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One ResponseProposal for new Irish film tv channel submitted
Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board (IFB) is delighted to announce it’s proposal for a new Irish TV Channel which will be dedicated to broadcasting the best of Irish, European and World Cinema.
A proposal for the channel has been put forward to the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources for inclusion in the new Broadcasting Bill which will be launched by Minister Eamon Ryan next month.
Good idea or a waste of time? Full press release is here. I hope they show short films. It upsets me greatly that fantastic short films are shown once (if we’re lucky) on RTE 1 at 5 past seven on a Saturday. Then they’re confined to the archives never to be seen again. Ideally, I’d like the BBC iPlayer ported to RTE so I can just fire up and watch all this stuff whenever I want online. The press release says:
Irish films screening on the channel are likely to have completed their own commercial cycle through theatrical, DVD and mainstream TV outlets before appearing on the film channel.
…So if it’s that kind of content, then it should be provided online as well.
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It’s a complete waste of money and resources. The proposal calls for three movies a night - one of them to be an Irish movie, the other two world cinema.
I was going to blog on this later, but I am fuming. Can’t this idea be subsumed into the present broadcast channels using some creativity? Oh that’s right. RTE schedulers find it hard to be creative.
That’s why super foreign movies live at 3am, but recycled shows like No Frontier’s themed shows like this past Sunday’s Spanish show. It had a segment from the very first show with Cathal from about ten years ago. When this channel goes live how many times will we see movies like ‘Into The West’ and ‘Circle of Friends’ on the channel? Oirish movies, begorrah.
Yes, Eamon recycling is good but not when it comes to telly. Not for telly I pay a license for. If the IFI and international film festivals around the country have demonstrated, foreign films have mainstream appeal. Forcing them into a pink elephant channel that sits in obscurity belittles them. Grrrr.. still might post.