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The Walshes - Wikipedia

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The Walshes

Genre	Comedy
Created by	Diet of Worms Graham Linehan
Based on	The Taste of Home by Diet of Worms
Written by	Diet of Worms Graham Linehan
Directed by	Graham Linehan
Starring	Rory Connolly Philippa Dunne Niall Gaffney Shane Langan Amy Stephenson Owen Roe
Composer	Neil Hannon
Country of origin	Ireland
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	3 (list of episodes)
Production
Producer	Richard Boden
Production companies	Boom Pictures Delightful Industries
Original release
Network	RTÉ One RTÉ One HD BBC Four BBC Four HD
Release	6 March (2014-03-06) – 27 March 2014 (2014-03-27)

The Walshes is an Irish comedy television series that was first broadcast on RTÉ One on 6 March and BBC Four on 13 March 2014. The three-part series was written by Graham Linehan and the comedy group Diet of Worms, and is based on the group's 2010 web series The Taste of Home. The show follows the Walshes, a tight-knit family living in the fictional West Dublin suburb of Strollinstown. Diet of Worms portray the family, reprising their roles from the web series.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

The show was originally shown on BBC Four and was broadcast again on BBC Two in November 2014. The writer, Graham Linehan, has said that if the show gets higher viewing figures this time it may come back with a new series.^[5] In January 2015, Graham Linehan announced on Twitter that the show had been cancelled, blaming "zero publicity" from BBC Two.^[6]

Cast

Niall Gaffney as Tony
Philippa Dunne as Carmel
Amy Stephenson as Ciara, daughter of Tony and Carmel
Rory Connolly as Rory, son of Tony and Carmel
Shane Langan as Graham, Ciara's new boyfriend
Owen Roe as Martin, a family friend

Production

The show is based on The Taste of Home, a five-episode web series released in 2010, starring and written by the comedy group Diet of Worms. In November 2013, it was reported that Linehan had directed a pilot based on the web series, marking his first non-audience sitcom.^[7]^[8] The show is co-produced by Boom Pictures and Delightful Industries for RTÉ and the BBC, but was originally intended for ITV.^[9] Richard Boden serves as producer.^[10]^[11]^[12] Studio filming took place at Teddington Studios in London, while some location filming took place in Dublin.^[13]

Episode list

#	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
1	"Doctor Burger"	Graham Linehan	Diet of Worms and Graham Linehan	6 March 2014 (2014-03-06) (RTÉ One) 13 March 2014 (2014-03-13) (BBC Four)
2	"Family Night"	Graham Linehan	Diet of Worms and Graham Linehan	20 March 2014 (2014-03-20) (BBC Four)
3	"Limbo"	Graham Linehan	Diet of Worms and Graham Linehan	27 March 2014 (2014-03-27) (BBC Four)

References

^ Dowell, Ben (31 January 2014). "Mackenzie Crook to play metal detector enthusiast in one of four new BBC4 comedies". Radio Times. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
^ Considine, Pippa (31 January 2014). "BBC4 orders four comedies". Televisual. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
^ Brzoznowski, Kristin (31 January 2014). "New Comedies Coming to BBC Four". Worldscreen. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
^ Flynn, Fiona (31 January 2014). "Father Ted writer's new series 'The Walshes' coming soon!". entertainment.ie. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
^ "Graham Linehan on Twitter".
^ Loftus, Valerie (22 January 2015). "The Walshes was cancelled, and Graham Linehan is pretty mad". The Daily Edge. TheJournal.ie. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
^ MacGregor, Rachel (28 November 2013). "Graham Linehan working on new Irish sitcom". Yahoo News. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
^ "BBC4 reveals new comedies". chortle.co.uk. 31 January 2014. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
^ "Diet of Worms set for ITV series with The Walshes". The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
^ "New Graham Linehan comedy for RTÉ". RTÉ. 31 January 2014. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
^ "BBC4 reveals new comedies". Chortle. 31 January 2014. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
^ "Graham Linehan working on Irish sitcom". Chortle. 28 November 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
^ "Graham Linehan writing new Irish sitcom". RTÉ. 27 November 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2014.

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