Chris Addison

I'm John Fardy and this is Newstalk's TV and movie show.

This week on the show, Chris Addison, star of The Thick of It, co-creator of Breeders and co-creator of the new RTE show Tall Tales and Murder, starring Aidan Gillen.

Tom Cruise is back, playing a pretty heavy duty role in the much talked about and somewhat devices movie Digger.

Chris Wasser will be reviewing along with the other week's new cinema and of course all the week's new TV you want to stream online.

And we are off to the races in a screwball comedy thriller that also involves Vikings and monks.

Now, it's based on novels by the Irish author Keeve MacDonald.

It's been adapted by Stuart Carolyn alongside Chris Addison.

If that name sounds familiar, it's because he played Olly Reedy in the brilliant TV series The Thick of It.

S- Stuart Carolan, uh, is the co-creator.

Chris Addison, the great guy from The Thick of It and stuff like that, who's on ScreenTime this week.

I thought this was really surprising.

I, I, I wasn't expecting to laugh so much and, and, and keep with it.

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And tell us, tell us what else you have on ScreenTime.

Uh, Chris Addison, we have all the week's reviews, and Chris Wasser's here with all the new movies.

Awesome.

Toll Tales and Murder, it's a new Irish comic crime drama series.

from Love Hate creator Stuart Carolyn and Veep director Chris Addison.

The six-part series starts on RTE1 this Sunday.

Jen, set us up here.

No, it's not easy.

And it'll be interesting to see how it's marketed abroad or marketed in the UK even, because here it's the new show from Stuart Carlin in the UK where it's going to be shown on the BBC.

It might be the new show from Chris Addison because Chris Addison from, you know, writer on The Veep and The Thick of It, actor himself, comedian.

He was the one that originally brought forward this idea of adapting Kate McDonald's Dublin trilogy books.

You know what I mean? I just broke down crying, like, because you're not, like, you're not used to, you know, like, I wasn't one of these people that won loads of stuff when I was a kid, you know what I mean? You know, and, like, sports and all that, like, I never, I never got medals or anything, like, so when you get that call, it's just like...

like you know what I mean it's a great feeling yeah it was because it was a really there was like high stakes for the role do you know what I mean and like a lot of like really experienced and like really good actors like had auditioned for it and for them to give me that role like Chris Addison who was the director of the program and show it like it's a massive amount of trust that they had in me to do the role and a lot of like they took a gamble pretty much because I didn't have the prior experience you know and yeah it was a miracle that I got the role yeah seriously.

Can you

see the similarities between your acting and music career though? Because you got a lot of success very early in your music career.

innately part of our humour for a very, very long time.

But when you mentioned Tall Tales and Murder there, I think Chris Addison, I heard him being interviewed and he had mentioned that he was kind of set up.

Chris Addison, of course, the director and people would know him from the likes of In the Thick of it or he directed Veep as well.

He was sort of set up on a creative blind date with Stuart Carolyn in advance of making the programme because He had read the source material, these books by Quive MacDonald, and he innately understood that somebody with an English sense of humour or a British sensibility wouldn't actually have the voice to effectively translate that from page to screen.

And he watched Love, Hate and saw, even though, you know, you wouldn't associate it with humour.

So the team behind it is really interesting.

So Chris Addison, who people would probably know from his onscreen role in In the Thick of It.

He played that sort of hapless young guy, Ollie, in In the Thick of It.

He also directed Veep.