RTÉ's New Year’s TV schedule will see a new 12-week run of Tommy Tiernan’s chat show, the second series of Kin, the third season of family drama Smother in February and a new set of celebrity dancers on Dancing With The Stars from 8 January.
The new schedule kicks off on Saturday with Jennifer Zamparelli hosting RTÉ’s New Year’s Eve Party on RTÉ One/RTÉ Player with a line-up featuring Ash, Tom Grennan, Hot House Flowers, Lyra, Donovan the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.
Coverage will then move live to Dublin for the NYE Countdown Concert with Westlife, hosted by Marty Morrissey, and broadcast from North Wall Quay.
New series Sisters is billed as "a dark comedy-drama" about two women who discover they are half-sisters and embark on a road trip across Ireland. Oscar-nominee Ciarán Hinds also stars in new comedy-drama series, The Dry.
Anna Geary will present Love in the Country, a new series centred around seven rural romantics, all of whom are looking for love but feel their locations make it more difficult to meet someone.
Love is also in the air in a new series of First Dates this January, while comedian Pat Shortt is joined by daughter Faye for the first in a new series of High Road, Low Road, seeing them travel to Dubrovnik with very different holiday budgets.
In the upcoming new series of Room to Improve, kicking off on 8 January, Dermot and Claire work with a young couple in Tullamore renovating an old dwelling with special significance.
Other popular series returning in 2023 include Eco Eye and Ear to the Ground, while DIY SOS: The Bigger Build Ireland on 30 and 31 December 30 on RTÉ One is a two-part special focusing on re-housing Ukrainian refugees.
Page Turners, a new arts series on RTÉ One starting on 5 January, dips into multiple book clubs across the country.
On RTÉ Radio 1, Louise Duffy will commence her new 12pm to 1pm weekday show on 9 January, while Supercharged with Anna Geary returns, addressing health and wellbeing in the current climate.
2FM Rising also returns this January to support Irish artists and music across RTÉ platforms including on-air, online, digital/ social, live events and other projects. Previous alumni include Fontaines D.C., Denise Chaila, and Dermot Kennedy.
2FM will also announce the Choice Prize Nominees next month, with the The RTÉ Choice Music Prize continuing its principal role in championing Irish music.
In Current Affairs, Upfront with Katie Hannon is a new hour-long Monday night audience-centred live television programme, podcasts and authored online articles by the award-winning journalist, beginning in late January.
On the RTÉ Player, every season of The Tudors, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers as a young and ambitious King Henry VIII, will be available to stream as will critically acclaimed thriller The Night Manager starring Tom Hiddleston, and Maxine, the story of the Soham murders told through the eyes of school assistant Maxine Carr.
