Red Rock
Coming to BBC Daytime Red Rock is an award-winning Irish drama series (40 x 40 minute episodes) from All3Media International, produced by Element Pictures and Company Pictures.
Published: 16 June 2016
Daytime viewers are in for a treat with Red Rock. It's a compelling new police drama set in Ireland with plenty of twists and turns.
Charting the life and dramas of a community, through the eyes of those who police it...
Coming to BBC Daytime Red Rock is an award-winning Irish drama series (40 x 40 minute episodes) from All3Media International, produced by Element Pictures and Company Pictures.
Dawn. A harbour town. The lights of Dublin in the distance.
A grey fish factory. Seafront apartments. The main street peppered with To Let signs.
The Ridge council estate, once a beacon of hope. Now battling age and neglect - and losing. Only a mile away, large detached houses. Sea views and four-wheel drives.
Trawlers, swaying in oil-stained water. On the pier, an untidy pile of nets and brightly coloured buoys.
Tangled up in the nets, face down, a young man. Eye swollen over. Face bruised and bloodied. Lip split open. Impossible to tell if he is breathing.
And so begins Red Rock...
... A continuing drama based around a busy Garda station, just removed from the big city. Starting on the day a long-dormant feud between two local families is brutally reignited.
On one side, the Hennessys. A local dynasty, whose name is above half the businesses in town. On the other the Kielys, former trawler-men, who have turned petty crime into a cottage industry.
Red Rock charts the life and dramas of a community, through the eyes of those who police it.
Dan McGolpin, Controller of BBC Daytime, says: “Daytime viewers are in for a treat with Red Rock. It's a compelling new police drama set in Ireland with plenty of twists and turns.”
Created by Executive Producer Peter McKenna, whose drama writing credits include Casualty, EastEnders, The Musketeers (all BBC) and Fair City (RTE). The Series Producers are Hugh Farley, Gareth Philips and Paula Heffernan, with Lauren Mackenzie and Trevor Colgan as Story Producers.
For character descriptions, photos and cast interviews, download the full press pack here
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