International award for Irish web show Cuckoo

The production team behind an Irish web television show were celebrating yesterday after it won an award at the prestigious International Academy of Web Television Awards in Las Vegas.

International award for Irish web show Cuckoo

Nikki Racklin won in the best writing category for Cuckoo, a four-part, 28-minute online drama series commissioned by RTÉ for its Storyland thread.

The show is an eerie psychological drama that features the evolving story of Niamh, a teenage schoolgirl veering off the rails who sees a digitally constructed image of a missing child from 14 years ago in a newspaper and thinks she recognises herself.

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