{"id":23386,"date":"2025-09-09T11:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/acorn-tv-renews-irish-blood\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:24:14","slug":"acorn-tv-renews-irish-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/acorn-tv-renews-irish-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Acorn TV Renews Irish Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acorn TV has ordered a second season of its Alicia Silverstone-led drama <em>Irish Blood<\/em> following the finale of season one.<\/p>\n<p>Silverstone, also an executive producer, will return as Fiona Fox, who is sent to Ireland by a mysterious email from the father who abandoned her. There, she learns about a family she never knew and discovers that the story of abandonment was a lie. The series is produced by Shaftesbury and Deadpan Pictures, in association with AMC Studios and F\u00eds \u00c9ireann\/Screen Ireland.<\/p>\n<p><em>Irish Blood<\/em> is produced with the support of incentives for the Irish Film Industry provided by the government of Ireland, the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit and Ontario Creates. AMC Studios holds the worldwide distribution rights.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Silverstone, season one\u2019s cast included Jason O\u2019Mara (<em>The Man In The High Castle<\/em>,<em> The Good Wife<\/em>), Wendy Crewson (<em>We Were Liars<\/em>, <em>Tracker<\/em>), Dearbhla Molloy (<em>Wild Mountain Thyme<\/em>, <em>Rendezvous<\/em>), Simone Kirby (<em>His Dark Materials<\/em>, <em>Kneecap<\/em>), Ruth Codd (<em>The Fall of the House of Usher<\/em>) and Leonardo Taiwo (<em>Wheel of Time<\/em>, <em>Ant-Man &amp; The Wasp<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Season two, which will again be set and produced in Ireland, will go into production in early 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means so much to continue this journey with a character I love,\u201d Silverstone said. \u201cThank you to everyone who\u2019s watched and supported, the phenomenal Irish crew and actors who made working there such a joy and the entire team across this series. We\u2019re so happy to have found a captive audience who enjoyed the ride from beginning to end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rob Fox, executive VP of production for AMC Networks, who oversees programming for Acorn TV, added, \u201cThanks to Alicia Silverstone and everything she has brought to this series, both as a star and executive producer, from the moment it was just an idea all the way to it becoming the most successful series in the history of Acorn TV. Thanks also to our entire cast, writers, producers and partners at Shaftesbury and Deadpan Pictures for everything that went into a remarkable first season of<em> Irish Blood<\/em>. Acorn TV is the best streaming service in the world for thrilling crime dramas and brilliant mysteries. We are so grateful for the way our subscribers have embraced this series and can\u2019t wait to get started on season two.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acorn TV has ordered a second season of its Alicia Silverstone-led drama Irish Blood following the finale of season one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":23388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[179,9791,1158,804,5260,11341,5226,484],"class_list":["post-23386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-acorn-tv","tag-alicia-silverstone","tag-amc-studios","tag-deadpan-pictures","tag-fis-eireann","tag-irish-blood","tag-screen-ireland","tag-shaftesbury","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Acorn TV Renews Irish Blood - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/acorn-tv-renews-irish-blood\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Acorn TV Renews Irish Blood - TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Acorn TV has ordered a second season of its Alicia Silverstone-led drama Irish Blood following the finale of season one.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/acorn-tv-renews-irish-blood\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-09T15:22:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-09T16:24:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/09\/2-AcornTV-IrishBlood-0925.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"394\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/acorn-tv-renews-irish-blood\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/acorn-tv-renews-irish-blood\/\",\"name\":\"Acorn TV Renews Irish Blood - TVDRAMA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-09T15:22:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-09T16:24:14+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/acorn-tv-renews-irish-blood\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/acorn-tv-renews-irish-blood\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/acorn-tv-renews-irish-blood\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Acorn TV Renews Irish Blood\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\",\"name\":\"TVDRAMA\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. 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