Roy on CBBC

TarfHead · 15-08-2009 9:42pm #1

My kids have started watching this and love it. I've watched bits of the first two and think it is, for what it is, really good.

It's children's TV but Irish made and something for all concerned to be proud of. At a stretch it's a bit like Father Ted - in that it's Irish made but getting it's first viewing on British TV. Who knows how it might have turned out if RTE had commissioned it and shaped the final product :rolleyes:.

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Bondvillain · 15-08-2009 11:40pm

TarfHead wrote: »

At a stretch it's a bit like Father Ted - in that it's Irish made but getting it's first viewing on British TV. Who knows how it might have turned out if RTE had commissioned it and shaped the final product :rolleyes:.

Probably badly, but the 'first viewing' point is moot.

Father Ted was written specifically for a British Television channel and developed & funded & by British Television producers.

At no stage in it's development were Rté offered the opportunity to commission it, fund it, produce it, shape it in any way, or give it it's first airing.

Irrelevancies aside, regarding this kids show; it's good to know that Irish talent is playing well abroad.

Skid · 17-08-2009 12:22am

I haven't seen Roy on CBBC but I think the character was originally an adult in the excellent short film 'Badly drawn Roy', well worth a look,link below.

He has been rewritten as a child for the CBBC series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUIv7poWJFU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaXVyDKLOiM

Dman001 · 17-08-2009 1:23am

Bondvillain wrote: »

Probably badly, but the 'first viewing' point is moot.

Father Ted was written specifically for a British Television channel and developed & funded & by British Television producers.

At no stage in it's development were Rté offered the opportunity to commission it, fund it, produce it, shape it in any way, or give it it's first airing.

Irrelevancies aside, regarding this kids show; it's good to know that Irish talent is playing well abroad.

I think we need a sticky on this topic.:D

Elmo · 17-08-2009 10:46am

Skunk Fu is another Irish series doing well abroad, commissioned by TG4 and a few other PBSs in Europe.

Was Badly Drawn Roy not orginally comissioned by RTÉ? The aired it a few months ago.