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Critically Acclaimed Crime Drama Streaming On Ott ( Photo Credit – Prime Video )

With many movies and shows dropping every week across various streaming platforms, finding your next binge-watch can be time-consuming. If you are facing this what-to-watch dilemma, then we have got you covered. To make your job easier, we handpick lesser-known titles that may have flown under your radar. One such series is a chilling and hard-hitting crime drama that deserves your attention. We’re talking about the miniseries Too Close. Read on to find out what it’s all about and where to stream it on Ott.

Too Close – Plot & Cast

Directed by Susan Tully and based on a 2018 novel, the miniseries follows a forensic psychiatrist, Dr. Emma Robertson (played by Emily Watson), who is assigned to determine the mental state of Connie Mortensen (played by Denise Gough). But the case is not as simple as it sounds because...

Production will wrap this week in Dublin on Fran The Man, a feature adaptation of football mockumentary series Fran.

Darragh Humphreys reprises his role as Fran Costello, assistant manager of Irish football minnows St Peter’s Celtic, who are drawn to play titans Shamrock Rovers in the first round of the Football Association of Ireland Cup. Costello must work undercover to save the beautiful game from match-fixing.

Father Ted star Ardal O’Hanlon leads the new cast members, alongside Amy Huberman, Risteard Cooper, Toni O’Rourke and Deidre O’Kane. Screen can reveal a first look at the film, above. Production began on...

Combining Irish music, charisma, and a ghost's unfinished business made it feel like Fall.

Many ghosts have unfinished business. It's a well-known trope in murder mysteries, and Haunted Harmony Mysteries: Murder in G Major expanded on it with detailed characters and picturesque Irish charm.

I was as captivated by the Irish scenery and music as I was trying to solve the mystery, and I love murder mysteries.

Tamera Mowry-Housley was delightful as the lead character, a former orchestra conductor Gethsemane Brown. She's easily charmed by Ireland and the tales surrounding Orla and Eamon's deaths, but she insists that ghosts don't bother her.

She tries to blow off her first encounter with the ghost Eamon McCarthy as a coincidence or a hallucination because if she actually saw him, there might be something wrong with her. Her dad saw visions, and they all pretended he didn't.

The film never covered any of Gethsemane's other family,...

While scripted TV is slowing down, we can always rely on Hallmark to deliver some first-rate movies.

The company on Monday unveiled seven movies that will be premiering on Hallmark and Hallmark: Movies & Mysteries during the month of September.

Hallmark knows just what its audience wants, right down to the cast of its projects. We're getting a Vampire Diaries reunion, Sarah Drew's return, and so much more.

Check out the exciting movies below.

Love in the Great Smoky Mountains: A National Park Romance - Saturday, September 2 (8 p.m. Et/Pt)

Starring: Arielle Kebbel, Zach Roerig

Former sweethearts reunite at an archeological dig in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

As they work together competing for the same research grant, they discover they might still have feelings for one another.

Fourth Down and Love - Saturday, September 9 (8 p.m. Et/Pt)

Starring: Pascale Hutton, Ryan Paevey

Sparks are reignited when...

Warning! Spoilers for season 1 of The Power and The Power novel.

The Power is a complex tale of oppression and revolution, and the ending of season 1 explains how these elements interact. The series explores the development of “electric organ discharge”, or Eod, as young girls around the world develop the ability to channel electricity. The Power has an ensemble cast of characters, including Margot (Toni Collette), the mayor of Seattle; Jos (Auli’i Cravalho), Margot’s daughter; Roxy (Ria Zmitrowicz), the daughter of a British gangster with a very powerful Eod, Tunde (Toheeb Jimoh), a Nigerian journalist who covers many of the social changes due to Eod; Allie (Halle Bush), a girl who has exceptional finesse in using her Eod; and Tatiana Moskalev (Zrinka Cvitesic), the wife of the repressive Moldovan president.

After exploring the lives of its cast, the ending of The Power season 1 sets up several plot points for season 2. Firstly,...

TBS announced that “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” will be releasing a comedy special about gun reform called “Full Frontal Wants To Take Your Guns,” which will air on May 12 at 10:30 p.m.

The special will “explore how appalling and frankly stupid it is that we as Americans are told there’s simply nothing we can do about gun violence. Don’t even get us started on the whole “good guy with a gun” thing. It’s high time to figure out how America’s gun problem got this bad, and what we as citizens of this glorious mess can do to help fix it.”

The series is executive produced by Bee, Jason Jones, Tony Hernandez of Jax Media, Miles Kahn and Alison Camillo.

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Netflix and Riot Games are bringing the “League of Legends” franchise to television with the new animated series “Arcane,...

"This bloody moon better make me bloody rich." Wild Card Distribution has debuted a full-length, official UK trailer for the indie comedy Extra Ordinary, from directors Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman. The film premiered at the SXSW Film Festival this year, but most importantly just won Best Film at the Galway Film Festival in Ireland this weekend. The film is about a sweet, lonely woman in rural Ireland with supernatural abilities, but hates using her "talents" and mostly just stays home. But when a washed up one-hit-wonder rock star makes a pact with the devil, and puts a spell on a local teenager, Rose must overcome her fears and save the day with her own supernatural talents. Maeve Higgins (seen on "Inside Amy Schumer" & "Moone Boy") stars as Rose, joined by Barry Ward, Will Forte, Claudia O'Doherty, Terri Chandler, Jamie Beamish, Emma Coleman, and Risteard Cooper. The reviews are great, it's winning awards,...

