26-08-2023, 05:42 PM
(26-08-2023, 02:05 PM)chinamug Wrote: It's a joint production but RTE are very much the junior partner, there's no way the series would be going now if it was left up to RTE. I know a good few people that entered production hell with RTE and their projects never saw the light of day. Brendan O Carroll was smart and kept the project under his own control. The reason it's shot in Scotland is because it was BBC Scotland commissioned it originally. The show was a huge hit in Glasgow and a local BBC Scotland Producer managed to pick it up. The reason O Carroll got such a good deal from the BBC was because there was interest from other parties at the time.
I would hazard a guess Channel 4 were interested, as they seem to like Irish comedy, just look at the huge success of Father Ted and Derry Girls - if Mrs Brown's Boy had have been made for Channel 4, I wonder if the decline would have been slower and probably Channel 4 ending it around after a few years.