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Operation Transformation to end after 17 seasons

RTÉ has announced that Operation Transformation is to end after 17 seasons.

Leader Stephanie Bowden and Dr Eddie Murphy at the OT 5k in the Phoenix Park

What's on? 10 top TV and streaming tips for Wednesday

It's the finale of Operation Transformation, Stacey Solomon oversees a massive declutter, Jeff Bezos is the focus of The Billionaires Who Made Our World, and Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over USA opens with a 9-year-old gun fanatic . . .

Television • 22 Feb 23

Kathryn Thomas at the Operation Transformation 5K

Operation Transformation 5K run 'absolutely amazing'

Operation Transformation leader Lorraine Dempsey reckons that Saturday's OT 5k run in Dublin's Phoenix Park was an "absolutely amazing" experience.

Operation Transformation • 18 Feb 23

What's on? 10 top TV and streaming tips for Wednesday

Yet another day with a load of new and returning shows, including Operation Transformation, Neven's Greenway Food Trails, Kirstie and Phil's Love It or List It, and Joanna Scanlon in The Light in the Hall . . .

Television • 04 Jan 23

Final Operation Transformation Leader announced

Marie Cleere completes the 2023 Operation Transformation Leader family for the new run of the showing, beginning Wednesday on RTÉ One.

Television • 04 Jan 23

What's on? 10 top TV and streaming tips for Wednesday

There's the grand final of Operation Transformation, another round of Generation Dating, a new run of comedy Frayed, amazing prison breaks in Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman, and The Truth About BrewDog . . .

Television • 23 Feb 22

Kathryn Thomas on Friday's Late Late Show: "We are not about perfect. We are about showing the difference in your life to be healthy and to be happy."

Thomas weighs in on Operation Transformation critics

Kathryn Thomas has defended RTÉ's health and well-being series Operation Transformation after critics rounded on the show for focusing too much on dieting, body weight and shape.

Television • 22 Jan 22

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Tonight's Late Late Show line-up revealed

Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Kathryn Thomas and this year's Operation Transformation leaders are among the guests for this Friday night's Late Late Show.

Television • 14 Jan 22

What's on? 10 top TV and streaming tips for Wednesday

The investigation ramps up on Rules of the Game, Operation Transformation continues its calorific journey, TG4 begins a wildlife series based on Celtic coasts, and Marvel's The Eternals lands on Disney+ . . .

Television • 12 Jan 22

What's on? 10 top TV and streaming tips for Wednesday

Today's picks include the return of Operation Transformation, Neven's Food Trails, Grey's Anatomy, Blue Bloods, and the conclusion to BBC drama Four Lives . . .

Television • 05 Jan 22

What's on? 10 top telly tips for Wednesday February 24

Tonight's top telly includes new game show Gordon Ramsay's Bank Balance, The Repair Shop, Castle Rock - and the season finale of Operation Transformation...

Television • 24 Feb 21

Kathryn Thomas: "It's just been brilliant. In terms of what's we've been delivering, none of us really knew how it was going to go."

Thomas says new OT series 'is a season like no other'

Operation Transformation presenter Kathryn Thomas has praised this year's leaders for being "absolutely brilliant" during a challenging and "very strange year".

Television • 10 Feb 21

Mehreen Baig in The Truth About Getting Fit at Home

What's on? 10 top telly tips for Wednesday

Tonight's top TV includes The Truth About Getting Fit at Home, US sitcom Bless This Mess, new oddball drama Briarpatch, and the story of Ireland's first vasectomy doctor . . .

Television • 13 Jan 21

What's on? 10 top telly tips for Wednesday January 6

Today's top TV tips include documentaries about Martin McGuinness and Greta Thunberg, the return of Operation Transformation and Neven Maguire, and a new US sitcom called Bless This Mess . . .

Television • 06 Jan 21

Kathryn Thomas gets set for Operation Covid Nation.

RTÉ to launch Operation Covid Nation in April

RTÉ One is launching Operation Covid Nation in April and they want to hear from households across the country.

COVID-19 • 26 Mar 20

What's on? TV highlights for Wednesday

Sarah Lancashire stars in a tense drama about an abducted child, there's a new teen drama about grief and young adulthood, and it's the final of this year's Operation Transformation . . .

Television • 26 Feb 20

What's on? TV highlights for Wednesday

Food and weight-loss shows abound as Meat the Family sees families facing the realities of being carnivore, Neven Maguire's back on his Seafood Trails, and there's the return of Operation Transformation . . .

Television • 08 Jan 20

OT's Jean introduces new arrival on Late Late Show

Former Operation Transformation leader Jean Tierney says the arrival of her new baby boy was "fourth time lucky" following several tragic years which saw the new mother suffering a miscarriage, an ectopic pregnancy and the loss of her third child, Sloane.

Television • 04 Oct 19

What's on? TV highlights for Wednesday

There's a grim drama about grooming, a documentary about Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, while it's cheerio to Operation Transformation, The Bridge and Pure . . .

Television • 27 Feb 19

What's on? TV highlights for Wednesday

Loads to watch as Kathryn Thomas is back with Operation Transformation, there's a Gogglebox Ireland Special and a doc about the US-Mexico wall, while The Vikings and The Bridge both return. . .

Television • 09 Jan 19

Kathryn Thomas: "You are strong and willful and curious and funny and full on (and exhausting...not gona lie".

Look! Kathryn Thomas posts sweet message to baby girl

Kathryn Thomas has posted a touching tribute to her daughter online and admits she is "so proud" of her "curious and funny" bundle of joy.

Television • 26 Sep 18

What's on? TV highlights for tonight Wednesday

Just as well there's plenty on the TV tonight. American Crime Story returns with The Assassination of Gianni Versace, Neven Maguire's also back, while it's cheerio to Operation Transformation crew.

Television • 28 Feb 18

What's on? TV highlights for Tuesday Jan 23

New superhero show Black Lightning lands on Netflix, Op Trans continues on RTÉ One, and Jenny Agutter is the special guest on Sky One's Harry Hill's Tea Time

TV Highlights • 23 Jan 18

Kathryn Thomas - "When it happened to me, it completely floored me."

Kathryn Thomas: Miscarriage 'still a taboo subject'

Kathryn Thomas spoke to Ryan Tubridy on The Late Late Show about having two miscarriages and says the subject needs to be talked about more as it is "part of the pregnancy process".

Kathryn Thomas • 06 Jan 18

Katherine Lynch sang a beautiful rendition of Raglan Road

Katherine Lynch sings Raglan Road with Patrick Kavanagh

Check out the gorgeous moment on Friday's Late Late Show when Katherine Lynch sang Raglan Road, accompanied by archive footage of her late grand-uncle, the poet Patrick Kavanagh.

Katherine Lynch • 01 May 17