In 2023, Blue Lights offered a breath of fresh air in a crowded market of police dramas, a back-to-basics procedural that offered a nuanced look into its characters' lives. The genre's glut, which alone in the US comprised over a quarter of all new cable offerings in 2020, is an attestation to an interest in stories of intrigue, whodunnit crime-solving, and, in a less desirable quality, to see harm inflicted upon others through the safety of the TV screen. Whatever the psychological impetus for such a fascination with cop shows -- thanks in large part to the ongoing Dick Wolf properties -- there's too much and not enough -- at least in the sense of characters in whom the audience can develop a semblance of understanding.
The meat-of-the-week murders are all well and good when broaching such topical subjects as AI (a recent Law & Order episode) or deepfakes (another recent Law & Order...
The meat-of-the-week murders are all well and good when broaching such topical subjects as AI (a recent Law & Order episode) or deepfakes (another recent Law & Order...
- 6/13/2024
- by Howard Waldstein
- CBR
The BBC has released the trailer for series two of the hit Belfast-based police drama ‘Blue Lights.’
Co-created and written by Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson and produced by Two Cities Television, Blue Lights is an authentic, gripping and darkly funny drama about ordinary people doing an extraordinary job.
Series one, which aired in March last year, followed three new Psni probationary recruits as they navigated their way through their first few months in a uniquely complex place to be a response police officer. It was recently commissioned for two more series.
Reprising their roles in the forthcoming second series are Siân Brooke (Grace Ellis), Martin McCann (Stevie Neil), Katherine Devlin (Annie Conlon), Nathan Braniff (Tommy Foster), Joanne Crawford (Helen McNally), Andi Osho (Sandra Cliff), and Hannah McClean (Jen Robinson).
Also set to return are Paddy Jenkins (Happy Kelly), Desmond Eastwood (Murray Canning), Jonathan Harden (Jonty) and Andrea Irvine (Nicola Robinson...
Co-created and written by Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson and produced by Two Cities Television, Blue Lights is an authentic, gripping and darkly funny drama about ordinary people doing an extraordinary job.
Series one, which aired in March last year, followed three new Psni probationary recruits as they navigated their way through their first few months in a uniquely complex place to be a response police officer. It was recently commissioned for two more series.
Reprising their roles in the forthcoming second series are Siân Brooke (Grace Ellis), Martin McCann (Stevie Neil), Katherine Devlin (Annie Conlon), Nathan Braniff (Tommy Foster), Joanne Crawford (Helen McNally), Andi Osho (Sandra Cliff), and Hannah McClean (Jen Robinson).
Also set to return are Paddy Jenkins (Happy Kelly), Desmond Eastwood (Murray Canning), Jonathan Harden (Jonty) and Andrea Irvine (Nicola Robinson...
- 3/29/2024
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Los Angeles, Jan 30 (Ians) Oscar-nominated actor James Martin said that he is returning to his day job after starring in ‘An Irish Goodbye’.
The star, who has Down’s Syndrome, worked at Starbucks in Belfast before starring in the short film, reports mirror.co.uk.
The 30-year-old said that he “helps out all the customers” and that he’s been “doing that a long time.”
“It’s nice,” he explained.
James played one of two brothers who are brought together by their mother’s death. The film is nominated in the Best Short Film category at the Oscars.
He also worked as a chef in the Italian restaurant Scalini’s.
“I can make garlic bread, meatballs, salads and mussels, chips and stuff like that,” he added.
The actor discussed acting with Down’s syndrome and said “anybody can act” and it “doesn’t matter if you have Down’s syndrome.
The star, who has Down’s Syndrome, worked at Starbucks in Belfast before starring in the short film, reports mirror.co.uk.
The 30-year-old said that he “helps out all the customers” and that he’s been “doing that a long time.”
“It’s nice,” he explained.
James played one of two brothers who are brought together by their mother’s death. The film is nominated in the Best Short Film category at the Oscars.
He also worked as a chef in the Italian restaurant Scalini’s.
“I can make garlic bread, meatballs, salads and mussels, chips and stuff like that,” he added.
The actor discussed acting with Down’s syndrome and said “anybody can act” and it “doesn’t matter if you have Down’s syndrome.
- 2/1/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Los Angeles, Jan 30 (Ians) Oscar-nominated actor James Martin said that he is returning to his day job after starring in ‘An Irish Goodbye’.
The star, who has Down’s Syndrome, worked at Starbucks in Belfast before starring in the short film, reports mirror.co.uk.
The 30-year-old said that he “helps out all the customers” and that he’s been “doing that a long time.”
“It’s nice,” he explained.
James played one of two brothers who are brought together by their mother’s death. The film is nominated in the Best Short Film category at the Oscars.
He also worked as a chef in the Italian restaurant Scalini’s.
“I can make garlic bread, meatballs, salads and mussels, chips and stuff like that,” he added.
The actor discussed acting with Down’s syndrome and said “anybody can act” and it “doesn’t matter if you have Down’s syndrome.
The star, who has Down’s Syndrome, worked at Starbucks in Belfast before starring in the short film, reports mirror.co.uk.
The 30-year-old said that he “helps out all the customers” and that he’s been “doing that a long time.”
“It’s nice,” he explained.
James played one of two brothers who are brought together by their mother’s death. The film is nominated in the Best Short Film category at the Oscars.
He also worked as a chef in the Italian restaurant Scalini’s.
