Soft Border Patrol

Soft Border Patrol
Genre
Written by
  • The Ulster Fry
  • Joe Hullait
  • Stephen G Large
  • Ciaran Bartlett
  • PJ Hart
  • Susannah McKenna
  • Marc McElroy
  • Eoin Cleland
  • Matthew McDevitt
  • Bryce Hart
  • Ryan Early
Directed byIain Davidson
Starring
  • Alan Irwin
  • Diona Doherty
  • Patrick Buchanan
  • Neil Delamere
  • Eline Van der Velden
Country of originUnited Kingdom
No. of series3
No. of episodes11
Production
Executive producers
  • Justin Binding
  • Rab Christie
  • Gavin Smith
ProducerMarie McDonald
EditorSimon Hamilton
Running timeapprox. 28 minutes
Production companyThe Comedy Unit
Original release
NetworkBBC Northern Ireland
Release2 March 2018 (2018-03-02) –
present
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Soft Border Patrol is a Northern Irish mockumentary sitcom in the style of a reality television programme based around the subject of the Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border in a post-Brexit world. It shadows the Soft Border Patrol, a fictional border agency backed by governments in London, Dublin and Belfast, and the European Commission in Brussels. The title is a play on the desire at the time of writing for the outcome of the Brexit negotiations for there to be a soft border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Much of the series was unscripted, with broad ideas given to the cast by the writers.[1]

It was written by the Glasgow-based The Comedy Unit[2] and the first episode was broadcast on BBC One Northern Ireland on 2 March 2018 at 22:35, with episodes two and three following on the 9 and 16 March.

  1. ^ Scott, Sarah (2 March 2018). "BBC show Soft Border Patrol set to be Northern Ireland's newest comedy hit". Belfast Live. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  2. ^ O'Grady, Sean (10 March 2018). "TV Preview, Soft Border Patrol (BBC2 Northern Ireland, BBC iPlayer, Friday 10.35pm): Brexit break-up comedy". The Independent. Retrieved 10 March 2018.