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Sundance Winner ‘Five Minutes of Heaven’ On BBC2 |
| 01 Apr 2009 | Oliver Hirschbiegel’s drama ‘Five Minutes of Heaven,’ starring James Nesbitt and Liam Neeson will air on Sunday, April 5, BBC Two at 9pm. |
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New Doc Follows Kilfenora Céilí Band |
| 01 Apr 2009 | ‘In The Blood’, an hour long documentary that celebrates 100 Years of The Kilfenora Céilí Band will broadcast as part of the high profile Arts Lives strand next Tuesday 7th April at 10.30pm on RTÉ One. |
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Ed Byrne To Host New Comedy Panel Show |
| 31 Mar 2009 | ‘Sex Bombs’ a new comedy panel pilot show for BBC Northern Ireland hosted by Irish comedy star Ed Byrne (Have I Got News for You) will air this Friday, April 3 on BBC One NI at 10pm. |
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Kevin Dawson Takes Corporate Comms Post at RTÉ |
| 31 Mar 2009 | Kevin Dawson, RTÉ’s Commissioning Editor for Factual Programming, is to leave his current post and move to the broadcaster’s Corporate Centre as the Head of Corporate Communications. |
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Irish Talent Airing Stateside |
| 31 Mar 2009 | The first episode od Series 3 of ‘The Tudors’ and the debut of ‘Harper’s Island’ starring Irish actress Elaine Cassidy (Disco Pigs) in the lead role are both to premiere on US television next week. |
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TV3 Airs McGuinness Penned Drama |
| 31 Mar 2009 | Controversial drama ‘A Short Stay in Switzerland’ starring Julie Walters (Mamma Mia) and penned by award-winning Irish writer Frank McGuinness will air on Wednesday 1st April at 9pm on TV3. |
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Cannes Irish Pavilion Registration Now Open |
| 31 Mar 2009 | Registration for membership of the Irish Pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival (13 - 24 May 2009) is now open. Registration is open until Thursday 9th April 2009. |
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Irish Winners at Celtic Media Awards |
| 30 Mar 2009 | ‘Whistleblower’, ‘Seacht’, ‘In the Name of the Fada’ and 'Waveriders' are among the ten Irish productions to have scooped accolades at this year’s Celtic Media Awards held in Caernarfon in North Wales from March 25 - 27 2009. |
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TV3 Debuts Roy Keane Documentary |
| 30 Mar 2009 | TV3’s two part documentary ‘Roy Keane – The Sunderland Story’ will air tonight Monday, 30th March 2009 at 9pm while ‘Roy Keane - A Life of Controversy’, airs the following Monday April 6th. |
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TV3 Shakeup Current Affairs Programming |
| 30 Mar 2009 | TV3 has announced new developments for their news and current affairs programmes with the ending of ‘The Political Party with Ursula Halligan’, Vincent Browne to sign a new multi year contract and daytime programme ‘Midday’ to be fully commissioned after its successful trial. |
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ILBF and Skills Focus Approaching Deadlines |
| 27 Mar 2009 | The Irish Language Broadcast Fund has extended the deadline for the Digital News Service Tender while UTV and Northern Ireland Screen have opened applications for Skills Focus 2009 - both deadlines falling on Friday 10th April. |
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'Na Cloigne' Heads Into Production |
| 26 Mar 2009 | ‘Na Cloigne’ (The Heads), a new three part Irish language drama for TG4, directed by Robert Quinn (Cré na Cille) and produced by Ciarán Ó Cofaigh at Galway based production company ROSG, will commence filming this Monday 30th March until 8th May in various locations around Conamara. |
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Graham Linehan Up for BAFTA |
| 26 Mar 2009 | Graham Linehan’s ‘The IT Crowd’ has received a BAFTA Television Award nomination for Best Situation Comedy. The awards will take place at the Royal Festival Hall on London's South Bank on Sunday April 26th. |
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Filming Wraps in NI on ‘Small Island’ |
| 26 Mar 2009 | Filming will wrap this week on ‘Small Island’, a new 2 x 90-minute drama produced by Ruby Films for the BBC which has been shooting in Northern Ireland since mid February. The production will move to Jamaica at the end of this week. |
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Doc Series 'Mná na Mara’ Airs on TG4 |
| 24 Mar 2009 | Doc series Mná na Mara (Women of the Sea), produced by Open Eye Television in Baile Bhúirne, Co. Cork, began airing last Friday on TG4 and will run for five more weeks until April 24th. |
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Irish Grand Slam & ‘Simpsons’ Entice Audiences |
| 24 Mar 2009 | Ireland’s Grand Slam victory against Wales last Saturday was watched by an average audience of 945,000 people on RTÉ Two, whilst the Irish episode of ‘The Simpsons - In the Name of the Grandfather’, which premiered on Sky One, on St Patrick’s Day drew 957,000 viewers across the UK and Ireland. |
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TV3 Announce Staff Redundancies & Pay Cuts |
| 23 Mar 2009 | Irish broadcaster TV3 has announced “cost cutting measures” aiming to reduce annual costs of the independent station by €2m including redundancies, pay cuts and reduced contractors’ fees. |
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Section 481 Cap Increases to €50 million |
| 23 Mar 2009 | Amendments to the Irish film taxation, Section 481, have been approved following the signing of a Commencement Order by Irish Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan. Proposed in the Finance Act 2008 and the Finance (No2) Act 2008, the Commencement Orders were issued after approval had been obtained for the amendments from the European Commission. |
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RTÉ Factual Call for Ideas Deadline Today |
| 23 Mar 2009 | The proposal deadline for RTÉ’s Factual - Call for Ideas which seeks new programming responding to the changing national mood will close today, Monday 23rd March 2009. |
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Irish Contingent to Attend MIPTV |
| 13 Mar 2009 | Enterprise Ireland are partnering with the Irish Film Board in hosting the Ireland on Screen stand at MIPTV – the global entertainment content market which will run from the 30 March – 3 April in Cannes, France. |
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