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The following titles can be found on this page
Any Time Now
Amongst Women
Eureka Street
Falling For A Dancer
Hanging Gale, The
Messiah
Murder in Eden
Rebel Heart
Runway One
| Title: |
Any
Time Now |
| Logline:
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 Any
Time Now is a contemporary drama series set against the backdrop
of a newly thriving and cosmopolitan Dublin. It takes a humorous
look at the lives of three very different women trying to come
to terms with life, love and each other. |
| Starring: |
Angeline Ball, Susan
Lynch, Zara Turner, Ciaran McMenamin, Patrick O’Kane, Frankie
McCafferty |
| Writer: |
Ali White |
| Director: |
John Woods, Brian Kirk, Declan
Recks |
| Producer: |
Lesley McKimm |
| Executive Producer:
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Kate Triggs |
| Production Credits: |
Nora Films Ltd |
| Genre: |
Serial |
| Channel: |
BBC1 |
| Year
Of First Transmission: |
2002 |
| Awards:
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IFTA 2002 nominatinos:
Susan Lynch for Best Actress in a Television Drama,Ciaran Tanham
for Best Photography and Mary Finlay & Rodney Holland for Best
Editing. |
| Title: |
Amongst Women |
| Logline: |
Episode 1: A major new adaptation
of John McGahern’s modern Irish classic. This is the
story of Michael Moran (Tony Doyle), a father who tries
to put right in his family what he thinks is wrong in the
world. It is also the story of his sons and daughters who
struggle to be his children.
Episode 2: Maggie is re-united with Luke in London and meets
her first love. Back at Great Meadow Moran's other daughters
confront their futures and test the bonds of love and duty
that bind them to him.
Episode 3: Michael is infatuated with Nell Morahan and begins
to push against the dominance of his father. Whilst Michael
strikes out for freedom, Luke's star is rising, Sheila has
met her match and Maggie is heading for married life.
Episode 4: In this final episode, the occasion of Sheila’s
wedding offers a last chance for Luke and Moran to be reconciled.
For Moran’s daughters however, his decline reminds
them that they were never able to leave him.
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| Starring: |
Tony Doyle, Ger Ryan, Susan
Lynch, Geraldine O’Rawe, Anne-Marie Duff, Brian F. O’Byrne,
Demien McAdam |
| Writer: |
Adrian Hodges (Adapted from
the book by John McGahern) |
| Director: |
Tom Cairns |
| Producer: |
Jonathan Curling and Colin
Tucker |
| Executive Producer: |
Robert Cooper, Alan Moloney |
| Production Credits: |
A Parallel Films Production
for BBC Northern Ireland in Association with RTE and Bord Scannan
Na hEireann/The Irish Film Board |
| Genre: |
Serial |
| Channel: |
BBC2 |
| Year Of First Transmission: |
1998 |
| Awards: |
1. won ‘Best Television
Drama’ at the IFTA Awards (November 1999).
2. Sue Gibson’s Photography won an award in the ‘Best
Craft Contribution, Television’ category for ‘Amongst
Women’ at the IFTA Awards (November 1999).
3. Tony Doyle won ‘Best Leading Performance’, "Amongst
Women" at the IFTA Awards (November 1999).
4. Ger Ryan was nominated for ‘Best Leading Performance’,
"Amongst Women", at the IFTA Awards (November 1999).
5. Amy Roberts was nominated for ‘Costume’ in the
‘Best Craft Contribution’,"Amongst Women",
at the IFTA Awards (November 1999).
6. Won the Air Canada Prize for ‘Best TV Programme in the
World’ at the BANFF TV Festival (June 1999).
7. Won the award for ‘Best Mini Series’ at the BANFF
TV Festival (June 1999).
8. Nominated as Best Drama Serial at the BAFTA TV Awards (9th
May 1999)
9. Won the Drama Series Torc at the Celtic International Film
Festival (March 1999).
10. Nominated for three RTS Programme
Awards, for Best Drama Serial, Best Actor (Tony Doyle) and Best
Actress (Ger Ryan) performances (March 1999).
11. Tony Doyle won a Silver Nymph award at the Monte Carlo Television
Festival for his performance in "Amongst Women" (mini-series
category) (Feb 1999).
12. Nominated to participate in the 1999 competition (mini-series
and television films categories) at the Monte Carlo Television
Festival (Feb 1999). |
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| Title: |
Eureka Street |
| Logline: |
 Contemporary
Belfast as you’ve never seen it before is the backdrop
for this funny and moving urban drama. Lovelorn debt collector
and reformed hard-man Jake is not having a good year. Meanwhile,
his best friend Chuckie, a no-hoper and "fat-git"
from Eureka Street, pulls off a cheeky scam, and now he’s
on a roll…. |
| Starring: |
Vincent Regan, Mark Benton,
Elisabeth Rohm, Dervla Kirwan
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| Writer: |
Donna Franceschild (based
on the novel by Robert McLiam Wilson) |
| Director: |
Adrian Shergold |
| Producer: |
Sophie Gardiner |
| Executive Producer: |
Robert Cooper, Debra Hauer |
| Production Credits: |
A Euphoria Films Production
for BBC Northern Ireland in Association with RTE. |
| Genre: |
Serial |
| Channel: |
BBC2 |
| Year Of First Transmission: |
1999 |
| Awards: |
1. A ‘Certificate of Merit
Winner’ in the mini-series category at the San Francisco
International Film Festival - Golden Gate Awards (20/4 - 4/5/00).
