CHANNEL 5 lands a gripping new drama called The Vanishings with Brassic and Downton Abbey stars.
The crime drama starring India Mullen and Allen Leech was filmed in Dublin’s Blackrock in Ireland.
The show was first known as The Vanishing Triangle and aired on Virgin Media One in Ireland and on Acorn TV in the UK last year.
It is based on the terrifying cases of women who vanished without trace in Ireland in the ’90s.
Dubliner Allen, 43, plays Detective David Burke, while Normal People’s India stars as reporter Lisa Wallace.
Lisa is desperate to stop the closing of a women’s shelter and publishes an article linking her own experience with violence against women which is about her mother’s murder.
As the reactions to the article flow in, so does a letter from her mother’s killer, hinting at the kidnapping of another woman.
Lisa and Detective David start working together through Garda red tape to get to the bottom of the investigation.
Soon, a pivotal discovery is made, pointing to the killer’s re-emergence and ties to the recent disappearance of a young woman named Amy Reynolds.
India, 31, is better known for her roles in Irish Soap opera series Red Rock and the Sally Rooney series Normal People where she played Peggy, a friend of Marianne at college.
In the third series of the comedy-drama Brassic she played Samantha, a barmaid who becomes close with the cheeky rascal Vinnie.
She also appeared in the acclaimed science fiction series The Peripheral which awaits a second series.
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He also starred as Paul Prenter who was briefly Freddie Mercury‘s manager and lover in the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody.
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The Vanishing Triangle was a term used by the media to refer to the disappearances of women in Ireland in the mid to late 1990s.
The women were all seen by witnesses, but they seemed to vanish completely into thin air.
And at every “crime scene,” the Gardaí found no shred of evidence.
No bodies have ever been found and the victims ranged in age from 17 to 39, and were described as attractive making some people think a serial killer was responsible.
The Vanishing begins Thursday 6th February at 9pm on Channel 5.