THE BIG BOW WOW - new drama beginning on RTÉ Network 2 TONIGHT
THE BIG BOW WOW, a brand new 13-part comtemporary drama starts this week on Network 2.The drama, which received backing from the Irish Film Board, revolves around a group of twenty-something neighbours living in a city apartment block. This is 21st century Dublin- a boomtown. It’s a city of noodle bars, boy bands, Saturday night drug habits, extortion, corruption, fast living, self-consumed singletons.
They have money, run businesses, turn the wheels of the town. They sleep around, do drugs and work hard. Some are ambitious, clawing their way up; some are just muddling through.
Their stories are funny, gripping, heartbreaking. There are no easy endings or resolutions. Problems are complex. Life is hard. Finding love doesn’t mean you get to keep it. Exposing the bad guy doesn’t mean he gets punished. This is grown-up life.
The series was shot on location in Dublin during the summer of 2003. Filmed at a fast pace ‘guerrilla style’, with handheld Panasonic DVX cameras used for the first time on a TV drama in the British Isles. It delivers a fresh energetic piece, with high production values.
The Big Bow Wow is produced by the creative team of David Blake-Knox and Gerry Gregg, who also wrote the scripts with Trevor J. Colgan, and it is directed by Dearbhla Walsh, AJ Quinn, Liz Gill and Colm McCarthy.
The series is funded by Bord Scannan na hEireann, RTE and Granada International.