Mother-and-daughter team Lucia and Kelly Chisholm devised and feature in this groundbreaking series, which uses the medium of arts and crafts to teach children between the ages of 6 and 12 the importance of recycling. Each of the 13 episodes involves a visit to a different national school and a recycling plant and looks at all of the current recycling initiatives underway in Ireland today. Lucia and Kelly explore everything from the Green Flag initiative within schools to the way in which materials such as paper, aluminium and general waste is recycled. Mainly funded by the BCI and also by Lispopple Studios, Funky Junk created some wonderful arts and crafts. Aimed at tackling the issue of recycling in a child-friendly way in the belief that this will have a knock-on influence on parents, the concept for the series was the brainchild of Lucia Chisholm and was further developed by producer Dave Byrne. Before working on the show, Dave had no idea of the extent of recycling in Dublin. “I started to feel guilty. These children knew more about recycling than I did.”

Crew TV is finally online for your viewing pleasure. This show was completely put together by a group of young people working in the DCTV studio last summer. Read more about it here.

Working with Young Urban Arts, DCTV invited 14 young people from youth projects across the city to get involved in scripting, acting, directing and producing their very own series called Happy Pizza. The young crew trained from January until June 2009 in preparation for the production in July. Happy Pizza follows the life of John Murphy, a pizza guy going through the trials that his life has thrown at him. Happy Pizza is a slice of comedy packed with funny shorts and a strong story. As John delivers pizza, Crew TV, delivers a great production in 3 half hour shows. As employees of DCTV for July, they earned money while gaining invaluable experience in an arts focused environment.

CREW TV/ HAPPY PIZZA plays from December 12th as part of Fresh 2 on Tues 1900, Wed 1230 and Sat and will play out all December and January.

Check out Irish Times coverage here.
Check out The Crew TV blog here.