Eureka Street (TV series)

Eureka Street
Based on	Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson
Written by	Donna Franceschild
Directed by	Adrian Shergold
Starring	Vincent Regan Mark Benton Dervla Kirwan Elisabeth Rohm
Composer	Martin Phipps
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	4
Production
Executive producers	Robert Cooper Debra Hauer Claire Duignan
Producer	Sophie Gardiner
Production locations	Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Running time	4 x 60 minutes
Production company	BBC Northern Ireland
Original release
Network	BBC2
Release	13 September (1999-09-13) – 4 October 1999 (1999-10-04)

Eureka Street is a BBC Northern Ireland 1999 adaptation to mini-series of Robert McLiam Wilson's 1996 novel of the same name. Set in Belfast in the six months before and after the 1994 ceasefire, it commences with an anonymous hand typing the words, "All stories are love stories." The novel opens with the same text. The story follows the lives of two friends: the Catholic Jake Jackson – struggling with a failed relationship, his job as a repossession agent and the effect of the Troubles on the world around him – and the Protestant Chuckie Lurgan, "fat" and unemployed until circumstances and a previously untapped entrepreneurial spirit lead him to a world very different from Eureka Street. The adaptation was scripted by Donna Franceschild, directed by Adrian Shergold and starred Vincent Regan as Jake and Mark Benton as Chuckie.

External links

• Eureka Street at IMDb