Heard about Storyland on the RTE Website? No? Here’s the spiel from October when the project was announced:
RTÉ has launched StoryLand, an innovative project, inviting aspiring and experienced programme makers to make a drama series specifically for the web, From the pitches received, a panel chaired by Irish scriptwriter and actor Mark O’Halloran (Adam & Paul, Garage, Prosperity) will decide 10 winning entries to have their pilot episode aired in March 2009.
Programme makers are invited to make pitches for a 6-part drama series aimed at the 19-25 year old audience to be webcast in March 2009. All of the 10 entries to make it through the first round will have their pilot webcasted on the RTE website The audience will vote on-line and decide which series should be re-commissioned for second and subsequent episodes.
The site is now live and accepting votes for the 9 finalists. Some cracking stuff in there and it’s well worthwhile to take the time to view all the entries.
Voting takes place up until 5pm on Monday 30th March and you can only vote once. I did already and Rental Boys got my vote. Who will get yours?
The link again —-> Here it is.
Whats the craic with the time spans… some are mini-epsiodes, like Rental Boys, than some are just shite intros like Happy Slapper…
Odd.
The ‘shite intro’ to Happyslapper is there because the programme is currently being recut (ie censored) so that it can fall into line with RTE’s broadcasting rules re violence and bad language. That’s what I heard anyway. Should be worth a look to see whats left when they’ve finished with it.
what do you all think of Happyslapper??