The Fall (RTE1/BBC2) [** Spoilers **]

JP Liz V1

Richard Dower wrote: »

Press release expalins all

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2012/the-fall-cast.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj34pncJW9A

Still no air date yet for this but it looks good

brian_t

Last month The Times reported that it will air in April.

I've been looking forward to it since last October.

http://gillianla.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/new-still-from-the-fall/

JP Liz V1

Just seen an ad for this on RTE 1 and seems to be starting there in May

brian_t

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Just seen an ad for this on RTE 1 and seems to be starting there in May

Thats great. Two option for watching it.

‘The Fall’ will air in the week of May 11th -17th on BBC2. - Day and time to be confirmed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2013/20/the-fall.html

brian_t

Seems to be a high likelihood of a second series.

The first five-part series of The Fall is due to begin on BBC Two in May and writer Allan Cubitt has already begun work on a second. Asked if she could see herself reprising the role for future series, Gillian said: "Yes, definitely."

http://tv.uk.msn.com/news/anderson-aspires-to-be-new-tennison-2

JP Liz V1

brian_t wrote: »

Thats great. Two option for watching it.

‘The Fall’ will air in the week of May 11th -17th on BBC2. - Day and time to be confirmed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2013/20/the-fall.html

Starts Sunday 12th of May on RTE

brian_t

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Starts Sunday 12th of May on RTE

Presumably at 9.30pm in the former Junior Dragons Den slot.

brian_t

Digiguide has this pencilled in for Monday 13th May at 9pm but there is no official word from the BBC.

brian_t

The Fall will premiere in the US two week after it starts on BBC2

BBC Two’s five-part drama series The Fall will premiere on Netflix in the United States on Tuesday May 28th, it has been announced

http://www.tvwise.co.uk/2013/04/netflix-sets-premiere-date-for-the-fall/

Skid X

Digital Spy reports that the series start date has been confirmed as Monday, May 13 at 9pm on BBC2

http://www.digitalspy.ie/tv/news/a477820/gillian-andersons-the-fall-gets-bbc-air-date-first-trailer-watch.html

JP Liz V1

brian_t wrote: »

Thats great. Two option for watching it.

‘The Fall’ will air in the week of May 11th -17th on BBC2. - Day and time to be confirmed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2013/20/the-fall.html

Will it be shown all in one week on BBC 2?

brian_t

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Will it be shown all in one week on BBC 2?

No. That was very badly phrased.

MOH

I've seen a few ads for this on RTE lately plugging it as "home grown drama". From the credits I can find it seems to be a BBC/Northern Ireland Screen Board production, filmed entirely in Belfast.

Did RTE actually have any involvement in it whatsoever?

AlmightyCushion

Seen an ad for this the other day. Does any one else thing yer man with the beard is the spit of Eric Cantona.

Edit:
From the trailer:

Jumbo Image

Cantona:

Skid X

MOH wrote: »

I've seen a few ads for this on RTE lately plugging it as "home grown drama". From the credits I can find it seems to be a BBC/Northern Ireland Screen Board production, filmed entirely in Belfast.

Did RTE actually have any involvement in it whatsoever?

That would explain why RTE are apparently showing the first episode before the BBC.

Having said that, I suspect any RTE input was minimal, even their own website describes it as a BBC Drama :rolleyes:

The X-Files' Gillian Anderson is to play the lead role of a detective superintendent in The Fall, BBC Two's new psychological thriller about the hunt for a serial killer in Belfast.

http://www.rte.ie/ten/2012/0209/andersong.html

MOH

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Seen an ad for this the other day. Does any one else thing yer man with the beard is the spit of Eric Cantona.

I saw that last week, went down the cast list on IMDB twice thinking it had to be him.

Kerrydude1981

Just seen an ad for this,looks good,didn't know it was been showed on the BBC as well,is it a joint production as RTE are claiming it as home grown?

brian_t

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

Just seen an ad for this,looks good,didn't know it was been showed on the BBC as well,is it a joint production as RTE are claiming it as home grown?

It's home grown in so far as it was filmed in Ireland but I've looked and so far I can find no connection that RTE has with it.

The series was created and written by Allan Cubitt and is being produced for BBC Two by Artists Studio and BBC Northern Ireland, with funding from Northern Ireland Screen and the European Regional Development Fund.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_(TV_series)

The Fall is a new television series produced by Fables Limited in association with Artists Studio for BBC Two, commissioned by BBC Northern Ireland, with funding from Northern Ireland Screen.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/the-fall.html


Well I did find this from the Herald

But now the flame-haired Gillian Anderson is set to star in a new RTE drama.
Gillian has starred in a number of high-profile roles since her days alongside Agent Mulder (David Duchovny), and is hopeful a new BBC/RTE co-production drama will be another hit.

http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/around-town/xfiles-gillian-shoots-rte-serial-killer-drama-29235674.html

The fella with the beard is John Lynch.

brian_t

RTE's Promo

Skid X

RTE claiming 'The Fall' was a co-production here ...

A BBC/RTÉ co-production rather than a straightforward acquisition, this brand new five-part drama set in Northern Ireland stars former X-Files star Gillian Anderson and follows a PSNI investigation into a string of recent homicides

http://www.rte.ie/ten/2013/0503/blog_tv_onthebox.html

brian_t

There are some reviews of the series online.
Considering that the killer is known from the start they don't contain spoilers.

The Fall is, hands down, one of the best home-grown dramas I’ve seen in several years, with the final episode being one of tensest hours of television I can recall since 24 went off the air.

http://www.tvwise.co.uk/2013/05/the-fall-review-the-next-big-hit-of-2013/

Cherrycola

Must set this up to Sky+.........on BBC, not RTE! So at least i wont miss the end when RTE start one episode late like they did with the season finale of Homeland! :mad:
Plus no ads on BBC!

