Gareth Stack

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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.

  • The ART of Television – All new comedy drama, coming soon!

    Download: ART Trailer Dead Medium Productions Presents ‘The A.R.T of Television’! It’s winter 1968, the long hangover after the Summer of Love. A.R.T is Ireland’s finest, and indeed only television station. But the nations flagship soap ‘Home Farm’ is failing as viewers frog march towards the satanic protestant seduction of the BBC. American ad man Read more

  • Little Black Lies – The Webseries

    How can an undead villain search for love in the age of tinder? What if you were socially awkward and a monster? Join one sexy vampire, OK maybe not that sexy, as he tries to find the love of his life, again. This anachronistic horror comedy takes its cues from the eighties feel of recent Read more

  • Aping Tiffin

    Aping Tiffin is a parody of the classic television series ‘Playing Shakespeare’, created as part of my masters degree in broadcast production. Read more

  • The Impact of the Net

    This is an assignment written as part of my recent masters in Broadcast Production. It was interesting to take an overview of online media, a decade after regularly writing about its impacts. In a sense surprisingly little has changed… Remix culture is still alive, and still illegal. Podcasts and online video are more popular than Read more

  • Migrant Fictions

    Download: Migrant Fictions (54 Megs) Migrant Fictions is an ambitious new drama project, bringing together the talents of a diverse group of immigrant writers to capture their experience as émigrés to Ireland. German-Polish writer / director Dominik Turkowski developed five short drama scripts through workshops with writers from the immigrant community. Their stories capture the Read more

  • Dead Medium Productions to create two new Sound & Vision funded Programmes

    Dead Medium Productions are proud to announce that we’ve been granted funding for two new programmes in the latest round of the BAI’s ‘Sound & Vision Scheme’. These are ‘The A.R.T of Television’ for Dublin South FM, and ‘The Free School’ for Newstalk. This follows BAI’s funding of three programmes in December 2016, bringing the total Read more