| Moone Boy | |
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| Genre | Sitcom |
| Created by | Chris O'Dowd |
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| Theme music composer | The Sultans of Ping FC |
| Opening theme | "Where's Me Jumper" |
| Composer | Rónán Johnston |
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| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 18 (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE. |
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| Running time | 22 min |
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| Network | Sky One |
| Release | 14 September 2012 – 6 April 2015 |
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Moone Boy is an Irish sitcom created, co-written by and co-starring Chris O'Dowd for British broadcaster Sky One. The series is co-written by Nick Vincent Murphy and is produced by Baby Cow Productions, Sprout Pictures, Hot Cod Productions, and Grand Pictures. The series is semi-autobiographical of O'Dowd and focuses on a young boy's life growing up in Boyle, County Roscommon, in the west of Ireland in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Moone Boy is the second series produced from Sky One's Little Crackers shorts and is inspired by O'Dowd's contribution, "Capturing Santa", which was produced by Sprout Pictures.
The introductory music for much of each episode is "Tico's Tune" by Geoff Love (recorded by him under the name "Manuel & The Music of the Mountains"). This piece of music has near-iconic status in Ireland as it was used as the theme music for The Gay Byrne Show, a long-running and immensely popular morning radio show on RTÉ Radio 1. Background music and soundtrack pieces were composed for the series by Rónán Johnston. The opening credits are accompanied with the song "Where's Me Jumper" by The Sultans of Ping FC.
Moone Boy aired its third and final series in 2015.[1]
- ^ End of the Moone Boy: Chris O’Dowd’s show set in Roscommon will end after next season. Evoke.ie, 23 June 2014