Which TV series was filmed in the Irish village of Avoca?
"for its handweaving, with Avoca Handweavers based there. Avoca was once known as Newbridge. It subsequently became known as Ovoca, and then in Victorian times as Avoca. Ptolemy mentions the river Oboka on his early map of Ireland. The official name of the village is now Avoca in English and Abhóca in Irish. None of the other names are used today. Avoca has been used as a filming location for several films and television series. The BBC series ""Ballykissangel"" was filmed there. In 1967, Avoca was one of the locations used in the film ""Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon"","
"in format to the long-running British soap ""Coronation Street"", from which it borrows its main premise (the everyday life of a number of neighbours). The show was centred on the Nolans, a typical working-class Dublin family, and their neighbours, the Feeneys. All episodes were filmed in studio at Telefís Éireann's Television Centre in Donnybrook, Dublin. During its entire four-year run ""Tolka Row"" remained at the centre of Telefís Éireann's prime time schedule. The pilot episode was broadcast at 19:20 on Friday, 3 January 1964. The first two series aired once a week on Fridays at that time. The third series"
"episodes. The main character, Skye, was originally named Maia, like in the Israeli Disney Channel original series ""North Star"". The series ""The Lodge"", filmed in Northern Ireland, takes place in the county of County Down. Most of the scenes are filmed in Montalto Estate and at The Carriage Rooms, which are in Ballynahinch. On 13 December 2016, it was announced that the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered in 2017. On 21 February 2017, it was announced that production had begun on the second season and it would consist of 15 episodes. The premiere episode of ""The"
"cast occurred at the end of series 3 following the departure of central characters Peter Clifford and Assumpta Fitzgerald. The show faced a decline in ratings from a peak level of 10 million viewers to 4.8 million and was eventually cancelled in 2001. The name of the fictional village in which the show was set is derived from Ballykissane, a townland near Killorglin in County Kerry, where the show's creator, Kieran Prendiville, holidayed with his family as a child. The village's name in Irish is shown as ""Baile Coisc Aingeal"", which means ""The town of the fallen angel"", on the"
"Ann Marie Di Mambro was a scriptwriter for the series. Among the Gaelic writers employed were Donald Smith, Iain Finlay Macleod, and Aonghas 'Dubh' MacNeacail. Regular cast members included Simon MacKenzie, Anna Murray, Kenny MacRae, Duncan MacNeil and Tony Kearney. It was shot entirely on location on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides from 1992–96, and after 1996 interior scenes were shot in Studio Alba, which was originally built to accommodate it in Stornoway. The series was funded by the Gaelic Television Committee, and according to government reports, had the effect of creating jobs and boosting the economy"
"University and the Institute of Technology-Sligo from 2005-2009. Úna Burke, a fashion designer from Knockvicar, was commissioned by singer Lady Gaga to make a selection of stage pieces. Knockvicar Knockvicar () is a village in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is located on the R285 regional road, between Boyle and Carrick-on-Shannon near Lough Key Forest Park in the north of the county. Knockvicar lies on the Arigna Scenic Drive off the N4 road from Dublin to Sligo It is where the actress Maureen O'Sullivan spent part of her youth. Knockvicar is the current home of Colin Beggan and Frank Molloy, who"
"Knockvicar Knockvicar () is a village in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is located on the R285 regional road, between Boyle and Carrick-on-Shannon near Lough Key Forest Park in the north of the county. Knockvicar lies on the Arigna Scenic Drive off the N4 road from Dublin to Sligo It is where the actress Maureen O'Sullivan spent part of her youth. Knockvicar is the current home of Colin Beggan and Frank Molloy, who in 2009 released a CD ""Scars on the Mountain"" under Roscommon County Council’s Artists in Residence and Public Art programme with the support of the Arts Council. At"
"and with RTÉ to bring these characters back to the screen, they have been so supportive of the project and will be a wonderful home for it. The public response to the film, and specifically the characters themselves, was just so overwhelming that we really felt there were a lot more stories to tell"". Much of the first series was filmed at various locations in Cork. This series began broadcasting on 1 February 2018, through the online television service BBC Three, and was later broadcast on RTÉ2 in Ireland on 8 February 2018 With a popular and high reception, the"
