Red Rock (TV series)

Red Rock is an Irish soap opera set in a fictional seaside town on the northside of Dublin. It was first shown on TV3 on 7 January 2015. It is produced by Element Pictures and Company Pictures.

As TV3's first venture into soap operas, Red Rock is being promoted as a new type of soap opera much more like BBC's Holby City or ITV's The Bill with elements of typical Irish/British soap operas.^[1] It is TV3's main soap opera for the foreseeable future, following the loss of Coronation Street, from which it borrows its main premise (the everyday life of a number of families). The show is centred on 2 families (The Keilys and the Hennessys) in a typical middle-class Dublin area, and the local Garda Station. All episodes are filmed on location or in studios based at the old John Player Factory in Dublin.^[2]

Characters

Present characters

Broadcast format

Red Rock is part of the main prime time schedule for TV3. The pilot episode was broadcast on January 7, 2015 at 8.30pm. TV3 have revealed that new episodes will air for 40 weeks a year on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8.30pm. A run of 160 episodes has initially been commissioned by TV3 and 60 are already scripted, according to creator and show runner Peter McKenna.^[3]

Popularity and viewership

The first episode pulled in an average viewership of 323,000.^[4] Within a month the figures had fallen by almost 60%.^[5]

References

External links

• Official website