RTÉ has announced that gangland drama Kin will return for a second season.
The show, which will air on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player, will go into production this summer. Makers received the added good news that American streaming service AMC+ has picked it up for another season.
RTÉ says Kin had an average of over 621,000 viewers on RTÉ One and to date 2.7 million streams on RTÉ Player, making it the station's most successful drama last year.
The first series, shot primarily in Dublin featured a line up that included Clare Dunne (Herself) Aiden Gillen (Game of Thrones) and the Oscar nominated Ciarán Hinds. Prolific singer and entertainer Maria Doyle Kennedy played the matriarchal Birdy.
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 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.
Dermot Horan Director of Acquisitions & Co-Productions for RTÉ said
The first series was enjoyed in huge numbers across RTÉ on both television and RTÉ Player, as well as in North America and Scandinavia. We've worked with our international partners to make sure we could answer the call of Irish audiences to deliver another series and to ensure that Irish talent and quality Irish drama is showcased on the world stage. Series two of Kin adds to our strong slate of Irish drama being delivered to audiences over the coming year
Kin is produced by BRON Studios and Headline Pictures, in association with RTÉ. AMC+ has acquired the rights to the drama for North America, Australia, New Zealand, Iberia, Latin America and the UK.
