Dare accepted
Comics land Irish TV show
Comics Andrew Stanley, pictured, and Damian Clark have landed their own Irish TV series, based on their Edinburgh Fringe show.I Dare Ya sees the pair embark on a series of daft challenges set by members of their audience.
The show played at the Gilded Balloon at last year’s Fringe, and has been taken up for a new series on RTE2, it was announced this week.
Comedian Des Bishop also returns to Irish screens in the next season’s line-ups. During his six-part series, In The Name of the Fada, he will try to learn enough of the Irish language to perform his stand-up in Gaelic.
And a spoof new documentary series on RTE2, The English Class, follows a group of immigrant students and their hapless teacher. The Seventies ITV comedy Mind Your Language had a similar premise, but its jokes are considered borderline racist by today’s sensibilities.
Noel Curran, managing director of RTE Television said: ‘We are on course to provide almost 3,500 hours of home-produced content this year. We're putting a big emphasis this season on the range of new programming [including] new faces and formats in entertainment.’
Published: 10 Aug 2007
