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The big Limited Series winners of the 77th Emmy Awards nominations are "The Penguin" (which retold "The Sopranos" in Gotham City), and the chilling drama "Adolescence." But there's one show that got shut out, FX's "Say Nothing," that's all about taking action for your beliefs. I'd be remiss if I didn't stand up and demand justice for the series, which was the best new television show I watched in 2024.

Created by Joshua Zetumer, "Say Nothing" adapts Patrick Radden Keefe's bestselling nonfiction book "Say Nothing: A True Story of Memory and Murder in Northern Ireland." That true story stretches from the 1970s to the 2010s, following Northern Irish youths who joined the Provisional Irish Republican Army (Ira) to fight for a united Ireland. Some of those youths, like Dolours Price (Lola Petticrew/Maxine Peake) and her sister Marian (Hazel Doupe...

Portraying a real person in Say Nothing was "a great honor," Anthony Boyle tells Gold Derby about his role as renowned Irish activist Brendan Hughes. "This one felt really special, because it was so close to home. I used to walk past the mural of Brendan Hughes coming back from school, and you'd hear folk songs about the guy." (Watch our full interview above.)

Say Nothing was created by Joshua Zetumer, based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s acclaimed nonfiction book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. Set during the height of the Troubles, the nine-part drama follows Belfast sisters Dolours Price (Lola Petticrew) and Marian Price (Hazel Doupe) as they become deeply entangled in the Ira's militant campaign. At the center of the story is the 1972 abduction and murder of Jean McConville, a widowed mother of 10, through which the series explores the emotional and ethical fallout of political violence.

The Troubles, as the war of supremacy between the Protestant Irish and the Catholic Irish in North Ireland was called, has been a hotbed of extreme creativity in cinema and its various avatars generations after the conflict was over.

In Say Nothing, a nine-part series of confounding authenticity, the makers subsume the disruptive activities of characters from the Irish Republican Army in concentrated bunches, focussing on particular characters while preserving a tight hold over the larger socio-historic perspectives.

This is a remarkable achievement, bringing both the drama and history of the theme into one line of vision. At the same time, it must be said that keeping track of all the characters sprawling into nine episodes is a daunting task, as they are often played by two different actors, none of whom are known to us.

Authenticity can be quite a benign bitch. This series proves it. While I struggled...

Former Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer Marian Price has taken initial steps to sue Disney over her portrayal in FX’s acclaimed limited series Say Nothing.

Price’s lawyer Peter Corrigan announced on Wednesday that his client was “forced to initiate legal proceedings” in Ireland against Disney over the show, an adaptation of New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe’s eponymous 2019 book, after it portrayed his previous reporting on her role in the 1972 death of Belfast mother Jean McConville. Radden Keefe argued in his book that Price, who now goes by her married name Marian McGlinchey, fired the shot that killed McConville, one of Northern Ireland’s “Disappeared.” The series depicted this reporting in its finale, with Price played by Hazel Doupe and McConville by Judith Roddy.

“Given the context, it is difficult to envisage a more egregious allegation than the one to which has been levelled against our client,...

Say Nothing, the Hulu miniseries based on the book Say Nothing: The True Story of the Troubles by Patrick Radden Keefe, is an insightful and solemn glimpse into the complexities of the Troubles. While the Troubles took place during the last half of the 20th century, the foundation of the ongoing conflict between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland goes back centuries.

Say Nothing focuses on Dolours Price (played by Lola Petticrew), a volunteer with the Irish Republican Army (Ira) and a zealous defender of the effort to remove the British from Northern Ireland. Woven into the story are her sister, Marian (Hazel Doupe), and other Ira loyalists, as well as the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Jean McConville (Judith Roddy) in 1972.

Say Nothing is a compelling series, but understanding the stakes heightens the intensity. While detailing every event of the struggle is not possible, here is the true story of the Troubles.

Exclusive: There’s fire and anger in Maxine Peake’s portrayal of Dolours Price in new FX drama Say Nothing.

Price, in her younger years, was one of the Irish Republican Army’s most feared paramilitary operatives, responsible, along with her younger sister Marian, for atrocities in London and Northern Ireland during the so-called Troubles.

Peake abhors that phrase. “It’s such a flimsy word, isn’t it?” she argues. “The country was occupied, the English came, and it was a war.”

The Troubles, she continues, is a feeble way of describing “something so horrific and something that the legacy continues on and on.”

Peake is one of the best actors of her generation. She’s an expert comedienne — watch her in Dinnerladies,Inside No. 9 or Shameless — and a breathtaking dramatic thespian. Witness her in dramas such as Little Dorrit, Silk and The Village and movies that include Peterloo...

The son of Jean McConville, whose abduction and murder by the Irish Republican Army is portrayed in the FX series Say Nothing, is criticizing the series for depicting his family’s tragedy, calling it “horrendous.”

Michael McConville, one of 10 children who were left orphaned when his mother was taken from their Belfast apartment in 1972, said in a statement obtained by The Hollywood Reporter that his mother’s death is “not ‘entertainment’ for me and my family.” He continued, “I just don’t think people realise how hurtful this is. The portrayal of the execution and secret burial of my mother is horrendous and unless you have lived through it, you will never understand just how cruel it is.”

Michael added that he has not viewed the series and does not intend to watch it.

Say Nothing, an FX adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe’s award-winning nonfiction book of the same name,...

Hulu’s FX-produced limited series Say Nothing, like its source book by Patrick Radden Keefe, takes its name from the striking 1975 poem “Whatever You Say, Say Nothing,” by Seamus Heaney.

It’s a sad and angry piece that looks at the unfolding tragedy of the Troubles, critiquing simultaneously the culture of enforced silence that repressed free speech within Northern Ireland and the voyeuristic instincts of the outside media covering “the Irish thing.” The poem is dazzlingly focused on speech and storytelling, the power and limitations of words in contrast to what Heaney refers to as “Northern reticence, the tight gag of place / And times.”

Keefe’s mission, and the mission of Say Nothing creator Joshua Zetumer (RoboCop, the 2014 one), is to break through the silence. To use a different metaphor, it’s about the disinfecting power of sunlight. It’s also a chronicle of Northern Ireland reported on by...

Following its acclaimed run at The Bridge Theatre in London, David Hare’s Straight Line Crazy starring Ralph Fiennes as New York powerbroker Robert Moses will make its Big Apple Off Broadway debut this fall at The Shed. Directed by Nicholas Hytner and Jamie Armitage, the play will run October 18-December 18.

The announcement was made Monday by producers Alex Poots, artistic director and CEO of The Shed; Madani Younis, chief executive producer of The Shed; and Tim Levy, co-director of the London Theatre Company.

The limited nine-week engagement begins previews October 18, with an official opening October 26 at The Shed’s Griffin Theater as part of the venue’s fall 2022 season.

Hare’s play examines the questionable legacy of Moses and his enduring impact on New York. The play presents an imagined retelling of the arc of Moses’ controversial career in two decisive moments: his rise to power in the late...

’Cemetery Junction’ actor Cooke also makes his feature directing debut on the project.

Production is underway in the UK on Embers, the directorial feature debut of actor Christian Cooke.

The film is adapted by Dave Florez and Cooke from the former’s 2016 play Experience. It follows a sexual surrogate who is employed to help a psychiatric patient overcome his intimacy issues after 18 years of high-security incarceration.

Cooke will star as the patient, with Ted Lasso actress Ruth Bradley playing the surrogate. Further cast includes David Wilmot, Samuel Anderson, Sam Philips, Judith Roddy and Clare Perkins.

The film is produced by...