Reeling and Rocking
Another decade, another series: Hot Press goes behind the scenes of cult TV show Reeling in the Years to find out what’s going to make the final cut in Reeling in the Noughties.
Valerie Flynn, 02 Nov 2010
It’s a little over two weeks until the new series of Reeling in the Years airs on October 17, but the episodes still exist only in rough draft. Producer John O’Regan is currently deliberating over whether the 2006 sporting victories of athlete Derval O’Rourke and boxers Katy Taylor and Bernard Dunne should be set to Bell X1’s ‘Flame’ or Sugababes’ ‘Red Dress’.
The ‘Flame’ sequence has been meticulously edited so that the bass kicks in at exactly the point where the video cuts from O’Rourke to Taylor and then – at the moment where the referee lifts Dunne’s arm in the air in victory – the chorus comes crashing in. The clip ends with a minute or so of Paul Noonan & co bopping around on Tubridy Tonight.
“The bass line comes in with the shot of her,” O’Regan enthuses, doing a little air-boxing to demonstrate. “Dumf, dumf, dumf. There’s a nice movement in that song. Bernard wins on the chorus and that music goes with the shot of celebrations. And there’s good movement in that shot, with that man, Noonan is it? It’s a good performance by the band. We’ll start another story here but you see it has all that energy.”
Nevertheless, O’Regan is still tempted by the idea of ‘Cooler Than The Red Dress’. Sugababes (being female) would tie in more closely with the two ladies’ sporting achievements, and 2006 also marked the first of Kilkenny’s four in a row in the hurling, with their narrow defeat of Cork (themselves chasing the three-in-a-row).
“So they’re cooler than the red dress, you see?” O’Regan grins at his own joke.
Kilkenny’s run of All-Irelands has recently come to a crashing end and Dunne has retired from professional boxing, but O’Rourke and Taylor are still among the country’s most successful athletes. Surely it’s hard to make a retrospective series on events that are still so recent as to be almost current?
“Well, in 2000 we made the ‘90s [series], and that seemed to go down really well” he replies reasonably.
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