Production is underway on Grand Pictures’ new comedy/drama series for RTÉ entitled 'Trivia'. The cast includes David Pearse (Happy Ever Afters), Keith McErlean (Swansong: The Story of Occi Byrne), Janice Moran and Olivia Caffrey (Conspiracy of Silence).
On Wednesday 10 May cameras started to roll on the set on the new 6 part comedy/drama series which is set in Monaghan and centres around a pub quiz team and, in particular their captain, a man who knows it all but hasn’t learned a thing.
The series, which will shoot in Celbridge for the next five weeks, is written by Damien Owen’s in his TV debut. The show is being directed by ‘Wide Open Spaces’ helmer Tom Hall and produced by Paul Donovan (The Race). ‘Trivia’s director of photography is Ivan McCullough (The Eclipse)
‘Trivia’ marks Grand Pictures’ eighth foray into TV comedy having previously produced shows such as ‘Val Falvey’ and the IFTA winning ‘Stew’. The series is expected to transmit on RTE in the autumn.