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In praise of Gogglebox Ireland, an essential service in all but name
- Media & Marketing
- October 24, 2020, 07:30
In a relentlessly grim autumn news-wise, there have been few diversions as cheering, uncomplicated and reliably human as the Wednesday night offering (...)

Post-Covid television starts to shape up – but with missing pieces
- Media & Marketing
- August 11, 2020, 05:05
You know what it’s like trying to get a group of old friends together in a room: full diaries, non-adjacent postcodes, standard faffing, and then the (...)

Deirdre O’Kane to host Sky One stand-up comedy series
- Media & Marketing
- August 28, 2019, 03:15
Sky One has commissioned Irish production company Kite Entertainment to make a stand-up comedy show fronted by Deirdre O’Kane. The five-part series w(...)

Dark mysteries and dating advice from your parents: what to expect from Irish television
- Media & Marketing
- August 17, 2019, 15:19
After a summer schedule of sport, repeats and the very popular Love Island, Irish broadcasters will embark on a fresh hunt for viewers again this autu(...)

RTÉ spent €41 million on independent productions in 2018
- Media & Marketing
- June 10, 2019, 03:15
RTÉ received 732 pitches for television programmes from independent production companies last year and commissioned 121 of them, or about one in six p(...)

Broadcasting authority awards €5.7m in funding to 119 TV and radio projects
- Media & Marketing
- March 14, 2019, 13:36
The dramas Dead Still and The Godparents and documentary series John Connors’ Acting Academy are among the television shows that have awarded money un(...)

Darren Smith: ‘The ratings will decide if you’re coming back’
- Media & Marketing
- December 21, 2018, 05:30
Darren Smith apologises for checking his phone. He is waiting for last night’s television ratings to come through: when we meet, Ireland’s Fittest Fam(...)

Irish television producer signs deal to create ‘big laughs’ on Sky
- Media & Marketing
- April 21, 2018, 07:30
Kite Entertainment, which makes Gogglebox Ireland and Ireland’s Got Talent, has signed a development deal with Sky that will fund the creation of an A(...)

Ireland’s Got Talent: will it be a winning formula for TV3?
- Media & Marketing
- February 2, 2018, 16:24
Saturday marks the debut of an eye-catching investment by TV3 - one that has a proven format, a mostly familiar line-up, some heartfelt singing and th(...)

TV3 poised to score ‘one hell of a quarter’ with Six Nations
- Media & Marketing
- December 11, 2017, 05:55
After a difficult year for television advertising, TV3 Group is looking to its first Six Nations and the debut of Ireland’s Got Talent to kick-start i(...)