Colm Tobin
{{short description|Irish screenwriter and TV producer}}
{{About|the screenwriter and television producer|the novelist|Colm Tóibín}}
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Colm Tobin is an Irish screenwriter and television producer known for his work on Irish Pictorial Weekly, Langerland.TV, Science Fiction,{{cite web|url=http://corkindependent.com/20130207/news/cork-profile-colm-tobin-S58842.html|first=Roisin | last=Burke|title=Cork Profile Colm Tobin|work=Cork Independent|date=7 February 2013|accessdate=28 March 2015}} and Brain Freeze.{{cite web|url=http://www.iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&aid=73&rid=4286444&tpl=archnews&force=1|first=Julie | last=Brown|title=Kite Entertainment's 'Brain Freeze' Commissioned by CBBC|work=Irish Film and Television Network|date=18 September 2013|accessdate=28 March 2015}}
Early life
He grew up in Ardfield and spent his youth as a musical performer. During college, he studied law. Although he never practiced as a lawyer, he gained an appreciation for politics from these studies, which would later influence his style of humor.
Writing and TV Production
Since 2006, Tobin has worked with Kite Entertainment, as one of the creators of the animated television series Langerland.TV and the stage production Anglo the Musical. The former is based on the satirical website Langerland.com{{cite web|first=Paul|last=Whitington|url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/schindlers-list-1470650.html|title=Schindler's List|newspaper=Irish Independent|publisher=Independent News & Media|date=6 September 2008}}{{cite web|url=http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/rte-cooks-up-an-appetising-drama-27884760.html|title=RTE cooks up an appetising drama|newspaper=Evening Herald|publisher=Independent News & Media|date=9 September 2008}} and airs in ten-minute installments on RTÉ Two.{{cite web|first=Paul|last=Whitington|url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/the-life-and-death-of-peter-sellers-26492315.html|title=The Life and Death of Peter Sellers|newspaper=Irish Independent|publisher=Independent News & Media|date=15 November 2008}} A review in The Herald called the series' animation and humor both "rudimentary".{{cite web|url=http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/rte-cooks-up-an-appetising-drama-27884760.html|title=RTE cooks up an appetising drama|work=The Herald|date=9 September 2008|accessdate=28 March 2015}} Langerland.TV is aimed at adult audiences. However, Tobin has also worked as a writer on two children's animated series: Science Fiction and Brain Freeze. He helped to create the latter, which Aardman Animations has distributed. Tobin has said that writing for children differs from writing for adults, in that with children, "you have to focus on actually entertaining the audience without resorting to controversy or shock." Tobin has contributed content to the Irish Times[
Tobin was one of the first Irish writers to use Twitter to raise his profile.https://www.her.ie/life/one-hilarious-twitterer-that-is-definitely-worth-a-follow-107053https://lovindublin.com/feature/12-of-the-realest-things-colm-tobin-has-ever-said The popularity of his twitter account @colmtobin (where he has made a point of emphasising that he is not Colm Tóibín, the famous Irish author) {{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/getting-along-famously-1.570915|first=Mark | last=O'Connell|title=Getting along famously|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=12 March 2011|accessdate=28 March 2015}} led to him getting a publishing deal with Penguin Books. His book Surviving Ireland was published in 2015.https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/235914/colm-tobin
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.colmtobin.com/}}
- {{IMDb name|2675399|Colm Tobin}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160911150311/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-35608100.html Funny Formula: Irish Team Brings Science and Silliness to CBBC ; 'Brain Freeze' Blends Puppetry, Animation, Mayhem and Science. It Started on a Shoestring, but Now They Can Afford Shoes]
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Category:Irish television writers
Category:Irish male television writers
Category:Writers from County Cork
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)