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Comedy Showhouse celebrates Irish women comedy writers
Comedy Showhouse returns with (L-R) Rose Henderson, Sharon Mannion, Paul Tylak, Norma Sheehan, Danny Kehoe and Patricia Kelly RTÉ Radio One will broadcast six new half-hour radio comedy scripts from Irish female writers on RTE Radio 1 Extra over the next 6 weeks, as part of RTÉ Radio One’s award-winning Comedy Showhouse strand. Featured writers include Patricia Kelly, Catherine Maher, […]
Sideline’s Citizens of Boomtown (The Story of The Boomtown Rats) for BMG Films and BeyondTNC TX BBC Two Saturday, May 23rd
“An extraordinary and compelling story brilliantly told” The Today Show BBC Radio 4 “…one of the most dramatic and compelling narratives in modern music”. Irish Times – Preview ‘Fascinating documentary .. packed full of great interviews. Well worth your time’ Daily Telegraph – Preview “..this film, packed with famous faces, demonstrates that the Rats were […]
BEYOND TNC SECURES UK TV PREMIERE OF SIDELINE’s BOOMTOWN RATS DOCUMENTARY
Beyond TNC, the joint venture between Dublin and London based production and distribution company, Beyond Entertainment and music producers, TNC Media, has secured the UK TV premiere of the first official documentary about the Boomtown Rats to appear on the BBC. Due to air on BBC Two at 9.20 pm on Saturday 23rd May, Citizens of Boomtown (1 […]
Sideline presents Citizens of Boomtown for BMG Films
90 Minute feature-length Dublin International Film Festival Tuesday, March 3rd Exclusive 2 x Hour series RTE One Thursday, March 5th & 12th at 10.15 pm One hour international TV doc distributed by BeyondTNC Produced by Sideline Productions for BMG Films (London). Directed by Billy (Magra) McGrath The true personal story of one of the best […]
Secrets of Great British Castles Is Coming Back To Channel 5
Secrets of Great British Castles is a British history documentary series produced by Dublin based Sideline Productions in 12 parts. Channel 5’s repeat of Sideline’s hugely successful Secrets of Great British Castles starts on 5 Select on Sunday, 27th January at 10 pm. From that date and every Sunday follow historian Dan Jones as he explores the history […]
6 part series Tales of Irish Castles starts Jan 5th 2019
Ireland has survived an 800 year-long bloody history beginning with Viking invaders, Anglo-Norman settlers and later British rulers – but how many know the whole story? Tales of Irish Castles receives a welcome repeat on Virgin Media Two in January & February 2019 on Saturdays at 8 pm. The 6-hour series has already aired on […]
Revolting Ireland Premieres This Tuesday
Virgin Media One’s major new factual series Revolting Ireland explores the social history of protest in Ireland as huge changes in Irish society were won and lost by street marches, major strikes and mass protest movements against the forces of state and church. Revolting Ireland begins with the Suffragettes seeking votes for women in 1918 and ends with […]
The Brand New Series Of Waiting Premieres This Sunday
AFTER A SUCCESSFUL PILOT, RTE RADIO 1’S STAR STUDDED COMEDY GETS A SERIES RTE Radio 1 listeners are in for a treat on Sunday nights as the 6 part half hour comedy series Waiting will be broadcast from August 12 to September 16 on Sunday nights at 8pm in place of Drama On One. The series was written by one […]
Podcast: Colm O’Regan Wants A Word: Property
This is the RTE Radio 1 PPI & Celtic Media award-winning comedy show that takes a humorous funny tour around the brain of the top-selling writer and performer as he talks about one of his favourite subjects – our use of language. In this special show award-winning, author and comedian Colm O’Regan Wants a Word about PROPERTY. […]
Colm O’Regan Wants A Word Wins New York Radio Festival Award
COLM O’REGAN WANTS WORD has wins in the New York Festival’s International Radio Program Awards. RTE Radio 1’s Colm O’Regan Wants a Word has won the award for The World’s Best Radio Comedy Program at the prestigious New York International Radio Festival. The awards honours radio shows in all lengths and formats and across all […]