''Blood'' is a Channel 5 and Virgin Media One psychological thriller, created by

Sophie Petzal Sophie Petzal (born 4 November 1990) is a British screenwriter, best known for creating the Irish crime drama, ''Blood''. Career Having written comedy shorts as a child, Petzal first gained attention with her script, ''The God Committee'', one ...

and starring

Carolina Main Carolina Main is an English actress known for her TV roles as DC Fran Lingley on the ITV crime drama series ''Unforgotten'' (2017-present) and as Cat Hogan on the Channel 5 and Virgin Media drama series ''Blood Blood is a body fluid i ...

and Adrian Dunbar. The first series was broadcast in November 2018; the second series in April–May 2020.

Synopsis

Cat Hogan (

) returns home to a fictional small town in the Dublin commuter belt (actually filmed in the Kilcock, Kildare) following the news that her mother, who had been suffering from a long illness, has died after falling over and striking her head against a rock at the family home. Haunted by flashbacks from an incident in her childhood, she's convinced her father had something to do with her mother's death, and her family is torn by suspicion and grief. Was her mother's death an accident?

Cast

* Adrian Dunbar as Dr Jim Hogan *

as Cathleen "Cat" Hogan * Gráinne Keenan as Fiona Hogan *

Diarmuid Noyes Diarmuid Noyes (born 14 January 1988) is an Irish theatre, TV, commercial and film actor, known for his role in the 2011 American science fiction horror telefilm, '' Roadkill''. At fourteen he starred in the 2002 award-winning Irish short fi ...

as Michael Hogan * Ingrid Craigie as Mary Hogan * Fiona Bell as Gillian Mooney *

Denis Conway Denis Conway (1722–1796) was an Irish Roman Catholic prelate A prelate () is a high-ranking member of the Christian clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin , the past partic ...

as Tom Mooney * Desmond Eastwood as Owen Mooney *

Ian Lloyd Anderson Ian Lloyd Anderson (born 4 June 1986) is an Irish actor best known for his role as Dean in '' Love/Hate''. In 2015, Anderson joined the cast of the HBO series ''Game of Thrones'' in season 5 A season is a division of the year based on change ...

as Paul Crowley * Ruby Dunne as Rose Crowley * James Heffernan as Joseph Crowley * Sean Duggan as Dez Breen *

Shereen Martin Sherine Sayed Mohamed Abdel-Wahab ( ar, شيرين سيد محمد عبد الوهاب; born October 8, 1980), known professionally by the mononym Sherine ( ar, شيرين), is an Egyptian singer, actress, TV host and personality, and a former ju ...

as Sarah

Production

''Blood'' was filmed in Meath,

Kildare Kildare () is a town in County Kildare, Ireland. , its population was 8,634 making it the 7th largest town in County Kildare. The town lies on the R445, some west of Dublin – near enough for it to have become, despite being a regional cen ...

, and

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...

. The location of the family home was at the Larchill Arcadian Gardens in

County Meath County Meath (; gle, Contae na Mí or simply ) is a county in the Eastern and Midland Region of Ireland, within the province of Leinster. It is bordered by Dublin to the southeast, Louth to the northeast, Kildare to the south, Offaly to the sou ...

Series overview

Series 1 (2018)

Series 2 (2020)

Indian Adaptation

On March 28, 2022, it was announced

Disney+ Hotstar The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October ...

would produce an Indian adaptation of ''Blood''. The series, titled '' Masoom'', is helmed by Gurmmeet Singh and is set to debut on June 17, 2022.

References

External links

* {{Virgin Group 2018 Irish television series debuts 2010s Irish television series 2020s Irish television series Irish crime television series Irish drama television series English-language television shows Virgin Media Television (Ireland) original programming