"the present-day Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. A television series based on the books was made in the 1980s, and was filmed in Ireland at locations in Kildare and Wicklow with additional locations in the west of Ireland in a co-production between Ulster Television and Radio Telefís Éireann. It was broadcast on Channel 4 and S4C in the United Kingdom, and RTÉ One in the Republic of Ireland. Like the books, the television series is a number of short stories around a few central characters. Morristown Lattin, the house used as Aussolas Castle, the residence of Beryl Reid's incarnation"
"date stone and a number of other items are on display. Furness House, near Naas, was used as Castle Knox, the home of Sir Valentine and Lady Knox and their daughter Sally. For the second and third series, many of the Skebawn village scenes were filmed in Robertstown. In the television adaptation, Major Yeates (Peter Bowles) is portrayed as an Englishman, and much of the humour of the first series derives from his difficulty in adjusting to the more relaxed class boundaries and slower pace of life of rural Ireland. The timeline of the television series begins in 1897, when"
"was announced as director for the first two episodes. The remaining episodes of the first season were directed by Dearbhla Walsh, Coky Giedroyc, and James Hawes. In March 2013, it was announced that the series would be filmed in the United Kingdom; eyeing the new UK tax credit for high-end TV productions that offers a 25% rebate. However, it was reported in August that production would instead take place in Bray's Ardmore Studios and other locations around Dublin, Ireland, because of the country's section 481 tax incentives. Filming began on October 7 and lasted 5 months. Reports indicate that the"
"were shown back-to-back that evening and together achieved an average 4.6 million viewers, 20.4% of the TV audience. A third series was confirmed in July 2017. Filming took place in Manchester in March 2018 and it began broadcasting on 13 September 2018. The six-episode series has a political focus, with the main storyline following the attempted murder of a local politician by a far right group. On 19 October 2018, Paul Abbott stated in an interview that he had begun working on ideas for a potential fourth series. In the first series, D.I. Viv Deering is dynamic but blunt in"
"built either in the 1840s or in 1917. It follows a simple T-plan and features a round-headed door, rose window and belcote. Kilfenora Kilfenora (, ) is a village and a civil parish in County Clare, Ireland. It is situated south of the karst limestone region known as the Burren. Since medieval times when it was the episcopal see of the Bishop of Kilfenora, it has been known as the ""City of the Crosses"" for its seven (now five) high crosses. The village had around 220 inhabitants in 2011. Much of the TV show ""Father Ted"" (1995–98) was filmed there."
"Wild Decembers (TV series) Wild Decembers is an Irish feature-length television drama series which broadcast on RTÉ One on 29 December 2010. Described as a ""dark tale of love and land"" by the ""Irish Independent"", it is set in contemporary County Clare and is based on the novel of the same name by the Irish writer Edna O'Brien. It stars the London-based Galway star of the popular RTÉ drama ""Single-Handed"", Owen McDonnell, Matt Ryan (""Collision"", ""The Tudors"") and Lara Belmont (""The War Zone"", ""Henry VIII""). It is directed by Anthony Byrne and is produced by the English-based Clare Alan. The"
"was filmed during August 2010. It was announced on 22 January 2011 that the show would not be returning for a fifth series. The final series concluded on 13 February 2011. The series is set in the small Oxfordshire hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town of Candleford towards the end of the 19th century. The series chronicles the daily lives of farm workers, craftsmen, and gentry, observing the characters in loving, boisterous, and competing communities of families, rivals, friends, and neighbours. The story is seen through the eyes of a teenage girl, Laura Timmins (Olivia Hallinan),"
"prison sentence alone. Serena, however, finds love with childhood sweetheart Evan (Nicholas Pinnock) and has a daughter, Verity (Dominique Jackson). But seventeen years later, Poppy and Serena are unexpectedly reunited, and they are forced to confront each other and reveal the truth behind their dark, shared history. The series, broadcast on ITV, was shot in Bray, County Wicklow, which is used to represent the town of Brighton. The series achieved good viewing figures, with the first episode gathering 5.53 million, 4.83 million tuning in for the second episode and 5.18 million for the final episode. Notably, the series has never"
"on RTÉ. A spin-off series, ""Bracken"" was launched around ""Pat Barry"" (Gabriel Byrne), and which featured Irish actor Niall Toibin, Mick Lally and former ""Coronation Street"" actor Joe Lynch (who had played a lover of the Street's ""Elsie Tanner""). After two series, that show was replaced as planned by its own spin-off, ""Glenroe"", which followed the Lally and Lynch characters as they moved from the fictional townland of Bracken to the outskirts of the fictional town of Glenroe. The axing of ""Glenroe"" in 2001 brought to an end the tradition of rural soap operas on RTÉ. Since the axing of"
