Total episodes: 4 x 50min
This Dutch series is based on events that took place in the 1990s where the titular Stanley is Stanley Hillis, one of the country’s most infamous criminals. Over three decades, Stanley evolved from ‘gentleman’ bank robber to ruthless kingpin. In the early ’90s, thousands of kilograms of drugs (as well as weapons and explosives) were allowed to enter the country in an effort to catch the leader of the Dutch drug empire.
The four-part
Stanley presents the cat-and-mouse game between the Justice Department and the criminal underworld, introducing us to remarkable characters on both sides. With Stanley’s group marred by mistrust, money problems and betrayal, heads surely roll. A fascinating look at this recent criminal history, Jeroen Spitzenberger stars in the lead role.
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Bloodlands was filmed in Northern Ireland.
“I think the audience are going to be like ‘oh!’” says Charlene McKenna, co-lead with James Nesbitt in the BBC crime thriller Bloodlands. “That’s Jed Mercurio not wanting to give too much away. You’re like guessin’ all the time.”
McKenna isn’t giving too much away about the Northern Ireland-set series from Line of Duty/Bodyguard executive producer either for fear of spoilers, something that also applies to the other series she’s a well kent face from, Peaky Blinders. The Irish actor is filming Peaky now in Manchester when we speak on the phone, but we have to wait till later this year for that to air, after Vienna Blood, the Freud and forensics crime drama set in the early 20th century Austrian capital which McKenna filmed during last summer’s lift in lockdown.
New Clip From Bloodlands Presents Promising Suspects for a Deadly Crime (Exclusive)
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