Author: Billy McGrath
New RTE Doc Series
Sideline is pleased to announce that they are in pre-production for a new two x one hour music documentary series for RTE One. More news anon.
GUSTO with Billy Magra at ATN 23
Highly acclaimed live comedy memoir & slide show at ALL CURIOUS MINDS tent at the brilliant All Together Now Festival in Waterford Sunday August 6th at 4pm. Click for promo … More information on ALL CURIOUS MINDS https://www.alltogethernow.ie/atnnews/2023/8/1/all-curious-minds-full-programme-announced BE THERE OR BE SOMEWHERE ELSE
GUSTO with Billy Magra LIVE April 2023
GUSTO with Billy Magra Tuesday 18th to Saturday 22nd April @ 7.45 pm. Book now at projectartscentre.ie – Venue Project Arts Centre, Essex Street, Dublin 2 “Fascinating storyteller … go see him” (Tommy Tiernan ) “Extremely funny, most imaginative,” (The Irish Times) The personal and comic story of how one Old Age Pioneer of Irish […]
Sideline’s REVOLTING IRELAND set for VM soon
Sideline’s series Revolting Ireland set for Virgin Media repeat in June 2023. In this engaging and entertaining 4 part series presenter Simon Delaney (Tales of Irish Castles, The Good Wide, The Snapper) takes VM1 viewers on a journey to explore how modern Ireland emerged and developed socially, politically and culturally. The series not only wraps up the 100 […]
Billy Magra/GUSTO Live
Sunday Indo Feb 12th Sideline’s Billy McGrath takes the plunge and returns to the world of live comedy with an original and personal slide-show – part-memoir & part stand-up.
Comedy pioneer returns to the stage
GUSTO live Friday Feb 17th Town Hall Theatre (see link) https://tht.ie/3934/billy-magra-gusto and Saturday Feb 18th at the Record Room @ The Commercial, Limerick Blah Blah PR below GUSTO explores how one Old Age Punk survived a world of sex, Irish dancing, drugs, Sean-Nos singing, and rock’n’roll – and lived to tell the tale. In the early 1980s, […]
New TV Drama Series BURGESS GD
SIDELINE’s Billy McGrath in FIS Summit pitch NB – Sideline are not PRODUCERS of drama. We are focused on creating premium screen projects and keen to work with like-minded creative and commercial professionals.
Citizens of Boomtown RTE/BBC 2020
After spending most of 2019 filming in Ireland, the UK, and the USA Sideline’s feature-length film Citizens of Boomtown received its world premiere at the Dublin International Film Festival in March 2020, days before lockdown. It later aired in 2 parts on RTE and in May 2020 as a 90-minute film in the prestigious BBC2 […]
Sideline Win BAI Sound & Vision Award
In the recent BAI production awards Sideline were successful with a new social history series for TV3 called REVOLTING IRELAND. The 4 x one hours – presented by Simon Delaney – is a major entertaining and engaging audio visual project covering a host of themes, personalities and events connected to the last 50 years or […]
New Series – Secrets of Great British Castles on Ch.5
Historian Dan Jones is back with a brand new series of The Secrets of Great British Castles on Channel 5 from Friday Oct 28th at 8pm. In this new Sideline / Group M production, Dan looks at the incredible history behind six more of Britain’s most famous castles – in order of appearance Ep1 Edinburgh, Ep2 Cardiff, Ep3 […]