Category: Television
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Paul Gogarty on ‘The Naked Election’
A few months back myself and fionnuala ni chiobhain edited a show called ‘The Naked Election’ which followed a range of candidates as they ran in Irelands General Election 2011. Among those we followed was former Green Party TD Paul Gogarty, he probably came out of the show the worst and has blogged about the…
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Some New Videos
So I spent yesterday evening converting dvd’s and uploading clips to my vimeo page. For the most part I was just uploading some better quality versions of clips I already had on my site but I did also add two new clips from the Jokerman series and a clip from this years election special ‘The…
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Meet The Neighbours
WATCH TONIGHT RTE ONE 7:30 I spent much of last month working on a delightful little series for Loosehorse and Scratch Films called ‘Meet The Neighbours’. I was lucky enough to work on two episodes of a four part series, one on Dundalk (dir: Sinead Murphy) which was on two weeks ago and can still…
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Round 3. Get me Andrew Carney
Round Three of RTE’s storyland opened today with new episodes from the remaining competitors. In a previous post I outlined the reasons why I was backing the Tuam based comedy-drama “Lucky Run” and indeed I urge you to vote for the lads again as every vote counts. The show is getting stronger all the time…
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Happy Birthday
So this site is one year old today. I think its been quite successful, it has helped me get work and I think helped my work get seen. I’ve had to adapt to become comfortable with the self promotion side of things but overall this has been a really good experience. So here are some…
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Mobs Cheanada preview from the Indo
UPDATE: Watch clips from the series here This is the text of an article that appeared in The Irish Independent two months ago now about the series “Mobs Cheanada” which was about to start at the time. They were the bank robbers, drug barons, gangsters and murderers whose crimes formed the dark side of the…
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New doc on Frank O’Farrell
Saw this on iftn recently and it piqued my interest, would love to cut this if i’m honest. (UPDATE: I didn’t and the film screened in Xmas 2011) Zoogon is entering pre-production with a new historical documentary for RTÉ One entitled ‘Frank O’Farrell: the Shadow of Busby’. The feature doc will tell the story of…
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Mobs Canada Tonight
Tonights episode of Mobs Canada focuses on the ‘King of Coke’, Irish Mob Boss Frank ‘Dunie’ Ryan who controlled the flow of Drugs through Montreal in the 70’s and 80’s. The Quebec city was one of the major hubs of the international drug trade and for a few years, Dunie and the West End Gang…
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The Stopwatch Gang
Tonights episode of Mobs Canada focuses on the infamous Stopwatch Gang, a group of bank robbers who were on the US Most Wanted list and robbed over 140 banks in the space of a few years. Their exploits formed the basis for the movie “Point Break” and the show features an interview with gang member…
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Naked Election goes down well
The Naked Election premiered last night on RTE 1 and it seems to have gone down very well. I signed up for twitter yesterday and was watching the feedback from people during the ad breaks and after the show. The universal praise the show was getting has to be one of the highlights of my…
John Murphy 