Abú Media has announced that Season 2 of their award-winning Western series will premiere on TG4 this spring with the first episode scheduled to air on the 1st February.
The critically acclaimed first season of An Klondike was nominated for ten awards at this year’s IFTA’s, winning five, including the prestigious award for Best Drama Series.
Season 2 picks up a few weeks after the climactic events that brought the first season to a close and continues the story of the Connolly brothers (played by Owen McDonnell, Dara Devaney, and Seán T. O’Meallaigh) as they struggle to forge an empire for themselves during the Klondike gold rush of the 1890’s. The Connollys are united, and have established themselves as a force to be reckoned with in the territory, but against a backdrop of growing lawlessness in Dominion Creek the Connollys must face a challenge that threatens to destroy everything they hold dear.
Series creator and director Dathaí Keane spoke about the production of the second season: “In the first season we were telling a more linear story that revolved around the Connollys getting to Dominion and establishing themselves in the town. This time round we knew we didn’t want to tell the same story again. We talked a lot about what we wanted to explore next and how the events of the first season would affect the various characters and how it would change them. We left some major dangling threads at the end of the first season that propels the action across these new episodes and allows us to really get under the skin of the Connolly brothers. The relationship between the brothers is the emotional centre of the story and we wanted to explore the impact that a town like Dominion, where civilisation hangs by a thread, has on them. Their old world of Irish tradition, family and God is gradually replaced by this New World – a world where all those values are lost.”
Series producer Pierce Boyce, of Abú Media, spoke of the challenges that the team faced in putting the series together: “Logistically this season was a lot more challenging to shoot than the first one. We had more action scenes, more scenes on horseback, and the town of Dominion has grown since the first season. We are very proud of what we have achieved so far with the success of An Klondike and I think we have raised the bar again with Season 2. Dathaí Keane’s vision and the creative team’s execution of that vision have resulted in a story that epitomises what great TV drama should aspire to. I think viewers will be excited by what’s in store. An Klondike is not like anything else that has been made in this country.”
An Klondike Season 2 comprises four episodes and will be broadcast over four consecutive weeks on TG4 before moving onto international platforms. All episodes of Season 1 are currently available on Netflix under the series’ international title Dominion Creek.
For more details see: http://anklondike.com/season-2/
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