'Fran' Returning To Setanta Sports | The Irish Film & Television Network

The first series of the mockumentary, that was funded by Setanta Sports/BCI, saw cameras follow Fran (played by Darragh Humphreys), the assistant-manager whose club hadn’t been in the first division in nine long years and Richie tells IFTN that things are not likely to change in the second series: “One thing is for sure, Fran loves football but football doesn’t really love him,” he says, before giving us another clue as to the content of the second series, “We will also explore the man behind the tracksuit, what makes Fran tick?”

Other cast members involved with the series are Robert Byrne, John Kelly, Dermod Lynskey (Colour Blind) and Don Conroy (Draw with Don). It is written and directed by Richie and Mark Hodkinson and produced by Eimear O’Kane (Corduroy) for Snowluke Productions. The rest of the series’ crew is TBC. Series two of ‘Fran’ is to be different from its predeccessor in that the episodes will be thirty minutes in length as opposed to the ten minute segments that the first series featured.

The first series of ‘Fran’ is currently available to buy on dvd and more ‘Fran’ information is avaiable on www.snowluke.com.

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