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Sunday World
2 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Sunday World
RTÉ announce new 'comedic crime drama' from Love/Hate creator
Tall Tales & Murder is set to premiere next year RTÉ have announced a brand new 'comedic crime drama' from the creator of Love/Hate Stuart Carolan. Tall Tales & Murder is a 12-episode series made in collaboration with BBC Northern Ireland and Screen Ireland. The show will have two six-part series. Filming for the new show began in Dublin this week, ahead of its premiere in 2026. News in 90 Seconds - 5th June 2025 Ella Lily Hyland, Aidan Gillen, Phillipa Dinne and Packy Lee are all set to start in the show, based on the Dublin Trilogy book series written by Caimh McDonnell. 'I've been a fan of the brilliant Chris Addison since The Thick of It - it's been incredible fun working with him to bring this insane story to life,' Stuart Carolan, Writer and Executive Producer, said of his co-creator. Addison, who will direct and executive produce the show, said he was 'giddy with delight' to team up with Carolan. 'We've taken Caimh's wonderful novel as a jumping off point and ended up with what I like to think of as a dark and delicious screwball drama.' David Crean, Head of Drama, RTÉ added: 'It's so exciting to be in production with this amazing Irish drama from Stuart Carolan and Chris Addison after a great development process. 'The scripts are fantastic, as is the cast. RTÉ is excited to be collaborating with such brilliant broadcast partners to bring this great series to audiences on a national and international stage. 'Tall Tales & Murder is part of an unprecedented slate of original Irish drama in production from RTÉ, which will deliver over 142 hours of original drama this year.'
Irish Times
2 hours ago
- Business
- Irish Times
Aidan Gillen and Ella Lily Hyland to star new crime drama Tall Tales & Murder
Tall Tales & Murder, a new darkly comedic crime drama from the writer of Love/Hate, has gone into production in Dublin. The drama, which stars Ella Lily Hyland and Aidan Gille n, has been commissioned for two series by RTÉ and BBC Northern Ireland in association with Screen Ireland, with the first six-part run due to premiere in 2026. Tall Tales & Murder has been co-created by Stuart Carolan, the writer and creator of RTÉ's hit gangster series, and Chris Addison, who starred in political satire The Thick of It and has directed episodes of Veep and his Sky comedy Breeders. The series, which is based on the eight-book Dublin Trilogy series by Caimh McDonnell, will be made for RTÉ and BBC by British production company Avalon in association with Ireland's Metropolitan Pictures. READ MORE The one-hour episodes will be directed by Addison and Irish director Neasa Hardiman, with Avalon distributing the show internationally. Alongside Hyland – the fast-rising star of Netflix's Black Doves – and Gillen, who previously worked with Carolan on Love/Hate, the cast includes Philippa Dunne and Packy Lee. 'I've been a fan of the brilliant Chris Addison since The Thick of It – it's been incredible fun working with him to bring this insane story to life,' said Carolan, the writer and one of the executive producers of Tall Tales & Murder. Addison, who will executive produce as well as direct, said he was 'frankly giddy with delight to get to team up with the twisted and highly original mind' of Carolan to create the show. 'We've taken Caimh's wonderful novel as a jumping off point and ended up with what I like to think of as a dark and delicious screwball drama.' David Crean, who was confirmed as RTÉ head of drama this week after previously serving in the role on an interim basis, said the series had gone into production after 'a great development process' with Carolan and Addison. 'The scripts are fantastic, as is the cast. RTÉ is excited to be collaborating with such brilliant broadcast partners to bring this great series to audiences on a national and international stage.' Eddie Doyle, head of content commissioning for BBC Northern Ireland, described the series as storytelling 'at its darkest, funniest and most surreal', while Rob Aslett, executive producer for Avalon, said the scripts 'created a wildly original crime drama that shines a light on a modern Ireland'. McDonnell, who was born in Limerick and raised in Dublin, is a former stand-up comedian and television writer who published his first novel in the Dublin Trilogy detective series in 2016.
