TV Shows about your area.

Manic Moran

I'm watching the third TV show in a week about the Gold Vault at Fort Knox. Don't know why, but all of a sudden there's a fad, it seems. Over-dramatic voice-overs talking about the place's secrecy and security, how it's the safest place in the world, how even taking photos can get you arrested.

Odd thing is, one can play golf about 200m from the building. It's just a rather small grey building off to the left as you drive from Louisville to Elizabethtown on the other side of the Depository from the golf course. I've not been arrested yet for photographing the place, even though it's clear they don't like visitors. Absolutely, the place is secure, but the TV's on about it as if it's the Last Resting Place of the Most Holy Grail. It's just a bank. Try to take photos of a North Korean military installation, then tell me about secrecy. Watching the show going all abreath about a place that's around the corner from me and I don't even think about is kindof surreal.

There's a similar disconnect between what I see on TV on LSA Anaconda, the huge US base in Iraq. They make it seem like living there is fraught with peril and the threat of imminent death at any second. Frankly, I was in greater injury of being beaten up for holding up the line at the base's Burger King.

Anyone ever find an accuracy match between a TV representation and some place you know from real life?

NTM

mike65

Waterford has never been on the telly.

Mike.

D-A-V-E

im from Limerick City..everything consists of family fueding and gangland related crimes on rte news and primetime..we dont really get past those two areas on the news :mad: very biased based media we get..

Sherifu

There was a piece by lonely planet on Galway afair. It was most positive.

RuailleBuaille

Clondalkin is only ever on the tv for drugs and murders but it's ever so nice, promise!:)

Kiera

Kilbarrack is the exact same as the Roddy Doyle movies!

sweet-rasmus

George Gently, on BBC1, detective/crime series starring Martin Shaw was filmed on location in Ireland. A few scenes shot in Dun Laoghaire; funny to see the street you pass all the time on tv

TequilaMockingBird

D-A-V-E wrote: »

im from Limerick City..everything consists of family fueding and gangland related crimes on rte news and primetime..we dont really get past those two areas on the news :mad: very biased based media we get..

Listen pal, come back to me and moan when Aine Chambers starts to promote your town.

L1011

Maynooth = clerical sex abuse. We never get mentioned for any other reason

And there was a movie with major spousal abuse filmed here, GuilTrip, never saw it cause last time it was on TV I was too young and mammy wouldn't let me and, erm, I don't think its ever going to get a DVD release...

Wagon

Walkinstown is never mentioned, people like to not hear about us

Patricide

Doubt theyl ever find a reason to do a show about tralee other than on the rose of tralee!!!

Wagon

Patricide wrote: »

Doubt theyl ever find a reason to do a show about tralee other than on the rose of tralee!!!

What about the dolphin you lads have down there?

brianthebard

after reading the fingers mcgee thread i thought this might be about something else...

Deedsie

Killinaskully

taidghbaby

Wagon wrote: »

What about the dolphin you lads have down there?

ah sure we all kow he's been dead for years and there just towing the body around!!

admiralofthefleet

mike65 wrote: »

Waterford has never been on the telly.

Mike.

rte is bad enough as it is;)

Joe Cool

CSI: Templeogue

marcsignal

The Nazis, A warning from history.

ejmaztec

I think "Enemy at the gate" was filmed in Listowel, during the last fleadh. :pac:

Cool_CM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfGeprxIU5g

I think this more or less tells it like it is....

javaboy

Fair City has Dublin about right I reckon. It's like holding up a mirror to our society.

phenomenon

D-A-V-E wrote: »

im from Limerick City..everything consists of family fueding and gangland related crimes on rte news and primetime..we dont really get past those two areas on the news :mad: very biased based media we get..

Actually most places only get mentioned on the telly because of bad news unfortunately (murder, drugs seizure, major jobs losses...) , except for the "happy" story about a kitten that got rescued from a tree that TV3 news always end with. Awwww

Rowley Birkin QC

Mitchelstown is usually either for roadworks or cheese.

Our farm was on tv once in the 80's, I felt it was a fair reflection of my Dad's taste in gammy christmas jumpers.

biko

Ros na Rún, tells it like it is

Toto Wolfcastle

My town was on the Prime Time ASBO special. They made a huge deal about people standing outside the local supermarket. It's actually quite a tame place, and I could think of worse places they could have featured.

Having said that, it was fun watching people complain about the scumbags even though some of their kids are amongst the scumbags!

Patricide

Palm face moment......Thats dingle not tralee :P

javaboy

Patricide wrote: »

Palm face moment......Thats dingle not tralee :P

Facepalm moment......Thats facepalm not palm face :P

phasers

They don't make shows abour Clondalkin, they can't even pronounce it properly.

"Drugs seizure in ClonDaaaaawwwwwkin"
"murder in Clondaaaaaaaaawwwwwwkin"

PrivateEye

Palmerstown got on the news late last year when the found a whack of drugs somewhere, before that I think it would've been when a local lad was being deported and their was a bit of community activism against it from the local school.

Patricide

javaboy wrote: »

Facepalm moment......Thats facepalm not palm face :P

Touche sir, touche