Clean Break writer Billy Roche said he hopes his new RTÉ four-part tiger kidnapping crime drama will put Wexford on the map and revealed the show will be nothing like AMC's Breaking Bad.
The 66-year-old acclaimed Irish playwright and actor told Nationwide reporter Helen McInerney that it was important for him to film parts of the show in Wexford.
"It gives me my language and accent and a palette to paint on. It could be a small town anywhere. It could be Fargo or it could be Copenhagen, it just happens to be here. I am conscious of putting Wexford on the map," he said.
"Writing it people were mentioning Breaking Bad and the Scandinavian stuff and I'm not really interested in that. I think we have to do our own thing and create a crime drama that is ours. I don't watch any of those shows so I'm not influenced by them," he added.
Produced for RTÉ by Octagon Films, the makers of Love/Hate and 152 Productions, Roche said that viewers expectations of the show should be high.
"Anything is possible in a small town - murder and mayhem is possible. The cities can't claim ownership of those things anymore, we have them too," he added.
Jane Grogan, Head of Drama RTÉ, says that the show has potential to become a worldwide success.
"In a certain way the stories are timeless but they do chime with the moment that we are all in, in terms of having been in a very difficult period economically, socially, culturally. Our characters, they live in that world, the world that we all live in, which sort of springs out not just across Ireland but in many other places as well.
"At this stage we have shown it to distributors all over the world and the appetite for it is just fantastic."
Wexford born actor Dermot Murphy said filming around the corner from his childhood home was "surreal," "There were times were we filmed just around the corner from where I grew up so that was surreal to be back there with the film crew. I mean it was nice. I got to see my family.
"I think it was important, we shot about half of the show down there and I think it was really great for a lot of the cast and the crew to go down and be in that world. Billy wrote the story down there, the people are from there, and I think it gave a lot of realism to what people were trying to do."
You can catch all of the above interviews in full and more on the RTÉ Player
The Clean Break cast also includes Adam Fergus (Frank Mallon), Aidan McArdle (Desmond Rane), Simone Kirby (Annette Rane), Damien Molony (Danny Quinn), Kelly Thornton (Corrina Mallon) and Ned Dennehy (Noel Blake).
Clean Break starts Sunday, September 27 at 9.30pm on RTÉ One.
