EDMONTON – Super Channel announced today the six-part international crime drama Hidden Assets, will premiere in Canada on Sunday, Feb. 13 at 9 p.m. ET as a new Super Channel Fuse original series.
The series stars Angeline Ball (above, right; Deadly Cuts, Keeping Faith, Acceptable Risk), along with Wouter Hendrickx (left; Blackout, Cordon) as Christian De Jong and Simone Kirby (His Dark Materials, Jimmy’s Hall) as Bibi Melnick.
The cast also includes Peter Coonan (Peaky Blinders, Love/Hate), Cathy Belton (Red Rock, Miss Scarlet and the Duke), Sophie Jo Wasson (Rialto), Charlie Carrick (Abandoned, Angelique’s Isle) and Michael Ironside (The Alienist, Angel of Darkness).
“A routine raid led by Emer Berry (Ball), a detective in the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB), reveals that a small-time drug dealer has been receiving substantial funding from a seemingly untraceable source – not in cash, but in rough diamonds,” a description in Super Channel press release reads.
“When these diamonds are linked to a series of bombings in Belgium, Emer is forced to work with Police Commissioner Christian De Jong. Eventually banding together, they unravel a political conspiracy fuelling domestic unrest for financial gain; caught up in this web of greed are the Brannigans, a wealthy Irish dynasty with ties to Antwerp. Drawn into a battle of wits with the family, Emer, Christian, and the CAB team must follow the money to stop another terrorist attack – before it’s too late.”
Hidden Assets is an Ireland/Belgium/Canada co-production, the press release says. It was commissioned by RTÉ and Acorn TV in association with Screen Ireland and Screen Flanders.
The series is produced by Saffron Moon, an Irish production company, co-produced by Belgian producer Potemkino and Canada’s Facet 4 and directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan (Into The Storm, Silent Witness) and Kadir Balci (Cold Courage).
Hidden Assets is written by Peter McKenna (Kin, The Musketeers) and Morna Regan. It is produced by Siobhán Bourke and Kathryn Lennon (Whistleblower, Acceptable Risk) and Anna-Sue Greenberg (Acceptable Risk) and co-produced by Peter De Maegd (Cold Courage) and Tom Hameeuw. Stephen Greenberg and James Mitchell are executive producers.
The six, hour-long episodes were filmed in Antwerp, Belgium, and Co. Clare, Ireland.
Each episode will be available on Super Channel On Demand the day after its linear premiere. Super Channel is available through most Canadian cable providers, on Amazon Prime Video channels and on Apple TV+.
To view the trailer, please click here.
Image provided by Super Channel. Photo credit: Guillaume Van Laethem/Saffron Moon/RTÉ/AcornTV.
