So, after 13 weeks and the departure of 14 contestants, we find ourselves in the final week of The Apprentice Ireland 2010. Join at 9pm for the last liveblog this year, as we see who will triumph. Michelle is likeable, smart, intuitive and emotional; Niamh has great attention to detail, she’s calculating, decisive and confident. But who will Bill hire to be him next Apprentice? The Apprentice Ireland 2010 Final Click here to launch in a new window
Every music fan out there will be wondering what this week’s X Blather title is about - it’s what SyCo Music has renamed Biffy Clyro’s ‘Many of Horror’ for X Factor 2010 winner Matt’s single. Now that X Factor is over and we know the winner, you have two choices - in the UK, either John Cage ’4’33″‘ or ‘When We Collide’, and in Ireland Rubberbandits’ ‘Horse Outside’ or ‘When We Collide’. Those are the anti-X Factor campaigns for Christmas number one this year. What do you mean, you haven’t heard ‘Horse Outside’? A million people have watched the video on youtube so far. That’s ten times as many as Matt (when I checked there now…)
Druid and NUIG have today announced a partnership which will see NUIG contributing to the development of Druid’s next major production, while Druid will in turn develop modules for NUIG’s BA and MA students. This initiative is a bit sketchy on details in the press release but I assume NUIG will be contributing financially to the production. It’s an interesting initiative, Druid emerged from UCG as it was then, founded by Garry Hynes, Marie Mullen and the late Mick Lally, and NUIG has a Theatre and Drama MA that will obviously benefit from such close involvement with Druid.
Since Kevin Flynn disappeared, his son – Sam – is the biggest shareholder in his father’s company; Encom. Unlike his father, however, Sam wants nothing to do with the company other than to turn up at the most inconvenient moment and prank them, kind of like a cyberspace version of the Joker. After he receives a mysterious message, Sam visits the arcade that his father ran, discovers his secret office and – eventually – the world beyond it. First things first, Tron: Legacy looks amazing, it could even be said that it looks better than Avatar (there are many issues with Avatar, but it is safe to say that it looked great). The world of the Grid is so expertly and wonderfully realised that there is never any doubt in the audiences’ mind that this is a real world. Sam is subjected to savage life or death ‘games’ in order … There’s more
On the thirteenth day we get the thirteenth movie, that’s got to be unlucky. Right?
