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Open Auditions: Cuckoo

  By Culch.ie | November 18, 2011 - 3:18 pm | Events, Movies & TV, Performance Art, Random Whimsy, The Arts
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Fancy yourself an actor? As yet undiscovered and just waiting to wow the nation with your talents? Cuckoo, one of the upcoming web TV shows for the latest series of RTE’s Storyland, is holding open auditions to cast not one, not two or even three but five parts. The brand new psychological thriller is looking for stars to portray red-haired restless teen Niamh, 52-year-old Maureen who’s a buxom motherly type, brassy rough Tina (37), 17-year-old Sarah, Niamh’s partner in crime, and 54-year-old Brendan, a quiet family man with an unexpected Alpha male side. The casting panel will be made up of Writer/Director Danann Breathnach and Aidan Power of 98FM amongst others and they’ll be seeing applications next Saturday November 26th between 11am and 6pm in The International Bar, Wicklow Street. If you’re heading along, submit a headshot and CV to Alex, the casting director, at [email protected] The first episode of … There’s more →

Preview: RTÉ Autumn Season

  By Sinead Keogh | August 14, 2011 - 11:24 pm | Events, Movies & TV, The Culch, TV
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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.

Get your votes in for RTE’s Storyland final - it’s city vs culchie

  By darraghdoyle | September 6, 2009 - 3:41 pm | The Culch, The Internet, TV
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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 →

Storyland - now you are calling the shots

  By lecraic | March 17, 2009 - 11:10 pm | The Culch, TV
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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 … There’s more →