“I can make garlic bread, meatballs, salads and mussels, chips and stuff like that,” he added.
The actor discussed acting with Down’s syndrome and said “anybody can act” and it “doesn’t matter if you have Down’s syndrome.
- 2/1/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Los Angeles, Jan 30 (Ians) Oscar-nominated actor James Martin said that he is returning to his day job after starring in ‘An Irish Goodbye’.
The star, who has Down’s Syndrome, worked at Starbucks in Belfast before starring in the short film, reports mirror.co.uk.
The 30-year-old said that he “helps out all the customers” and that he’s been “doing that a long time.”
“It’s nice,” he explained.
James played one of two brothers who are brought together by their mother’s death. The film is nominated in the Best Short Film category at the Oscars.
He also worked as a chef in the Italian restaurant Scalini’s.
“I can make garlic bread, meatballs, salads and mussels, chips and stuff like that,” he added.
The actor discussed acting with Down’s syndrome and said “anybody can act” and it “doesn’t matter if you have Down’s syndrome.
The star, who has Down’s Syndrome, worked at Starbucks in Belfast before starring in the short film, reports mirror.co.uk.
The 30-year-old said that he “helps out all the customers” and that he’s been “doing that a long time.”
“It’s nice,” he explained.
James played one of two brothers who are brought together by their mother’s death. The film is nominated in the Best Short Film category at the Oscars.
He also worked as a chef in the Italian restaurant Scalini’s.
“I can make garlic bread, meatballs, salads and mussels, chips and stuff like that,” he added.
The actor discussed acting with Down’s syndrome and said “anybody can act” and it “doesn’t matter if you have Down’s syndrome.
- 2/1/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Los Angeles, Jan 30 (Ians) Oscar-nominated actor James Martin said that he is returning to his day job after starring in ‘An Irish Goodbye’.
The star, who has Down’s Syndrome, worked at Starbucks in Belfast before starring in the short film, reports mirror.co.uk.
The 30-year-old said that he “helps out all the customers” and that he’s been “doing that a long time.”
“It’s nice,” he explained.
James played one of two brothers who are brought together by their mother’s death. The film is nominated in the Best Short Film category at the Oscars.
He also worked as a chef in the Italian restaurant Scalini’s.
“I can make garlic bread, meatballs, salads and mussels, chips and stuff like that,” he added.
The actor discussed acting with Down’s syndrome and said “anybody can act” and it “doesn’t matter if you have Down’s syndrome.
The star, who has Down’s Syndrome, worked at Starbucks in Belfast before starring in the short film, reports mirror.co.uk.
The 30-year-old said that he “helps out all the customers” and that he’s been “doing that a long time.”
“It’s nice,” he explained.
James played one of two brothers who are brought together by their mother’s death. The film is nominated in the Best Short Film category at the Oscars.
He also worked as a chef in the Italian restaurant Scalini’s.
“I can make garlic bread, meatballs, salads and mussels, chips and stuff like that,” he added.
The actor discussed acting with Down’s syndrome and said “anybody can act” and it “doesn’t matter if you have Down’s syndrome.
- 2/1/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Los Angeles, Jan 30 (Ians) Oscar-nominated actor James Martin said that he is returning to his day job after starring in ‘An Irish Goodbye’.
The star, who has Down’s Syndrome, worked at Starbucks in Belfast before starring in the short film, reports mirror.co.uk.
The 30-year-old said that he “helps out all the customers” and that he’s been “doing that a long time.”
“It’s nice,” he explained.
James played one of two brothers who are brought together by their mother’s death. The film is nominated in the Best Short Film category at the Oscars.
He also worked as a chef in the Italian restaurant Scalini’s.
“I can make garlic bread, meatballs, salads and mussels, chips and stuff like that,” he added.
The actor discussed acting with Down’s syndrome and said “anybody can act” and it “doesn’t matter if you have Down’s syndrome.
The star, who has Down’s Syndrome, worked at Starbucks in Belfast before starring in the short film, reports mirror.co.uk.
The 30-year-old said that he “helps out all the customers” and that he’s been “doing that a long time.”
“It’s nice,” he explained.
James played one of two brothers who are brought together by their mother’s death. The film is nominated in the Best Short Film category at the Oscars.
He also worked as a chef in the Italian restaurant Scalini’s.
“I can make garlic bread, meatballs, salads and mussels, chips and stuff like that,” he added.
The actor discussed acting with Down’s syndrome and said “anybody can act” and it “doesn’t matter if you have Down’s syndrome.
- 2/1/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Longtime collaborators Tom Berkeley and Ross White, working collectively under the Floodlight Pictures banner, are currently in the running for an Academy Award and have also been nominated for this year’s BAFTAs with their heartwarming, laugh out loud comedy short An Irish Goodbye. This second film from the co-writer/director duo follows two very different embittered brothers dealing with the death of their matriarch and struggling to leave their Irish homestead. With cracking shots of rural landscape framing their final hurrah to bid farewell to the farm they grew up on, Seamus O’Hara and James Martin brilliantly embody the fractious brothers, with wry injections of genius from Paddy Jenkins and Micelle Harley’s soothing narration An Irish Goodbye is a balm for the soul. Berkeley and White smoothly tread the line of delicacy in dealing with grief whilst goading audiences to revel in the, often dark, but hilarious situations the brothers find themselves in.
- 1/17/2023
- by Sarah Smith
- Directors Notes
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