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TV3's first two-part drama series The Guards
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From the Herald (Source)Gritty new garda drama will be our answer to The Wire
A new TV drama will follow the lives of three ambitious gardai as they tackle crime on the streets of Dublin.
Production has just wrapped on The Guards, Ireland's newest cop show, which is due to be screened on TV3 in February.
The programme, filmed in Dublin, was shot mainly on location in the old Finglas Garda Station and director Graham Cantwell said that this is one of the first real gritty programmes about the day-to-day work of policemen in Ireland.
"These are regular guys, they are not high up in the ranking," he said. "We're looking at the pressures they have to deal with and how the public perceive them.
"It's not as procedural as CSI, it's more realistic, like The Wire or The Shield.
"It's a drama, it focuses on the individual gardai."
Graham said that the team received vital advice from members of the Garda press office.
"We got a hell of a lot of support from gardai. They ran their eye over the scripts, right down to the procedural stuff and how gardai talk to each other.
"A lot of our script was quite American, for instance, we didn't know how they spoke to each other over the radio," he said.
The programme stars Emmett Scanlan from The Clinic, Steven Aldridge and Chris Patrick Simpson as the three lead gardai characters, and follows their personal lives and mechanisms for coping with the difficult job.
"It is a serious drama but there are moments of humour," the director explained.
"The humour comes from the characters' interaction.
"It's something that we found, gardai use a lot of black humour to get them through."
The show also stars Aisling McLaughlin as Maeve Healy who runs Ballycore Garda Station, and is described as a feisty, strong leader working in a male-dominated environment.
Maeve takes charge with an iron fist, although secretly she holds a matriarchal fondness for the three gardai.
The one image on the site looks far more 'true' to the look of a member. I'm actually looking forward to this now.
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ForegoneReality wrote: »
The one image on the site looks far more 'true' to the look of a member. I'm actually looking forward to this now.
Overweight and shattered after running 100M. Bit like me actually!!
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