If you were absolutely enthralled by RTÉ’s hit crime drama last year, then get excited — Kin has been renewed for a second season!
RTÉ were delighted to confirm that season two of their gripping gangland drama is on it’s way to a screen near you. Like season one, Kin’s second season will air on RTÉ One and the RTÉ Player.
The second season is due to go into production this summer and will again see Irish talent on a global stage with AMC+ picking up the rights for North America, Australia, New Zealand, Iberia, Latin America and the UK.
A hit with both audiences and critics, series one had a consolidated average of over 621,000 viewers on RTÉ One and to date 2.7 million streams on RTÉ Player, making Kin the most successful drama in Ireland last year.
Each week viewers were enthralled by the unravelling of the Kinsella family which starred Clare Dunne (Herself), Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones), Charlie Cox (Daredevil), and Ciarán Hinds (Belfast).
The eight-part drama charted the lives of the Kinsellas, a small but tight-knit crime family embroiled in a war against a powerful drug kingpin, Eamon Cunningham (played by Hinds). The finale saw an arrogant Eamon meeting his untimely demise, which was orchestrated by the shrewd and sharp Amanda.
The new season, which begins production this summer, will see the Kinsellas as the top dogs in Dublin, but killing Eamon Cunningham has created as many problems as it solved. They have incurred the wrath of an enemy even more dangerous than him.
And where once there was the unbreakable bonds of blood and family, now there is only suspicion, distrust and resentment. But the greatest threat to the family emerges from within- in the shape of a ruthless, bullying, agent of chaos.
Fortunately, from positions of great adversity the boldest plans are often forged. And so it is with the Kinsellas.
Kin is produced by BRON Studios and Headline Pictures, in association with RTÉ.
