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One of the biggest mysteries in Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has finally been solved in the Season 2 finale : the identity of The Stranger. Ever since his fiery arrival in the series premiere fans have been speculating and theorizing about who Daniel Weyman's character really is. As it turns out, one of the most prevalent fan theories that has been swirling over the past two years was correct: The Stranger is in fact Gandalf.

After a lengthy two-year wait, fans can finally return to Middle-earth with the long-awaited Season 2 of Prime Video's The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power. The show made headlines long before filming began, with Amazon plunking down a whopping $250 million just for the rights to J.R.R. Tolkien's books in 2017. The sprawling series is said to cost upwards of $150 million per season with the streaming service believed to be committing $1 billion to the show in total.

ITV fans have claimed an Irish crime thriller is 'better than' the hit Irish series Kin. While the two Irish gritty dramas resemble one another, viewers have said Kin is a 'poor man's version' of Love/ Hate.

With the Euros kicking off, fans up and down the UK will be glued to their screens. But what if you don't like football? Sometimes it can seem like there's just too much of the beautiful game on our screens. But if you find penalty shootouts and the intricacies of the off side rule a turn-off there are plenty of shows to watch instead.

One of the stars from Irish crime drama Kin has teased the fate of the show's infamous Kinsella clan ahead of a much-anticipated third season. The RTE gangland thriller, featuring Charlie Cox, Clare Dunne, Aidan Gillen and Ciaran Hinds has had viewers glued to two seasons since it debuted in 2021. Kin was an instant hit on the Irish channel, with the season two finale pulling in nearly 600,000 viewers, before both seasons were rushed onto BBC One and BBC iPlayer by February 2024.

Since being first broadcasting in November last year, the BBC's Irish drama Kin, based around a Dublin family embroiled in a bloody gangland war, has swept the country, bringing back British viewers. The film, written by Peter McKenna and Ciaran Donnelly, stars an Irish movie celebrity and an actor from two of the most popular dramas ever. Here, MailOnline lists the popular shows cast as well as where you may have seen them before - do you recognise any of the actors in some of their lesser-known previous roles?

It's all happening in British and Irish television, with big-budget John Le Carney, Cockney obsters, and murder in Calder Valley. We've compiled a list of the 20 best thrillers to watch On Demand right now, sifting through thousands of options to save you the hassle. Looking for a new series to stream? Find out which shows it's worth investing your time in...

Kathryn Flett of the United Kingdom explores ITV's The Dry, the tale of recovering alcoholic Shiv Sheridan (Roisin Gallagher) and her ongoing struggle for sobriety despite being surrounded by her sabotaging family.

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A comedy about alcoholism might seem to be a stretch, but The Dry manages to elicit laughs from the dark corners of addiction. The Irish series has been likened to Fleabag in that it centers on a thirtysomething woman who is recouping her sobriety after returning from London for her grandmother's funeral. Shiv Sheridan, a recovering drinker who has lost her career in London, is Roisin Gallagher's role. She decides to stay in Dublin, but her dysfunctional family threatens to drag her back to the bottle.

What would you do?If you were walking the dog and found a truckload of cocaine next to a couple of corpses on a deserted beach, would you ignore the bodies and steal the drugs? It's a ridiculous thing. Jack and Harry Williams, writers, don't want us to take it seriously. They're really asking is... "Yeah, but what if?" trolls are asking. No other British screenwriters dare to do this, putting the credibility of the opening credits to the test and then stretching them. We have the wildly improved version of the boat story (BBC1), with three children shrieling in delight at a fractured head in a field. It's like the Just William version of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

In the trailer for the forthcoming action comedy film The Family Plan, starring Mark Wahlberg, it was announced on Monday. In the clip, the 52-year-old actor portrays a loving family man who is compelled to live with the repercussions of his crimes as a clandestine assassin. Michelle Monaghan, Said Taghmaoui, and Ciaran Hinds also joined the performer in the forthcoming feature, who gave his Instagram followers a glimpse into his grueling fitness routine.

The 14 photos, which were taken using then-pioneering technology, depict Captain Sir John Franklin (top left) and his senior officers, all of whom perished on the doomed mission. Sir John and his crew travelled on the ships HMS Terror and HMS Erebus to find a navigable passage through the north of Canada's icy Arctic waters. However, they went too far south, and by the fall of 1846, they were stuck in the ice near King William Island. Exactly what happened after the disaster remains largely unknown, although research shows that the crew resorted to cannibalism, and there were reports that their behavior became erratic and bizarre. In the 2021 BBC drama The Terror (inset), in which Captain Franklin was depicted by Ciaran Hinds, the expedition was given a supernatural twist. From left to right: Captain Franklin, Commander James Fitzjames, Captain Francis Crozier, Ice Master James Reid, Lieutenant James Fairholme, First Lieutenant Graham Gore.

Images of damage to a single-story warehouse that caught fire on the Rings of Power set in Windsor, Berkshire, earlier today. Aerial photos (left and right) depict the backlot in ruins with a gaping hole in its roof and charred rubble inside. It comes just after firefighters were called just before 12.30 p.m. to Bray Studios, where filming of The Lord of the Rings of Power is underway. The fire in a single-story warehouse was shown by photos on social media, with reports that several fire engines are battling the fire in a single-story warehouse.

On the set of Amazon's Lord Of The Rings prequel series, a fire broke out, sending crew and cast members to evacuate. Firefighters were dispatched in Windsor, right, just before 12.30 p.m., where filming of The Lord of the Rings of Power is currently underway. Large black clouds of smoke billowing from Maidenhead's site, according to news that multiple fire engines (left) have rushed to the scene to fight the fire in a single-story warehouse. Staff members and cast, as well as some dressed as orcs, can be seen outside watching firefighters battle the flame to prevent it from spreading. At this moment, it is unknown if anyone has been hurt. The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power began filming in Berkshire earlier this year, and is expected to be released in 2024.

Following last Tuesday's tragedy at Shottesbrooke Park in Maidenhead, Berkshire, the cast and crew were left 'in pieces.' When rehearsing a war scene, the horse was one of 100 charging against a camera. It was fully regulated and had a rider on it's back, but he is not expected to have been seriously injured. The horse had a heart arrest later on, according to the manufacturer. Filming was immediately suspended on the Amazon Prime Video series and a few employees were sent home, but production had resuming by the end of last week.

The first-look photographs for BBC's thrilling new Western have been published, giving a glimpse of Emily Blunt's transformation into a prim Aristocrat. The actress is expected to play a woman thrust into mid-America's wild landscape of the late 19th century, who joins forces with an ex-cavalry scout to reach Hoxem, Massachusetts' new town, while simultaneously immersed in a tale of passion and revenge. Hugo Blick, who also wrote Amazon's spy drama The Honourable Woman, is directing the series, which will air on BBC in the United Kingdom and Prime Video in the United States.