Charlene Mackenna: Last News

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentAdding to its growing roster of overseas drama titles, Germany’s ZDF Studios has snagged international distribution rights to “Clean Sweep,” a six-part Irish thriller which is set to premiere on Sundance Now and Irish public broadcaster RTÉ.“Clean Sweep” stars Charlene McKenna, Captain Swing in “Peaky Blinders,” in a crime drama told from the point-of-view of the killer who is also, unusually, a self-sacrificing mother and wife. Filming is now underway.McKenna, whose credits take in “Bloodlands” and “Vienna Blood,” plays Shelly Mohan, a woman living a quiet life in Western Ireland as a housewife and mother of three who kills her former partner in crime when he threatens to expose her dark past.

Charlene McKenna, fits snugly into this niche: it offers a compelling, elaborate-puzzle murder mystery that will keep you guessing all the way through to the end of its sixth and final episode.McKenna stars as Shelly Mohan, a married-and-harried mother of three dealing with a teenage stepson, Derek (Rhys Mannion), daughter Caitlin (Katelyn Rose Downey) and younger son Niall (Aidan McCann), a bright kid who’s seriously ill and gets bullied on the school bus.Shelly and her husband, police detective Jason Mohan (Barry Ward), are going through a rough patch both financially (overextended) and in their marriage — he’s loving enough at home, but she suspects he’s having an affair with Fiona (Jeanne Nicole Ni Áinle), his partner on the force.The series opens with Shelly scrubbing blood from her clothes. Flash back to nine hours earlier when, in the midst of her typically hectic day — PTA meeting, schlepping the kids around, preparing dinner — she’s approached in the local market by a bearded man with a bad mullet named Charlie (Adam Fergus).

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Italian animation auteur Enzo D’Alò – whose globally known works include “The Blue Arrow,” “Lucky and Zorba,” “Momo” and “Opopomoz” – is back with Roddy Doyle adaptation “A Greyhound Of a Girl” launching from the Berlin Film Festival’s Generation Kplus section. “Greyhound of a Girl,” which is D’Alò’s first English-language film, is about four generations of Irish women who embark on a car journey. One of them is dead, one of them is dying, one is driving, and the fourth is twelve-year old Dublin school girl Mary O’Hara. Mary shares her grandmother’s rebel spirit and love of cooking and is bravely dealing with the fact that her granny’s days are drawing to a close.

ITV drama landed on Monday night, but it seems it hasn't quite grasped the attention of viewers just yet.Before the first episode had wrapped, frustrated viewers were already complaining about the new TV series and demanding that it be ripped off air.The drama, which is based on a book by Graham Norton and has since been adapted by Kathy Burke, sparked a lot of conversation once it aired, but not quite in a positive way.From claims that the show hasn't done the book justice or swipes that the characters cast are "unlikeable", many people had a lot to say about the new drama.The series is set in Ireland and is planned to be a weekly drama based around the discovery of a body in a small community.The cast includes the likes of Conleth Hill, Charlene McKenna and Helen Behan, to name a few.Three more episodes will be coming out following the initial pilot, but fans aren't quite convinced that they'll keep watching, with some switching off mere minutes into the new series.Taking to Twitter to share their thoughts on the show, one person wrote: "Ok so Holding is a bit too odd and I won't be watching it again. Sometimes, you can try too hard."Another said: "What is this dreadful drama - sounded good from the announcer before it started but it's dire and full of very unlikeable characters."A third person wrote: "Dear ITV...

Peaky Blinders attended the premiere for the show’s sixth and final season on Thursday (February 24) at Cineworld in Birmingham.Sophie Rundle (Ada Shelby), Kate Phillips (Linda Shelby) and Natasha O’Keeffe (Lizzie Stark) were among those at the event, alongside Finn Cole (Michael Gray), Ned Dennehy (Charlie Strong) and Harry Kirton (Finn Shelby).Amber Anderson and Charlene McKenna were also in attendance, along with James Frecheville who is a newcomer for the final season.Cillian Murphy, who plays Tommy Shelby, was unable to make the premiere due to filming commitments on Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film Oppenheimer.The actor will play the lead role of J. Robert Oppenheimer in the biopic, an American physicist whose involvement in the Manhattan Project led him to be dubbed the “father of the atomic bomb”.Speaking about the role recently, Murphy said: “I’m interested in the man and what [inventing the atomic bomb] does to the individual.

THE Peaky Blinders cast gathered on the red carpet last night to celebrate the final season of the hit BBC crime series. Leading ladies Sophie Rundle, Kate Phillips and Natasha O'Keeffe, glammed up for the premiere of the period drama’s sixth season and looked world’s away from the notorious Shelby family women they play on-screen.

Jamie Lang British Singer and TV personality Peter Andre (“I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!” “Strictly Come Dancing”) will make his West End debut as Vince Fontaine in an upcoming production of Jim Jacobs and Waren Casey’s stage musical “Grease,” playing at the Dominion Theatre starting May 17, with previews from May 3.Directed by Nikolai Foster and choreographed by Arlene Phillips, the show returns to the West End for the first time since playing at the Piccadilly Theater in 2007. Key casting includes Dan Partridge (“Hairspray”) and OIivia Moore (“Waitress”) as Danny and Sandy, with Jocasta Almgill (“Romeo & Juliet”) as Rizzo and Paul French (“Greese” U.K.

Irish actress Charlene McKenna has asked the public to help her locate her lost wedding ring after misplacing it while on a shoot in the west of Ireland.

Graham Norton proved that he isn’t just a gas man, he can write a pretty stellar novel. To further this point his best-selling novel Holding is being adapted into a television series.

Charlene McKenna has confessed she suffered ‘a total breakdown’ at the height of her early career.

We were devastated when it was confirmed that season six of Peaky Blinders would be its last but now, Monaghan’s own Charlene McKenna has let slip what is in store for the upcoming series.

Charlene McKenna and her partner Adam Rothenberg have finally tied the knot but the actress says their intimate do was a ‘dress rehearsal’ for the bigger party to come.

Most brides-to-be find themselves flat-out busy but still gazing into the future in the run-up to their wedding.

Raw was one of RTÉ’s first drama series and it was a massive hit for the network.