It has been confirmed that disaster-prone assistant manager Fran Costello and his beloved St. Peter's Football Club will be back for another series. 'Fran' co-creators, Richie Conroy (Up for Air) and Mark Hodkinson (Roy) will shoot the new Emu Productions/ Snowluke Pictures series of the mockumentary in August. The first series of the mockumentary, that was funded by Setanta Sports/Bci, saw cameras follow Fran (played by Darragh Humphreys), the assistant-manager whose club hadn't been in the first division in nine long years and Richie tells Iftn that things are not likely to change in the second series. Other cast members involved with the series are Robert Byrne, John Kelly, Dermod Lynskey (Colour Blind) and Don Conroy (Draw with Don). It is written and directed by Richie and Mark Hodkinson and produced by Eimear O'Kane (Corduroy) for Snowluke Productions.
- 7/7/2010
- IFTN
Gosling's journalistic interests always centred around ordinary people, but he always possessed a maverick courage
Ray Gosling describes himself as "a sort of journalist – writer – maker of scores and scores of radio documentaries and TV films over the years", but in his seven decades he has been a great deal more than that. To those in their 40s and above, Gosling's name and musical, faintly lugubrious east Midland tones will be familiar, but to a younger generation, at least outside his local area, he is largely unknown, or an old-fashioned broadcaster whose films and radio documentaries covering what he called "soft news about caravans, allotments, sheds" belong to another era of homespun, postwar British eccentricity.
But while Gosling's journalistic interests have always centred around the small-scale concerns of ordinary people, he has been a radical throughout his life, possessed of a somewhat maverick moral courage that friends say is in...
Ray Gosling describes himself as "a sort of journalist – writer – maker of scores and scores of radio documentaries and TV films over the years", but in his seven decades he has been a great deal more than that. To those in their 40s and above, Gosling's name and musical, faintly lugubrious east Midland tones will be familiar, but to a younger generation, at least outside his local area, he is largely unknown, or an old-fashioned broadcaster whose films and radio documentaries covering what he called "soft news about caravans, allotments, sheds" belong to another era of homespun, postwar British eccentricity.
But while Gosling's journalistic interests have always centred around the small-scale concerns of ordinary people, he has been a radical throughout his life, possessed of a somewhat maverick moral courage that friends say is in...
- 2/17/2010
- by Esther Addley
- The Guardian - Film News
Alan Gilsenan's 'The Yellow Bittern' documentary is to be released on DVD on October 30th and mockumentary series 'Fran: Assistant Manager', from Richie Conroy and Mark Hodkinson, is available now. Alan Gilsenan's feature length documentary, 'The Yellow Bittern - the Life & Times of Liam Clancy' will receive its DVD release on Friday, October 30th. The feature, distributed by Element Pictures, is a surprising and darkly revealing cinematic portrait of Liam Clancy, the last surviving member of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem and the man Bob Dylan called "the best ballad singer I ever heard in my life."...
- 10/14/2009
- IFTN
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