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TV3's first two-part drama series The Guards

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    #62
    CharlieCroker
    Registered Users Posts: 8,451 ✭✭✭CharlieCroker


    the uniforms above look right but the ones on the website look like cast-off's from The Bill!


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    #63
    DublinWriter
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    ForegoneReality wrote: »
    From the Herald (Source)
    "We got a hell of a lot of support from gardai. They ran their eye over the scripts, right down to the procedural stuff and how gardai talk to each other.
    1611_TheGuards_H_414892t.jpg
    Obviously not about the beards then.

    ...and if I see the characters using a workable radio/IT system, then I'll now we're in the region of pure fantasy.


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    #64
    sdanseo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,233 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    That pic looks a little more realistic allright.

    I'll be watching it anyway :P


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    #65
    deadwood
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    "Graham said that the team received vital advice from members of the Garda press office.

    "We got a hell of a lot of support from gardai. They ran their eye over the scripts, right down to the procedural stuff and how gardai talk to each other. "

    Ah yes, those lads in the press office know how to get their hands dirty, alright.

    Hope it turns out well, though.


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    #66
    POGAN
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    guys do we have any dates when this is going to air?


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    #67
    [Deleted User]
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    POGAN wrote: »
    guys do we have any dates when this is going to air?

    Read the post by ForegoneReality @ 18:05.


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    #68
    Turner
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    deadwood wrote: »
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    Ah yes, those lads in the press office know how to get their hands dirty, alright.

    Clearing a jam in the photocopier can be a messy job. That toner is so hard to shift!!


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    #69
    Delancey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭Delancey


    This will be a crap show - it's on TV3 , need we say more ?


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    #70
    deadwood
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    Chief--- wrote: »
    Clearing a jam in the photocopier can be a messy job. That toner is so hard to shift!!
    Don't forget the great shredder/tie scare of '96. Jesus, that was a close one.


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    #71
    Turner
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    deadwood wrote: »
    Don't forget the great shredder/tie scare of '96. Jesus, that was a close one.

    Only his tie pin saved him, jamming the shredder.

    Poor old mary the finance officer dropped her kit-kat finger into her coffee with the shock.


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    #72
    SuperMario
    Closed Accounts Posts: 76 ✭✭SuperMario


    It was then decided by management to put together a working committee to investigate why marys kit kat finger ended up in her cup and what could be done to stop billy mule from impaling himself in the shredder again. After 2 years and a bill of 200000000000, the working committee findings decided to buy a new shredder and an industrial packet of kit kats for mary,,, rather than use the money for something that was needed!!!!!


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    #73
    sdanseo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,233 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    Anyone heard any more about this one? It was in a TV3 press release as a "spring" programme back in January but not a dicky bird since.


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    #74
    Delancey
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    Funny , I was thinking the same thing . Maybe TV3 cancelled it on the grounds '' it was so realistic as to endanger National Security '' :D


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    #75
    klong
    Registered Users Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭klong


    There was an article on it recently in the Garda Review. 90-minute pilot episode to be aired first, can't remember when though. Warning sign to me was that it said the series was made on a tight budget...


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    #76
    Leo Demidov
    Registered Users Posts: 991 ✭✭✭Leo Demidov


    "There was an article on it recently in the Garda Review. 90-minute pilot episode to be aired first, can't remember when though. Warning sign to me was that it said the series was made on a tight budget... "

    Relatively small budget didnt hold back Hurt Locker:P


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    #77
    Delancey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭Delancey


    wexfjord wrote: »
    Relatively small budget didnt hold back Hurt Locker:P

    Yeah , but that's Hollywood - we're talking TV3 here :p


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    #78
    pa990
    Registered Users Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭pa990


    i'm sure some people will enjoy it, but for people in the know about procedures and policies, it will be completely unrealistic.

    I'm sure that i'll watch the first episode out of curiosity. But i don't think i'll be setting Sky+


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    #79
    iMax
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    Anyone know if this was ever screened ?


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    #80
    sdanseo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,233 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    I was wondering the same thing so I emailed TV3 on Thursday - waiting on a response.


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    #81
    sdanseo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,233 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    And (finally) the reply:
    TV3 wrote:
    Hi [****],

    Thanks for your email.

    Production has wrapped but we are still in post production. A Tx date has not been set yet.

    Best


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    #82
    msg11
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    sdonn wrote: »
    And (finally) the reply:

    Good, stuff, what the hell is the TX bit about, could they not just say transmission date..


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    #83
    deadwood
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    msg11 wrote: »
    Good, stuff, what the hell is the TX bit about, could they not just say transmission date..

    Transmission takes a lot longer to type than tX...Tx...t#ex...d'oh.


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    #84
    sdanseo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,233 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    Maybe because I used the phrase "wrapped" in my original mail he thought I knew the lingo, more likely he's just a TV3 executive with lazy fingers.

    Anyone reckon "still in post production" might be code for "waiting on Fachtna to rubber stamp it"? Presume they wouldnt have filmed it without the OK first but they'd probably have to view it at AGS first before letting them away to transmit it?


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    #85
    klong
    Registered Users Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭klong


    wexfjord wrote: »
    "There was an article on it recently in the Garda Review. 90-minute pilot episode to be aired first, can't remember when though. Warning sign to me was that it said the series was made on a tight budget... "

    Relatively small budget didnt hold back Hurt Locker:P

    That was low-budget Hollywood, this is low-budget...TV3 :rolleyes:


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    #86
    cushtac
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    sdonn wrote: »
    Anyone reckon "still in post production" might be code for "waiting on Fachtna to rubber stamp it"? Presume they wouldnt have filmed it without the OK first but they'd probably have to view it at AGS first before letting them away to transmit it?

    I would reckon it means they're trying to polish the turd.


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    #87
    Gibson101
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    The fact is been done on a tight budget could me it could be in post-production for a number of years. ye know how directors get when they have a project and don't want to release it until its perfect.:D


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    #88
    Delancey
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    It's TV3 so I'm hoping they never broadcast it :D


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    #89
    Elmo
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    They may want to rethink the name of this drama since a big budget drama called "The Guard" see Brendan Gleeson team up with FBI agent Don Cheadle.

    http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/wait-goes-on-for-our-answer-to-the-wire-2205825.html

    I hope that the show is good. But don't build something up to be Ireland's answer to "The Wire", I know you should play up a TV show but it's not really up to the producers to suggest that it is going to be like The Wire, the audience and the critics will crusify you if it isn't anything like the wire.

    The promotional material really doesn't lend it self to an Irish version of The Wire

    the-wire.jpg

    the-guards-1.jpg


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    #90
    Rothmans
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    It is set in the fictional Ballycore Garda Station and the characters are being described as "young, stubborn and impulsive" and a "lethal combination".

    Ballycore = Baltimore ?


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    #91
    yoyo
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    They need to make a road wars that follows the Gardai around doing drug busts, arrests etc, and not something like boring traffic blues, dont know why they dont do one, the uk has loads of them,

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