An Klondike | |
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Also known as | Dominion Creek |
Created by | Dathaí Keane |
Written by | Marcus Fleming |
Directed by | Dathaí Keane |
Starring |
Owen McDonnell Dara Devaney Seán T. Ó Meallaigh Julian Black Antelope |
Country of origin | Ireland |
Original language(s) |
Irish English Tlingit |
No. of series | 2 |
No. of episodes | 8 |
Production | |
Producer(s) |
Pierce Boyce Eileen Seoighe Bríd Seoighe |
Camera setup | Multi-Camera |
Running time | 52 minutes |
Release | |
Original network | TG4 |
Picture format | 1080i 16:9 (HDTV) |
Audio format | Stereo |
Original release | 8 September 2015 | – 22 February 2017
External links | |
[anklondike.com Website] |
An Klondike (Irish for "The Klondike") is an Irish Western television series first broadcast on TG4 in 2015. It is also known by its international title Dominion Creek when streaming in the US on Netflix and on Acorn.
An edited version of the first series of the show, cut to 110 minutes, was released theatrically at the Galway Film Fleadh in August 2015, so as to be in contention for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Created and directed by Dathaí Keane, the show filmed on location in Connemara, Ireland, with the County Galway scenery standing in for the Yukon. The town of Dominion Creek was built near Oughterard, while the mining scenes were shot at Glengowla Mines, a 19th-century silver and lead mine.
A second series of four episodes was filmed in the summer of 2016 and aired in early 2017.
Three Irish emigrant brothers travel from Montana to the Yukon, Canada during the Klondike gold rush (1896–99) in the hope of striking it rich. They settle in the town of Dominion Creek, where they feud with Jacob Hopkins, the man who runs the town.
An Klondike has received mostly positive reviews, The Irish Times noting "I’m not sure there's TV gold in An Klondike, but you can’t fault its ambition and style," also noting its similarities to Deadwood.
In 2016, the film version of An Klondike won four IFTAs - for drama, actor, make-up and script.