The RTÉ Autumn schedule, launched complete with drumroll in Studio 1 out at Montrose last Wednesday, has some gems across the 110 shows in the new line-up. You can view it in its entirety here and handpicked below, for your reading pleasure, complete with some of Culch.ie’s own footage of the launch, are our top ten highlights.
Just saw this on twitter: There you go now. Commiserations to Rental Boys but congratulations to Hardy Bucks, winners of Storyland, RTE’s first ever online drama series competition. Fair play to ye. You can watch all their episodes here and catch their You Tube channel here. Fair play too to everyone who voted.
Have you been following Storyland on RTÉ? It’s down to the final two shows - Rental Boys and Hardy Bucks - almost a case of city vs culchie… Rental Boys - the story of two feuding video stores - stars some of the crew from the Diet of Worms. We’ve followed the team around for the past few months bringing us up to date with Brian (played by Shane Langan), the disgruntled Movie Visions employee who aspires to be a sci-fi screen writer, with Darren (played by Paul Butler-Lennox) and his introducing of the tanning beds to the store while Andrew (played by Rory Conolly) and Sharon (played by Amy Stephenson) provide some interesting (to say the least) storylines in the background. Directed by Garret Daly and written by Gemma Creagh, who also co-produces with Daly, Rental Boys has been an-all-too-uncomfortably realistic (because I worked in Xtra-vision) and funny series … There’s more
