Kevin Bakhurst says it won’t do anything to jeopardise either programme amid plans to move them away from Montrose. But that hasn’t eased fears among sceptical, frustrated staff
Kevin Bakhurst says it won’t do anything to jeopardise either programme amid plans to move them away from Montrose but that hasn’t eased fears among sceptical, frustrated staffThe Late Late Show host Patrick Kielty on the set of the RTÉ programme at its television building in Donnybrook. Photograph: Andres Poveda, this is a €300 million question. For the staff involved, it’s a deeply unsettling one.
It’s not asking for the money. RTÉ director general Kevin Bakhurst says plunging funds into “revamping all these very nice, but quite old buildings on the site” would not be appropriate. A related development cited as a more immediate complication for the production of Fair City is that Cairn Homes will start building more than 600 apartments next door “relatively soon”, RTÉ understands. “You can’t film outdoors when there’s jackhammers going,” says Bakhurst.
But this has triggered much scepticism, in part because staff have already been briefed that there may be more than just a relocation in the pipeline here.The programmes could be outsourced to independent production companies when they are relocated, Bakhurst says, or they could be made under a “hybrid model” involving a mix of both the independent sector and RTÉ employees. It is still exploring what the “best model” might be.
The RTÉ boss has expressed hope that a move to new studios or sites “will enhance the quality of the programmes” and stressed that “nothing we do is going to jeopardise them at all”. They’re unsure how, even allowing for the movable feast of construction start dates, a set could be rebuilt off-site before those Cairn jackhammers get going.
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