SPOTLIGHT ON BRAND NEW CRIME MYSTERY IRISH BLOOD WITH ALICIA SILVERSTONE AND JASON O'MARA STARTING NEXT WEEK ON ACORN

  IRISH BLOOD SERIES 

HITTING ACORN TV AS SOON AS TOMORROW

First new TV series to open the scorching new August week tomorrow is IRISH BLOOD, a six part original crime series from Acorn TV which launches August 11th with Alicia Silverstone in the lead role. Acorn's Art Detectives with

Irish Blood starts August 11th on Acorn

 Stephen Moyer has earlier this year become their best viewed new series in many years. Their upcoming new series include Murder Before Evensong with Matthew Lewis and Allie & Andi with Brooke Shields.

 

 THIS MURDER MYSTERY

focuses on Fiona (Silverstone), whose path in life is earmarked by her father, Declan (Jason O'Mara), who seemingly abandoned her and her mother on her tenth birthday. After years of channeling anger toward him, to the benefit of her litigious clients, a message from her father sends her to Ireland. There she learns key truths about her father as well as a family that doesn't know she exists, and, moreover, that the story of abandonment that has shaped her entire life - was a lie. A lie intended to protect her and her mother from her father's shady business dealings. Fiona resolves to uncover the full truth about her father and reconnect with the parent she only thought she knew.

 

JASON O'MARA JOINS JAMIE DORNAN IN WAR DRAMA 'JADOTVILLE'! SAM CLAFLIN, GEMMA ARTERTON, BILL NIGHY JOIN WW2 ROMANTIC COMEDY 'THEIR FINEST HOUR AND A HALF'

JASON O'MARA JOINS

JAMIE DORNAN IN 'JADOTVILLE'

It really can't get hunkier than this: 'Deadline' reports today that TERRA NOVA and SONS OF LIBERTY star Jason O'Mara has joined THE FALL and NEW WORLDS star Jamie Dornan in JADOTVILLE! The movie will follow the 1961 siege of 150 UN Irish troops, led by Dornan's character, in the Congo after the murder of leader Patrice Lumumba by pro-western leader Moise Tshombe. His battalion held out against a force of 3,000 local troops led by French and Belgian mercenaries working for the mining companies. O’Mara will play Sgt. Jack “Sarge” Prendergast, Dornan’s right-hand man.

Jason O'Mara will also lead USA Networks' new series COMPLI- CATIONS, playing a disillusioned suburban ER doctor who finds his existence transformed when he intervenes in a drive-by shooting, saving a young boy’s life and killing one of his attackers.

'THEIR FINEST HOUR AND A HALF' 

SAM CLAFLIN, GEMMA ARTERTON, BILL NIGHY JOIN WW2 MOVIE

Another lovely casting will be seen in the movie adaptation of Lissa Evans’s 2009 novel THEIR FINEST HOUR AND A HALF set in early 1940s World War II London! British stars Sam Claflin, Gemma Arterton and Bill Nighy will star in Lone Scherfig's romantic comedy imbued with the screwball repartee of classic Hollywood of the time! THEIR FINEST HOUR AND A HALF is a battle of the sexes that follows the misadventures of a British movie crew trying to make a patriotic film to boost morale during the Blitz.

CHARACTER PHOTOS AND SPOTLIGHT ON HISTORY'S EPIC MINI TV SERIES 'SONS OF LIBERTY' WITH BEN BARNES, JASON O'MARA, RAFE SPALL, MARTON CSOKAS

  HISTORY'S 'SONS OF LIBERTY'

SERIES CHARACTER IMAGES

Still no movie news to share with you after the festive period, so I will entertain you today with the spotlight on upcoming new historical mini series SONS OF LIBERTY which is opening its first episode at History Channel on Sunday January 25th in a three night event set in the American Revolutionary War era with the second and third episode airing on Monday and Tuesday! Directed by Kari Skogland, the epic series will have its music composed by Oscar winner Hans Zimmer.

  THE STORY OF REVOLUTION

REBELS BECOME HEROES

The six hour show will revolve around a defiant and radical group of young men – Sam Adams (Ben Barnes), a natural born leader who accidentally sets in motion the revolution while trying to clear his debts and the unrest he triggers leads to unexpected consequences, John Adams (Henry Thomas), a lawyer and Sam's conservative, smart cousin, Paul Revere (Michael Raymond James), a veteran who wholeheartedly joins forces with Sam Adams, John Hancock (Rafe Spall), the wealthiest man in Boston at the time who joins the group after the British try to destroy his merchant fleet of ships, and Joseph Warren (Ryan Eggold), a doctor and man of conscience and integrity, – as they band together in secrecy to change the course of history and make America a nation. TERRA NOVA'S Jason O'Mara will play George Washington, a former British Army officer, who has become a farmer in Virginia and one of the most respected men in his colony whose advice sets some of the groundwork for what will become the legendary Colonial Army, while Dean Norris is portraying brilliant yet mischievous Benjamin Franklin, and Marton Csokas will be General Thomas Gage who is sent to handle the colonial unrest in Boston. The brutal tactics he employs put the city on edge and his soldiers actions ultimately light the fuse on a rebellion that cannot be stopped. Emily Berrington will play his wife Margaret, who stuck in the abusive marriage, eventually provides the SONS OF LIBERTY with some of their most useful intelligence in their early clashes with the British.