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Irish Bafta Winners: Graham Norton Wins Best Entertainment & Aisling Walsh Wins Best Mini-Series |
| 13 May 2013 | Bandon’s finest comedy export Graham Norton won the Bafta for Best Entertainment Programme last night at a ceremony which he also hosted - with the other Irish victory for Aisling Walsh, director of Best Mini-Series ‘Room at the Top’. |
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Dublin-Filmed 'Life of Crime', starring Hayley Atwell, Begins Tonight on UTV at 9pm |
| 10 May 2013 | Golden Globe nominee Hayley Atwell - best known for playing Peggy Carter in Marvel's 'Captain America: The First Avenger' - heads new police drama 'Life of Crime' which was partly filmed in Dublin last November and begins tonight on UTV at 9pm. |
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‘Beat Girl’, the multi-platform film and franchise, to launch this Friday 10th May |
| 09 May 2013 | Irish feature film ‘Beat Girl’ - produced by beActive, the company behind ‘Sofia’s Diary’ - will officially be launched in the IMC Dun Laoghaire this Friday 10th May and across a range of multimedia platforms. |
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Jason Byrne’s new BBC One Sitcom ‘Father Figure’ to start filming this June |
| 09 May 2013 | Irish stand-up comedian and RTE star Jason Byrne will begin filming his new sitcom ‘Father Figure’ for BBC One on 6th June in Elstree Studios, following a successful run of its original incarnation on BBC Radio 2. |
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TG4 Commissioning Editor Outlines New Programming |
| 30 Apr 2013 | The announcement of the BAI Sound and Vision II funding marked a major success for TG4 in being awarded the highest sum of €530,000 for new comedy drama series ‘Barney Bunion’. |
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Oireachtas Irish language Media Awards to take place in Galway on 17 May |
| 30 Apr 2013 | The Oireachtas Media Awards – an annual celebration of Irish language achievement in acting, journalism, presenting and programming – will take place in the Galway Bay Hotel on 17th May, at an event presented by RTE newsreader Aengus Mac Grianna. |
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New Series on the Irish Landscape Begins this Sunday |
| 29 Apr 2013 | ‘Secrets of the Irish Landscape’ is a three part series presented by popular television presenter Derek Mooney, which tells the history on how the Irish landscape came to be, using the very latest scientific research. |
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Five Minutes with… Kieron J. Walsh, Director of ‘Jump’ |
23 Apr 2013 | ‘Jump’ – a thrilling New Year’s Eve saga packed with multiple overlapping storylines and big themes of hope and redemption - arrives this week as a shot of adrenaline in the arm of the Irish cinematic landscape.
Deliberately eschewing the stereotypical image of a Northern Ireland-based film being preoccupied with religion and politics, Kieron J. Walsh’s film about the mixed fortunes of a group of twenty somethings is darkly humorous, tragic and inspiring. |
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Irish Folklore Adaptations to Air on TG4 from 24 April |
| 19 Apr 2013 | TG4’s 'Scéal' development scheme has granted six Irish-speaking writers and directors the opportunity to each adapt a well-known story from Irish language literature or folklore into a contemporary setting with a series of half hour short films, set to screen this April and May. |
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RTÉ Contributes More Than Double to Irish Economy for Every €1 Spent on TV Licence, According to Report |
| 18 Apr 2013 | A newly-published independent report prepared by Price Waterhouse Cooper shines a positive light on RTÉ’s contribution to the Irish economy in 2011 – with figures for 2012 coming later in the year. |
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Q&A with UTV’s ‘The Ice Cream Girls’ Art Director Francis Taaffe |
17 Apr 2013 | Art Director Francis Taaffe has enjoyed a long and varied career in the Irish film and TV industry having worked on such productions as Irish sci-fi comedy ‘Earthbound’; partly-animated children’s programme ‘Roy’; and crime drama ‘Corp & Anam’.
Ahead of the first episode of his latest project ‘The Ice Cream Girls’ on UTV this Friday 19 April – an adaptation of author Dorothy Koomson's best-selling novel about teenage friends accused of murdering their schoolteacher - Mr Taaffe spoke to IFTN about his work experiences to date. |
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MIPTV 2013 to Host Irish Production Companies this 8-11 April |
| 05 Apr 2013 | The ‘Ireland on Screen’ delegates attending MIPTV 2013 are preparing for this year's event at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes this 8-11 April, marking one of the most important events in the TV industry calendar. |
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Making the Cut...Career Advice from Actor Barry Keoghan |
| 04 Apr 2013 | The period from the initial rush of committing to acting into breaking through for auditions and vying for parts can be an eternal struggle for most and one that can put off even the most talented, battle-hardened youngsters. However, for one local boy who’s been on a sharp rise it took just responding to an ad by director Mark O’Connor in his local area to catch his break and he hasn’t looked back since. |
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RTÉ Celebrates ‘Ireland at the Movies’ Next Week |
| 28 Mar 2013 | RTÉ are to celebrate Ireland’s contribution to the world of cinema next week as they will showcase several classic Irish films along with documentaries and movie-related items on Irish cinema. |
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Neil Jordan Looks to Conclude ‘The Borgias’ with TV Movie |
| 28 Mar 2013 | According to reports, Irish screenwriter and director Neil Jordan wishes to conclude the papal drama with a TV movie. |
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Making the Cut...Career Advice from transportation captain Michael Phelan |
| 28 Mar 2013 | The safe transit of Hollywood actors, directors and producers in addition to entire crews onto set, to varying locations and then back to hotels is sometimes a forgotten job on today’s film and TV set. However the complex and utterly essential task of this operation is handled regularly by transportation captain Michael Phelan. |
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Short Film Round-Up: The Latest News on Irish Shorts |
| 15 Mar 2013 | IFTN rounds up the latest news on Irish short films ‘Prodigal Son’, ‘Threshold’, ‘The Girl’, and ‘Origin’. |
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Netflix Celebrates St. Patrick’s Weekend |
| 14 Mar 2013 | The on-demand service, Netflix, has made a collection of Irish films and television shows available for streaming anytime on their website, in celebration of St. Patrick’s weekend. |
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Making the Cut…Career Advice from Mairéad Ni Chuaig |
| 13 Mar 2013 | One aspect that both industry and audiences across the Irish TV landscape have long agreed about is TG4’s pioneering prowess and appeal when it comes to travel shows. From Amú le Hector, Déanta in Éirinn to O Tholg go Tolg, the station has constantly excelled in bringing vivid and subversive twists to the genre and its new six-part series WWOOFÁIL looks to be no exception. |
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Five Minutes With... Irish Comedian Neil Delamere, as He Prepares to Debunk St. Patrick this Thursday on RTÉ One at 10:15pm |
| 13 Mar 2013 | Following his success two years ago with ‘The Only Viking in the Village, in which he delved into his Viking past and was dubbed Thor of the Midlands , the irrepressible Neil Delamere is back to add a humorous spin to another historical subject - this time taking on the patron saint of Irishness himself, St Patrick. |
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