No, this is nothing to do with the Six Nations rugby tournament. The tireless James Bacon has emailed to let me know that there is an Irish science fiction TV show in development. What’s happening is that RTÉ, the national broadcaster, is running a contest for budding program makers. It is called Storyland, and what happens is that the competing programs post short “webisodes” online for people to vote on. The winning series gets help with filming. You can find out more about it here.

Now it so happens that one of the eight projects competing this year is an SF series in which Earth has been conquered by aliens and Ireland (well, a small part of Ireland) is fighting back. Naturally Irish fandom would like help voting up the series so that they can have their own SF TV series. It looks like you have to be on Facebook to vote, which is pretty sucky, but I suspect that most of you are anyway. To vote, or just to view the webisodes of Victory, click here.

Personally I love the fact that the alien spacecraft looks a bit like a giant crucifix if you see it from the right angle.