"series were broadcast by Scottish broadcaster STV. The first series was directed by Ciaran Donnelly and the second by Thaddeus O'Sullivan. Tristan Lynch and Mary Callery acted as executive producers. Both series were filmed on location in Ireland. The series was a hit with critics and audiences alike, and became a ratings success for RTÉ, becoming the channel's most watched drama in 2004, beating off soap opera ""Fair City"". Orla Brady also received an Irish Film and Television Award nomination for Best Actress in a TV serial in 2004, and the first series was also up for nomination for best"
"broadcast on satellite channels such as Sky One, TLC and MTV. The show, which follows 15 groups of families and friends from the Republic of Ireland, is part of the international ""Gogglebox"" franchise. It was ordered in early 2016 and premiered on TV3 airing fourteen episodes from Thursday 22 September 2016 until 29 December 2016 in series 1 and returning on Wednesday 8 February 2017 with series 2 which ended with a highlights episode subtitled 'Best Bits' on Wednesday 3 May 2017. Series three began on Wednesday 13 September 2017 - with repeats on Saturday nights at 10.30pm - and"
"Irish television presenter, Brian Dowling, would be hosting the reunion show. The reunion was filmed at Peckforton Castle in Cheshire in late May. The reunion aired on 13 June 2016, concluding the third series. On 8 June 2016, a week before the airing of the reunion for the third series, it was announced that the show would be returning for a fourth series. It was also revealed that all the housewives from the third series would be returning. Filming for the fourth series commenced on 1 July 2016. In late August 2016, a small teaser was shown on ITVBe that"
"Deception (Irish TV series) Deception is an Irish prime time television drama airing on TV3. The series, created by Gert Thomas, premiered on Monday 7 January 2013. When the small housing estate in the suburbs of Galway was built in 2007 it was exclusive; but not any more. The six families that live there have plenty of secrets, with jealousy, betrayal, revenge, and murder behind every door. ""Deception"" is TV3's first original series which they are also producing. The six episode first series was filmed on a semi-ghost estate in Galway that already reflected ""life in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland."" The"
"BBC Media Centre reported that ""BBC One's critically acclaimed epic Sunday night drama series starring Maxine Peake and John Simm will return with six more episodes next year."" The second and final series began filming at the end of March 2014 in Derbyshire. The stately home and grounds at Lyme Park were used as a new filming location. It was confirmed by cast members on Twitter that filming for the second series had wrapped on 4 July 2014. First series<br> ""The Village"" received mainly positive reviews after the first episode; the ""Independent"" said ""the story was ostensibly small and specific"","
"Paul Jones was the producer for the entire run, while Jon Williams served an executive producer. For the first series, Gareth Bryn directed the pilot episode and episode two; with Lee Haven-Jones and Rhys Powys directing subsequent episodes, respectively. Most of series two was directed by Powys. Dylan Richard served a director for one episode, while the remaining episodes were directed by Paul Jones. The first series of commenced production in the summer of 2010, while the second series went into production in March 2012 for Apollo TV. The programme was filmed on location primarily in Cardiff, Brecon, a small"
"The Village (2013 TV series) The Village is a BBC TV series written by Peter Moffat. The drama is set in a Derbyshire village in the 20th century. The first series of what Moffat hoped would become a 42-hour TV drama was broadcast in spring 2013 and covered the years 1914 to 1920. A second series was broadcast in autumn 2014, and continued the story into the 1920s. Future series were to be set during the Second World War, post-war Austerity Britain, and so on. ""The Village"" tells the story of life in a Derbyshire village through the eyes of"
"the local minister, the Revd David Easton. Series 5 moved north and followed Fr John Paul in his first year as the Roman Catholic priest at Castlebay on island of Barra, the second southernmost inhabited island in the Outer Hebrides (after Vatersay, to which it is linked by a causeway). Series 6 was filmed on Barra by Tiger Aspect Productions during 2011 and aired in early 2012, while series seven began in late 2012 and follows the Anglican priest and Methodist minister on Sark. Series 7 and 8 (2013 and 2014 respectively) remained on Sark, while Series 9 and 10(2015)"
