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Fair City is an Irish television soap opera, set in the fictional suburb of Carrigstown in Northside Dublin, Ireland. It is one of the three most popular soap operas on Irish television,[1]. The show was created by Margaret Gleeson and its current Executive Producer is Niall Mathews.
The series is produced by Radio Telefís Éireann and was first aired on 18 September 1989. It is broadcast on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 20:00 on RTÉ One. Episodes are normally repeated at 12:30 the following weekday on the same channel. The programme is sponsored by FBD Insurance.
Synopsis Fair City focuses on the ups and downs of the residents of the fictional north Dublin suburb of Carrigstown, although sometimes one-off specials are aired focusing on characters outside the fictional suburb. Examples of these specials include the suicide of a girl being bullied in school, abuse within the Catholic Church, and an insight into the activities of Dublin's crime bosses. The soap opera was initially based around four households - the O'Hanlons, the Kellys, the Clarkes and the Corcorans, but the number of families has expanded considerably in the 1990s and 2000s. Storylines have covered many diverse topics, including abortion, rape, domestic violence, racism, prostitution, disappearances, gangland wheelin' and dealin', friendship, theft, kleptomania, arson, drugs, immigration, infidelity, divorce, murder, neurotic self-obsession, cancer, bullying, pregnancy, homosexuality, bisexuality, suicide, alcoholism, depression, and death.
For 18 years, Fair City has remained at the centre of RTÉ One's primetime schedule. The programme is currently shown in four episodes, on four evenings a week on RTÉ One. From 1989 until 2001, it was broadcast three times weekly between September and May, and 2 days a week between June and August [2]. 2001 saw the introduction of a fourth weekly episode between the former two months.[3] In 2003, the third and fourth weekly summer episodes were introduced. In 2004, Friday's episode was moved to the Sunday schedule. The series now airs 4 days a week for the whole year, with an hour-long "special" episode roughly once a quarter. In September 2007, people in Britain will be able to watch Fair City on RTÉ International.[4]
On 17 January 2002, Fair City reached its 1,000th episode.[5]In 2004, the soap opera celebrated its fifteenth year by broadcasting an hour-long compilation episode entitled Fair City: The Ten Commandments.[6]This episode showed old clips of characters breaking the Ten Commandments. It also featured interviews from the cast and fans. On 30 November 2006, Fair City reached its 2,000th episode.[7]
Each week rehearsals for the four episodes take place on Saturday and Monday. From Tuesday to Friday, the interior scenes are recorded on two RTÉ sound stages. The schedule runs from 08:00 to 18:30. The exterior scenes are filmed on Thursday and Friday either on a purpose-built set on the RTÉ lot, or in various locations in Dublin. The series is planned in blocks of 12 episodes. The first stage is the development of story and plot. This work is done by a small team of storyline writers. Once the stories have been fleshed out and agreed, the scene breakdown writers decide how the stories should be translated into scenes for each episode. The episodes are then assigned to script writers, who create the dialogue and stage directions for the actors.[8]
Running in parallel with the writing process is the production process, which includes casting, wardrobe, make-up, design and construction of sets, purchase of props, finding locations, booking facilities, developing schedules and the myriad administrative tasks involved in managing a successful soap. All exterior shots were initially recorded in Drumcondra on Dublin's northside, where residents were politely asked to stay indoors during shooting. Two years later, Carrigstown moved south of the Liffey to RTÉ where set designers replicated the facades and interiors of the original houses. The writing and production comes together in the hands of the directors who marry the various inputs to produce the finished product of Fair City.[9] (more)
