At the cutting edge
IT is perhaps fitting that Imeall, the TG4 show that prides itself on its passion for the arts, celebrates its 150th episode tomorrow, St Valentine’s Day. The bilingual magazine programme has traversed the country in its mission to deliver informative and entertaining dispatches on arts and culture. Imeall (‘edge’) utilises arts practitioners as interviewers and reporters, an approach which was innovative when it first aired five years ago under the guidance of producer Maggie Breathnach and director Paschal Cassidy.
“The whole mantra of Imeall was simple, but it just hadn’t been done before — it was artists interviewing artists. What seemed the most obvious thing in the world hadn’t been done, and that’s what makes it different to any other arts show,” says Cassidy.