"a pub in this tiny fishing village in the west of Ireland, where Ryan Adams was being filmed playing in front of 80 people in a tiny church. He was in the pub afterwards, and so was Paul Noonan from Bell X1 and Sinéad O'Connor, and Fight Like Apes were telling us about the most sordid website in existence"". The series was originally titled ""Other Voices: Songs From a Room"". However, this was shortened as the series progressed. The sixth series was recorded in November and December 2007, and began broadcasting on 13 February 2008. It brought about a slight"
"escape her limited life and difficult relationship with her landowner stepfather, Billy (Matthew Rhys), with the aid of the charming Liam Ward (Jamie Dornan). Jamie Dornan and writer Allan Cubitt, the writer of the series, had previously collaborated on ""The Fall"". The show was filmed in Fermanagh and at Springhill House, near Moneymore in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland Cubbit revealed that the series was a ""Brexit warning"", saying ""we can't afford to go back"" to how things were before the Northern Irish peace process. Red Arrow Studios distributed the series, and the first episode premiered on BBC Two on"
"Derry Girls Derry Girls is a Northern Irish sitcom created and written by Lisa McGee. Produced by British production company Hat Trick Productions and starring a predominantly Northern Irish cast, the show is set in Derry, Northern Ireland, in the 1990s. It premiered on 4 January 2018 on Channel 4, production of a second series began later that year on 8 October 2018. The show follows the lives of Erin (Saoirse-Monica Jackson), her cousin Orla (Louisa Harland) and their friends Clare (Nicola Coughlan), Michelle (Jamie-Lee O'Donnell) and Michelle's English cousin, James (Dylan Llewellyn), as they navigate their teens in Derry"
"had commissioned a series of 26 14-minute live-action dramas, to be made by Coutts' Cromarty-based production company Move on Up. Casting for the series included a casting call in Stornoway in March 2013, for filming on Lewis in May 2013, some of which took place in the remote village of Tolsta Chaolais. The TV adaptation began in the autumn of 2013, with the first two stories being broadcast on CBeebies on 3 November 2013. The series also has a Gaelic-language soundtrack recorded for BBC Alba. A stage adaption was created by Lisa Grindall for Mull Theatre in 2005, based on"
"against the sleazy backdrop of Irish political corruption. The designated writer delivers the goods with a script that station bigwigs hail as one of the grittiest and most convincing they’ve ever read. Then, somewhere between the green-lighting of the project and the first day of principal photography, the script is eviscerated. It's astringent depiction of crooked politics, Irish-style, is watered down to bland, generic mush."" Proof (2004 TV series) Proof is an Irish television series, co-produced by Subotica for broadcast on RTÉ, that was first broadcast on January 5, 2004. Starring Finbar Lynch and Orla Brady as investigative journalists Terry"
"works, including ""The Hammer of God"", ""The Wrong Shape"", and ""The Eye of Apollo"". Filming takes place in the Gloucestershire village of Blockley using the church of Saints Peter and Paul (Church of England) as the St Mary Roman Catholic church of the series and the vicarage transformed into presbytery for Father Brown's residence. Other villages used are Winchcombe, Upper Slaughter, Kemerton and Guiting Power. Filming also took place at Winchcombe railway station and Toddington railway station on the heritage Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. Sudeley Castle was the main location for ""The Eye of Apollo"". Princethorpe College, once a Catholic convent,"
"Eyeries Eyeries (historically spelt ""Irees"" or ""Iries""; ) is a village and townland on the Beara Peninsula in County Cork, Ireland overlooking Coulagh Bay and the mouth of the Kenmare River in the south-west. It lies at the base of Maulin, which, at , is the highest peak in the Slieve Miskish mountain range that forms part of the backbone of the peninsula. Eyeries was the location for the shooting of the film ""The Purple Taxi"" (1977) starring Fred Astaire, Peter Ustinov, and Charlotte Rampling, and also the 1998 TV series ""Falling for a Dancer"", a dramatisation of life and"
"US broadcast and release of the series, via Acorn Media, separates the series into four episodes of 50 minutes each, with the additional fourth episode being entitled ""The Showdown"".http://buddyvalue.com/?cashid=20655 The series is set in Liverpool and Manchester, and the main action takes place in the present day, with a backstory of events surrounding the 2003 Iraq War. Alongside Liverpool and Manchester, the series was filmed in Wirksworth, Derbyshire, on the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway. Each of the three episodes focuses on a different individual caught up in the overall story. In episode one, Neil Fitzmaurice stars as Eddie Doig, a man"