COMMISSIONING BRIEF
Commissioning Editor - Grainne McAleer
Assistant Commissioning Editor - Sean MacGiolla Phadraig
UPDATED: 03rd April 2013
We want ambitious, returnable, half hour formats and we need to find new talent that can win the hearts and minds of a mainstream audience. We also need to be aware of producing programmes that are attractive to a broad audience and to ensure that the younger end of that broad audience is not neglected.
Over the past two years we have commissioned a number of successful series which have emphasized the community and collective action. These have been very successful for us but are not the only way in which lifestyle programmes deliver a public service message. This year, we'd like to look again at individuals and small groups on big transformational journeys.
Talent - We've got some great talent: Francis and John Brennan, Fergal Quinn, Dermot Bannon, Eddie Hobbs, Sonya Lennon and Brendan Courtney but we're really in need of new blood and are also particularly lacking in strong female talent. We need the next generation of passionate experts to work their magic on real lives and on the TV audience.
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*****PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE HAS PASSED AND WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS*****
Transmission: RTE ONE - Mid-week 20.30
Budget: Up to a maximum of €40 -€ 45,000**
Transmission: RTÉ One - Midweek 20:30, Late Autumn, 2013
Duration: 6*25 mins
We have one remaining slot for Lifestyle programmes for late Autumn 2013.
We aren't interested in Interiors, Architecture or Health, nor are we interested in makeovers of the hospitality industry, currently the territory of the Brennan Brothers and At Your Service. We might well though find a place for an innovative new parenting, wellbeing or food series and are also interested in series that would play to the same audience, and potentially replace, Retail Therapy.
While a great and credible presenter is key, particularly when coupled with compelling and brilliantly cast stories, we really do need production companies to think of new ways of telling stories that break out of the confines of the pure linear narrative. There will always be room for the simple, well told story, for the journey, the transformation and the reveal, but Lifestyle programmes can become formulaic and our best ones, like Operation Transformation, transpose clever formats on great human interest drama.
Closing date for applications: Friday April 12th, 12.00 (strict deadline)
We ask, in the first instance, that producers submit ideas into the eCommissioning system:
https://e-commissioning.rte.ie/SWIFT.Web/skins/rte/login.aspx
under the programme category "Daytime & Lifestyle Midweek 20.30"
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*****PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE HAS PASSED AND WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS*****
Transmission: RTÉ ONE - Sundays 20.30
Budget: Up to a maximum of €50 -€ 55,000**, Late Autumn 2013
Duration: 6*25 mins
We are also interested in a new, 6 part series for Sunday night.
As always with Sunday night, we are looking for a format that appeals to the whole family. This may be something that plays on generational conflict and competition and will definitely be a series with strong entertainment values. It is likely have a strong well defined and funny personality at the core but we are open to voice-over driven narratives and family friendly formats. At Your Service is the most successful recent Lifestyle format in this slot but The Restaurant has also played well here.
The series will ultimately be broadcast during an evening of Entertainment offerings and should appeal to the same audience as these.
Closing date for applications: Friday April 19th, 12.00 (strict deadline)
We ask, in the first instance, that producers submit ideas into the eCommissioning system:
https://e-commissioning.rte.ie/SWIFT.Web/skins/rte/login.aspx
under the programme category "Daytime & Lifestyle Sunday 20.30"
*Please note budget ranges are indicative only, and proposals that can achieve lower costs per hour will be particularly attractive'.
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Any proposals previously submitted to RTÉ in categories listed here, and which were rejected on a first reading in a previous Round, should not be re-submitted and will not be reconsidered.
