Shelly Mohan: Last News

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).

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.