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Special Feature: Industry Discusses Irish Language TV |
| 02 Sep 2010 | With the launch of Irish broadcasters’ Autumn schedules IFTN spoke with broadcasters and producers of Irish language programmes to get their (often varying) take on the current issues facing programmes in our native tongue. |
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TV3's 'Road to Dublin' Lead to Europa Final |
| 02 Sep 2010 | Motive Television has reportedly signed a €1.1m live sports production contract with TV3 to co-produce coverage of the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League with Asgard Media. |
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RTÉ Drama Seeks New Projects |
| 02 Sep 2010 | TV Drama and feature film submissions are currently being accepted by RTÉ Drama. The deadline for receipt of applications is Friday, September 17th and the broadcaster intends to review TV dramas and feature films that have a resonance for an RTÉ One audience for the next BAI round - closing 5th November 2010. |
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Interview: Graham Linehan Revisits Craggy Island |
| 01 Sep 2010 | In a time when gross-out comedies are the safe option for most writers Graham Linehan insists on creating what he calls ‘Inclusive Comedy’. This is humour that won’t have various family members running for the kettle as a result of unrelenting awkwardness; rather it seeks to find the comedic heart in normally taboo subjects. IFTN spoke with the man who has brought us the three best known members of the Irish parochial community to see what audiences can expect from the upcoming ‘Father Ted’ documentary, his various ways of writing sitcoms and what his favourite ‘Father Ted’ episode is. |
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RTÉ Launches Storyland 3 |
| 01 Sep 2010 | RTÉ is today holding a briefing session to introduce the third installment of its commissioning competition, StoryLand. StoryLand 3 is a competition for online drama series that sees eight series and 21 episodes of new drama commissioned by RTÉ and the audience. |
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TG4 Announces 'Emotional' Autumn Line-up |
| 01 Sep 2010 | A major new series profiling each of the 1916 Proclamation signatories; the story of the man who invented the documentary film using the Aran Islands as his testing-ground; a revealing television history of Irish rugby; Hector’s invasion of Canada; award-winning documentaries and a return to free-to-air TV for Magner’s League rugby are to form key elements in the TG4’s 2010 Autumn Schedule. |
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Green Inc Going 'Live' and 'Daily' |
| 31 Aug 2010 | Green Inc Film & Television has gone into production with ‘Four Live’ and ‘The Daily Show’ – shows that will broadcast in what was the slot of the group’s previous lifestyle magazine show ‘The Afternoon Show’ on RTÉ. The company is also in production with ‘The Many faces of…Richard Wilson’ for the BBC. |
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UTV Interim Revenue Up 9% |
| 31 Aug 2010 | UTV Media PLC has released its interim results for the first half of the year. The findings in the report see group revenue up by 9% to £59.2m (2009: £54.4m) and Pre-tax profits up by 17% to £9.4m (2009: £8.0m) It’s further reported that an improvement in the UK airtime market in the first quarter of 2010 was not matched in the Irish marketplace but the second quarter brought growth in both the UK and Ireland. |
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BBC NI Schedule Highlights Factual & Comedy |
| 30 Aug 2010 | A release from BBC states that BBC NI Autumn viewers can look forward to a diverse range of fresh programmes with everything from brand new comedy and culture shows on Wednesday nights to thought-provoking and hard hitting documentaries. |
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Setanta Announces Two New Signings |
| 30 Aug 2010 | Setanta Sports has acquired the Irish television rights to broadcast live Serie A football for the coming season. The coverage launched on Sunday, August 29th August and continues today, Monday, August 30th with live broadcast of the Bologna v Inter Milan match at 7.45pm. |
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Graham Norton Lands BBCOne Friday Night Slot |
| 30 Aug 2010 | Irish presenter Graham Norton will bring his talk show, ‘The Graham Norton Show’ to a new Friday night prime time slot from October 22nd. The move, confirmed by BBC One Controller, Jay Hunt will see Graham’s show take over the spot vacated by ‘Friday Night with Jonathan Ross’. |
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Interview: Stokes Passing SPI Torch to Galavan |
| 26 Aug 2010 | Sean Stokes’ handed over the role of CEO of the Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) to Barbara Galavan on Tuesday, August 24th. Having come to the end of his term as CEO Stokes has taken up his new position as MD of Sports and Media Rights International Ltd. IFTN spoke to both Sean and Barbara to talk about the Stokes’ time with the producers representative group and the challenges now facing Barbara. |
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Rose of Tralee Attracts One Million+ Viewers |
| 26 Aug 2010 | The Rose of Tralee on RTÉ One was the most-watched programme on any channel available in Ireland so far this year. A peak of over one million viewers saw London Rose Clare Kambamettu crowned the 52nd Rose of Tralee on Tuesday, August 26th. Hosted for the first time by a native Kerry-man in the shape of Dáithi O’Sé, the two day event was watched by an average of 916,300 people. |
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Barbara Galavan is New SPI Chief |
| 25 Aug 2010 | The Board of Screen Producers Ireland has announced the appointment of its new Chief Executive, Barbara Galavan. Barbara replaces Sean Stokes who is leaving to head up Sports and Media Rights International Ltd a company providing advice and solutions for sports and media rights consumers. |
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Abú Media Prep 'Clontarf' & 'Mobs Canada' |
| 25 Aug 2010 | Abú Media are currently in pre-production with two series, namely ‘Mobs Canada’, a follow up to their previous historical doc series ‘Mobs Mhericeá’, and ‘Clontarf’, a 2 x one hour series for TG4 that will investigate the infamous historical Irish battle. |
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NI Viewing Levels Up 5% in Ofcom Report |
| 24 Aug 2010 | On 20 August, Ofcom published its seventh annual Communications Market report. In relation to Northern Ireland, the report says whilst average viewing levels have increased there by 5% since last year, NI audiences still watch less TV than the UK average. The report further found that UK channels contributed towards the first ever annual fall in the number of UK television channels. |
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'The Tudors' Celebrate at Creative Arts Emmys |
| 23 Aug 2010 | The final series of ‘The Tudors’ saw wins for two of its four nominations at this year’s Creative Arts Emmys. Joan Bergin and Susan Cave won the prize in the category of Outstanding Costumes for a Series whilst Tom Conroy, Colman Corish and Crispian Sallis took the Outstanding Art Direction for a Single Camera Series prize. The Awards ceremony took place on Saturday, August 21st. |
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'Eco Eye' & 'About the House' Begin Production |
| 23 Aug 2010 | Production got underway late last week on the set of Earth Horizon Productions’ ‘Eco Eye’ and ‘About the House’. Both series will film all over the country for the next few months with the former transmitting on RTÉ next January and the latter coming to our television screens late this year. Marcus Stewart (A Burning Question) is the producer for both shows which are presented by Duncan Stewart (The Changing Face of Dublin). |
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TV3 Unveils Autumn Schedule & Three Year Plan for Production |
| 19 Aug 2010 | TV3 today launched its autumn schedule of programming. The broadcaster reported that home produced programming will increase by 10% to 40%, with a three year aim to exceed 50%. The schedule will be formally launched on air on ‘Ireland AM’ live from Galway on Friday August 20th |
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Interview: John Murphy Talks Rapid Scriptwriting |
| 19 Aug 2010 | Cork born scriptwriter John Murphy has been writing scripts for quiz shows, reality shows and soaps since his unlikely big break as a detective with a sense of humour. He spoke to IFTN about an elaborate police investigation to find Bob Monkhouse’s jokes, his ‘Perfect Match’ with Twink and how ‘Bilko’ is essentially the same as ‘Frasier’. |
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