Category: Television
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Autodesk Smoke 2013 Changes Everything
Final Cut X was a major disappointment, both in terms of its User Interface and also the perceived lack of respect it showed to broadcast editors. The Big story from NAB this weekend, in amongst all the 4K announcements was that there is a new player in the NLE market, its always been there but…
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Garrai Glas Series 3
The 3rd season of the quite excellent ‘Garrai Glas’ returns to TG4 on Tursday 13th March. The 13-parter is directed by Paula Kehoe, and produced by my friends in Abu Meida, Bríd Seoighe, Eileen Seoighe & my old secondary school buddy James Ryan. Síle Nic Chonaonaigh returns with a new journey ahead, having just moved…
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Marymount starts on TV3 tonight
My friend Cliona Nolan edited this series, Marymount which starts tonight on Tv3. Its well worth a look I’d say Here’s what the Irish Times had to say about it Hospices are too often associated with immense sadness, but a new series hopes to show the positive side of palliative care, writes BRIAN O’CONNELL MENTION…
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Cork Film Centre announce Pat Collins Mentorship
IFTA award winning Irish director Pat Collins of Harvest Films is to be the new mentor for the Cork Film Centre for the Mentor for New Films for 2012 programme. In my opinion Pat Collins is the finest documentary maker we currently have in this country. He has directed over 25 projects in his career,…
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NBC sign TG4 format show.
Congratulations to everyone at Tile media who recently sold the rights to their show ‘Who Lived In My House?’ to NBC. the show was edited by Daithi Connaughton, a very good editor and a top bloke who I regularly run into. Heres the iftn piece about their success In April 2010 Tile Films went to…
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Mobs Cheanada picks up two IFTA nominations
Time to get those glad rags on! The IFTA nominations were announced today and it was a good day for people west of the Shannon and I think its fair to say its one of the best line-up of nominations in a number of years. Among the nominees is Mobs Cheanada a series I edited…
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A very TG4 Christmas
This christmas was really bad in terms of television, very little to get excited about. RTE showed independence day on christmas day and I can’t believe they couldn’t come up with something better then that. Seriously, Who hasn’t seen it? The British channels weren’t much better, in fact the only station to come up with…
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The Pride of Quarrymoumt on RTE at 8:30
After assaulting our ears for the last five years on Off The Ball, the brother is now to be seen on the small screen. This is his first tv engagement since that famous episode of Gridlock back in 2000 where Ciaran called “gridlock on green” despite as Derek Mooney pointed out “Interesting move, you are…
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Tommy Tiernan Live in Vicar Street on TV3 Tonight
A few years back I edited Tommy Tiernan’s DVD “Cracked-The Comedians Cut” and a special slightly shorter version of that show goes out on air tonight at 10:00 on TV3. The re-versioning of this for tv3 was done by Cillian Duffy in EMC Post. Its one of his best shows and if you haven’t seen…
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Local Heroes: A Town Fights Back – Drogheda
A few months back I edited a short piece about Drogheda and how it has been so poorly effected by the harsh economic times we live in. The film was put together as part of the ongoing “Local Heroes” series on RTE which premiered last week. In the first episode of the show, the organisers…
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