Wednesday, 7th April 2021 at 4:38 pm
Actors and real-life brothers Brian and Domhnall Gleeson have co-created a brand new Irish comedy series, in which they star as best friends.
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In Frank Of Ireland, Brian Gleeson plays Frank, described as “a misanthropic fantasist in arrested development” – aka. a man-child of the first degree.
Meanwhile his best friend, Doofus (Domhnall Gleeson), is a romantic and pushover who cleans up the mess left in Frank’s wake.
Read on for everything you need to know about Frank Of Ireland.
Frank Of Ireland release date
Frank Of Ireland is set to air on Amazon Prime Video from 16th April 2021 in the US, Canada, and Australia. The series is coming to
Executive producer Clelia Mountford on Channel 4 s new comedy
Next week Channel 4 launches Frank Of Ireland, a new comedy about ‘a misanthropic, narcissistic, fantasist in arrested development who thinks the world owes him something’ from brothers Brian and Domhnall Gleeson and Michael Moloney. Here executive producer Clelia Mountford from programme-makers Merman - the company she runs with Sharon Horgan – explains how the programme came about… and why it was a break from their usual female-led shows such as Motherland, Frayed and This Way Up…
We hadn’t many male-led projects on Merman’s development slate when Frank walked through our door. Not that we had any policy on developing only all-female projects, it was just what interested us and there are already plenty of male-written comedies in existence, starring men and directed by men.
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