Yahoo
20 hours ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Michigan State featured in Louisiana edge rusher's top five schools
It is the peak season for recruiting in the 2026 recruiting class, with every team in the country looking to build out their latest recruiting class. Michigan State is in the thick of it with another prospect they look to add in their 2026 class. Chris Addison, a native of Winnsboro, Louisiana, attending Franklin Parish High School, is a highly ranked 89-rated 3-star prospect according to 247Sports. A 6-foot-4, 230 pound edge rusher, 247Sports ranks him as the No. 39 edge rusher in the recruiting class. The Louisiana product is one of two prospects from Franklin Parish that the Spartans are in heavy pursuit of, also making a strong push for Dezyrian Ellis as a safety. Advertisement In the terms of Addison's recruitment, he is officially down to five schools, naming a top five on Wednesday. Michigan State stood alongside Arizona State, Florida State, Tulane and UCLA in the top five schools for the edge rusher. Addison has already officially visited Arizona State, and has visits scheduled to UCLA (June 6), MSU (June 13) and Tulane (June 19) on the books. There is no visit scheduled to Florida State at this time. Contact/Follow us @The SpartansWire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Michigan State news, notes and opinion. You can also follow Cory Linsner on X @Cory_Linsner This article originally appeared on Spartans Wire: Michigan State football named in Chris Addison's top five
Metro
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
The worrying reason The Thick of It could never be made today
It's been 20 years since The Thick Of It launched on the BBC, making a total mockery of governments, past and present – but no one could have known quite how accurately it would predict the future. It's something that even shocked creator, Armando Iannucci, who revealed to Metro that three policies mentioned in the very first episode – when ministers were scrambling to come up with ideas in the back of a cab on the way to their big announcement – later became laws. '[The three laws were that] everyone has to have a plastic bag of their own, pet ASBOs and Chris Addison came up with a national spare room database, which became the bedroom tax,' he explained. At the time, the show was lauded for its sharp and hysterical portrayal of British politics. The raging foul-mouthed Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi) was a dead ringer to Tony Blair's former director of comms, Alastair Campbell. While many fans have long speculated that the parallels between the dimwits on screen and actual ministers was in equal measures uncanny and alarming. The first two series followed the fictitious Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship (DSAC), led by the colossally incompetent minister Hugh Abbot (Chris Langham) and his equally useless team of advisers. Early on, a TV critic described him as the 'political equivalent to the house wine at a suburban Indian restaurant', which proves to be quite kind. He's eventually sacked and replaced by Nicola Murray, who is inexperienced at every level of the job, but still manages to climb the ranks through sheer ineptitude of her party to become Leader of the Opposition. Two decades on, I still watch the DSAC trip-up repeatedly at the starting block – even making hurdles for themselves that don't exist – and wonder: Would they have done a better job than the 13 years of Tory rule we just survived? Abbot and his team essentially pluck policy out of thin air – like when Ollie suggests having a policy in your back pocket for the last cabinet before reshuffle. His suggestion: 'Tripling the number of quiet carriages on intercity trains', admitting that he 'just thought of that'. And we also see them backtrack when their policies are clearly a colossal mistake – the first episode is a shambles as we see them announce, un-announce and then re-announce the same policy. We've certainly seen plenty of U-turns in real life, but unlike The Thick Of It ministers, our government have broken promises on popular policies. HS2, limiting earnings on MPs' second salaries, conversion therapy – need I say more? Sadly, I'm beginning to fear they would have been better than this Labour government, too. At the very least, I don't think they'd pander to the opposition in the same way I believe Starmer and his ministers are. By far, The Thick of It is the single best political comedy of all time – every single performance is still the career highlight for actors who have gone on to win Baftas, Emmys, and travelled through time in the Tardis. But it could never return. Peter Capaldi perfectly summed up why on LBC's Tonight with Andrew Marr in 2024, telling the host: 'The reason I'm not terribly keen on [a revival] is because I think it's beyond a joke. And joking about it just in some way, takes the spotlight away from the problems. And I think that [the] problems are profound.' He's spot on. The fictionalised department of Social Affairs and Citizenship actually sounds like a very legitimate department in 2025. Even the Thick of It would have felt like it had pushed satire too far if it had introduced a minister for common sense. I remember watching Esther McVey – a Tory MP – on Question Time trying to explain her new role, which was reportedly set up to combat wokeness. In 2024 McVey said her aim was to tackle 'left-wing politically correct woke warriors' in the public sector, and she introduced a ban on public servants wearing rainbow lanyards. When Fiona Bruce asked if her position was created because the cabinet she belonged in didn't have 'enough' common sense, the entire Question Time audience burst into laughter. It could so eerily have been lifted from a scene in The Thick of It. And that's just the start. The Tories' reaction to the pandemic was The Thick of It on steroids. Matt Hancock – who implemented social distancing – couldn't have been closer to his aide Gina Coladangelo, caught on CCTV snogging her in his office while his wife and kids were locked down at home. Dominic Cummings broke lockdown rules to drive to Barnard Castle (after previously breaking them to drive to dad's house), but said the unnecessary trip was actually designed to 'test his eyesight' after having had Covid-19. But all that paled in comparison when it then emerged while most of the country stayed at home and didn't see loved ones on their deathbed, our government was having parties. Even our own Prime Minister attended his small birthday party while ordering his country to 'stay indoors'. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Malcolm Tucker would have imploded. It's been years of wince-inducing cock-ups from governments that make The Thick Of It feel all-too close to home. Labour isn't much better – its rudderless direction, lack of vision might be on par with what we see in the show, but its pathetic pandering to the right is truly unique to this government and becoming more disappointing than another four years of Tory rule. More Trending At times – as a lifelong Labour supporter – I sometimes wonder if I miss the Tory Government that was at least entertaining in its absurdity. I can't imagine Iannucci could ever have predicted that the bumbling fools running the country in his comedy would feel more reliable and trustworthy than the people actually in charge. Of course, it's still a great watch and always will be. View More » But it's a hard pill to swallow knowing that the truth has become so much stranger than fiction. Do you have a story you'd like to share? Get in touch by emailing Share your views in the comments below. MORE: Swipe right? Under 40s are more open to dating Reform voters than Tories MORE: Gary Lineker confirms he's quit the BBC after 'error and upset' over antisemitic post MORE: BBC 'warned about disgraced presenter Huw Edwards as far back as 2012'
