Hardy Bucks
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| Format | Comedy |
| Written by | Martin Maloney, Chris Tordoff (Web, Storyland and TV series) and Mike Cockayne (Storyland and TV series) |
| Starring | Martin Maloney Owen Colgan Peter Cassidy Tom Kilgallon Chris Tordoff |
| Country of origin | Republic of Ireland |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
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| Running time | average 9-minute webisodes and half-hour TV episodes |
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| Original channel | RTÉ |
| Original run | 19 October 2009 – 26 December 2010 |
Hardy Bucks is an Irish mockumentary TV show written by Chris Tordoff, Martin Maloney and Mike Cockayne. The Hardy Bucks started out with a series of largely improvised online webisodes directed and edited by Tordoff who had studied Media Production. A six-part webisode series went on to win the 2009 Storyland competition held by Irish national broadcaster RTÉ. Hardy Bucks is set in a small town in West Ireland, following the mis-adventures of five hapless culchies down on their luck, trying to leave their backwards rural hometown and attempt to reach Dublin and sample modern civilization.
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[edit] Overview
Hardy Bucks was entered into the RTE Storyland competition and from a total of 122 applications to participate in the competition, nine projects were commissioned to make one episode each. These episodes were released in March 2009. With all nine projects on the website, the public could vote for their favourite and at the end of every month the shows with the smallest response would be ‘voted off’, leaving the remaining teams to make the next episode with the same €8000 budget per episode. Martin Maloney the show's writer, is known to be a close friend of Dane Bowers and was best man at Pierce Brosnan's wedding. [1] The show has been likened to the Trailer Park Boys, a Canadian mockumentary, with Tordoff and co citing the show as an influence.[2]
[edit] Television show
The three-episode TV series, written by the writing trio Tordoff, Maloney and Cockayne, was commissioned and broadcast by RTE from 12 October 2010 until 26 October 2010.[3] Following the success of their debut TV series, the Hardy Bucks were commissioned by RTE to produce a half-hour Christmas special which aired on 26 December 2010. The Hardy Bucks' second series, a six-episode run, is currently[when?] in development. Speaking after attending a homecoming party, Martin Maloney said "You can have all the YouTube hits in the world but when you see people coming out in the flesh like this it is huge affirmation for what you’re doing".[4] Staring Martin Moloney as Eddie Durkan and Chris Tordoff as 'The Viper', and also written by and produced by Mike Cockayne, Hardy Bucks features Peter Cassidy, Owen Colgan and Tom Kilgallon, plus an eclectic cast of extras from Swinford and beyond. The series was directed by Liz Gill.
[edit] Live shows
The Hardy Bucks regularly perform live shows across Ireland and the UK, at venues including The Academy, Dublin and Three Sisters, Edinburgh.
[edit] DVD
The Hardy Bucks DVD was released in November 2010, with over two hours of unseen 'unbroadcastable' footage, outtakes and the three TV episodes.
The DVD for series 2 was released on 12 December, 2011.
[edit] References
- ^ RTÉ's Storyland competition Film Ireland Online, 4 December 2009
- ^ INTERVIEW:The Hardy Bucks of Swinford Mayo News, 22 June 2009
- ^ Hardy Bucks TV debut Connaught Telegraph, 12 October 2010
- ^ TV: Hardy Bucks set for big screen Mayo News, 15 September 2009
