'Summer's Alive' Programme Highlights
- Crimecall
- In Good Hands (New Series)
- Junior Vets (New Series)
- Local Heroes (New Series)
- Nationwide
- Secrets of the Irish Landscape (New Series)
- She's The Business (New Series)
- The Zoo
- Dermot's Secret Garden
- Epic Walks (New Series)
- Simply Am-Dram
- Super Garden (New Series)
- The Consumer Show
- The Family Project (New Series)
Factual
Lifestyle
- Eastenders
- Fair City
- Longmire (New Series)
- The Fall (New Series)
- The Good Wife (New Series)
- The Mentalist
- Celebrity Masterchef (New Series)
- Saturday Night With Miriam (New Series)
- The Hit (New Series)
- The Saturday Night Show
- The Works
- Eurovision Song Contest 2013 - The Final
- The Big Money Game (New Series)
Drama
Entertainment
Crimecall
- TX:
- RTÉ One, Tuesday 25th September, 10.15pm
- Genre:
- Factual
Summary: Crimecall, the hugely successful crime-investigation programme returns for its eighth series with two new presenters at the helm, Philip Boucher Hayes and Grainne Seoige. Each month Crimecall looks for the public's help in crime investigations through the use of reconstructions, CCTV footage and live studio appeals. Calls to the programme have helped lead to numerous convictions over the previous six series.
Dermot's Secret Garden
- TX:
- RTÉ One, Thursday 14th February, 7.00pm
- Genre:
- Lifestyle
Summary: Dermot's Secret Garden is a six part documentary series following gardener Dermot O'Neill as he strives to restore his secret Victorian walled garden and achieve self-sufficiency. This is his dream, his passion or, as some might say, a kind of madness.
Eastenders
- TX:
- Mon & Fri at 8.00pm, Tues & Thurs at 7.30pm
- Repeats:
- Mon, Tues, Wed & Fri at 2:20pm
- Genre:
- Drama
Summary: Bringing some of the most notorious characters and memorable moments in soap history to the small screen, Eastenders recently scooped six gongs at the Inside Soap Awards including the prestigious Best Soap accolade...Read on
Epic Walks
- TX:
- RTÉ One, June 2013
- Genre:
- Factual
Summary: Epic Walks is a brand new four-part series from RTÉ Cork, which follows four epic journeys which took place in Ireland across four centuries –from O'Sullivan Beara's forced march to Thomas Carlyle's tour around the famine stricken country in 1849. Grainne Seoige, John Creedon, Dáithí Ó Sé and Evelyn O'Rourke each take one of these journeys and learn not just about this beautiful island but also the fascinating history surrounding it.
Eurovision Song Contest Final
- TX:
- Saturday 18th May, 8.00pm
- Genre:
- Entertainment
Summary: Live from the Malmö Arena, Sweden, artists from 26 countries will be singing tonight hoping to be crowned the winner of the 58th annual contest of song. Among them, hopefully, will be Ireland's entry Only Love Survives, sung by Ryan Dolan.
Fair City
- TX:
- Tues, Wed, Thur, Sun, 7.30pm
- Genre:
- Home-Produced Drama
Summary: Ireland's most popular Irish soap continues its four-times-weekly instalments throughout 2011. Over a three year period Fair City has been through a time of renewal during which we've developed our storytelling with new and existing writers, gathered our families and our community...read on
In Good Hands
- TX:
- RTÉ One, Friday 31st May, 7.30pm (x6)
- Genre:
- Factual
Summary: In Good Hands explores the life and work of traditional Irish craft-workers and how they've adapted to the demands of the modern world: from elite saddle-makers, iron workers and cobblers, to bespoke tailors, potters and artisan weavers.
Local Heroes
- TX:
- RTÉ One, Wednesday 8th May, 8.30pm
- Genre:
- Factual
Last year the town of Drogheda was transformed with the support and entrepreneurial spirit of the local community which saw hundreds of jobs created. This year Local Heroes, in association with MACE, will feature the stories of six inspirational Irish towns who are fighting back against the recession. For the last five months, presenter Joe Duffy has followed the progress of six of those projects travelling the length and breadth of the country.
Nationwide
- TX:
- Monday, Wednesday & Friday, 7.00pm
- Genre:
- News & Current Affairs
Summary: RTÉ News Preseneter, Anne Cassin, has joined Mary Kennedy on the hugely popular programme which broadcasts three nights a week at 7.00pm on RTÉ One. Nationwide is a regional news programme designed to reflect the daily lives and day-to-day activities of life in Ireland. Nationwide is enjoyed by an average audience of almost 350,000 people every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7.00pm on RTÉ One with a unique blend of news and views from communities throughout Ireland.
Simply Am-Dram
- TX:
- RTÉ One, Monday 15th April, 7.30pm
- Genre:
- Factual
Summary: Simply Am-Dram offers an insight to seven very different groups capturing the essence of the unique place the amateur drama movement holds within most Irish communities. From the farmer to the bank employee, the housewife to the aspiring young actor – all share a commonality: a passion to tread the boards…regardless of how they creak!
Super Garden
- TX:
- RTÉ One, Thursday 25th April, 8.30pm
- Genre:
- Factual
Summary: Super Garden returns for a brand new series where five emerging garden designers compete to showcase their show garden at this year's 2013 Bloom Festival. With this year's gardens based in Dublin, Galway, Limerick, Kildare and Monaghan, the pressure is on as our designers attempt to bring their concepts to life in just 4 weeks, hopefully leaving the homeowners with eye catching show gardens. But whose garden will prove victorious and win Supergarden 2013?
The Consumer Show
- TX:
- RTÉ One, Tuesday 2nd April, 8.30pm
- Genre:
- Lifestyle
Summary: The new look Consumer Show returns for a ten-part series with presenter Keelin Shanley and reporters Bill Tyson, Kathriona Devereux and Tadhg Enright taking on some of the issues facing Irish consumers and helping to make every penny count.
Longmire
- TX:
- RTÉ One, Monday 17th June, 11.25pm
- Genre:
- Acquired Drama
Summary: A contemporary crime thriller set in Big Sky Country, LONGMIRE is based on the Walt Longmire Mystery novels by best-selling author Craig Johnson and stars Australian actor ROBERT TAYLOR as Walt Longmire, the charismatic, dedicated and unflappable sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming.
The Fall
- TX:
- RTÉ One, Sunday 12th May, 9.30pm (5 x 60")
- Genre:
- Drama
Summary: Brand new five-part drama set in Northern Ireland following a PSNI investigation into a string of recent homicides. When the PSNI are unable to close the case after 28 days, Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson ( Gillian Anderson) of the Metropolitan Police Service is called in to review the case. Under her new leadership, the local detectives must track down and stop the serial killer who is terrorising the city of Belfast.
The Saturday Night Show
- TX:
- RTÉ One, Saturday 29th September, 9.50pm
- Genre:
- Entertainment
Journalist and broadcaster Brendan O'Connor returns this autumn for a fourth series of The Saturday Night Show. Brendan will be joined each week by a panel of guests to provide an entertaining mix of lively chat, comedy and music.
Winning Streak
- TX:
- RTÉ One, Saturday 1st September, 8.15pm
- Genre:
- Entertainment
Presented by Marty Whelan and Geri Maye Winning Streak is back for another season with cash, holidays and cars up for grabs.
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