Kin - RTE & AMC

PTH2009

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121253976#Comment_121253976

That bank must be popular

brian_t

Season one has been acquired by the BBC.

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2023/1027/1413395-kin-to-screen-on-bbc-one-following-irish-success/

mickdw

Surely a major boost in terms of further seasons being filmed

Galwayguy35

Seems like the BBC saved their arses because RTE is in no position to pump cash into it.

NIMAN

So are bbc funding a 3rd series?

lumphammer2

Let's hope BBC or someone funds it ... we need season 3 and 4 to happen as promised ... Hidden Assets 2 and The Gone are no compensation and are the usual police procedural stuff that are generally not done well on Irish TV ... I like Obituary though ... better than any current Sunday night shows ... back to Kin ... Kin esp season 2 is one of the best ... and we need to have more of it ...

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121300249#Comment_121300249

What are you basing that on?

Nothing to suggest BBC funding new episodes, just airing already filmed seasons. Maybe the rights were going cheap or freed up after the financial issue with production company.

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121300482#Comment_121300482

I thought Obituary was awful paddywhackery, clearly aimed at the US market with close to leprechaun Irish stereotypes.

Dodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121300969#Comment_121300969

It was nothing of the sort.

It’s a completely different show in every single way so shouldn’t be compared to Kin at all IMO

But it certainly wasn’t paddywhackery

OmegaGene

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121300249#Comment_121300249

bbc wont fund series 3 of kin they outsource most of their dramas as it is

Loughc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121300249#Comment_121300249

BBC arent funding anything for Kin.

lumphammer2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121301292#Comment_121301292

Obituary was very different to Kin but had one thing in common ... it was good in my view ... it was different and not the usual run of the mill stuff ... I feel it was relegated to the Tuesday night slot but deserved the 'prime' Sunday evening slot ... why Sunday evening is prime don't ask me ... i'd go with Saturday or Friday but they are taken up with those chat shows traditionally ... much more than those dramas that do ... Kin and Love/Hate excused of course ...

I feel Irish shows when the baddie is the lead make more interesting viewing that when a good cop is the lead ... Hidden Assets was poor and The Gone is prob more of the same ... and remember Taken Down which was more of the same with an Amy Hubermann style cop? ... police procedural dramas on RTE are not exactly my thing and police orientated dramas are fair boring in Ireland ... same goes for said Amy and her Striking Out solicitor Tara character ... all in all it is better having a Nidge or a Bren anyday ...

Obituary is recommended ... look forward to the last episode tonight ... it is not paddy-whackery ... also Clean Sweep last year was decent ... one thing all of these ... Love/Hate Kin Obituary Clean Sweep ... have in common is ... the baddie)s) is (are) the lead character(s) .... that does not mean that characters like Nidge, the Kinsellas, Elvira, etc. are out and out evil ... they are flawed and have evil tendencies but also have good in them ... which all serves to make them more interesting than those wooden cops in Hidden Assets, Acceptable Risk, Taken Down and prob The Gone ...

Dodge

FWIW I loved Obituary. I was just pointing out you can’t compare it to Kin (or any of the crime/police shows)

freshpopcorn

Apparently it's not back until 2025.

https://www.thesun.ie/tv/11569522/rte-kin-new-season-date-revealed-rewrite-delays-bbc/

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121311074#Comment_121311074

I'm not even sure it says that.

Nowhere does it actually state RTE or anyone have decided to produce a third season.

It seems to say, well, if they wanted to, they wouldn't be able to do so until Charlie Cox completes his other commitments.

rob316

They should just leave it, season 2 was a huge improvement on Season 1 and went out on a real high. Bren and Frank are gone

Agent Coulson

Not just Charlie Cox,

Aidian Gillian, Maria Kennedy Doyle, Emmett Scanlan & Sam Keely are all working on other shows for American Networks and I'd be pretty sure those series will take priority over Kin even thought AMC is showing it in the States.

lumphammer2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121304429#Comment_121304429

Obituary was good ... for those very reasons ... it was different ... you cannot compare it to Kin or to Love/Hate ... because it was different ... it is a show that does deserve a second series and a higher profile .... much better than Hidden Assets aka Acceptable Risk, The Gone, Striking Out or Taken Down ...

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121311170#Comment_121311170

Kin series 2 improved on series 1 and ended with one of the great finales ... but then again series 3 of Love/Hate improved on series 2 ... one thing for sure is that the stuff they are showing now on Sundays is no substitute for either L/H or Kin ... having a Tom Vaughn Lawlor lookalike doing a cop on The Gone does not make it Love/Hate .... and Hidden Assets never scratched the surface of the Limerick gangland scene ... a drama true to the spirit of Kin or L/H concentrating on that would be great though ...

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121311085#Comment_121311085

RTE are able to waste money on endless amounts of poor dramas like Acceptable Risk aka Hidden Assets, Rebellion, Taken Down, Striking Out, Trouble in Paradise, The Big Bow Wow, etc. over the years .... I am sure they could save a lot of money by not making these and making better dramas like Kin all the time ....

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121311178#Comment_121311178

I thought season 3 of Kin was already made ... that was what was said ... who is telling the truth here?? ... whatever way this is a series and is a type of series people want to see ... but in the meantime we will prob get another Amy Huberman series to keep us (not) amused ...

OmegaGene

strong rumours online that it was already filmed but if the company hit the wall financially then it is messy, one of the actresses said it has not been filmed and she is working away at her 9-5 in a bank, just a waiting game i guess

Gadgetman496

Irish star Emmett J Scanlan said he "can’t wait" for viewers to see his new Netflix thriller, in which he stars alongside Michelle Keegan.

The Kin star, best known for playing Jimmy Kinsella in the hit RTE show, announced his new role will see him star alongside the former Coronation Street star in a new Harlan Coben thriller for Netflix called Fool Me Once.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5611024/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl_sm

Herxules

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121256981#Comment_121256981

It's turned into a sperm bank.

Cape Clear

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121311170#Comment_121311170

Bren saved it. Season one was like watching paint dry. Killing Bren off also killed off the series in my view.

OmegaGene

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121333213#Comment_121333213

Totally agree and if they make another one it will be lacking the much needed devil type character

mickdw

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121333295#Comment_121333295

You are not giving the writers any credit.

I'm sure they can develop a few more series. It was only getting started but had got going very nicely indeed. Love hate was further along before it became really good.

OmegaGene

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121333763#Comment_121333763

it is okay to have different opinions, i do not think it will be back considering the budget needed and the company behind the financial side of it went to the wall, rte won't finance it because they are barely keeping the lights on.

love hate gets brought up a lot in this thread as a comparison but apart from them being based in ireland i do not see much of a connection but maybe that's just me.

brian_t

Starts on BBC 1 on Saturday 18th November at 9.35pm.

Episode 2 follows the News at 10.45pm.

Episodes 3 and 4 are on the following Tuesday at 10.40pm.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001snk8

Seathrun66

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120878081#Comment_120878081

Co-production with a Canadian network but you’ve got to assume that all such companies north of the border are tied in with the US strike.

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121344519#Comment_121344519

Random scheduling!

Snippet from the Radio Times on it:

Look out for Game of Thrones alumni Aidan Gillen and Ciarán Hinds in Kin, an eight-part Irish gangland thriller coming to BBC1 soon. The drama pits local crime family the Kinsellas against global cartel the Cunninghams in a David and Goliath blood feud.

brian_t

Second season coming soon to BBC1

https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2024/kin-series-2-bbc

EltonJohn69

So is the show done ?