Category: Television
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Storyland Deadline Approaching
The first round of Storyland votes finish tomorrow. So if you haven’t voted yet, hit the RTE website. I’ve been up to my eyes on a project so haven’t had much time to view all the entries myself yet. However despite having friends working on several of them, I have to lend my full support…
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Look At Me!!!!!
So I have been pretty shameless in how I have used this blog as a self-promotion tool and some people may be uncomfortable with such brazen self-aggrandizing. However my message to those people is I have no intention of stopping, in fact this whole post is to serve as a warning about the next month.…
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IFTA Nominees Announced
The IFTA Nominees were announced yesterday and some of the projects I worked on last year were put up for gongs. Rewind picked up three nominations one for lead actress Amy Huberman, the sound team and a well deserved nod for director PJ Dillion, who also picked up a nomination for his work as DP…
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On Tv this week
Two things to look out for this week. First of all is the fifth and final episode of ‘On The Fly’ which I edited and that is on Setanta tonight at ten and also tomorrow at six and friday at 3. In this episode Tv’s mr nice guy chef Neven Maguire (Macnean House, Cavan) travels…
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Watch this tonight.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story Last year I made a film called ‘Shtax’ and it did quite well, so well in fact TG4 commissioned an Irish language adaptation of it which will broadcast tonight. I was the co-producer on this but it is really my brother Paul’s baby.…
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Mammy Murphy will be pleased…
Tonight Setanta start broadcasting their new series “On the Fly”. This is a six part series that I edited five episodes of and I think is pretty deadly. It’s a fly-fishing/celebrity chef mash up. Yeah thats what I said. But even more exciting then this news is the fact that right after the show(Tuesday 10pm)…
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My Television Acting Debut
I took some time yesterday at work to load up this little clip from the Abu library. It’s my starring role in the TG4 series “Fear an Phoist”. My little cameo as Diego Garcia, International Man of Leisure was undoubtable a high point in the shows lifetime. Interestingly I was the only person in the…
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Benefit Gig Remembers Donal Gilligan
Irish cinematographer Donal Gilligan passed away on Sunday, September 19th. Aged just 46, the two-time IFTA nominee suffered a sudden heart attack. Held in high esteem amongst his friends and colleagues within the Irish film and television industry Donal’s funeral was attended by 1,200 people. A benefit gig has now been organised for Donal’s wife,…
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‘1916 Seachtar na Cásca’ launched by Brian Cowen
Here is an article from iftn about TG4’s new series directed and edited by my mate Dathai. I was lucky enough to work on this show, I did the colour correction, not what I usually do but Dathai asked me to help him out. It was really a privilege as the show is one of…
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Operation Transformation Mobs Canada
There was an article this week on iftn (read it here) about all the work Abu Media had coming up. It had this to say about the upcoming Mobs Canada series ‘Mobs Canada’ a 6 x 30 minute historical documentary series will focus on Irish Canadian Mobsters. The series will start shooting around Ireland and…
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