The filming in Bray/Wicklow thread

I know there's currently a German TV show being filmed in Bray. I think it's called Irish Crime or something like that - a detective show set here.

Also someone told me that RTE have been shooting a new drama that's set in Bray.

Also newcastle/newtownmountkennedy recently and the massive operation at Magheramore with the purpose build house. No idea what either are filming.

Magheramore filming stopped as ran out of money. Article in Wicklow people a month or two ago. I see a lot of unmarked trucks off boghall road that look like film trucks.

There is something beign filmed in Rathnew at the moment with the College doubling for a hospital

Quite a few accommodation camper vans and trucks on Djouce mountain (south side) with film crew, lights etc. on the beach at Lough Tay, Thursday last.

Anyone with any details?

Sorry can't help you there, but it raises the interesting point that in an area of the country where there's almost constant filming going on given the concentration of film studios here, it's often very difficult to find out online what's filming unless you get the opportunity to ask someone on the set (usually annoying them as you're the 100th person to ask the same thing that day :))

The websites of the film studios aren't much help either.

The Guards aren't there to act as security. They're employed on what's called 'non public' overtime, in other words paid for on their rest days by the film company. It would be necessary where, for example, they have paid for a road closure order and need a person/people in authority to police this

This is commonplace stuff. If you're doing something that affects the public by requiring road closures or traffic diversions or whatever — it might be a film shoot or a big sporting event, a concert, or even just moving an oversized load on the public roads — then obviously you need to involve the relevant authorities, and you will probably need the guards to enforce road closures, direct pedestrian or motor traffic, or whatever. You have no legal powers entitling you to do any of that stuff yourself.

But this is a commercial operation from which you hope to make a profit. Why should the taxpayer subsidise it by providing a free police support? So there's discussions with the authorities about what level of policing your event requires, and then you get billed for that for part or all of the cost of that.

(You don't pay the individual guards directly. You pay the State; the State pays the guards.)

I saw signs of filming activity in Killruddery and the Bray head hotel as well and wondered what it was.

What always surprises me is the total lack of any any information on current projects on either the websites or social media of the studios here such as Ardmore or Ashford. Lots of UK production company based stuff going on as well which wouldn't be on there, but still.