Jim Jarmusch’s zombie pic The Dead Don’t Die, which will open the Cannes Film Festival next month, is set to make its U.S. premiere at the Overlook Film Festival, which kicks off May 30 and continues through June 2 in New Orleans. The news was announced today when the horror-centric fest unveiled third festival lineup.

In addition to the 41 films, the fest will feature television presentations, immersive presentations, virtual reality, interactive events, and live performances. This includes their closing night film The Lodge, a sneak preview of the forthcoming Universal Pictures horror Ma starring Octavia Spencer and a screening of DC Universe’s new series Swamp Thing. Robert Rodriguez will also be on hand to hold an educational master class on independent filmmaking before presenting his latest micro-budget independent effort Red 11 and a special screening of the ’90s sci-fi horror The Faculty.

“We’re so proud to unleash this terrifying lineup on audiences.

"The truth is - ghosts are around us all the time." Epic Pictures Group has debuted the first teaser trailer for an Irish indie comedy titled Extra Ordinary, which just premiered at the SXSW Film Festival earlier this month. The story is about a sweet, lonely woman in rural Ireland with supernatural abilities, but hates using her "talents" and mostly just stays home. But when a washed up one-hit-wonder rock star makes a pact with the devil, and puts a spell on a local teenager, Rose must overcome her fears and save the day with her own supernatural talents. Maeve Higgins (seen on "Inside Amy Schumer" & "Moone Boy") stars as Rose, with Barry Ward, Will Forte, Claudia O'Doherty, Terri Chandler, Jamie Beamish, Emma Coleman, and Risteard Cooper. This looks like an amusing new horror comedy in the same vein as What We Do in the Shadows, with ghosts who don't do much scaring,...

A first feature for the writing-directing duo of Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman, whose prior work has encompassed shorts, music videos, and commercials, “Extra Ordinary” is a kind of tea-cosy “Ghostbusters” that’s consistently funny in a pleasingly off-kilter way. The presence of Will Forte as villain should help this Irish comedy (co-produced with Belgium) find North American berths, and its idiosyncratic appeal will find pockets of cult fandom elsewhere outside the U.K.

Comedienne Maeve Higgins brings a distinctive frank-yet-flaky personality not far from her standup work to heroine Rose Dooley, a wallflowerish 30-something who makes her small-town living as a driving instructor. She was once destined for other, greater things, however: Her famous spiritualist father Vincent used or perhaps exploited her own psychic gifts when she was a child, until an accident involving a “haunted pothole” put an end to both his life and her supernatural vocation. Her...

Wildfire Films' comedy series, 'An Crisis', and 'World 2000's historical drama 'The Tudors' have received six and three Golden Nymph nominations respectively at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival 2010. The nominations received include nods for the acting talents of Risteard Cooper, Conor MacNeill, Norma Sheahan and Michelle Beamish in 'An Crisis' and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Match Point, Shelter) in 'The Tudors'. Furthermore, 'An Crisis' producers Martha O'Neill and Micheal O'Meallaigh and 'The Tudors' Morgan O'Sullivan were all nominated in several production categories.

April will see TG4 air a new six part office-based comedy series based in a State Irish language organisation. The series chronicles the strange world of Act (An Chomhairle Teanga), an Irish language organisation that seems to be following policies that are quite unusual. 'An Crisis' follows the downward spiral of Act and its current director Setanta De Paor played by Risteárd Cooper (Aprés Match). Setanta is the guardian of the Irish language but is about to grapple with fate in the form of cutbacks in Government spending, media scrutiny of very questionable projects that have been previously sanctioned and a new Minister who has some scores to settle with him from their schoolboy days together. Other scandals arise from Act's proposal for an unusual method to increase the ratio of Irish speakers, trips abroad of dubious benefit and a strange choice in film-funding.

Following Colm Toibin's introduction on Morning Ireland, a number of celebrated Irish artists came together to launch The National Campaign For the Arts. Singer, Mary Black, actress and star of 'In America' and 'The Tudors', Sarah Bolger, comedian Risteard Cooper, singer/songwriter Damian Dempsey, Mercury Prize nominee Lisa Hannigan, actress and novelist Amy Huberman, Oscar and Ifta winning director Neil Jordan, internationally acclaimed composer Bill Whelan, television star Don Wycherly and other representatives of Ireland's music, film, theatre, literary and visual arts industries were there to give their support to a campaign highlighting the value of the arts to Ireland's economic and social recovery.

Principal Photography commenced this week on the new a six part comedy series - 'Anseo', produced by Wildfire Films for TG4. Charlie McCarthy (On Home Ground) will helm the drama which tells the story of civil servant Setanta de Paor who is the guardian of the Irish language but is about to become lost in translation with a savagely tightened public purse - and his only hope a parrot called Mairtin O Cadhain. Risteard Cooper (The State of Us) stars in the lead role and is joined by Conor McNeill (Cherrybomb), Norma Sheahan (New Boy), Kate Nic Chonaonaigh (Rolla Saor) and Michelle Beamish (Eden).