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Ray Sullivan & Rob Davis's The Skwoids named JETS Winners for 2021 |
| 05 Mar 2021 | Irish project The Skwoids has been named among the winners of the JETS 2021 Initiative following this year’s online edition, which took place in February. |
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Creative Europe and Alphapanda to host Film Market Workshop |
| 04 Mar 2021 | Creative Europe Desk MEDIA Office Galway, with the support of the BAI Sectoral Learning and Development Fund, will host a Webinar on Film Marketing on March 25th with Mathias Noschis from the Berlin based Marketing company Alphapanda. |
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Northern Ireland-set crime drama Hope Street commissioned by BBC Daytime and Britbox North America |
| 04 Mar 2021 | BBC Daytime and BritBox North America have commissioned Hope Street, a new serial crime drama set in Northern Ireland, from acclaimed producers Paul Marquess and Donna Wiffen at Long Story TV. |
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Paul Mescal cast in Irish thriller Bring Them Down; Tailored Films to produce |
| 04 Mar 2021 | Star of hit series Normal People, Mescal was revealed alongside Mank star Tom Burke in the leading roles for the Irish thriller at this week’s European Film Market. |
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BBC Three, home of Normal People and The Young Offenders, to return as a broadcast channel in January 2022 |
| 03 Mar 2021 | The BBC has confirmed the return of BBC Three to TV screens. |
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Ros na Rún celebrates 25th season as production wraps without any COVID stoppages |
| 01 Mar 2021 | On Friday, the production team behind Ros na Rún, Ireland’s only rural and Irish Language-based TV drama, wrapped filming without any COVID incidents on its milestone 25th season. |
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Hozier, Fontaines D.C., and Elbow feature as Other Voices returns to RTÉ2 on March 4th |
| 01 Mar 2021 | Ireland's longest-running music TV show Other Voices will return to RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player on March 4th, with an array of dynamic and diverse performances, captured in a variety of different locations, including Dingle, Cardiff, and Ballina. |
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New Irish media and entertainment business BiggerStage launches |
| 01 Mar 2021 | BiggerStage, Ireland’s newest media and entertainment venture is founded by Pat Kiely, former Managing Director of Virgin Media Television. |
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“A great script is an incredible springboard for the success of any film”; BFE-nominated Editor Úna Ní Dhonghaíle talks with IFTN |
| 26 Feb 2021 | We caught up with IFTA and BAFTA winning editor Úna Ní Dhonghaíle to discuss her latest project Misbehaviour, for which she recently received a British Film Editors (BFE) Award nomination, working with Kenneth Branagh on Belfast & Death on the Nile, and some insight and advice on the craft of editing. |
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First-look at Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson for Sky Original drama This Sceptred Isle |
| 25 Feb 2021 | Sky has released the first-look image of BAFTA and Emmy award-winning actor Kenneth Branagh as U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson for Sky’s major new limited series, This Sceptred Isle. |
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Portráidí Criathraigh (Bog Portraits) to have world premiere online as part of Galway 2020 |
| 23 Feb 2021 | As part of Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture, Irish film Portráidí Criathraigh (Bog Portraits), directed by Ríonach Ní Néill and Joe Lee, will premiere online on Monday March 1st . |
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Planning permission for Wexford's Tara Studios put on hold as objection filed |
| 23 Feb 2021 | Having initially received a green light for planning permission on the €20 million film studio, Tara Studios’ will now have to wait another four months to find out if its ambitious plans have been successful. |
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Actor Pierce Brosnan stars in new video showcasing the beauty of Ireland |
| 23 Feb 2021 | Tourism Ireland has teamed up with the Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) to create a new series of short videos to showcase Ireland. The first of these videos features actor Pierce Brosnan. |
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AMC+ acquires Irish drama Kin starring Aidan Gillen and Clare Dunne |
| 22 Feb 2021 | Kin, the brand new eight-part Irish drama, has been acquired by International streaming service AMC+ including rights for North America, Australia, New Zealand, Iberia, Latin America, and the UK. |
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Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington join Netflix's Belfast-bound The School for Good and Evil |
| 22 Feb 2021 | Theron and Washington will join Bridesmaids director Paul Feig to film the Netflix original film, which is due to begin filming at Belfast Harbour Studios later this year. |
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First-look trailer released for new Irish drama Smother |
| 22 Feb 2021 | The new six-part domestic noir thriller Smother will air on Sunday, March 7th at 9:30pm on RTÉ One. |
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Netflix's original series Fate: The Winx Saga will return to Ireland for a second season |
| 19 Feb 2021 | Netflix has renewed Fate: The Winx Saga for season two with production set to begin later this year in Ireland. |
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Treasa O'Brien's Town Of Strangers to open exclusively on IFI@Home on March 19th |
| 19 Feb 2021 | Town of Strangers by award-winning Irish filmmaker Treasa O’Brien will open exclusively on IFI@Home platform from March 19th, 2021. |
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TV accounts for 13% of Irish language content new BAI Report finds |
| 18 Feb 2021 | In a recent report, which studied programme data and recordings from broadcasters for a specific week in October 2019, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) found that from a total of 718.93 hours of Irish / bilingual programming broadcast, only 13% of the total minutage featured on TV, with radio accounting for the remaining 87%. |
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Lenny Abrahamson to direct Sally Rooney's Conversations With Friends adaptation; Irish newcomer Alison Oliver named among cast |
| 17 Feb 2021 | Element Pictures (The Favourite, Room, The Lobster) has revealed the highly anticipated casting for the BBC Three and Hulu TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s debut literary sensation, Conversations With Friends. |
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