North Sea Connection

Irish crime drama North Sea Connection comes to BBC Four

30 January, 2023

The highly-rated RTÉ crime show North Sea Connection is coming to BBC Four in the UK, with the first two episodes airing from 9pm on Saturday 4 February. It’s an ideal series to take in if you enjoy perilous plot lines set in moody, isolated…

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Hidden Assets season 2 comes to BBC Four

By crimefictionlover

29 November, 2023

Last January, the crime show Hidden Assets was a surprise hit when it aired on BBC Four in the UK. Jointly made by Irish and Belgian production companies, it linked a criminal assets recovery investigator in Shannon with missing diamonds and a bombing in Antwerp,…

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The Red Door season 2: Noir Italiano on Walter Presents

By crimefictionlover

12 September, 2023

Who better to investigate a murder than a murder victim, right? That’s the concept behind the Italian crime show The Red Door – La Porta Rossa – and it’s a good one. In the UK, Channel 4’s foreign crime show streaming service Walter Presents has…

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Unforgotten season 5 comes to PBS Masterpiece

By crimefictionlover

1 August, 2023

With its in-depth and always emotional cold case investigations, Unforgotten is one of the best crime shows to appear on UK television in recent years, and from 3 September 2023 viewers in North America will be able to enjoy the fifth series of the programme….

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Crá: The Irish language crime drama on BBC iPlayer

By crimefictionlover

17 January, 2025

Available on the iPlayer, Crá is an interesting crime show in many respects. While it certainly doesn’t have the production values of a full-on Netflix, HBO or BBC series, it does show us the shadowy side of a little seen part of the world. Set…

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The Gone: Kiwi/Irish crime show comes to BBC Four

By crimefictionlover

11 March, 2024

While the Irish broadcaster RTÉ may not have the resources of the BBC or HBO, it has canny knack for collaborating with producers in other countries to jointly invest in high-quality crime shows. Hidden Assets was surprisingly good, given the unlikely linkup between an Irish…

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Clean Sweep: The Irish crime show comes to BBC Four

By crimefictionlover

26 July, 2023

Back in January we reported on North Sea Connection, which turned out to be one of the most popular crime shows we’ve written about so far this year. If you loved that Irish production, then Clean Sweep might also hold you in its thrall. Arriving…

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The Lock-Up by John Banville

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

25 May, 2023

Detective Inspector Strafford and Doctor Quirke return in The Lock-Up, the third instalment of John Banville’s crime duo series. The story picks up where April in Spain finished and deals with the murder of a young Jewish woman, Rosa Jacobs, in Dublin in the 1950s….

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Irish crime drama North Sea Connection comes to BBC Four

Hidden Assets season 2 comes to BBC Four

The Red Door season 2: Noir Italiano on Walter Presents

Unforgotten season 5 comes to PBS Masterpiece

Crá: The Irish language crime drama on BBC iPlayer

The Gone: Kiwi/Irish crime show comes to BBC Four

Clean Sweep: The Irish crime show comes to BBC Four

The Lock-Up by John Banville

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