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The Red Rock Thread (Irish Pace)
As it's less than a week until this new Irish soap begins, I'm starting a single discussion thread in the same vein as the Fair City and Ros na Run threads to discuss each episode and any news about the show.
For anyone who is unfamiliar with the show, it's a twice weekly soap set in a Dublin seaside town with the main focus being the local police station and two feuding families. It'll air on TV3 every Wednesday and Thursday night at 8.30pm. Also, here's a link to the development thread that I had about the show.
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?p=76185201#post76185201
Here's a link to the trailer and some of the more recent news and pictures from the show's opening episodes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UGSVG_-d7o
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/bludgeoned-body-found-on-dublin-beach-as-tv3s-red-rock-gets-set-for-grim-first-episode-30869781.html
http://www.irishmirror.ie/whats-on/arts-culture-news/take-glimpse-inside-tv3s-new-4893200
http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/blue-murder-as-new-soap-red-rock-starts-with-a-bang-30868678.html
I'm really looking forward to this now. It's the first time a new soap has been launched in Ireland since Ros na Run began in 1996. TV3 has a bit of a reputation for generally showing imports and producing low budget programming but this looks like it'll be really good.
For anyone who is unfamiliar with the show, it's a twice weekly soap set in a Dublin seaside town with the main focus being the local police station and two feuding families. It'll air on TV3 every Wednesday and Thursday night at 8.30pm. Also, here's a link to the development thread that I had about the show.
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?p=76185201#post76185201
Here's a link to the trailer and some of the more recent news and pictures from the show's opening episodes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UGSVG_-d7o
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/bludgeoned-body-found-on-dublin-beach-as-tv3s-red-rock-gets-set-for-grim-first-episode-30869781.html
http://www.irishmirror.ie/whats-on/arts-culture-news/take-glimpse-inside-tv3s-new-4893200
http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/blue-murder-as-new-soap-red-rock-starts-with-a-bang-30868678.html
I'm really looking forward to this now. It's the first time a new soap has been launched in Ireland since Ros na Run began in 1996. TV3 has a bit of a reputation for generally showing imports and producing low budget programming but this looks like it'll be really good.
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The producer of Red Rock also worked on Deception but hopefully he's learnt from the fiasco that that show turned out to be.
Former BBC Drama boss and EastEnders EP John Yorke is involved in this also.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsfilmtv/red-rock-aiming-for-success-on-tv3-305220.html
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/painting-the-town-red-in-tv3s-new-soap-opera-30859862.html
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/red-rock-actress-i-wont-go-out-of-my-way-to-read-critics-reviews-30878392.html
Whatever happened to the Irish Take Me Out? Or Family Fortunes? Or Celebrity Salon? Or Weakest Link?
From what I can gather, we have this for two years at least regardless of what happens as they've invested a load of money into it. With those other shows previously, TV3 had all of it's ITV shows to fall back on if they didn't work which is why I think a lot of the homegrown stuff was very easily discarded. They don't have that luxury now. Also, when Jeff Ford came to TV3, he wanted to make the channel more upmarket and less "ITV-Lite" so they axed a load of the trashier shows like Tallafornia and Dublin Wives while I think Family Fortunes and Take Me Out got the chop because it was too expensive to buy in the formats so they're focusing on homegrown gameshows now like The Lie.
What channel will it be on (in England)?
It's set and filmed in Dublin and it's airing on Irish channel TV3. I don't think it's been picked up by any UK channels yet but it is being co-produced by John Yorke's Company Pictures who made Skins and Shameless so there's a very good chance it will get a UK broadcast at some point. It'll be available to watch on TV3's 3 Player but I don't know if that's accessible in the UK.
As awful (in my opinion) as Fair City is, I'm actually surprised it isn't shown on one of the digital channels in the UK, even as a daytime or late night schedule filler. It's never actually aired outside of Ireland as fair as I know. UTV aired it but that was only up the north so it's not technically "abroad" as such. There was a dispute a few years ago over actors getting paid for repeats and as a result it wasn't available on RTE Player for a while so maybe that's what hinders them selling it abroad as they'd maybe have to renegotiate actor's pay rates if it was aired elsewhere.
Even the name "Red Rock" doesn't scream soap to me.
I'm very interested to see the first episode later on to confirm my suspicions.
Same here
Does anyone know where it will be shown online?
3 Player if you can access it. If I come across any other links I'll post them here.
3 player? OK, thanks