EIPIC
BRAND NEW MUSICAL COMEDY DRAMA – TG4
TG4 is set to bring an anarchic new comedy drama to Irish screens in early 2016, penned by Mike O’Leary, one of the writers on the cult E4 drama Misfits. EIPIC will be broadcast on TG4 at 10pm for 6 weeks from Thursday, 4th February 2016.
EIPIC is an off-beat low-fi comedy drama that follows the fortunes of 5 rural teenagers who take over their local abandoned post office in 2016 to start a musical revolution. Told with a mix of naturalistic drama and flights of musical magic realism, it's The Commitments for millennials- a bold story about escape, empowerment and what it means to be a teenage “hero” in contemporary rural Ireland - all set against the backdrop of the 1916 centenary celebrations.
When misunderstood Sully gets wind of an online music video competition, he sees it as his means of escaping the grim begrudgery of his hometown, Dobhar. He assembles a local band of teenage oddballs and degenerates in a rebellion against boredom, in the hopes of leading them on an epic journey out of their rural town and onto a national stage. Why’s he doing this? Well, because a mysterious online friend who looks remarkably like Michael Collins told him to. Obvs.....
Inspired by this anonymous online presence the gang break into the abandoned local Post Office setting it up as their base of operations and their one beacon of hope as they start their own uprising - a musical revolution. In an age where anything can go viral, a new breed of rural Irish teenager exists in a heady mix of the real and the virtual, the provincial and the global.
Writer Mike O’Leary said, “Youth television - if we can even call it that anymore, has seen some ground-breaking and genre-defining work emerge in the last few years on the other side of the Irish Sea. The canon was crying out for a show with a uniquely Irish twist on this most universal of stories - growing up. While authentic, real and wild were the guiding principles in creating the world of EIPIC, I always had this one concept at the back of my mind: this should look like TV drama penned by Flann O'Brien on the Monday after Electric Picnic.”
At its heart EIPIC is a drama about growing up, breaking free and finding your own identity. It’s an ensemble show about battling the hulking demons of everyday life through music. It’s about escaping the chains of history and the sludge of the old cynicism. It’s about fame. It’s about friends. It’s about life in a town. It’s about what it means to be young today - all set to an eclectic modern soundtrack. Irish language versions of tracks such as The Jam’s Town Called Malice, Frankly Mr Shankly by The Smiths and Video Girl by FKA Twigs are given a new twist as the characters strive for online fame.
Speaking about EIPIC, producer Ciara Nic Chormaic says, "It turns all the usual stereotypes of Irish drama on their heads. It is the first post watershed teen drama to be broadcast on Irish television and was devised to capture contemporary Irish teenagers' lives... with a hint of magic realism and big laughs thrown in for good measure.”
This 6 x 32 minute series was produced by Galway based Magamedia with funding from TG4, the BAI and Section 481.
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BRAND NEW MUSICAL COMEDY DRAMA – TG4
TG4 is set to bring an anarchic new comedy drama to Irish screens in early 2016, penned by Mike O’Leary, one of the writers on the cult E4 drama Misfits. EIPIC will be broadcast on TG4 at 10pm for 6 weeks from Thursday, 4th February 2016.
EIPIC is an off-beat low-fi comedy drama that follows the fortunes of 5 rural teenagers who take over their local abandoned post office in 2016 to start a musical revolution. Told with a mix of naturalistic drama and flights of musical magic realism, it's The Commitments for millennials- a bold story about escape, empowerment and what it means to be a teenage “hero” in contemporary rural Ireland - all set against the backdrop of the 1916 centenary celebrations.
When misunderstood Sully gets wind of an online music video competition, he sees it as his means of escaping the grim begrudgery of his hometown, Dobhar. He assembles a local band of teenage oddballs and degenerates in a rebellion against boredom, in the hopes of leading them on an epic journey out of their rural town and onto a national stage. Why’s he doing this? Well, because a mysterious online friend who looks remarkably like Michael Collins told him to. Obvs.....
Inspired by this anonymous online presence the gang break into the abandoned local Post Office setting it up as their base of operations and their one beacon of hope as they start their own uprising - a musical revolution. In an age where anything can go viral, a new breed of rural Irish teenager exists in a heady mix of the real and the virtual, the provincial and the global.
Writer Mike O’Leary said, “Youth television - if we can even call it that anymore, has seen some ground-breaking and genre-defining work emerge in the last few years on the other side of the Irish Sea. The canon was crying out for a show with a uniquely Irish twist on this most universal of stories - growing up. While authentic, real and wild were the guiding principles in creating the world of EIPIC, I always had this one concept at the back of my mind: this should look like TV drama penned by Flann O'Brien on the Monday after Electric Picnic.”
At its heart EIPIC is a drama about growing up, breaking free and finding your own identity. It’s an ensemble show about battling the hulking demons of everyday life through music. It’s about escaping the chains of history and the sludge of the old cynicism. It’s about fame. It’s about friends. It’s about life in a town. It’s about what it means to be young today - all set to an eclectic modern soundtrack. Irish language versions of tracks such as The Jam’s Town Called Malice, Frankly Mr Shankly by The Smiths and Video Girl by FKA Twigs are given a new twist as the characters strive for online fame.
Speaking about EIPIC, producer Ciara Nic Chormaic says, "It turns all the usual stereotypes of Irish drama on their heads. It is the first post watershed teen drama to be broadcast on Irish television and was devised to capture contemporary Irish teenagers' lives... with a hint of magic realism and big laughs thrown in for good measure.”
This 6 x 32 minute series was produced by Galway based Magamedia with funding from TG4, the BAI and Section 481.
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