New Season: Entertainment
There's something for everyone in entertainment programming this new season on RTÉ Television. On RTÉ One Ryan Tubridy returns as Late Late Show host and Brendan O' Connor is back in the hotseat on The Saturday Night Show. In new series Hector takes to the highways and by-ways of Ireland and Irish Pictorial Weekly offers a satirical slant on Irish life. The new season sees the return of the hugely popular The Voice of Ireland and Celebrity Bainisteoir is back with a new twist.
RTÉ Two Format Farm is an innovative series of exciting new Irish generated TV entertainment programme formats. Partnering up with the biggest television distributors in the world, RTÉ have commissioned this run of pilot programmes to entertain audiences at home, and also to be exported around the world, bringing jobs and revenue back to Ireland.
From parenthood to dating, songwriting to hidden camera shows there's something to suit all tastes on RTÉ Two this season. Craig Doyle holds court on his chat show and singing Bernie Walsh has her eye on re-inventing breakfast television with the help of her trusty sidekick Brian.
- Celebrity Bainisteoir - The Rivals
- Come West Along The Road
- The Craig Doyle Show
- Format Farm: Baptism of Hire
- Format Farm: The Hit
- Format Farm: The Love Clinic
- Format Farm: The Takeover
- Format Farm: Six In The City
- Hector Goes
- Irish Pictorial Weekly
- It's An Irish Thing
- Katherine Lynch's Big Fat Breakfast Show
- Mrs Brown's Boys
Celebrity Bainisteoir - The Rivals
- TX:
- RTÉ One, Sunday 9th Septmber, 6.30pm, 8 x 60"
- Genre:
- Entertainment
Celebrity Bainisteoir – The Rivals sees each celebrity paired against a rival celebrity from their own world.
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Come West Along the Road
- TX:
- 13 x 25"
- Genre:
- Entertainment
Come West along the Road, the longest-running television series ever on Irish traditional music, begins its 15th and final series this autumn.
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The Craig Doyle Show
- TX:
- RTÉ Two, Thursday 4th October, 10.35pm
- Genre:
- Entertainment
Summary: Craig is back! Join him every Thursday night on RTÉ Two for his irreverent take on the stories that are making the headlines. We'll bring you the best in chat and comedy, with some well-known faces from home and abroad and we will find out what makes our nation tick.
Format Farm: Baptism of Hire
- TX:
- RTÉ Two, Thursday 20th September, 9.30pm
- Genre:
- Entertainment
One fake company, a cast of actors, one real employee and a bunch of hidden cameras. This new hidden camera programme follows a temp's first day through a series of ridiculous and madcap set-up office pranks.
Format Farm: The Hit
- TX:
- RTÉ Two, Thursday 6th September, 9.30pm, 1 x 52"
- Genre:
- Entertainment
The Hit is a real music competition that gives fledgling songwriters a chance to have chart success with an established star.
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Format Farm: The Takeover
- TX:
- RTÉ Two, Thursday 30th August, 9.30pm, 1 x 52"
- Genre:
- Entertainment
The Takeover sees real people take the fight for their jobs into their own hands in the most radical business makeover format ever. A struggling company is turned upside down when the boss stands aside for two weeks and the workers takeover the workplace. Fronted by Norah Casey of Dragons' Den.
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Format Farm: Six In The City
- TX:
- Genre:
- Entertainment
Six in the City is a new show format which will feature three couples living in three different Irish cities, each one vying to host the biggest, most rollicking, best night out on the tiles…strictly on their own terms! The couple who host the best night out will win a bespoke European city break specially tailored to their interests.
Hector Goes...
- TX:
- RTÉ One, 4 x 30"
- Genre:
- Entertainment
Hector returns to RTÉ One screens in his brand new series Hector Goes... Travelling the high roads and by roads of the country in his 1979 Volkswagen Combi, Hector's journey around Ireland will be full of music, people and the land. Hector discovers and explores some of the quirkier side roads of Irish life from an Irishman's experience in the British army to a country and western singer's view of Ireland.
Irish Pictorial Weekly
- TX:
- 4 x 25"
- Genre:
- Entertainment
Irish Pictorial Weekly is a new satirical sketch show.
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It's An Irish Thing
- TX:
- RTÉ One, Friday 7th September, 8.30pm, 8 x 30"
- Genre:
- Entertainment
Over eight half hours, this series takes a satirical look at key areas of our culture. Social commentators, comedians and politicians tell anecdotes and personal testimony as they re –evaluate the pillar points that make up Irish culture.
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Katherine Lynch's Big Fat Breakfast Show
- TX:
- 8 x 25"
- Genre:
- Entertainment
Katherine Lynch's Late Late Breakfast is an all new genre-busting telly concept. Yes, it's breakfast TV...in the dark!
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Reality Bites - Gay Daddy
- TX:
- RTÉ Two, Tuesday 18th September, 9.30pm
- Genre:
- Entertainment
How easy is it for a gay man to become a Dad in Ireland?
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Reality Bites - Ladies Day
- TX:
- RTÉ Two, Tuesday 25th September, 9.30pm
- Genre:
- Entertainment
Ladies Day follows several maniacal Best Dressed habitués from all over Ireland as they prepare for and compete for their own personally coveted Ladies Day prize.
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The Late Late Show
- TX:
- RTÉ One, Friday 7th September 2012, 9.35pm
- Genre:
- Entertainment
Having celebrated the Late Late Show's 50th anniversary last season Ryan Tubridy returns to present another series of the longest running chat-show in the world with a mixture of entertainment, music, in-depth interviews and discussions on the stories that have the nation talking.
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.
The Voice of Ireland
- TX:
- Genre:
- Entertainment
It was a monster hit in its first series now The Voice of Ireland is back. This talent show puts the emphasis firmly on the quality of the participant's vocal performance rather than their appearance. Coaches take part in 'blind auditions' and must decide whether or not to take on a participant without having seen them and solely on the quality of their voice.
Trivia
- TX:
- RTÉ One, Thursday 6th September, 10.15pm, 6 x 25"
- Genre:
- Entertainment
Trivia returns for a second series with the unique Lawrence (David Pearse) all set to move in with his girlfriend Molly (Janet Moran).
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Up for the Match
- TX:
- 2 x 52"
- Genre:
- Entertainment
Up For The Match returns for another season as the GAA Championships come to a climax. Des Cahill and Grainne Seoige are joined by a host of well-known faces and personalities from the competing counties to look ahead to the All-Ireland Hurling and Football Finals.
Winning Streak
- TX:
- RTÉ One, Saturday 1st September
- 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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