Jack Irish

Jack Irish is an Australian television drama series first broadcast on ABC1 on 14 October 2012. The series stars Guy Pearce as the title character, a former criminal lawyer turned private investigator and debt collector. Much of the action is set in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy. Adapted from the detective novels by author Peter Temple, Jack Irish was created by Andrew Anastasios, Matt Cameron and Andrew Knight. It began life as three feature-length movies, before being adapted into an ongoing series, of which two six-episode blocks have been broadcast thus far. All three movies were directed by Jeffrey Walker, while Kieran Darcy-Smith serves as lead director on the series.