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March 22, 2012 • mycrofilms, v.p.i., vultures

Janine Drew Presents Where Have All The Good Dicks Gone?

We’ve just launched the first episode in the brand new series of Vultures. It’s called Janine Drew Presents Where Have All The Good Dicks Gone? and here it is:

Online feedback to the episode has been great so far and we’re really happy (and kind of relieved) with how well it’s gone down thus far. It definitely sets our stall out for the next few episodes in terms of story, tone, style and yes, length! Speaking of the new episodes, we’re back at our James Bond (or Kevin Smith if you like) tricks of announcing the title of the next episode at the end of this one. In this case it’s revealed to be The Lost Lunch Of Niall Tennyson.

Niall Tennyson, under the spotlight.

The deductive minds among you will see a pattern emerging with the titles. Four episodes, four detectives and yes, four different leads! That’s the plan. There will be a fifth… but it’s cliffhanging at the moment. We’ve got rehearsals lined up this weekend for the next of our two final shoots. Yes, we actually rehearse this show. Who’d a thunk it?

If you haven’t already, please subscribe to Vultures on YouTube and also on iTunes. We’ve also given the website a bit of a spring cleaning too.

Photography by Ross Costigan. Yes, he was in the episode. Did you like his nice green coat?

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March 15, 2012 • irish sitcom, mycrofilms, v.p.i., vultures

The Vultures Are Circling

We’ve just announced the date for the return of the Mycrofilms webcom Vultures.

Janine Drew Presents Where Have All The Good Dicks Gone? hits the net this Monday, March 19th (I made that title way more complicated that I needed to). It’s the first new Vultures episode since The Long Goodbye in 2009 and the first of what will be four incoming webisodes between now and June. We’re also lining up a new Christmas episode but we’ll see how everything else goes first.

Everything else being the various walls that we’ve flung Vultures shit at over the past few years, some of which have stuck. The feature film version of the show (which has the equally long but sleeker working title of The Dicks Who Came In From The Cold) has been shortlisted for the Digital Comedy Lab which will see 2 filmmaking teams (1 Ireland, 1 UK) get €50,000 to make a feature mockumentary. So we’re going to get really competitive about that because we want to win. The plot of the movie is the same storyline that we had been saving for a potential follow up series and we’re confident it’s suitably cinematic. The quartet of new webisodes bridge the gap between the lives of the detectives in the first series and our ultra exciting second series story (none of which are too indebted to each other).

Speaking of mockumentaries, the new episode is the first Vultures one to be shot in that format. It follows Janine Drew’s attempts to make a documentary about unemployed detectives in her hometown for her first year college project. The results are tragic and comical. Yes, we’re going for a general tragicomic tone on this one. We hope you enjoy it when it hits.

If you don’t, it’s entirely my fault as it’s the first Vultures episode I’ve written and directed entirely on my own. Yup, I’m finally off the stabilisers. I could probably blame Alan Slattery, my trusty producer…. and I guess in some way, I will.

All the main cast are returning as well as other familiar faces and some new ones, like this ginger rogue Ronnie Drew, younger brother of Janine Drew. He’s played by Colin O’Brien who I had the great pleasure of working with last year on Devious Theatre’s production Shifting. He’s a fantastic young actor and also a total scumbag, which helps.

The episode will go online at some undetermined time Monday and can be viewed on VulturesPI.com, YouTube or if you’ve subscribed on iTunes you’ll get it there. Give it a look, spread, support and share, it’s all very much appreciated.

Photos by Ross Costigan… who may or may not be in the episode….

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