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BBC America Renews Kevin Ryan’s ‘Copper’ For Second Season |
| 19 Oct 2012 | Irish actor Kevin Ryan’s US cop series ‘Copper’ has been renewed for a second season after it received the highest ratings ever for a BBC America series debut. |
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Studio Spotlight: Nemeton’s HD Haven |
| 18 Oct 2012 | There’s a lot to be said for getting out of the big city. Most television producers and film-makers will tell you that. Asked earlier this month about starting work on his Brendan Gleeson-starring feature ‘Calvary’, filmmaker John Michael McDonagh could hardly contain his delight to be heading for Sligo to shoot a feature “that seeks to escape from the tiresome, rarefied confines of Dublin 4”. |
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Northern Visions Awarded Licence for Belfast TV Station |
| 18 Oct 2012 | Northern Visions has won the licence to run a local digital television service for Belfast, which it is expected to launch in autumn 2013. |
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‘Off The Rails’ Continuing To Shoot at South Studios |
| 12 Oct 2012 | Production on the current season of popular RTÉ fashion show ‘Off The Rails’ is continuing at Dublin’s South Studios. |
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Titanic Studios Expands as Northern Irish Filmmakers Honoured |
| 12 Oct 2012 | Late Northern Irish filmmakers Brian Desmond Hurst and William MacQuitty have had two new sound stages at the Titanic Studios in Belfast named in their honour. |
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Irish Filmmakers Awarded as Irish Film New York Festival Wraps |
| 12 Oct 2012 | Irish actor Gabriel Byrne leant his support to the Irish Film New York Festival last weekend, where Irish filmmakers Kieron J Walsh, Kirsten Sheridan, Lelia Doolan and Gerard Barrett picked up awards. |
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‘The Begrudgers’, ‘What Richard Did’ & More To Screen At Clones Festival |
| 10 Oct 2012 | Clones Film Festival has unveiled its 2012 programme, packed with new, nostalgic and native film screenings over four days. |
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Set Visit: TV3’s ‘Ireland AM’ Becomes Number One For Breakfast |
| 09 Oct 2012 | On the currently cramped set of ‘Ireland AM’, presenters Mark Cagney and Sinead Desmond’s eyes light up when they discuss the prospect of introducing new segments to the breakfast show. |
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BBC Commission Creates 60 Jobs at Irish Animation Firm |
| 09 Oct 2012 | Up to 60 jobs have been created at Irish animation company Jam Media after the BBC re-commissioned a third series of children’s programme ‘Roy’. |
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John Michael McDonagh’s ‘Calvary’ Begins Filming as Dylan Moran Joins Cast |
| 03 Oct 2012 | Irish comedian Dylan Moran has joined the cast of John Michael McDonagh’s ‘Calvary’, which is one week into a five-week shoot in Co Sligo. |
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Judi Dench & Steve Coogan To Film Stephen Frears’ ‘Philomena’ in Ireland |
| 02 Oct 2012 | Judi Dench and Steve Coogan are to film Stephen Frears’ next feature in Northern Ireland later this month. |
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Tyrone’s ‘Mission Titanic’ To Air This Sunday |
| 28 Sep 2012 | A documentary on a priest hoping to create a floating ecumenical church on the River Lagan in Belfast is to air on UTV this Sunday (September 30) at 10.15pm. |
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Juliette Binoche To Shoot ‘A Thousand Times Good Night’ In Ireland |
| 26 Sep 2012 | Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche has been cast in Irish co-production ‘A Thousand Times Good Night’, which will begin shooting in Ireland on October 22. |
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Sony Plans ‘Takeover’ at MIPCOM with Irish Format |
| 25 Sep 2012 | Irish TV format ‘The Takeover’ has landed top of Sony Pictures Television’s acquisitions list for MIPCOM this year. |
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‘Ripper Street’ Leads Way To Canada & Norway After Sales |
| 24 Sep 2012 | Irish co-production ‘Ripper Street’ has been sold to Canada and Norway ahead of its TX date on BBC One. |
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RTÉ Regional Jobs Safe As London Office Closes |
| 21 Sep 2012 | RTÉ’s regional offices in Sligo, Dundalk, Athlone and Waterford are to remain in operation following a deal that will see them move premises to local institutes of technology. |
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RTÉ To Produce New Daytime Television Show From Cork |
| 14 Sep 2012 | RTÉ personalities Dáithí Ó’Sé, Maura Derrane, Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh and Norah Casey will all present a new daytime programme called ‘Today’ from RTÉ studios in Cork. |
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Politics, Drama & Silent Film Make Up OFFline Film Festival Programme |
| 14 Sep 2012 | OFFline Film Festival has unveiled its 2012 programme with a number of award-winning Irish and international features set to be screened. |
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TV3’s New Sony HD Studio Could Create 'Hundreds of Jobs' |
| 13 Sep 2012 | “Hundreds” of production jobs could be created at TV3 after the broadcaster today announced the name of its new HD studio in partnership with Sony International. |
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Irish Moone-Shine: O'Dowd & Co Reach for the Sky |
| 13 Sep 2012 | Commissioning a second series of a show before the first one even airs is virtually unheard of in the TV world. Chris O’Dowd and Nick Vincent Murphy’s ‘Moone Boy’, however, has achieved this feat ahead of its air date tomorrow night (September 14) on Sky One. |
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