2. Shortlisted in the television nominations for the 2000 Celtic
Film & Television festival. (Held in Aberystwyth in April
2000).
3.Won ‘Best Television Drama’ award at the IFTA Awards (December
2000) n Won ‘Best Craft Achievement’ for Photography at the
IFTA Awards (December 2000)
4. Vincent Regan was nominated for ‘Best Leading Performance’,
"Eureka Street", at the IFTA Awards (December 2000)
5. Nominated for ‘Best Craft Achievement’ for Design at the
IFTA Awards (December 2000) |
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| Title: |
Falling For A Dancer |
| Logline: |
 Episode
1: 1930’s Ireland. The carefree world of well to do young
Elizabeth Sullivan is cruelly interrupted. Forced to choose
between an arranged marriage or the horrors of a religious workhouse
she is exiled to the harsh and unforgiving landscape of the
Beara Peninsula. Married off to Neeley, a widowed farmer with
4 children of his own she is caught up in his feud with their
neighbour, the enigmatic Mossie Sheehan.
Episode 2: Neeley’s jealousy is ignited by Elizabeth’s
chance encounter with the actor George. Fleeing from his brutality
and blaming Mossie for her predicament she meets young Daniel.
Oblivious to her stepdaughter Kathleen’s feelings for him
she accepts his invitation at the local dancehall. Their provocative
dancing leads to tragic consequences.
Episode 3: Elizabeth’s life is thrown upside down after
the death of her husband Neeley. Mossie’s use of the local
matchmaker to woo her goes spectacularly wrong. Rejected by
Elizabeth will Mossie help Daniel, his rival for her affections?
With Daniel facing the hangman’s noose only a change of
evidence by Mossie can now save him.
Episode 4: As tragedy strikes another in her family, Elizabeth
contemplates returning to the city. Finally ridding herself
of the love struck Daniel she has to cope with the disappearance
of Kathleen. As relations thaw with Mossie the impossible becomes
possible. Can she at last find true happiness for herself? |
| Starring: |
Elisabeth Dermot-Walsh, Dermot
Crowley, Liam Cunningham, Eleanor Methven |
| Writer: |
Deirdre Purcell (Based on her
novel) |
| Director: |
Richard Standeven |
| Producer: |
Peter Norris |
| Executive Producer: |
Robert Cooper, Jonathan Curling,
Alan Moloney |
| Production Credits: |
A Parallel Films Production
for BBC Northern Ireland in association with RTE |
| Genre: |
Serial |
| Channel: |
BBC1 |
| Year Of First Transmission:
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1998 |
| Awards: |
1.Liam Cunningham was nominated
for ‘Best Leading Performance’, "Falling For
a Dancer", at the IFTA Awards (November 1999).
2. Kevin Rowley was nominated for his ‘Photography’
in the‘Best Craft Contribution’, "Falling For
a Dancer", at the IFTA Awards (November 1999).
3. Nominated for ‘Best Television Drama’ at the IFTA
Awards (November 1999)
4. Won a Certificate of Merit in the Golden Gate Awards at the
42nd San Francisco International Film Festival. The award was
won in the Mini-Series Category for Television (April 1999).
5. Nominated to participate in the 1999 competition (mini-series
and television films categories) at the Monte Carlo Television
Festival (Feb 1999). |
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| Title: |
The Hanging Gale |
| Logline: |
 A
thrilling four part historical drama, starring Joe McGann, Mark
McGann, Paul McGann, Stephen McGann and Michael Kitchen, telling
the epic story of the Phelan family’s fight to save their
land and their lives despite the grip of the Irish Famine and
a violent vendetta with the English Land Agent. |
| Starring: |
Joe McGann, Mark McGann, Paul
McGann, Stephen McGann, Michael Kitchen, Tina Kelleher, Fiona
Victory |
| Writer: |
Allan Cubitt |
| Director: |
Diarmuid Lawrence |
| Producer: |
Jonathan Cavendish |
| Executive Producer: |
Robert Cooper, James Mitchell |
| Production Credits: |
A Little Bird Production for
BBC Northern Ireland in Association with RTE |
| Genre: |
Serial |
| Channel: |
BBC1 |
| Year Of First Transmission: |
1995 |
| Awards: |
1. Shaun Davey won the Ivor
Novello award for Best Commissioned Score from a TV/Radio Production
for his music in "The Hanging Gale" in May 1996.
2. Nominated in the Costume Design, Design and Original TV Music
categories at the BAFTA Craft Awards in April 1996.
3. Nominated for Best Drama Serial at the BAFTA Programme &
Performance Awards in March 1996.
4. Michael Kitchen in "The Hanging Gale" won Gold
FIPA for Best Actor, January 1996.
5. Won Gold FIPA for Best Serial, January 1996. |
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