Amazon’s A Course Called Ireland was not supposed to be a Bill Murray TV show, but that’s pretty much what we got — not that Tom Coyne is complaining. (Murray is, a little.)
A Course Called Ireland , an adaptation of Coyne’s 2009 book of the same name, premieres Sunday on Paramount+ . The six-episode, 30-minutes-per-episode series is as breezy as the Irish coast’s weather. Its original intention was to retrace the journey chronicled in Coyne’s bestseller — the golf writer once walked the island playing every golf course it had to offer — but this version of A Course Called Ireland became, as Murray grumpily laments in at least one episode to a director, “The Bill Murray Fucking Show.”
Murray has time for pretty much everyone who wants a photo — it is the production crew taking the professional videos he’d like to avert the lenses of.
“I’m heavy in the show. For an executive producer, that’s about as heavy as you can get,” Murray told The Hollywood Reporter . “I don’t want to complain about that.…