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Online video presents The Streamy Awards

Yesterday saw the release of the nominees for the second annual Streamys. For those of you unfamiliar with the awards they celebrate the best in online television and videos.

Last year saw some high profile shows, such as personal fave Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, awarded for their greatness and this year is no different. If for [...]

Gotta sing, gotta dance?

You have until Friday February 5th to jump the queue and be “invited” to audition for a new reality show being put together by Screentime ShinAwiL (their caps, and known for The Apprentice & Dragons’ Den) and RTÉ.
The details are under wraps, but there are going to be a series of open auditions [...]

It’s all Golden – Globe Nominations Announced

Yesterday was the Critics Choice but today marks the real start of awards season for Hollywood, with the announcement of the nominees for the 2010 67th Golden Globe awards.

Unfortunately unlike yesterdays list there is no Irish hope for the Globes in the movies category save for U2 entry Winter from in film Brothers in [...]

Men of a Certain Age

TNT has a new show premiering in the US on December 7th at 1opm titled ‘Men of a Certain Age’ starring Ray Romano, Scott Bakula and Andre Braugher.  Based on the sneak peek, it looks like it will be a good program.

www.tnt.tv/series/menofacertainage

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I’m A Celebrity.. Yes I’m Actually Watching It

So I’ve been watching the latest series of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. I’ve always liked the show. Some people say that the show is past its day in the spotlight and I’ve got to admit, I had the same impression too last season. I’d say I had watched the opening show [...]

Sci-Fi Television update

‘V’
‘V‘ premiered Tuesday night in the  US and I was quite impressed.  I held off posting this until after the premiere showed in Ireland and Europe.  I really liked the intro ’Where were you when JFK was assisinated?’  ‘Where were you on 9/11 ?’  ‘Where were you this morning ?’ !
The Visitors were quite open with their interests, they need some of [...]

Four milestones

This week sees the anniversary of four major cultural milestones. The fall of a wall, finding all kinds of people in your neighbourhood, the morning agenda and a trip to the moon.
First off, the wall. The falling of the Iron Curtain, and the Berlin Wall. The wall’s coming down on 1989 led to a major [...]

The Restaurant

Do you know your chilli from your cayenne?
Would you like to dine in RTÉ’s The Restaurant?
The Restaurant tv show are inviting applications from any interested “foodies” to apply to be a diner on their upcoming series. The Restaurant in now in its seventh series on RTÉ, with a ‘celebrity’ head chef taking charge of the [...]

You’re Fired! review

Monday night saw the airing of a much awaited first episode of The Apprentice which, I think it’s safe to say, we all enjoyed watching and live blogging. Darren has reviewed the first episode already. Straight after The Apprentice they had a new addition, a copy of the BBC2 Apprentice spin off show You’re [...]

National Campaign for the Arts launched

Yesterday 23 September saw the launch of the National Campaign for the Arts at The Ark Cultural Centre for Children .
There were faces from all walks of Irelands cultural scene there to show their support for the cause, to talk to anyone who would listen about how the cuts proposed by the McCarthy Report and [...]

The real Mad Men television advertising archive

Fans of the hit US drama series Mad Men will love this website.
Adviews is a digital archive of TV advertising from the 1950’s through to the 80’s. There are literally thousands of ads in the archive. They were created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D’Arcy Masius Benton [...]

Guest Post: DVD Killed The TV Star

Some of you guys had really interesting things to say about my last post , and Darren’s comment, along with Amanda’s recent post on upcoming new shows , got me thinking about following it up, but this time taking a look at TV shows, and the effects that the digital age and the internet have had [...]

Anyone fancy a pint?

Living away from Ireland I miss certain things, none more so than my local pub. Reminsicing over the good times that I’ve spent hanging with my friends I started to wonder what if I could drink in any pub/bar , where would that be? When my daydreaming led, as it inevitably always does, to fictional [...]

Tellybets 2 – which new US TV shows will be hit or miss?

Ok so I promised two months ago that this would be a weekly event but work, holidays and moving apartments got in the way (yeah, yeah, excuses excuses) but we’re back, at last, and this week we’re taking a look at the new dramas and comedies from CBS which are due to hit American TV [...]

Get yourself on to the Telefís box with Glas Vegas

Have you got talent? Not afraid to give it a go? Think you’d face Simon and Louis down but couldn’t be bothered heading across to the UK like John and Edward, them Dublin – American twin wannabes ?
Then look no more. The TG4 variety show Glas Vegas…
…is back for a fourth series, and it’s even [...]

All Ireland Talent Show

It looks like RTÉ are all set to make a second series of the ‘All Ireland Talent Show’. I can’t say I watched it earlier this year but over half a million people tuned in to watch the first episode and with county against county, you can be sure lots of people will get behind [...]

The first episode of The Byrne Ultimatum with Jason Byrne

I’ve been in TV audiences before. The Late Late Show, Questions and Answers, Tubridy, The Panel, Blackboard Jungle and even Jason Byrne’s own show a few years ago (the Christmas episode where we sang “Chocolate Bin” to the tune of Christmas carols) , but I have rarely laughed as much out loud nor enjoyed a [...]

Mad For It – Mad Men, series 2

It’s not all bad being unemployed. There’s plenty of reclining to be done, the final pennies to be spent in the pub, more sitting, more drinking, some abandoned stabs at a new CV and, well, did I mention the sitting? And there’s ‘Mad Men.’

Tellybets – which new US TV shows will be hit or miss?

Now that all the American TV networks have released their autumn schedules, it’s time to take a look at what new shows will be hitting their screens this coming season. Because there’s a good chance that many of them will end up on Irish and UK terrestrial channels or on cable/satellite over the next year [...]

13 Reasons Why You Should Watch Harper’s Island

This coming Monday sees the start of a brand new show on RTE Two. You’re bound to have caught the adverts on the telly by now. Harper’s Island is a murder mystery drama from US network CBS that kicks off with a wedding party setting sail for an island off the coast of Seattle, which was the scene of [...]