The five finalists in this year's Storyland competition have been selected by RTÉ and its partner Northern Ireland Screen.
The original drama competition, which has spawned successes like Hardy Bucks, this year attracted over two hundred submissions. All five original dramas which are twenty minutes in duration will now be screened on the RTÉ Player in the new year.
The last series has already picked up a number of international awards and is seen as an important springboard for new Irish writing and drama production.
David Crean, the Executive Producer for Storyland in RTÉ said the series "showcases the great breadth of Ireland’s creative talent. From crime to comedy, sci-fi, and coming of age dramas, Storyland brings new and wholly original dramas to engross our audiences.”
David Crean, Executive Producer
This year's winners come in a variety of genres including Quinn and O'Grady, a comedy about a pair of mismatched cops which is described as "Cagney and Lacey meets Father Ted", Hot Knives a coming of age drama set in Dublin suburbia in 1995 and Costigan, a crime-drama about a garda detective who is released from prison after serving time for a crime she didn't commit.
There's also a comedy called Smitten about a pregnant woman who goes in search of her missing ex-boyfriend and for something completely different there's Dinosaurs, a "pre-apocalyptic dystopian drama" chronicling the final years of one family on earth.
