RTÉ & Acorn Media Enterprises Align for The South Westerlies

RTÉ and Acorn Media Enterprises (AME) have partnered to commission the Irish comedy-drama The South Westerlies.

Produced with Dublin-based Deadpan Pictures, alongside ZDF Enterprises, TV2 Norway and in association with Screen Ireland, The South Westerlies is set in a small coastal town in Ireland that is earmarked for a Norwegian-owned wind farm. It stars Orla Brady as a single working mother named Kate who is tasked with going undercover to bring the project home and also faces the return of a surfer with an unmistakable resemblance to her teenage son.

In addition to Brady, the series features Eileen Walsh, Ger Ryan, Lily Nichol, Steve Wall, Kevin J. Ryan, Patrick Bergin and Sam Barrett.

Created by Catherine Maher and written by Maher, Hugh Travers, Hilary Reynolds and Michelle Duffy, The South Westerlies is directed by Simon Gibney and Declan Recks. The series will premiere in 2020 on RTÉ in Ireland and shortly thereafter on AMC Networks’ streaming service Acorn TV in the U.S. as an Acorn TV original.

Acorn Media Enterprises, with its distributor Acorn Media International, has secured all rights in North America, Australia, New Zealand and the U.K.; and secondary rights in Ireland. ZDF Enterprises will distribute The South Westerlies in the rest of the world.