 'Sacred Deer' is big hit in Cannes

Revenge movie The Killing of a Sacred Deer has been a big hit with the critics at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and the Irish production from Element Pictures has already been tipped as a Palme d’Or contender.

'Cardboard Gangsters' trailer

Cardboard Gangsters, Mark O'Connor's gritty new Dublin drama starring and co-written with John Connors, is out in Irish cinemas on 16 June. It follows a group of wannabe "cardboard gangsters" trying to gain control of the drugs trade in Darndale.

David Hare pens BBC's new London thriller

Leading playwright David Hare is behind the BBC's new four-part thriller Collateral, starring Carey Mulligan, John Simm, Nicola Walker and Billie Piper.

Liam Neeson set to play Philip Marlowe

Variety has revealed that Liam Neeson is to play Philip Marlowe in the screen adaptation of The Black-Eyed Blonde. John Banville's novel - writing as Benjamin Black - is based on the iconic private eye character originally created by  Raymond Chandler.

Ben Wheatley and Cillian Murphy on 'Free Fire'

Scannain recently interviewed director Ben Wheatley and actor Cillian Murphy at the Dublin International Film Festival about their new black comedy thriller Free Fire.

Stuart Neville pens 'Haylen Beck' thriller

Award-winning writer Stuart Neville upcoming thriller Here and Gone will be published under the pseudonym Haylen Beck.

Liam Neeson lined up for 'Widows' remake

Liam Neeson is in talks to star in Steve McQueen's remake of Widows.

Stefanie Martini stars in 'Prime Suspect' prequel

Stefanie Martini, Sam Reid and Blake Harrison star in the prequel Prime Suspect: 1973. Martini, who has also appeared in Endeavour and Emerald City, will play a 22-year-old Jane Tennison at the start of her career in the Metropolitan Police.

Len Deighton’s 'SS-GB' begins this week

The BBC's adapatation of Len Deighton’s 1978 alternate history novel SS-GB begins on BBC One next Sunday, 19 February at 9pm.

Lars Mikkelsen in major Eurocrime series

Lars Mikkelsen (The Killing) returns to our screens in six-part pan-European crime drama The Team on More 4 and Walter Presents from 17 February.

Ardal O'Hanlon stays on in 'Death in Paradise'

Ardal O'Hanlon is to stay on as the latest lead detective in BBC One’s crime drama series Death in Paradise.

Brendan Gleeson in new Stephen King thriller

Irish actor Brendan Gleeson heads the cast of Mr. Mercedes, a new 10-part series based on Stephen King's hardboiled detective novel of the same name.

Karen Perry novel 'Girl Unknown' for TV

Tiger Aspect, the people behind BBC gangster saga Peaky Blinders, are planning a TV series based on the "Karen Perry" novel Girl Unknown, the psychological thriller by writing duo Paul Perry and Karen Gillece.

Meanwhile the Irish Times reports that the Dublin-based duo are also working with Irish film company Subotica on the adaptation of their first novel together, The Boy That Never Was.

'T2: Trainspotting' official trailer

T2: Trainspotting is set 20 years after the original Trainspotting film, with the same main characters and cast (Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle and Kelly MacDonald), and director Danny Boyle.