Young Offenders
It's the Irish television mash-up the world has been waiting for. Paul Mescal, the breakout star of BBC hit Normal People gets to meet the stars of BBC Three comedy The Young Offenders, actors Alex Murphy and Chris Walley.
While Mescal looks pretty much the same as his character and even wears a necklace, Murphy and Walley look nothing like thier characters without those haircuts...
If recent hit Normal People offered one slice of young Irish life, The Young Offenders offers a very different one. This hit series homes in on what you might politely call the rougher side of Irish life, following the misadventures of Conor MacSweeney (Alex Murphy) and Jock O'Keeffe (Chris Walley) whose dodgy antics in Cork are as misguided as their extreme bowlcut hairstyles.
The hit Irish comedy from producers Vico Films will be back on BBC Three for a third series in the New Year. Created by Peter Foott, The Young Offenders tells the coming of age adventures of Conor (Alex Murphy) & Jock (Chris Walley) and their mother/guardian Mairead (Hilary Rose) as she tries to keep them on the straight and narrow.
Filming is under way in Cork for the new series of the BBC Three comedy The Young Offenders. Series 2 follows on from hugely successful BBC Three series and will see the return of loveable rogues Conor (Alex Murphy) and Jock (Chris Walley).
Every time a new series of Benidorm starts I watch the first episode. I like to have an open mind and I like to think that maybe this time it'll become my favourite show. But no it doesn't. Rigid? me? But in the last week there have been a couple of sitcoms where I've had to do a critical u-turn.
BBC Three must either be cursing Derry Girls or thanking it. The hit Channel 4 sitcom has beaten them to the screens with a ribald comedy charting the lives of badly behaving hormonal Irish schoolkids. On the other hand it has raised the profile of Irish comedy in general which can only be a good thing. And The Young Offenders certainly proves that Derry Girls is no one-off fluke.
Originally a feature film and screened on Netflix, The Young Offenders was a box office sensation in 2016. Peter Foott, winner of Best Screenplay for The Young Offenders at the recent Irish Film and Television Academy awards, will also be the writer, director and executive producer on the television series.
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