New TV3 Programme 'The Estate' in Ballybeg

iseegirls

From TV3's Autumn Press Release today:

The Estate: which follows the lives of six families filmed over six months in Ballybeg Waterford.

Does anyone have any more details? Should be an interesting watch. Wonder have they started filming already.

mike65

Oh boy Billy McCarthty's phone lines are gonna be burning tomorrow!

membersonly

An entire series based in Waterford? I suppose that puts the whole argument about Waterford being ignored by national broadcasters to bed anyway, thank God!

wellboytoo

Lovely just what we need another reality show,Christ on a bicycle where will they go with this sh1t eventually

old gregg

So true. There's few things on tv as bad as a reality show. Cheap television to make, just round up a bunch of attention seekers and stick a camera on them. About as dumb as it gets. As for TV3? Garbage. This show will not further our case in any way.

nkay1985

We don't get to showcase our wonderful history or all the positive things that are going on in the city. No, we get to have god knows what shown. The kind if people who volunteer for programmed like this will rarely put our best foot forward. I hope I'm wrong.

JenniFurr

If they do have people of course it'll be a gypsy wedding type of affair. If it has a serious side I think it'd make a good watch though.

ChunkyNorris

You must be mistaken, this must have been in Dublin or Galway.

Tv3 don't even know Waterford exists.

TheGormog

The last reality TV series shot in these parts was in a cargo container on the quay.

fricatus

membersonly wrote: »

An entire series based in Waterford? I suppose that puts the whole argument about Waterford being ignored by national broadcasters to bed anyway, thank God!

Hmmm... hard to tell whether you're being ironic there or not! :pac:

Either way, I doubt this programme intends to paint Ballybeg or Waterford generally in any sort of positive light. I fear it will be all chicken ranch, Yellow House and burnt-out cars rather than the solid, decent, loyal and well-behaved community that 95% of Ballybeg is

Hopefully I'll be proved wrong when they're all shown eating seafood in Dunmore, visiting the Viking Triangle, butterin' blaas, having a quiet pint in Downes's, etc.

mike65

What the fupp? Where's Billy? I want my outrage!

Professey Chin

I have a bad feeling about this......

fricatus

The Irish Times has an article today about TV3's upcoming schedule, and the programme is described as "a hard-hitting, three- part tale of deprivation in The Estate, set in Ballybeg on the outskirts of Waterford"

So no Medieval Museum, Bishop's Palace or La Boheme then... :rolleyes:

membersonly

fricatus wrote: »

The Irish Times has an article today about TV3's upcoming schedule, and the programme is described as "a hard-hitting, three- part tale of deprivation in The Estate, set in Ballybeg on the outskirts of Waterford"

So no Medieval Museum, Bishop's Palace or La Boheme then... :rolleyes:

Why would they feature in a series about a housing estate?

TheGormog

fricatus wrote: »

The programme is described as "a hard-hitting, three- part tale of deprivation in The Estate, set in Ballybeg on the outskirts of Waterford"

Sounds much akin to the BBC's controversial series 'The Scheme' which was shot in Kilmarnock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xan2xU-ZFic&feature=youtube_gdata_player


Poverty porn!

fricatus

fricatus wrote: »

So no Medieval Museum, Bishop's Palace or La Boheme then... :rolleyes:

membersonly wrote: »

Why would they feature in a series about a housing estate?

The hint is in the smiley... I was being ironic.

Of course they wouldn't feature, but with all the giving out we've done lately on this forum about "Creedon's Cities" leaving Waterford out, and now we have a whole series to ourselves... we should be careful what we wish for next time! :rolleyes:

As TheGormog said "poverty porn". Seems we're not good enough for Creedon to deign to come down here and make a programme, yet where to TV3 go to get their fix of deprivation? Not Galway, that's for sure...

ziedth

If done right and showing the effects or the recession,drugs or whatever it could be an interesting Show but as mentioned above I have a feeling it's going to go down the big fat gypsy wedding route.

If anything I can't wait for the thread on here when it's on...

S28382

ziedth wrote: »

If done right and showing the effects or the recession,drugs or whatever it could be an interesting Show but as mentioned above I have a feeling it's going to go down the big fat gypsy wedding route.

If anything I can't wait for the thread on here when it's on...

Why does it have to be about drugs or the big fat gypsy wedding in order to be interesting?

nkay1985

ziedth wrote: »

If done right and showing the effects or the recession,drugs or whatever it could be an interesting Show but as mentioned above I have a feeling it's going to go down the big fat gypsy wedding route.

If anything I can't wait for the thread on here when it's on...

The fact that it's TV3 almost guarantees that it's going to be lowest common denominator stuff, doesn't it?

But you're right, the thread here should be a cracker!

Jason Todd

I think I'll be washing my hair that night :rolleyes::p

Not The Real Scarecrow

Any word on who the families are?

ziedth

S28382 wrote: »

Why does it have to be about drugs or the big fat gypsy wedding in order to be interesting?

A documentary on drug addiction and it's effects on families would be interesting I didn't say that it had to be about Drug addiction to be interesting.

For example my favourite documentary ever made is about a guy trying to break a donkey Kong video game record (King of Kong, if you haven't seen it check it out)

S28382

ziedth wrote: »

A documentary on drug addiction and it's effects on families would be interesting I didn't say that it had to be about Drug addiction to be interesting.

For example my favourite documentary ever made is about a guy trying to break a donkey Kong video game record (King of Kong, if you haven't seen it check it out)

Do you think that if the documentary was in any other housing estate that may seem more well off then Ballybeg that you would of mentioned anything about gypsy weddings or drugs?

mike65

I think ziedth is commenting on the TV3 mentality, not his own views of Ballybeg.

ziedth

mike65 wrote: »

I think ziedth is commenting on the TV3 mentality, not his own views of Ballybeg.

This I'm afraid.

JenniFurr

ziedth wrote: »

For example my favourite documentary ever made is about a guy trying to break a donkey Kong video game record (King of Kong, if you haven't seen it check it out)

King of Kong is great! But sadly the main protagonist lost his title a few weeks after filming to the "evil" Billy Mitchell (not from Eastenders).

I really do hope the documentary shows both average people and the affects that a few nasty people who live there have had on them. Went to school with a lot of Ballybeg students who had awful home lives because of widow breakings, attempted arson etc. due to them being of a different race, religion, and so on. I'd be guilty of wanting a name and shame documentary. Not the thing to promote the area I know but I don't think it'll will be regardless of the angle.

ziedth

JenniFurr wrote: »

King of Kong is great! But sadly the main protagonist lost his title a few weeks after filming to the "evil" Billy Mitchell (not from Eastenders).

Ya, I think a different fella altogether beat the record since but i remember actually cheering at the end of it. It really is brilliant, it really shows how a documentary doesn't need shock content or controversy to be entertaining.

TV3 and CH4 could learn a thing or two from it.

Minister

TheGormog wrote: »

The last reality TV series shot in these parts was in a cargo container on the quay.

...............In 1978!!!!!!!!!! - Allegedly

MaxSteele

If it's another cringy secret millionaire, junkie sob story doc I think I'll give it a pass.

Of course being TV3, Ballybeg (which looks like any other normal, working class estate) will be over exaggerated as some sort of ghetto slum like 8 Mile in Detroit.

Malown

Ballybeg is boring. Would rather see a doc. about half my class in school living out the Dunmore Road, in negative equity, on the dole, wives now fat, and they can't get visas for Australia.

Funfair

Maybe it will only be a cartoon.....

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