RTÉ has announced that Normal People will air on April 28. The TV adaption of Sally Rooney’s award-winning book follows two young people “navigating adulthood in contemporary Ireland, and their complicated relationship from the end of their school days in Sligo to their undergraduate years at Trinity College.” The show stars Paul Mescal in his first TV role as Connell and British actress Daisy Edgar Jones as Marianne.
Rooney adapted the book for TV alongside Alice Birch and Intermission writer Mark O’Rowe. The show has been directed by Oscar-nominated Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald.
April 28 will see a double-bill of the 12-part coming-of-age series airing on RTÉ One. Normal People is an Element Pictures production for BBC Three
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