Auld Ones is an Irish animated television programme broadcast on RTÉ Two. It featured the antics of two Dublin pensioners, Bernie and Mary who sit at a bus stop reminiscing about their youthful adventures. The programme symbolises the tedium and meaninglessness of human life, which loosely connects the characters to one of the themes of existentialist philosophy. Divided into two series, it aired on Mondays at 22:40 and is a Wireless Production.
Craig Doyle is an Irish weekly topical comedy-style chat show which first aired in November 2011 as The Social, and is shown on RTÉ Two. Portrayed as live programme, some episodes are recorded in advance and broadcast at a later date.
Mission Beach USA is a Reality Television series produced for RTÉ by Rival Media for RTÉ's youth strand TRTÉ which airs on RTÉ Two. It is based on the BBC Switch format of the same name, which aired in 2008. Eight Irish teens head for Fort Lauderdale to train to be US lifeguards. Over the course of 3 weeks they join a group of American Teens who are training to be lifeguards. The course coach is Chris Hoch. A second series is set to begin before the end of 2011 and has 8 new Irish teens. Season 2 was filmed in July 2011 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The Irish teams are made up of:
Podge and Rodge's Stickit Inn is an Irish Comedy entertainment show, broadcast and produced by RTÉ, featuring the popular puppet characters Podge and Rodge as hosts. The format of the show was originally based around the popular Pub Quiz featuring two teams of celebrity guests competing for prizes such as a saddle of lamb, a hock of ham or a tin of biscuits. The first episode was broadcast on 20th October, 2009 but soon reverted to a chat /entertainment show similar to their previous vehicle The Podge and Rodge Show. The series will run weekly until April 2010.
The TV set is a 360 degree bar set and the audience are fully integrated into the fictional Stickit Inn bar. Joining Podge & Rodge is sexy Sicilian Barmaid, Gina who is played by real-life Chip-Shop Mafia Moll, Virginia Macari who is apparently on the run from the Casa Nostra and rumoured to know the exact size of Silvio Berlusconi's assets.
Resident music maestro at The Stickit Inn is showband has-been Johnny Dorgan, thrown out of The Indians in 19
This Is Nightlive was an Irish satire television series broadcast on RTÉ Two. It was created by John Ryan who also starred in the series.
RTE had announces on A Spin Off is this is daylive from 2013
Dustin's Daily News is an Irish television chat/comedy show, broadcast on RTÉ Two. The show is hosted by Dustin the Turkey of The Den, with his assistant Sinéad Ni Churnain as a co-host. Two series have been produced. The first series began on 19 September 2005 and ran until 29 April 2006. The second series was aired between September 2006 and April 2007.
The show takes place in the Dublin Mountains where Dustin has established his own network news channel. While Dustin is always able to avoid getting captured by the butcher in the opening sequence, he has had another villain to contend with during the run of the show. The infamous Martin Duck planned a takeover of Dustin's news channel, but he was foiled by gardaí.
2TV was an Irish music programme broadcast on Sunday mornings on both Network 2 television and RTE 2fm radio from 1995 until at least 2001, even during the summer months. It was presented by Dave Fanning, with Bianca Luykx, although Ray D'Arcy was once said to have done a summer show to allow Fanning to spend more time with his family, being referred to as "Dave" "about a dozen times". The programme was essentially a continuation of Ian Dempsey's The Beatbox, which had occupied 2TV's Sunday morning time-slot for the previous number of years. In 2000, Fanning admitted that he did no work on the show and that he did not like most of the music he played on it. This was not however the reason for its cancellation as he also said he would continue presenting it. Fanning described it as "not rocket science, it's moron television", saying he "hardly even knew where the 2TV office was, and that's God's honest truth". Promotions for the show were created by a Swede, Jorgen Andreason, who had ten years experience at Swedish
Makin' Jake is an Irish comedy television programme broadcast on RTÉ Two. It follows the adventures of Jake Stevens, a character from the Naked Camera hidden camera TV series, as he attempts to find success in the United States. In each episode Stevens is in a different location, ranging from Hollywood, San Francisco and Las Vegas to Nashville, Miami and finally New York. Stevens is portrayed by the Irish comedian PJ Gallagher.
The very last scene in this series features a cameo appearance by "The Fixer" as the taxi driver picking up Jake at Dublin Airport.
