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Bloodlands: ‘A foot in both the present in and the past’ – BBC News
James Nesbitt stars as a veteran detective hunting an assassin in the new BBC drama Bloodlands.
By Luke SprouleBBC News NI
image captionJames Nesbitt plays veteran detective DCI Tom Brannick
A mysterious assassin in the police force, a detective haunted by decades-old crimes and the austere beauty of Strangford Lough – it could be yet another drama rooted in Northern Ireland’s troubled past.
But Bloodlands is a different kind of thriller, according to star James Nesbitt.
“It’s a thriller that could be set anywhere, it just happens to be set here,” he says.
“It’s not really about the Troubles….
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