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BritBox UK has commissioned comedy-drama series The Dry, produced by Normal People and The Favourite outfit Element Pictures in association with Screen Ireland and ITV Studios, and in partnership with RTÉ.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief ITV has commissioned a second season of the comedy-drama series “The Dry” for ITVX. It will be produced by Element Pictures (part of Fremantle), in association with Fís Eireann/Screen Ireland and ITV Studios, in partnership with RTÉ. Nancy Harris (Dates) and acclaimed director Paddy Breathnach (Viva, Rosie) will return to helm the second season, which will stream exclusively on ITVX next year. The first season was made available to view for free on the streamer last month. With the story picking up seven months after the end of the first, Roisin Gallagher will return as recovering alcoholic Shiv Sheridan, alongside regular cast members from the first series. Further casting details will be confirmed later. in due course.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterThe winners of the 2020 Irish Film & Television Academy Awards were announced last night, with Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson pic Ordinary Love winning Best Film, presented by Martin Scoresese. Tom Vaughan-Lawlor won Best Actor in Film for Rialto, which also scooped the Scriptwriter prize for Mark O’Halloran.

WINNERS OF THE IFTA FILM & DRAMA AWARDS 2020Best film 2020 Ordinary LoveBest film 2019 Black ’47Director – film Paddy Breathnach (Rosie)Scriptwriter – film Mark O’Halloran (Rialto)Actor in a leading role – film Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (Rialto)Actress in a leading role – film Jessie Buckley (Wild Rose)Actor in a supporting role – film David Wilmot (Ordinary Love)Actress supporting role – film Niamh Algar (Calm with Horses)George Morrison feature documentary The Lonely Battle of Thomas ReidIrish Film