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EXILES ***NEW SERIES***

Exiles Image Name: Exiles Description: Exiles RTÉ 2 Thursday May 28th 9pm Nicola Hughes
Exiles Image Name: Exiles Description: Exiles RTÉ 2 Thursday May 28th 9pm India
Exiles Image Name: Exiles Description: Exiles RTÉ 2 Thursday May 28th 9pm Jade Stone
Exiles Image Name: Exiles Description: Exiles staring (L-R) Nicola Hughes, George Hutton, India Dawson, Dylan Townsend, Jade Stone and Sean McConnon
Exiles Dylan Townsend Image Name: Exiles Dylan Townsend Description: Exiles Dylan Townsend
Exiles George Hutton Image Name: Exiles George Hutton Description: Exiles George Hutton
cast presspack Image Name: cast presspack
Exiles Image Name: Exiles Description: Exiles - Episode 3 RTÉ 2 Thursday June 4th 9pm L-R Nicola, Dylan, Sean, George, India and Jade
Exiles Image Name: Exiles Description: Exiles - Episode 3 RTÉ 2 Thursday June 4th 9pm Dylan Townsend
Exiles Image Name: Exiles Description: Exiles - Episode 3 RTÉ 2 Thursday June 4th 9pm Sean
Exiles Image Name: Exiles Description: Exiles - Episode 3 RTÉ 2 Thursday June 4th 9pm Nicola Hughes
Exiles Image Name: Exiles Description: Exiles - Episode 3 RTÉ 2 Thursday June 4th 9pm Jade Stone
Exiles Image Name: Exiles Description: Exiles - Episode 3 RTÉ 2 Thursday June 4th 9pm India
Exiles Image Name: Exiles Description: Exiles - Episode 3 RTÉ 2 Thursday June 4th 9pm George Hutton

Exiles is a programme about the new Irish Emigrants and the new places they go – in this case Vancouver, Canada.

The show follows 6 young Irish people as they emigrate from Ireland to Canada to start a new life and chase their dreams.

We meet the cast for the first time.

Sean McConnon– a flamboyant Dubliner has moved to Vancouver to advance his career as a fashion stylist. The great grandson of Jim Larkin , the famous workers leader, Sean is outspoken and has a lot to say on the subject of Irish people and Fashion.

Dylan Townsend– writer, director, poet and hipster – Dylan is from Howth in Dublin – and has followed his older brother, actor Stuart Townsend  into the world of film and TV. He has moved to Vancouver to make his web series Hipsterverse – “A kinda National Geographic about Hipsters”

Nicola Hughes – a well known Dublin model, wants to throw off the shackles of Grafton Street press calls and make it as a TV presenter in Canada. Leaving her persona and her celebrity boyfriend Alex Mytton from Made in Chelsea behind – she sets out to find a new version of herself.

George Hutton – from Derry is an Opera singer and Irish tenor . After brief stints singing in Ireland he has been mostly working in coffee shops and bars and has struggled to make it. He moved to Vancouver to follow his dream of finding a new audience for his singing.

Jade Stone – a Wexford native, studied marketing in UCD but has always wanted to become a photographer. In Vancouver, with her new visa – she wants to make a new career with her new life and starts on the road to becoming a photographer

India Dawson- legal student and show jumping champion – has taken two years out of college and got the visa for Canada to pursue her life long ambition of becoming an indie pop singer. Having sung all her life , the prospect of the Canadian visa gave her the now or never chance and she took it. Her ambition is to perform, write and record her first album.

 

Episode 1 – 9pm 

Sean has a secured a meeting with a top Vancouver based agent ,Gina Hole and heads to his first interview. His cockiness is soon knocked out of him as Gina pulls apart his CV and gives him some stern advice. She tells him he is not ready for full work , but she will add him to her roster of emerging talent if he successfully completes a test styling of a shoot for her. Shaken but still confident , Sean is determined to show her he can do it.

Dylan meets actor Michael Coleman, star of ABC’s Primetime Disney Show “Once Upon a Time”, which is shot in Vancouver. Dylan gives him a flaky pitch on Hipsterverse and asks him for advice. Michael, unconvinced asks Dylan to work it out better and send some more detail.

India goes for an interview in a local bar for a job and gets some advice about keeping the reputation of Irish in Canada clean.

Sean goes looking for clothes to style the shoot for Gina and gets increasingly stressed.

The gang hit the town for their first night in Vancouver. Dylan loses the plot and maybe there is love in the air.

 

Episode 2 – 9.30pm

George lands his first gig at a burlesque performance at the opening of Vancouver Film Festival but he is slightly put off his game when he has to rehearse with three very sexy dancers.

Sean finally hits his stride and begins to successfully pull clothes for his upcoming test photo shoot.

Dylan goes downtown Vancouver to check out the Hipsters while Sean and George bond.

Nicola is discovered by a local magazine while George and Dylan discuss first impressions of the girls.  It’s shoot day for Sean – will he ace the test or fail badly. Things get off to a bad start.

George is ready for opening night of Vancouver Film Festival – will his early jitters settle?