EDMONTON – The gripping conspiracy thriller Acceptable Risk will make its Canadian broadcast premiere next month as a new Super Channel Original Series
The six-part Canada/Ireland co-production will air November 9 at 9:00 PM ET (SC1) and will also be available on Super Channel On Demand the day following its weekly linear broadcast.
Shot in Dublin and Montreal, Acceptable Risk is written by Emmy Award winner Ron Hutchinson (Traffic, The Ten Commandments, Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story) and directed by Kenny Glenaan (Charlie, Paranoid, Noah’s Ark, Wired). The series was produced for Irish broadcaster RTÉ, and is being co-financed by international distributor DCD Rights and U.S. partner Acorn Media Enterprises. The Canadian producer is Stephen Greenberg with Anna-Sue Greenberg and Jamie D. Greenberg as executive producers, all of Facet4 Media.
When her husband, Lee (Paul Popowich), is murdered while on a business trip to Montreal, Sarah Manning (Elaine Cassidy) comes to realize that she knows nothing about his past. While coping with her grief in her home in Dublin, Sarah questions who Lee actually was and what he did in his work for a powerful global pharmaceuticals organization. And why did Lee, a salesman, need to carry a gun? The growing suspicion that Lee’s death may be connected to the death of her first husband, leads Sarah to confront a powerful conspiracy of corporate, police and political interests, extending from Dublin to Montreal, in which her own family may be complicit.
“We are excited to be partnering with Facet4 Media to bring Acceptable Risk to our viewers as a Super Channel Original Series,” said Super Channel's director of programming, international distributors and Canadian pre-sales, Melissa Kajpust, in the news release. “It has all the elements of a top-notch international thriller and we are certain our subscribers are going to find it very compelling.”
