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DEAD STILL

DeadStill_PR_Ep2_Still (5) Image Name: DeadStill_PR_Ep2_Still (5) Description: Mr and Mrs Breslin stand by the coffin looking confused
DeadStill_PR_Ep2_Still (2) Image Name: DeadStill_PR_Ep2_Still (2) Description: The Breslin’s memorial family portrait
DeadStill_BW_Ep1_Still (14) Image Name: DeadStill_BW_Ep1_Still (14) Description: Detective Frederick Regan (Aidan O'Hare)
DeadStill_BW_Ep1_Still (26) Image Name: DeadStill_BW_Ep1_Still (26) Description: Cecil Carruthers (Jimmy Smallhorne) looks worried in the graveyard
DeadStill_BW_Posed (1) L-R Conall Molloy (Kerr Logan) Brock Blennerhasset (Michael Smiley) and Nancy Vickers (Eileen O'Higgins) stand in woodland Image Name: DeadStill_BW_Posed (1) L-R Conall Molloy (Kerr Logan) Brock Blennerhasset (Michael Smiley) and Nancy Vickers (Eileen O'Higgins) stand in woodland
DeadStill_BW_Ep3_Still (15) Nancy Vickers (Eileen O'Higgins) posing in her disguise Image Name: DeadStill_BW_Ep3_Still (15) Nancy Vickers (Eileen O'Higgins) posing in her disguise

Episode 2 – Development
Billing: Blennerhasset and Molloy are trapped in a coastal town during a storm where some ghostly occurrences make them feel most unwelcome.

Synopsis: Blennerhasset and his new assistant Molloy have been commissioned to travel out to Kingstown to photograph a young boy who recently drowned. However a heavy storm kicks up, forcing the men to stay overnight with their hosts, the mourning Breslin family. As the storm
rages, Molloy spots an apparition of the dead boy and drags Blennerhasset on a mission to take a photograph of this apparent apparition. Nancy is introduced to Dublin’s social scene when she attends a party hosted by her decadent brother Henry and his friends. This is a gathering Detective Frederick Regan also has his eye on, due to the presence of a known peddler of scandalous photography.

SERIES SYNOPSIS
Dublin, 1880. Cameras are becoming cheaper and the country is flourishing with photographic studios. However, the practice of memorial portraiture, the portrait photography of the recently deceased, is on the wane.

Renowned memorial photographer Brock Blennerhasset tries to revive his business after an accident, requiring the assistance of his estranged niece Nancy Vickers and his over enthusiastic new assistant Conall Molloy. After a rocky start, their working relationship begins to develop but it appears someone more sinister is getting in on the death photography game.

The investigations of Detective Frederick Regan of Dublin Castle suggest a killer may be cashing in on a taste for a different type of memorial imagery, in this case, pictures of people in their death throes. As the body count begins to escalate, Blennerhasset, Molloy and Nancy have to stop a murderer intent on ruining not just their business, but their lives.

Created by John Morton and Imogen Murphy, DEAD STILL is written by John Morton.

DEAD STILL blends mystery and drama with gallows humour, and features an incredible ensemble of acclaimed international actors including Michael Smiley (Luther, Wire in the Blood) as Brock Blennerhasset, Kerr Logan (Game of Thrones, Victoria) as Conall Molloy, Eileen O’Higgins (Brooklyn, Mary Queen of Scots) as Nancy Vickers, and Aidan O’Hare (The Dublin Murders, Jackie) as Detective Frederick Regan.

DEAD STILL also stars Jimmy Smallhorne (Taken Down, Clean Break) as Cecil Carruthers, Mark Rendall (Departure, Versailles) as Percy Cummins, Peter Campion (Derry Girls, Kat and Alfie: Redwater) as Henry Vickers, and features Martin Donovan (Big Little Lies, Fahrenheit 451) as Bushrod Whacker.

DEAD STILL is an Ireland/Canada treaty co-production produced by Deadpan Pictures (Ireland) and Shaftesbury (Canada) in association with RTÉ, Acorn TV with Acorn Media Enterprises, ZDF Enterprises, and the BAI, and with the participation of the Irish Tax Credit, Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit, and the Ontario Film and Television Tax Credit.
DEAD STILL was developed with the support of Screen Ireland and Creative Europe.

Series 1 – 6 episodes