We’ve just released the trailer for the very final Vultures episode. ‘The Dicks Who Came In From The Cold’ hits the web this Sunday December 23rd and it will tie up our second series with a bit of festive panache.
The trailer features a head to head between the punky informant Jack Street (Ross Costigan) and dapper architect Tom Moriarty (Stephen Colfer). It allowed us a nice opportunity to give two of the best Vultures supporting characters a scene all on their lonesome as we see that the former detectives aren’t the only ones struggling with unemployment.
It also ups the stakes for our detective baiting Christmas reunion in the final episode. The plot for the new episode sees Janine Drew upping the stakes as she tries to reunite the good dicks who can take the fight local crimeboss Johnny Curragh. And it’s also set at Christmas just like the very first episode all those many, many years ago. It’s nice to finish things off in a sorta full circle kind of fashion. Here’s the trailer:
We’ve released a trailer for the next Vulturesepisode, and the fourth in our current series, Dan McGrain In The Nick Of Time. And here it is:
It shows that the new episode kicks things up a notch from the ex stalking, sandwich stealing and stakeouts of the first three episodes. The Vultures website has a handy little synopsis for it that goes like this:
The uneasy retirement of our detectives has been compromised and despite all their protestations to the contrary in our first three episodes, they are now finally caught up in a full scale adventure!
They thought they were done. Unemployed. Their detectives days long behind them. Alcoholism and depression burgeoning. But no, they’ve finally been dragged back into an adventure kicking and screaming. Well, not kicking and screaming, because they are bound and gagged. Johnny Curragh has got his mitts on them. Well, not all of them…. there remains a lone avenger who will rescue them with style and derring do. His name? Dan McGrain! This shall be interesting…
The fourth episode in our new series of Vultures sees us approach our series finale with the emergence of Johnny Curragh and his fearsome blades, the criminals that are running roughshod over our heroes hometown. Our erstwhile detectives have been trying to avoid trouble and now trouble is coming for them…
We’re currently editing the hell out of it in preparation for a December release. It’s definitely the most action packed episode of the series so far and will lead directly into the events of our final episode which we are gearing up to shoot this very week! And our plan is to finish the second series as we started the first one in December 2007, with a Christmas episode!
The Dicks Who Came In From The Cold is the fifth and final episode in this series and will see the mounting threats to McGrain, Vultour and Tennyson’s retirement from professional investigation come to a head. With a festive spin!
I’ve written the final episode and will also be directing it and likely, locked in an edit for most of December. For the shoot this week we’ll all be wearing the thermals and hoping to god that it’s not going to be as cold as the Christmas shoot back in 2007. We’ve learned a lot of things since then and wrapping up more efficiently is definitely one of them.
Dan McGrain In The Nick Of Timeand The Dicks Who Came In From The Cold will wrap things up in quick succession when they’re released in December. For more info, tip on over to VulturesPI.com and subscribe!
The newest episode of our webcom Vultures has hit the internets. There was a bit of a summer break but hopefully this episode brings the series back with a bit of style… and a man in a small car. Entitled Jim Vultour And The Mystery Writer Writing Mystery, it puts the focus on the character I play, the scruffy, myopic, socially inept Vultour. It’s pretty much him sitting in a small red car for 16 minutes but hopefully in a very entertaining way. We’ve synopsised the new episode as thus:
After the shenanigans witnessed in Janine Drew Presents Where Have All The Good Dicks Gone and The Lost Lunch of Niall Tennyson, the third episode further continues the stories of our quartet of disillusioned, unemployed detectives struggling to get some meaning into their lives. This time the focus is on the perpetually haggard and ill dressed Jim Vultour. Entitled Jim Vultour and The Mystery Writer Writing Mystery, it follows Vultour as he decides to stake out the home of up and coming mystery writer Kate Marple. Convinced she is stealing his ideas for her own book, Vultour sets out to prove her plagiarism the only way he knows how… stalking!
And that’s it! The new episode is written by myself and is directed by that wily rogue, the talented (and moderately handsome) Peter McGann. And here it is, embedded for your viewing pleasure.
It’s also the first opportunity we’ve had to properly introduce the character of Kate Marple, who you may have seen pop up in our Digital Comedy Labtrailer. Vultures has more characters and storylines than we will ever get to execute and so with the second series I tried to bring in some of our favourite new characters (Johnny Curragh, May O’Neil and Ronnie Drew have made it.. and a few more are still to come). Not all of them fit into the overall storyline but Kate Marple did. Myself and Paddy Dunne came up with the character back in 2008. She was a children’s writer (like Enid Blyton) but with a taste for really violent stories (not like Enid Blyton). We had an idea that she would be a love interest for Dan McGrain but that hasn’t followed through in the end (probably another reason why this series is so much shorter). But here she is, played by Niamh Moyles, and should hopefully prove just as lovely and violent as we always intended.
We’re into post production on the next episode Dan McGrain In The Nick Of Time (which will land next month) and will be wrapping this series up with a Christmas episode in December. In the meantime, enjoy the newest escapade!
Gus McDonagh as the returning Noah Hennessy along with Seán Hackett as Tennyson.
The new episode of Vultures has just hit the web. The Lost Lunch Of Niall Tennyson is the second of four episodes in the second series of the detective webcom I’ve been making with Mycrofilms.
The episode is centred on the character of tetchy yet fragrant surveillance expert Niall Tennyson as he gets a place on a FÁS course for unemployed detectives. Much to his chagrin he is plunged into an irritatingly mundane mystery when someone on the course steals his trademark prawn sandwich at lunch time. And to think the second episode of the first series was about a dead hooker.
It’s learning time!
This episode is the first one directed by my dear mucker Peter McGann (who plays Matt McLoughlin in the series) and was written by myself and produced, as always, by Alan Slattery.
I based this episode on an incident during the aftershow party for Devious Theatre’s Cannibal! The Musical in 2007 where Ross Costigan (who plays Jack Street) had earlier bought an amazing gourmet cheese roll from Blueberry, put it in Ken’s fridge and then was horrified to discover that when he needed it most (7am after an hour of power) it had been stolen. Much drunken detective work took place until the culprit was rooted out. Let’s just say that the culprit was another Vultures cast member who isn’t too far removed from the mystery in this episode.
Have a watch, have a share and hopefully we’ll get the third episode out a whole lot quicker than we got this one out. If you haven’t already, subscribe to us Vultures on YouTube and also on iTunes.
Photos by Ross Costigan. Poor bastard is still heart broken over that sandwich.
That pretty much sums up the trailer for the new Vultures episode The Lost Lunch Of Niall Tennyson.
Here, Niall Tennyson takes up one of the most popular and dangerously sociable internet phenomenons, planking.
Unfortunately, due to our participation on the Digital Comedy Lab over March and April, the new episode won’t be available for viewing at the end of April as planned (like, by the end of tonight). We will however have it ready to go next month (which starts tomorrow).
As the episode title alludes to, the storyline of the second episode in the new series does deal with some degree with Tennyson’s lunch getting lost. Yup, after the ex-boyfriend stalking of the first episode, we’re going high octane with the storylines for this series!
In the mean time, you can do some Vultures subscribing here and some YouTube subscribing here! Also www.VulturesPI.comhas plenty of information on the show!
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?
