Charlie (RTE1 Charlie Haughey Drama)

Skid X · 04-12-2014 4:04pm #1

In January, a drama based on Haughey will air on RTÉ One over three consecutive Sundays (4, 11, 18) at 9.30pm. It will chart his career in politics from 1979-1992.

Aiden Gillen is CJ Haughey and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor is PJ Mara in the long awaited Drama which finally has a trailer and a transmission date

http://www.thejournal.ie/charlie-haughey-rte-drama-1814977-Dec2014/

evilivor · 04-12-2014 4:23pm

Skid X wrote: »

Aiden Gillen is CJ Haughey and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor is PJ Mara in the long awaited Drama which finally has a trailer and a transmission date

http://www.thejournal.ie/charlie-haughey-rte-drama-1814977-Dec2014/

Here's hoping Aidan Gillen gets killed off in the first one moving the focus on to Tom Vaughan-Lawlor…

DazMarz · 04-12-2014 7:51pm

Looks absolutely brilliant. Can't wait for it.

mzungu · 04-12-2014 10:48pm

Looking forward to this one. Roll on January 4th.

BabysCoffee · 04-12-2014 10:59pm

I can't wait for this!

CountyHurler · 04-12-2014 11:13pm

Ah ffs, I had been looking forward to this... when I thought it was a documentary about the life of Charlie Bird...

unitedrover · 04-12-2014 11:18pm

Alright Nidgey.

touts · 05-12-2014 7:41am

Skid X wrote: »

My father always said Fianna Fail were a pack of gangsters.....

Guy:Incognito · 05-12-2014 2:21pm

I thought it was bill nighy when I was scrolling by there.

JP Liz V1 · 05-12-2014 3:28pm

touts wrote: »

My father always said Fianna Fail were a pack of gangsters.....

Aren't all Governments

Go Harvey Go · 06-12-2014 12:52am

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Aren't all Governments

Not the Scandinavian ones, though.

irishfeen · 06-12-2014 1:33am

Really looking forward to this series - I wonder how far RTÉ will go? (possible legal ramifications??) - if they have the balls to they could make this absolutely epic.

fryup · 06-12-2014 10:25am

^^^^^^^^^^^^

i reckon it'll be a tame affair

mzungu · 06-12-2014 4:40pm

irishfeen wrote: »

Really looking forward to this series - I wonder how far RTÉ will go? (possible legal ramifications??) - if they have the balls to they could make this absolutely epic.

I heard on the radio the other day that there won't be anything in the show thats not already well known. So I would say it will all be safe enough. Still looking forward to it though.

dublinman1990 · 06-12-2014 9:40pm

I cannot wait to see this drama either. Roll on January 4th.

However when I was trying to see the trailer for Charlie on my TV about half an hour ago, it cut off half way through. Feckers RTE.

First time seeing it and all. FFS :mad:

Skid X · 04-01-2015 1:19pm

Episode 1 of Charlie is on tonight on RTE1 (9.30pm-10.55pm)

Repeated Saturday RTE1 11pm

BabysCoffee · 04-01-2015 5:34pm

Skid X wrote: »

Episode 1 of Charlie is on tonight on RTE1 (9.30pm-10.55pm)

Repeated Saturday RTE1 11pm

See you tonight 9.30 Skiddy

amdublin · 04-01-2015 6:10pm

Looking forward to this.

Cartman78 · 04-01-2015 6:11pm

Does any know the music that is used in the trailer??

I think they've robbed it from The Knick so I'm assuming it's Cliff Martinez but can't confirm it despite several minutes of half arsed googling

Galwayguy35 · 04-01-2015 7:10pm

Looking forward to this myself, hopefully it will live up to the hype.

FloatingVoter · 04-01-2015 8:16pm

So after a Christmas of TV nothingness, I'm left with Charlie, Foyle's War and Last Tango in Halifax all on at the same time.
This is going to involve me getting drunk and confused ...I know it.

grey_so_what · 04-01-2015 9:43pm

I think history will be kinder to Charlie than this drama.

I wasn't to impressed with the clips on the LLS, I hope it's not hyped up and fails to deliver...

FloatingVoter · 04-01-2015 9:46pm

grey_so_what wrote: »

I think history will be kinder to Charlie than this drama.

I wasn't to impressed with the clips on the LLS, I hope it's not hyped up and fails to deliver...

It only has to show him running guns, accepting bribes, cheating his best mate out of money and being an egotist. CJH himself did not set a very high standard. Any accurate portrayal of him will be of a cheap man in an expensive suit.

grey_so_what · 04-01-2015 9:48pm

FloatingVoter wrote: »

It only has to show him running guns, accepting bribes, cheating his best mate out of money and being an egotist. CJH himself did not set a very high standard. Any accurate portrayal of him will be of a cheap man in an expensive suit.

***sighs***

exactly what I was expecting....

I was hoping for a political insight into the '70's.....

FloatingVoter · 04-01-2015 9:51pm

grey_so_what wrote: »

***sighs***

exactly what I was expecting....

I was hoping for a political insight into the '70's.....

That would have to cover Jack Lynch, Cosgrave etc. Both sides of the "Troubles". A crippled economy. Charlie spent most of the 1970s travelling along the backroads of Ireland rebuilding his career after the arms trial. He was a powerful entity in the 60s and early 70s. He doesn't re-emerge until 1979 or thereabouts. And well...the rest is the 1980s. So is this show.

grey_so_what · 04-01-2015 9:52pm

FloatingVoter wrote: »

That would have to cover Jack Lynch, Cosgrave etc. Both sides of the "Troubles". A crippled economy. Charlie spent most of the 1970s travelling along the backroads of Ireland rebuilding his career after the arms trial. He was a powerful entity in the 60s and early 70s. He doesn't re-emerge until 1979 or thereabouts.

I'd rather watch the drama than comment before it starts...

BabysCoffee · 04-01-2015 9:57pm

What was the whole gun running thing about?

FloatingVoter · 04-01-2015 9:58pm

BabysCoffee wrote: »

What was the whole gun running thing about?

Easier to let wikipedia do the talking...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_Crisis

Politics was fun back then.

grey_so_what · 04-01-2015 10:03pm

FloatingVoter wrote: »

Easier to let wikipedia do the talking...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_Crisis

Politics was fun back then.

It may have been for you FV but it wasn't in our house. We housed people who were put out of their houses in the North by the fact they were Catholics. Many people passed through our doors, week in, months out...fun was not a word we would have used lightly.

Lets see how this is dealt with by RTE....

Heraldoffreeent · 04-01-2015 10:06pm

grey_so_what wrote: »

I think history will be kinder to Charlie than this drama.

I wasn't to impressed with the clips on the LLS, I hope it's not hyped up and fails to deliver...

I think you're right about history being kind to him. As for this, its wait and see.
It will be interesting to see how people who didn't live in the times see him as a result of this, and how they'll compare him to Kenny.

BabysCoffee · 04-01-2015 10:10pm

FloatingVoter wrote: »

Easier to let wikipedia do the talking...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_Crisis

Politics was fun back then.

:eek::eek::eek::eek:

Charlie (RTE1 Charlie Haughey Drama)

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