Hidden Assets Season 3 / 6 x 50 mins
In Production 2024
Lead Director: Kadir Ferati Balci.
Writers: Peter McKenna, Susan Connolly, Mary Fox & Marty Thornton, Cara Loftus.
Season 3 of Hidden Assets finds the CAB team relocated from Limerick to Dublin, and soon embroiled in an investigation which unfolds in parallel in the Basque region of Northern Spain and in Dublin.
What appears to be a simple case of an Irish fund manager defrauding his clients is soon linked to a series of connected murders in Bilbao. Dogged investigative work by DS Claire Wallace (Nora-Jane Noone) and the CAB team, their Spanish liaison Lore Velasquez, and the Basque detective Sebastian Ruiz, connects all these crimes to strange illnesses, until now unreported, in one of Bilbao’s most vulnerable groups. As they follow this thread, they realise this is only the tip of an iceberg, finding that even trusted charities are not immune to the reach of white collar crime.
Hidden Assets Season 2 / 6 x 50 mins
Directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan and Kadir Ferati Balci. Developed by Peter McKenna. Written by Peter McKenna, Sinéad Collopy, Susan Connolly, Mary Fox & Marty Thornton.
Over a year has passed since the events in Season One and the stage is set for an exciting season full of twists and turns. Claire (Nora-Jane Noone), new to the team as lead Detective Sergeant within the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB), faces a sudden challenge – a coordinated cyber-attack targeting CAB and the Belgian Counter-Terrorist Unit (CTU), with a connection to the Bibi Brannigan case.
Bibi (Simone Kirby), under threat from Richard Melnick’s business partner Frances Swann (Karine Vanasse), resurfaces with some new and crucial information unveiling dark details on how Richard ran his company, Trestford, and reveals there’s a mole in CTU.
In the face of growing violence and ever higher stakes, Claire and CTU’s Christian De Jong (Wouter Hendrickx), must join forces to uncover the mole and expose the truth about Trestford and Swann: it’s a race against time to stop the sale of Antwerp Port.
Season 2 of the taut thriller is directed once more by Emmy-nominated Thaddeus O’Sullivan and Kadir Ferati Balci and written by Peter McKenna, Sinéad Collopy, Susan Connolly and first time TV writers Mary Fox & Marty Thornton.
Hidden Assets Season 1 / 6 x 50 mins
Directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan and Kadir Ferati Balci.
Created by Peter McKenna.
Written by Peter McKenna and Morna Regan.
Produced by Saffron Moon, Facet 4 and Potemkino.
Hidden Assets is about family, power and the corrosive effects of boundless greed – a story set in Co. Clare, small town Ireland and the world’s diamond capital, Antwerp. A routine raid sees the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) expose a link between a wealthy Irish family, a stash of rough diamonds, and a series of deadly bombings in Belgium.
But nothing is as it seems, as by-the-book Belgian Chief Inspector Christian De Jong (Wouter Hendrickx) and CAB Detective Emer Berry (Angeline Ball) are thrown together in a heart-pounding race to halt a further horrifying terror attack in Antwerp.
The taut thriller is directed by Emmy-nominated Thaddeus O’Sullivan (Into The Storm, Silent Witness) and leading Belgian director Kadir Ferati Balci (Cold Courage) and stars Angeline Ball (Keeping Faith, The Commitments), Simone Kirby (His Dark Materials, Jimmy’s Hall) and Peter Coonan (Love/Hate, Cold Courage).