“This is North Norfolk Digital: Sustaining and maintaining our core listenership in an increasingly fragmented market place… I just realised I read that from an internal memo… Wasn’t for you to hear. Sorry! Sorry!”
Alan Partridge has bounced back AGAIN and this time he’s landed himself a choice mid-morning spot on North Norfolk’s most popular digital radio station. It’s great to see Alan back. He’s easily my favourite comedy character. Considering this is sponsored by Fosters (not Director’s Bitter?!?) and produced specifically for the internet this could have been incredibly lazy and unfunny, but actually it’s really sharply written and just as funny as ever. No doubt this will re-ignite the rumours of a Partridge movie, which has been in the works since 2005… “Jurassic Park!”
Was very excited to see that Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon have decided to collaborate on a new comedy show called “The Trip”. Coogan and Brydon play “Curb Your Enthusiasm” style versions of themselves just as they did in the brilliant 2005 Michael Winterbottom film “Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story”. (Winterbottom is also back to direct here.)
Imagine my disappointment when I went to the BBC’s website and saw that for some reason it’s only being showed in England, Scotland and Wales. Replacing it in BBC NI’s schedule is “Pop Goes Northern Ireland”. Maybe that’ll be just as good.
*** UPDATE: The Trip is shown at the later time of 23.50 on BBC Northern Ireland on Monday nights. YAY! ***
Category: BBC, Sitcoms, TV
Tags: 2, A Cock And Bull Story, BBC, BBC Northern Ireland, BBC Two, Michael Winterbottom, Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan, The, The Trip, Trip, Tristram Shandy Leave a Comment
Fade Street is coming! This show has been a couple of years in the making and there were plenty of times a long the way when it seemed like it wasn’t going to happen. It’s already getting a lot of press so hopefully all the hype will translate into viewers when the show kicks off this Thursday November 11th at 9pm on RTE TWO.
Category: Fade Street, RTE, TV
Tags: Cici Cavanagh, Dani Robinson, Drama, Fade, Fade Street, Louise Johnston, Reality, RTE, RTE TWO, Straywave Media, Street, The City, The Hills, Vogue Wilson Leave a Comment
The Rubber Bandits are my new comedy heroes. They deserve their own TV show after this video from RTE TWO’s - “Republic of Telly”. I particularly love the “Bounty” story. Pure gold.
Category: RTE, Sketches
Tags: Bandits, Bounty, FAAAARM, Goat, Gowl, Guide, Limerick, RTE TWO, Rubber, Rubber Bandits, Snail, Willy One Comment
This is the first episode of Stereo Swipes, a series of shorts I worked on over the summer. Like our previous series, Sweded TV, Stereo Swipes is written and performed by groups of teens from around the country - none of whom have previous experience acting on TV. Stereo Swipes will be shown on RTE TWO every Tuesday as part of “The Rumor Room”. Here’s the full list of upcoming episodes.
Oct 12th - Portrait of a Caker Faker
Oct 19th - Emos in the Wild
Oct 26th - Made: Twi-hard
Nov 2nd - My Son is a Gamer
Nov 9th - Jeremy Vile: Facebook Addicts
Nov 16th - Trad Heads in Na Cnoic
Nov 23rd - Gaga’s Apprentice
Nov 30th - The Gleek Factor
Dec 7th - Cribs: Tree Huggers
Dec 14th - Strictly Come Raving
Category: RTE, Stereo Swipes, Sweded TV, TV
Tags: Caker Faker, Cakers, RTE, RTE TWO, Stereo Swipes, Stereoswipes, Sweded TV, The Rumour Room, tRTE 3 Comments
Dublin based Graphic Designer plans to sell 42 billion posters in a bid to halve Ireland’s banking crisis debt… http://grandgrand.bigcartel.com/
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