Soupy Norman
Soupy Norman is an eight-part Irish-Polish television programme broadcast by RTÉ. It aired weekly on Thursday nights at 23:05 on the RTÉ Two channel, in ten-minute segments. The series ran from May to December 2007. The show is a comedic re-dubbing of the Polish soap opera Pierwsza miłość (First Love), which has been running on Polsat television since 2004.
| Soupy Norman | |
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Title card for Soupy Norman | |
| Genre | Dramedy |
| Created by | Barry Murphy, Mark Doherty and Okil Khamidov |
| Written by | Paweł Nowicki Grażyna Wilczyńska Ilona Morusek Andrzej Staszczyk Maura Ładosz |
| Directed by | Okil Khamidow Paweł Chmielewski |
| Starring | Aneta Zając, Mateusz Janicki, Wojciech Dąbrowski, Andrzej Buszewicz, Ewa Skibińska, Aleksandra Zienkiewicz, Andrzej Pałkowski |
| Voices of | Sue Collins, Mark Doherty, Tara Flynn, Barry Murphy, Luke Murphy, Mario Rosenstock. |
| Country of origin | Ireland Poland |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 10 mins |
| Production company | ATM Grupa |
| Original release | |
| Network | RTÉ |
| Release | 24 May – 24 December 2007 |
| Related | |
| Time Trumpet | |
The series is written and edited by Barry Murphy and Mark Doherty, with additional voices provided by Tara Flynn, Sue Collins, Luke Murphy and Mario Rosenstock. Where the original soap opera dealt with a girl leaving her family behind to go to college, the re-dubbed version of the programme explores the culture shock of a dysfunctional family from Cork in Dublin. The series' surreal humour led to a cult following, with its episodes being popular on YouTube.
A special episode entitled "The Late Late Soupy Norman Tribute" which featured dubbed clips from RTÉ's The Late Late Show as well as clips from previous episodes of Soupy Norman as well as including a new scene of the show. This was broadcast on Christmas Eve 2007.
A pilot sketch for the series initially aired on Armando Iannucci's show Time Trumpet on BBC 2, of which this show was a spin-off.