Scary times on TV!

Just in time for the October mid-term, RTÉ has some excellent new shows coming for Hallowe’en

Will Sliney’s Storytellers

Irish comic book artist Will Sliney and an all-star cast of characters present this new art show with a difference on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player. Airing daily from October 25 at 12.05pm, Will Sliney’s Storyteller is part drawing show and part animated adventure, teaching budding young artists by using the most powerful weapon in the world , a pencil! The series will tell the epic tale of a fearless young Viking mapmaker Freya (Laura Whitmore) and the wise-cracking floating sentient stone Ogham (Aisling Bea) as they recruit a team of young artists to embark on a time-travelling quest to stop the world’s most famous art works from falling into the hands of the Chronicle (Dermot Whelan) and his evil henchmen. The series also features inspirational animated versions of presenter and writer Dawn O’porter, Stephen Farrelly, aka Sheamus the Wrestler, actress Demi Isaac Oviawe (from The Young Offenders) and actress Suzie Seweify, all of whom voice their own characters.

Will Sliney is an award-winning and best-selling Marvel comics artist and writer. Speaking about the series, which was produced for RTÉ by Dublin company Fastnet Films, he said: “Storytellers is a show that I hope will help inspire the next generation of young Irish artists, writers, comic book artists and animators. I want to show kids how to draw and tell a story but then to have that story take over and only be limited by our own imagination.

“By the end of it, anyone who watches can have all the tools they need to create their own new characters and new story. The dream for me with this is that in a few years’ time I’ll see Irish people working in the creative industry who will have been in some way encouraged to create by our show.”