{"id":177659,"date":"2025-09-29T13:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177659\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:53:07","slug":"bill-murray-tees-up-golf-road-trip-of-ireland-for-paramount-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177659\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Murray Tees Up Golf Road Trip Of Ireland For Paramount+, BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bill-murray\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bill-murray\" data-tag=\"bill-murray\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Murray<\/a> is swinging into a golf series for <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/paramount\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paramount\" data-tag=\"paramount\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount<\/a>+ and the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bbc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bbc\" data-tag=\"bbc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Groundhog Day star will embark on a road trip around Ireland in Off Course (working title), coming together with friends as they take in some of the island\u2019s most breathtaking fairways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tVisiting locations in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, the six-part series will feature Murray\u2019s long-time golfing companion Tom Coyne. <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/stellify-media\/\" id=\"auto-tag_stellify-media\" data-tag=\"stellify-media\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stellify Media<\/a> and Skydance Sports produce the show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMurray said: \u201cI started out caddying, and golf was the best education I ever received. Ireland feels like the right place to put all that to work. They\u2019ve got this wonderful word there, \u2018craic,\u2019 which means fun, but it means a lot of other things. A lot of good things. And this show will be about us finding it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShowrunners are Casey Scharf and Morgan Roberts, with Chris Cottam directing. Executive producers are Jesse Sisgold, Jason T. Reed, Jon Weinbach, and Greg Groggel for Skydance Sports. Kieran Doherty and Matthew Worthy executive produce for Sony-owned Stellify.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOff Course was co-commissioned for the BBC by Catherine Catton, head of factual entertainment and events, and Eddie Doyle, head of Northern Ireland commissioning. Cal Turner and Jason Butler are commissioning editors for the BBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Murray is swinging into a golf series for Paramount+ and the BBC. The Groundhog Day star will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,1576,29011,755,14627,85,114969],"class_list":{"0":"post-177659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bbc","11":"tag-bill-murray","12":"tag-golf","13":"tag-paramount","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-stellify-media"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}