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THE ROARING TWENTIES ***New Series***

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This January RTÉ Two brings viewers two new experimental comedy series’ from young new Irish talent: The Roaring Twenties and Working Girls with Katherine Lynch. Both shows will have a short run of two and three weeks respectively.

This week sees the start of the first in the series The Roaring Twenties. It’s a new two-part sitcom set in modern day Rathmines, Dublin. The series revolves around the adventures of four hapless twenty-something’s as they battle against the trials of every day life.

Our main hero is KEVIN STOKES (Diarmaid Murtagh), an unemployed ‘artiste’, his long suffering journalist girlfriend MARY FITZGERALD (Amy Kirwin) and their two friends SEAMUS BOYLE (Darryl Kinsella), a business student and RAY (Jason Healy) a mysterious layabout of unknown origins.

It is written and co-directed by débutantes Steven Stubbs and Ray Sullivan; recent graduates of Ballyfermot film school and Produced by Adrian Devane and Brian Willis of Igloo Productions.

The Roaring Twenties – Episode One

Somewhere in modern day Rathmines, Dublin, struggling ‘artiste’ Kevin Stokes and his long suffering journalist girlfriend, Mary, hatch a scheme to escape their dingy bedsit –with €800 deposit intact.

Elsewhere in Rathmines, Kevin’s old college buddies, Seamus and Ray, have evicted knife-wielding housemate, Jorgen. They decide to set up a formal interview process with the clear intent to recruit the hottest female housemate ever. Meanwhile Kevin’s escape plan quickly unravels and leads to a violent brush with death.