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Barry Keoghan will reprise his role from crime drama Top Boy in a new five-party series for Netflix.<\/p>\n

Jonny Boy will see the Love\/Hate and Banshees of Inisherin actor return as Jonny McGee in an origins story about his character which is being written and created by Ronan Bennett.<\/p>\n

Keoghan played menacing Irish mob member McGee in Top Boy, which began on Channel 4 before moving to Netflix, and landed the role after contacting the show’s creators to say he was a fan.<\/p>\n

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\nBarry Keoghan<\/p>\n

In Top Boy, McGee distributed drugs in London alongside his uncle and partner-in-crime Tadhg McGee (Brian Gleeson) but came into conflict with the Summerhouse gang.<\/p>\n

Jonny Boy will be produced by WOLFCUB Productions, a production company owned by Keoghan and Des Byrne.<\/p>\n

“WOLFCUB Productions is proud to bring Jonny McGee – the character introduced in Top Boy’s third and final season – to the screen in Jonny Boy,” the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“We pitched our vision and idea to Netflix and the Executive Producers and they were so supportive in wanting to bring our passion project forward, exploring Jonny McGee\u2019s origin story through a new bold lens.”<\/p>\n

Jonny Boy is among the new shows commissioned by Netflix at the Edinburgh TV Festival, which is currently taking place.<\/p>\n

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\nLisa McGee<\/p>\n

Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee will also debut her new Netflix series JIG, a six-part mockumentary set in the high-stakes world of competitive Irish dancing, which will shoot in Northern Ireland next year.<\/p>\n

According to the synopsis for JIG, “Best friends Cara and Fletcher, from the struggling Sweeney School of Dance in Derry, take on their sworn rivals in Florida, a slick, sponsored, seemingly unbeatable operation.<\/p>\n

“We follow both teams as they journey towards the all-important World Championships. But who will lift that trophy?”<\/p>\n

In other new Netflix shows, Bridgerton and Derry Girls star Nicola Coughlan is among the cast of Untitled Dahl Stories For Adults, which also stars Naomi Scott, Josh Finan, Imelda Staunton, Toby Jones and Dominic West.<\/p>\n

The series is based on a collection of Dahl’s short stories for adults, with production beginning next week in Manchester and across the North of England.<\/p>\n

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\nNicola Coughlan<\/p>\n

Netflix has also announced details of The Unheard which stars Kate Winslet and Maxine Peake as two sisters who go on the run after an act of vengeance goes wrong.<\/p>\n

How To Kill Your Family will see Clive Owen, Orlando Norman, David Shields and Anya Taylor Joy in a new series based on Bella Mackie\u2019s bestselling novel.<\/p>\n

New family comedy Marbles, starring Robert Webb, Timothy Spall, Alexandra Roach, Denise Welch, is about “a couple raising ridiculously lively young boys, while caring for ridiculously difficult ageing parents, and coping with the craziness of life in the middle.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barry Keoghan will reprise his role from crime drama Top Boy in a new five-party series for Netflix.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-607080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}