Gerry Ryan Tonight is an Irish chat show hosted by Gerry Ryan that aired for three series on Network 2 between 1995 and 1997. The studio-based show featured guest interviews and live music. Gerry Ryan Tonight aired twice weekly for the first season and once a week for all subsequent seasons.
The Committee Room was a Gaelic games-themed magazine and review television programme that aired on RTÉ Two since 25 May 2011 until September 2011. Presented by Marty Morrissey, who is joined by a different panel of guests every week, the programme features a mix of interviews, analysis and discussion on all GAA related matters.
Against the Head is a weekly rugby magazine programme, broadcast on RTE Two and presented by Joanne Cantwell with regular panellists Shane Byrne, and Irish Times rugby correspondent Gerry Thornley with various other guests throughout the series. The programme goes out on a Monday night usually running for thirty minutes and has been broadcast since 2003. It was previously presented by Con Murphy until 2008.
The programme brings viewers a mix of interviews, highlights and reviews, as well as discussion on the burning issues in Irish rugby. The series runs for the busiest period of the rugby season usually from February to May, and takes in the RBS 6 Nations Championship, Heineken Cup and AIB League and Cup, and brings its audience the latest news on developments within the game.
I Dare Ya was an Irish reality comedy series that starred Irish comedian Andrew Stanley and Australian comedian Damien Clark. It was shown on Irish television station RTÉ Two. Hosted in front of an audience, the pair showed dares that they had carried out, which were requested by the public. The series ran for 6 episodes from 12 November 2007 to 17 December 2007, at 9:30pm every Monday night. It was only shown for one season.
J1 – Summer in the Sun is an upcoming RTÉ documentary television programme, documenting the experiences of eighteen students working in the United States. The students range from ages 18–23 and are divided into three "gangs": the Chicago Gang, the Hawaii Gang and the San Diego Gang. Billed as a sort of Irish version of MTV’s Laguna Beach, the series was filmed from 27 May – 1 September, as one of the first series in Ireland to be shot on the new Solid State EX-1 camera. The series will be broadcast on RTÉ Two each Monday at 21:30.
Other Voices is a television series broadcast on RTÉ Two in Ireland, usually on a Wednesday night. It features live musical performances & interviews from many Irish and international musicians. Filming of the live performances is usually in the intimate setting of the 200-year-old Church of St James in Dingle, County Kerry. The programme has had a range of presenters since the first series began in 2003, including Glen Hansard, Jerry Fish, John Kelly, Jenny Huston, Annie Mac and Aidan Gillen.
Livin' with Lucy is an Irish television programme presented by Lucy Kennedy. First aired on 14 April 2008, the premise of the show is that Kennedy spends a weekend living with a different celebrity each episode, analysing their daily lives and interviewing them in their own homes all the while with cameras filming in the background. The show airs on RTÉ Two on Monday nights at 21:30. The programme has proven controversial, with Kennedy being stalked by paparazzi and some of the celebrities airing slanderous views.
Series two began on 20 October 2008. Series three began to air on RTÉ Two on Thursday 11 November 2010 and ended on 16 December 2010.
Championship Matters is a Gaelic games-themed magazine and review television programme that has aired on RTÉ Two since May 2012. Presented by Marty Morrissey, the programme features a mix of interviews, analysis and discussion on all GAA related matters. The show follows on from the The Committee Room which was shown in 2011.
Marketplace is an RTÉ Television current affairs programme noted for its in-depth analysis of political, business and financial matters.
It was first broadcast on 3 October 1987 and was presented at various times by Patrick Kinsella, Gavin Duffy, Gary Agnew, Miriam O'Callaghan, Ingrid Miley and George Lee. Marketplace was broadcast for the last time on 3 April 1996.
Don't Feed the Gondolas is an Irish comedy panel show, that ran for four series on Network 2 between 1997 and 2001. The show was hosted by Seán Moncrieff and the longest-serving panellists were Brendan O'Connor and Dara Ó Briain.
The name of the show is attributed to a remark made by a Wicklow County Councillor, Jimmy Miley, during a meeting regarding Blessington Lake. When the meeting proposed putting a gondola on the lake, he remarked: "That's all very well, but who's going to feed it?"
A running gag of the show, whereby the host Seán Moncrieff would make prank calls under the alias 'Monica Loolly' and claim to be from a small town in Galway named Ahascragh.