Returning… Mrs Brown’s Boys, Winning Streak (with Geri Maye standing alongside Marty Whelan), The Savage Eye, The Social, Other Voices, Republic of Telly. Reality Bites – a six-part series looking at sections of Irish life “from our bedtime habits to distressed property auctions to the Irish rap scene”.Who Knows Ireland Best? – a new quiz show hosted by Derek Mooney based on a specially-commissioned survey of the nation.Returning… Dragon’s Den, Ear To The Ground, Crime Call, 21st Century Child, The Business (with George Lee) An untitled documentary on the late writer and journalist Nuala O Faolain.MND and Me – RTÉ sports presenter Colm Murray on his determination to find a cure for his motor neurone disease.The Nurse – series following community and public health nurses.Nomads No More – two US anthropologists who lived with and studied the Travelling community in Ireland 40 years ago return to see where they are now. Living Colour – a documentary on an artists’ collective in Co Kilkenny “where the focus is on the artists’ abilities rather than their special needs”.Into the Light: The Battles that Shaped Our TV (working title) – “tracing how RTÉ’s confrontations with Government, the Church and other powerful forces have shaped our television”.Ireland Outside The Euro? – “a major new documentary looks at what life after the Euro might look like”.Here are some of the other programmes due to be broadcast on RTÉ before the end of April: Previous works of his include Cromwell in Ireland, Flann O’Brien: The Lives of Brian, The Forgotten Irish and Michéal: The Sound of Sunday. The programme director is Maurice Sweeney, who is one of Ireland’s most respected documentary-makers. Instead of focusing on the decisions made on the bridge and on the officer class, the doc will highlight the “personal rivalries and sectarian differences” of those in the belly of the ship, according to an RTÉ spokesperson. The docu-drama – which took €1.5m to make – takes a new angle on the 1912 tragedy by focusing on events below deck on the night of the sinking, dramatising the stories of the boilermen, the engineers and the other workers who worked furiously – and ultimately fruitlessly – to save the Titanic. Saving The Titanic is an international co-production between the Irish production company Tile Films and the German broadcaster ZDF, with funding from RTÉ, the Irish Film Board and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. In a 2-part Would You Believe? Special our Undercover Bishop asks searching questions about what the Church – and what a Bishop – is for, as one Irish bishop dispenses with the deference-inducing trappings of his job to mix with people unawares.Īs well as that intriguing offering, RTÉ is to broadcast a major new drama documentary to mark the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.
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