| EXCLUSIVE | Ciarán Hinds, Sinéad Cusack and Rufus Sewell To Star In John Banville's 'The Sea' | |
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| FUNDING | BAI Offers 21 Irish Television Projects €3.94m In Funding | |
A €2.5m adaptation of John Banville's Booker Prize-winning novel 'The Sea' and a €1.5m TV3 drama are among the 21 television productions that have been offered funding under round 14 of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland's Sound and Vision II scheme.
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| PRODUCTION | ITV Series 'Foyle's War' To Shoot In Ireland | |
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| IN MEMORIAM | Members Of The Irish Film & TV Industry Pay Tribute To Maeve Binchy | |
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| INTERVIEW | Grabbing A Word With Director Jon Wright | |
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| BROADCAST | RTÉ Losses Grow To €16.8m Despite Cuts | |
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Saturday 4th August 08.45 - Live London 2012 Olympics - RTÉ Two (various times all week) 17.55 - Pop 4 - TG4 19.15 - Glór Tíre: Togha and Rogha - TG4 20.15 - The Big Money Game - RTÉ One 21.00 - The Borgias - Sky Atlantic 21.40 - Saturday Night with Miriam - RTÉ One 21.40 - The Butcher Boy - TG4 22.50 - For One Night Only - RTÉ One Sunday 5th August Monday 6th August Tuesday 7th August Wednesday 8th August 16.30 - ROY - BBC Two 19.00 - Animal Clinic - RTÉ One 19.30 - Comhrá - TG4 20.00 - Fair City - RTÉ One 20.00 - Siar an Bóthar - TG4 20.30 - An Samhradh Linn - TG4 21.35 - Prime Time - RTÉ One 21.30 - Ó Tholg go Tolg - TG4 22.00 - Daithi are Highway 61 - TG4 22.30 - Brathadóirí - TG4 23.05 - Clinton - RTÉ One 23.55 - Fiorscéal - TG4 Friday 10th August | |||
| CREW | 'Father Ted' Co-Creator Graham Linehan Signs Comedy Deal With Boom |
| 'Father Ted' co-creator Graham Linehan has sold his Delightful Industries production company to former BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey's UK-based Boom Pictures. more |
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| POST-PRODCUTION | Ruairí Robinson's 'Last Days on Mars' Enters Post Production at Screen Scene |
| Ruairí Robinson's debut feature film 'Last Days on Mars' has entered post-production at Dublin-based post house Screen Scene, producer John McDonnell has confirmed to IFTN. more |
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| BROADCAST | Chris O'Dowd's 'Moone Boy' To Premiere In Boyle |
| 'Moone Boy', the forthcoming TV comedy series from Roscommon-born actor Chris O'Dowd, is to receive its premiere in O'Dowd's hometown of Boyle next week. The first two episodes of the Sky 1 series, which was filmed in Boyle and at Ardmore Studios, Co Wicklow, earlier this year, will be screened on August 11 at Lough Key Forest Park. The six-part series will then be broadcast on Sky next month. more |
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| LOCATIONS | 'Game of Thrones' Paves Way for Linen Mills Film & Studio Expansion |
| Northern Ireland's Linen Mill Film & TV Studios, which is currently hosting season three of HBO's 'Game of Thrones', has announced the launch of a newly refurbished 5,000 sq foot stage which will be available for use from next month. more |
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| BROADCAST | Irish-shot BBC Series 'Vexed' Returns To Healthy Ratings |
| BBC series 'Vexed', which was shot in Dublin over 12 weeks, returned to screens last Wednesday (August 1) to impressive ratings of 1.5 million, despite going head to head with Olympics coverage on BBC One. more |
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| FESTIVALS | Martin McDonagh's 'Seven Psychopaths' To Receive World Premiere at Toronto Film Festival |
| Irish feature film 'Seven Psychopaths', starring Colin Farrell and Woody Harrelson, will receive its world premiere at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. The dark comedy from Oscar-winner Martin McDonagh joins Neil Jordan's 'Byzantium' which will also screen for the first time at the Canadian festival. more |
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| AWARDS | Three Irish Documentaries Shortlisted For Grierson Documentary Awards |
| Three Irish documentaries have been shortlisted for this year's Grierson Awards for Documentary Film. Paul Duane's 'Barbaric Genius', Carol Morley's 'Dreams of a Life' and Ian Palmer's 'Knuckle' have all made the shortlist for the prestigious British awards ceremony considered the Oscars of the documentary world. more |
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| INTERVIEW | Five Minutes With... 'My Left Foot' and 'Tara Road' Screenwriter Shane Connaughton |
| Oscar-nominated screenwriter Shane Connaughton has come a long way since stumbling across filmmaking deals in a London pub by chance. His script for Jim Sheridan's 'My Left Foot' earned him an Academy Award and BAFTA nomination, while 'The Dollar Bottom', which he co-wrote with James Kennaway, scooped the Academy Award for Best Short Film. more |
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| ACTORS | Cillian Murphy To Play Mob Boss in BBC Series 'Peaky Blinders' |
| Irish actor Cillian Murphy has been cast as the head gangster of a crime family in new BBC series 'Peaky Blinders'. more |
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| DISTRIBUTION | 'My Brothers' To Receive Irish Cinema Release |
| Paul Fraser's award-winning directorial debut 'My Brothers' is to be released in Irish cinemas on August 17. Nominated for three IFTAs including Best Film Script, Editing and Original Score, Fraser's (Heartlands, Somers Town, Dead Man's Shoes) film was shot entirely in Cork and was written by Cork-born screenwriter Will Collins more |
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| ACTORS | Brendan Gleeson Cast in Comedy Remake 'The Grand Seduction' |
| Brendan Gleeson has been cast in 'The Grand Seduction', an English-language remake of successful French comedy 'La Grande SÉduction'. The 2003 original, which was set in the French-speaking Canadian province Quebec, sees a tiny fishing village attempt to double its population in order to lure big business and escape poverty. more |
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| BROADCAST | UTV Media Appoints New Chairman |
| UTV has appointed Richard Huntingford as its new chairman with immediate effect. more |
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| FESTIVALS | Irish Horror 'The Inside' To Receive World Premiere at Frightfest |
| Irish feature film 'The Inside' will receive its world premiere at Film4's Frightfest . more |
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| PRODUCTION | Jedward Bounce Up to Northern Ireland To Film CBBC Show 'Dani's Castle' |
| Irish popstars Jedward are to appear in upcoming CBBC series 'Dani's Castle', which is currently filming at Killyleagh Castle in Downpatrick, Co Down. more |
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| FESTIVALS |Irish Horror 'Citadel' Scoops Awards At PiFan |
| Irish director Ciarán Foy's horror feature 'Citadel' is continuing to shine at international film festivals after picking up two awards at last weekend's 16th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) in South Korea more |
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| BROADCAST | Emberlight Puts the Spark Into TV3 & Sky Sports Campaigns With Sponsorship Stings |
| Dublin-based motion graphics and post-production facility Emberlight has produced a campaign of sponsorship stings for TV3 show 'XposÉ' now airing on TV3 and 3e. more |
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