They include The Catfish Killer, a documentary telling the story of how a young Newry man, Alexander McCartney, became one of the world’s most prolific online predators. Told from multiple perspectives, the series includes exclusive access to the international investigating teams, led by the PSNI, along with revealing interviews with some of those who were exploited and abused by McCartney, and whose brave actions brought about his dramatic downfall. The Brighton Bomb, another new documentary from the makers of Once Upon A Time In Northern Ireland, will be released soon to mark the 40th anniversary of one of the IRA’s most significant attacks on mainland Britain.
It will feature testimony from people whose lives were deeply affected by the events, many of whom have never spoken before, as well as an in-depth interview with former IRA bomber Patrick Magee. Magee planted the bomb three weeks before the Conservative Party Conference, and it lay set to explode, hidden behind a bathtub in the Grand Hotel in Brighton before killing five people and injuring over 30, in October 1984. Moving on to local drama — Hope Street, set in the fictional town of Port Devine on the Northern Ireland coast, is back for series four and the police department is moving to new headquarters.
Derry Girls star Tara Lynne O’Neill is among the new names joining the cast of this series alongside Marcus Onilude from worldwide phenomenon show, Ted Lasso. In comedy, “culchie craic” show Funboys wil.