Northern Irish drama ‘The Fall’ – about the hunt for a serial killer on the streets of Belfast – begins this Sunday 12th May at 9:30pm, starring ‘The X-Files’ star Gillian Anderson.
An Artists Studio/BBC Northern Ireland co-production with funding by Northern Ireland Screen, the series also features Irish actors Simon Delaney, Séainín Brennan, Michael McElhatton and Ian McElhinney in supporting roles.
Ms Anderson headlines the psychological thriller as gifted Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson, called over from the London Metropolitan Police, who becomes engaged in a battle of wits with a serial killer pursuing his victims while hidden in plain sight.
Filmed on location in Belfast, ‘The Fall’ is written and executive produced by Allan Cubitt (‘The Runaway’, ‘Murphy's Law’) with Jamie Dornan ('Once Upon A Time') playing the sexually-motivated killer and Archie Panjabi ('The Good Wife') also co-starring.
In a distribution deal with the US Netflix, all five episodes in the season will be made available on the video streaming site on 28th May - in a release pattern introduced by David Fincher’s political thriller ‘House of Cards’ and followed by Eli Roth’s supernatural horror series ‘Hemlock Grove’.
Although best known for her career-defining role FBI agent Dana Scully in ‘The X-Files’, Gillian Anderson appeared in BBC productions of ‘Great Expectations’ and ‘Bleak House’, and several Hollywood roles including ‘The Last King of Scotland’ and ‘The Mighty Celt.’
‘The Fall’ starts on RTE One this Sunday 12th May at 9:30pm and BBC Two on Monday 13th May at 9pm.
