KILLIAN SCOTT AND IAIN GLEN STAR IN JACK TAYLOR - THE DRAMATIST ON TV3

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IMMEDIATE: Wednesday 27th February 2013

TV3 to air two brand new Jack Taylor movies, ‘The Dramatist’ and ‘Priest’

Based on the novels of Ken Bruen and filmed on location in Galway

'Jack Taylor: The Dramatist' airs Sunday 3rd March at 10pm on TV3

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Following the success of the ‘The Guards’, ‘The Pikemen’ and ‘The Magdalen Martyrs’, TV3 will air two brand new Jack Taylor movies, ‘The Dramatist’ and ‘Priest’.

The movie series, which is based on the novels of Galway writer Ken Bruen, follow an Irish ex-cop, Jack Taylor, who takes on cases that The Guards won´t touch - no matter how hopeless.

The first of the new movies, 'Jack Taylor: The Dramatist', catches up with Jack who against all odds is clean and sober. But in his hometown of Galway, grief is never far away. His mother, who has suffered a stroke, is living in a health care facility and a female student, Sarah, falls from the roof of the university and dies - dressed in a theatre-costume, a ring of paper wrapped around her hand, a message typed within. When drugs are found in Sarah’s blood, the Police assume suicide under the influence of Heroin.

The movies were filmed on location in Galway and see Iain Glen (Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey), Nora Jane Noone (The Runaway, Deception) and Killian Scott (Love/Hate, Single Handed) return to reprise their roles. There are also three new additions to the cast as Aaron Monaghan (The Other Side Of Sleep, Single-Handed), Emma Eliza Regan (Love Eternal, The Shadows) and Gavin Drea (Love Hate series 2, What Richard Did) join the ‘Jack Taylor’ crew.

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Notes to Editor:
About Jack Taylor:
The Dramatist: Against all odds, Jack Taylor is clean and sober. He worries about his mother, who has suffered a stroke and is living in a health care facility. But in his hometown Galway, grief is never far away. A female student, Sarah Bradley, falls from the roof of the university dressed in a theatre costume and dies with a ring of paper wrapped around her hand, a message typed within. When drugs are found in Sarah’s blood, the Police assume suicide under the influence of Heroin.

Literature Professor Gorman asks Jack for help as he doesn´t believe The Guards’ theory - he thinks his student has been murdered. Jack finds out that the text found on Sarah is from the play “Deirdre of the Sorrows” by the Irish playwright, John Millington Synge.

He sends his sidekick Cody back to school, where he learns that even the squeaky-clean-seeming world of University academia has its secrets and shadows, drug abuse and love affairs. Professor Doyle, another professor of literature, moves into focus when Cody finds out that he has an unusually close relationship with his female students.

Meanwhile, Garda Kate Noonan, Jack´s Garda-friend, attempts to move up the career ladder and to get the attention of new chief inspector Griffin. She is quickly informed to “follow the book” and that her friendship with Jack Taylor is detrimental to her career. Griffen is smitten by Kate and Jack proves to be a disagreeable rival.

When another female literature student disappears, Garda Kate begins to believe in Jacks and Gorman’s idea of a literature-obsessed serial killer. As Griffin refuses to enter any theory bar suicide, Kate sets out alone to follow the clues but is soon faced with danger. The missing student is found dead and, like Sarah Bradley, dressed as Deirdre of the Sorrows. When Kate moves into the focus of the murderer, Jack realizes that The “Dramatist” is playing a personal mind game with him.

About Jack Taylor:
Jack is an Irish ex-cop, on the wrong side of forty who has become a finder with a sharp tongue and a soft heart. He takes on the cases The Guards won´t touch, no matter how hopeless. He´s pig stubborn. He defends the lost and the broken. He´s good because he looks where no one else looks, talks to the people no one else talks to. Moreover, he knows every back street in his hometown, Galway, knows the seed and breed of everyone in it. But small towns have big memories, and like Jack they are quick to anger and slow to forgive. This series of feature length crime dramas follows Jack´s odyssey through the mean streets of Galway.