We need your help now
Support from readers like you keeps The Journal open.
You are visiting us because we have something you value. Independent, unbiased news that tells the truth. Advertising revenue goes some way to support our mission, but this year it has not been enough.
If you've seen value in our reporting, please contribute what you can, so we can continue to produce accurate and meaningful journalism. For everyone who needs it.
Sign in. It’s quick, free and it’s up to you.
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more.
By continuing, you are indicating that you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
A SAGA ABOUT the Guinness family, a Marian Keyes adaptation, and a crime series with Jamie Dornan playing identical twins are among the new shows announced by Netflix.
The streaming platform has released details of a slate of new shows that will hit the small screens over the next two years, some of which have particular interest for Irish audiences.
🚨 NEW STUFF NEWS 🚨
— Netflix UK & Ireland (@NetflixUK) March 14, 2024
You said goodbye to Top Boy and The Crown. You loved Michelle Keegan’s coats in Fool Me Once. One Day broke your heart into a million pieces (sorry about that). But what’s #NextOnNetflix?
Stand by for breaking news from the UK & Ireland… ⬇️
The series on the Guinness family, described by Netflix as “Europe’s most famous and enduring dynasties”, has a current working title of House of Guinness.
The show will focus on the death of Benjamin Guinness, the second son of Arthur Guinness, who expanded the brewery.
Netflix has yet to announce when the Guinness series will be released, which has been created and written by Steven Knight, the creator of BBC series Peaky Blinders.
Knight said he has “always been fascinated” by the Guinness family and remarked that “wealth, poverty, power, influence, and great tragedy are all intertwined to create a rich tapestry of material to draw from”.
Meanwhile, Anne Mensah, Netflix UK vice-president of content, said the Guinness “epic” has “all the power of Peaky Blinders but the scale and the sweep of a true family saga”.
Set in 19th century Dublin and New York, House of Guinness will explore the consequences of the death of Benjamin Guinness.
It will delve into the “far-reaching impact” his death has on his four children, as well as on a group of Dublin characters who work and interact with the ever-growing Guinness empire.
Elsewhere, Netflix will bring Marian Keyes’ novel Grown Ups to the small screen in 2026.
Grown Ups is about three brothers belonging to the Casey family and their wives and children.
“Like most families, the Caseys are a complicated bunch,” said Netflix of the three couples portrayed in the show.
The streaming platform adds: “Ever-shifting politics. Old and new resentments. Arguments that blow over quickly and hurts that are nursed forever. They’re loyal. Noisy. And bound together by a whole lot of love.”
Keyes said she “screamed” when she received the news that Netflix would bring her book to the small screen, remarking that it has “already brought me so much pleasure as a viewer”.
Keyes will also act as an Executive Producer on Grown Ups and praised producer Samantha Strauss for “getting” the dynamics of the book.
Meanwhile, Netflix is hoping that the only thing better than Jamie Dornan is two Jamie Dornans.
The Holywood actor will play the roles of identical twins, Adam and Lee, in a crime noir series called The Undertow which will be released next year.
Canadian actress Mackenzie Davis will play Adam’s wife Nicola.
Netflix says Nicola’s life takes a dramatic turn when Adam’s long-lost identical twin brother Lee “comes crashing back into her life, and their tangled romantic past threatens to destroy the present”.
It adds of the series: “A terrible accident drives Nicola to protect her children, and over the course of one week, Lee and Nicola are forced together, struggling to maintain a web of secrets and lies.”
Reality TV will also take a rather bizarre turn on Netflix next year when it releases a new show that will see survival expert Bear Grylls hunt down a group of celebrities in the Central American jungle.
Bear Hunt will also be hosted by former This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby.
Elsewhere, Black Mirror returns for its seventh series next year, we’ll get another insight into the Irish Rugby team in Six Nations: Full Contact, and a documentary series on legendary football manager Jose Mourinho is coming to Netflix too.
To embed this post, copy the code below on your site
He looks nothing like Liam Neeson!
Should this not have been state property since it was made ?
Not if it was made by his family.
And was it ?
Jaysus I couldn’t tell you, but I would imagine so if his grand-niece had it.
A true Irish hero
Poignant and creepy at the same time.
WTF is a death mask?
It’s a quaint little British execution ritual that was practical in the days before cameras, but was continued even after the advent of cameras, and which former British colonies such as Malaysia and Singapore still do today. When someone is executed, and as only a handful of officials are allowed to be present, a plaster cast of the executed persons face is made postmortem as proof that they had been executed, and could then be publicly displayed. I don’t know why one would have been made of Collins.
Would love to have seen it go to Collin’s barracks in Cork.
Yes he was a true son of Cork, until ye shot him.
@ Brian , that was sheer brilliance
Dev’s crowd shot him !
Lol, Brian :)
They should leave us at least keep the bullet then.
…but they were still from Cork!
A true irish warrior.alot of lives could of been saved had he not been killed
ffs gimme a break,what about having some respect for people who had a profound impact on our history without being so flippant,can’t you people take sometime out and be more informed,I hate stupid comments
Won’t be queuing up to see that, not even if it was Elvis’s!!
Free world is great! You actually don’t have too!
Dev set him up. COLLINS knew he signed his death warrant when he signed the treaty. He also knew the orange thugs of Carson et Al were armed to the teeth , British officers in Kildale were allowed not to engage loyalists forces and the blood thirsty Churchill made it very clear to Collins that not signing the treaty would result in huge deaths, mainly Catholic. It was a stepping stone and De Velera is no hero of mine. Using collins as a scapegoat. He only escaped execution in 1916 because he was American.
Michael Collins true Irish hero.
God rest him.
My daughters in the background pic
Béal na mBláth not Béal Na mBláth.
A hero……..also a ‘terrorist’ if he existed today. Just read the laws brought in recently. Red thumb this comment away but you know its true. This govt who lay wreaths at his grave, would all be screaming for his arrest. Because traitors wouldnt be around long if he was here.
Cop on. Terrorists . FFS. He got rid of the British terrorists and if that means shooting black and tans and the Cairo gang then that makes him a liberator of Ireland from British rule. War is not meant to be nice.
did you not get what i meant you complete idiot. Im highlighting the hypocracy of our govt who call him a hero while doing being complete traitors to this country. Are you one of those thickos who think loosing our soveignity is fine unless its to the british?
It wasn’t presented by Collins’ nieces, it was acquired for the visitor’s centre by Private Noel McDonnell. Helen Collins and Mary Claire O’Malley were just there to view it on the day.
Anybody care to explain WTF a death mask is?
have your say