JP Liz V1

A few of the cast were in Hollyoaks

brian_t

Gillian seems confused as to when her show premieres here.

Finally! A date. My new series @TheFallTV premieres on BBC2 on 5/11 & @Netflix 5/28. Please watch! http://www.gilliananderson.ws/news/

Oh no! @TheFallTV premieres in Ireland (RTE) on May 11 and BBC2 May 13th!-GA

https://twitter.com/GillianA

dubmick

Plus BBC are showing it in HD, RTE
are not.

Cherrycola wrote: »

Must set this up to Sky+.........on BBC, not RTE! So at least i wont miss the end when RTE start one episode late like they did with the season finale of Homeland! :mad:
Plus no ads on BBC!

Go Harvey Go

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

A few of the cast were in Hollyoaks

:eek: :eek: :eek:

Hollyoaks from 1995 to around the mid-2000s (i.e. when it was a proper teen soap), surely?

MOH

Got a reply from RTE about this yesterday. They've had no involvement in making it. Apparently it's "homegrown" because most of the cast are Irish, and because it's filmed in Belfast. Ffs :rolleyes:

Mr E

Sky+ set for Monday @ 9pm on BBC2.
HD with no ads. Sorry RTE.

ElNino

MOH wrote: »

Got a reply from RTE about this yesterday. They've had no involvement in making it. Apparently it's "homegrown" because most of the cast are Irish, and because it's filmed in Belfast. Ffs :rolleyes:

If that is the case then I don't understand how RTE are airing the show before the BBC who made it. That would be totally unprecedented.

Why aren't they claiming Game of Thrones as homegrown? I mean, aren't there one or two Irish actors and some of it is also filmed in Belfast?

The Black Oil

Looking forward to this. Continuing the brilliant, but broken detective thing, I'm sure.

evilivor

MOH wrote: »

Got a reply from RTE about this yesterday. They've had no involvement in making it. Apparently it's "homegrown" because most of the cast are Irish, and because it's filmed in Belfast. Ffs :rolleyes:

Well RTE's summer season press release of yesterday refers to "Big new international summer series on RTÉ One and RTÉ Two include gripping psychological thriller The Fall, an RTÉ co-production with BBC, starring Emmy award-winning actor Gillian Anderson.

http://www.rte.ie/presspack/2013/05/09/summers-alive-on-rte-one-rte-two-television/

MOH

I got a response to my complaint, which contradicts the info their own information department had given me in reply to my earlier query, and apparently RTE did in fact contribute towards the project.

Sorry about the confusion!

mike65

What was the nature of their contribution - none of the three production houses involved has an RTE stake listed in this.

brian_t

mike65 wrote: »

What was the nature of their contribution - none of the three production houses involved has an RTE stake listed in this.

I found this in an online article but beware there is a major spoiler in the rest of the article (not included here obviously).

Allan Cubitt, whose credits include the second Prime Suspect, wanted to write a show that spent as much time with the serial killer and his victims as it did with a plodding police investigation.

Cubitt took the bare bones of his idea to his friend Gub Neal, a collaborator on Prime Suspect 2 who now runs production company Artists Studio.

Neal says: “This show is a model for what we want to do with Artists Studio: writers with their own vision working in pretty much the same way as top-level US showrunners. They have ownership of the material and the way it’s made, without the burden of running a business.”
The producer’s income for the show was to be split equally between Cubitt and Artists Studio.

Neal took the pitch to BBC Northern Ireland, which commissioned the script and put up two thirds of the £4.5 million budget. German rights group ZDF Enterprises came in alongside Irish broadcaster RTÉ and Flemish- language Belgian broadcaster VMMA. Content Media is handling international sales.

Northern Ireland Screen also backed the project, on the condition that it was shot in Belfast..

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/in-depth/behind-the-scenes/in-focus/the-fall-bbc2/5054734.article?blocktitle=LATEST-FEATURES&contentID=38332

mike65

Ah yeah I saw that after I posted.

BBC Northern Ireland, which commissioned the script and put up two thirds of the £4.5 million budget. German rights group ZDF Enterprises came in alongside Irish broadcaster RTÉ and Flemish- language Belgian broadcaster VMMA

So very little then!

Poochie05

mike65 wrote: »

Ah yeah I saw that after I posted.

So very little then!

Didn't see if they mentioned the exact split but if, for example, you assume the remaining one third funding came from a roughly even split between the 3 non BBC NI partners, that would be around €450,000 - I wouldn't regard that as very little!

Mr E

Starting on RTE now.

Basq

Balls.. missed the start of this. Will add it to Sky+ on BBC now so.

Lisha

I think this is going to be good
Why aren't the two cops together ?

syklops

Never thought Id see the day when Id see a vibrator on RTE One on a Sunday.

Lapin

Its very slow.

Lisha

It always astounds me what people can do in other rooms of a house and no one else notices !

syklops

Lisha wrote: »

It always astounds me what people can do in other rooms of a house and no one else notices !

Such as?

Mr.Crinklewood

syklops wrote: »

Such as?

Check your second drawer.

Lisha

syklops wrote: »

Such as?

In tv land people chat in room about a family member while the topic of conversation is only a door away.
I could not imagine husband opening attic without me hearing or leaving the house for that matter

syklops

Lisha wrote: »

In tv land people chat in room about a family member while the topic of conversation is only a door away.
I could not imagine husband opening attic without me hearing or leaving the house for that matter

I assumed the mother was out as well. The boy said he wrung her number as well but he got it wrong.

25 minutes in and we don't know any more than what we did after the trailer.

KKkitty

Very slow indeed. Hope it picks up.

syklops

Its no Dexter.

syklops

Blimey, she is forward isn't she? I wish real women were like that.