TV3 Autumn Schedule 2011

iseegirls

It's being announced today, so we should find out later on about new and returning Irish programmes, and US imports.

Just a piece from from The Irish Times here about their HD studio:

TV3 IS to double the size of its existing facility in Ballymount, Dublin, with a new studio capable of being used for high definition television.
The 500sq m studio will cost between €4 million and €5 million and will be part of an adjacent building which will also house a number of independent production companies.
TV3 chief executive David McRedmond said the new studio, which will be ready towards the middle of next year, will be critical in ensuring the station reaches the goal of producing 50 per cent of its own content. It is currently at 40 per cent.
The new studio will allow TV3 to host programmes in front of a live audience and screen programmes in high definition.
At present, all of TV3’s live output, including IrelandAM, Midweek, Tonight with Vincent Browne and the Champions’ League coverage comes from a single studio which is in operation 18 hours a day.
The new studio will be located in a building adjacent to its present premises in Ballymount and amounts to a significant investment by Doughty Hanson, the venture capital company which paid €230 million for TV3 in 2006.
Mr McRedmond anticipates the studio will be heavily used by independent production companies and will allow them to export many of their programmes abroad.
The model of a major studio attached to a commercial television station was well-established elsewhere, he said, citing Granada studios’ attachment to ITV as an example. “There is a worldwide shortage of television content. Ireland is ideally placed,” he added.
In the latest completed accounts for 2009, TV3 made an operating profit of €1.9 million following a precipitous decline in advertising revenue in 2008, the last year of the boom.
The operating loss of Tullamore Beta, TV3’s parent company, doubled to €135 million as a result of writedown on the goodwill value of the business by €118.7 million, reflecting the downturn in the economy.
Mr McRedmond said revenues were up 6 per cent last year and advertising spot revenue growth is up 4 per cent this year, but the recovery in advertising revenue was, he said, being stymied by RTÉ.
The rival broadcaster had fixed the cost of television advertising when the recession first began, and rates were between 10 and 15 per cent too low – even given the state of the economy.
A long-time critic of the dual-funding model which funds RTÉ, he urged the Department of Communications to act decisively and create an RTÉ channel solely devoted to public service broadcasting, with no advertising.
“The Department of Communications is moving at a pace that is completely ignorant of the challenges that the country is going through,” he said.
TV3 will announce its autumn schedule later today, with several new programmes.

It's promising that they're looking at more Irish programming and that they are pushing for 50%. A far cry from 10 years ago when they only produced around 20%, and much of that was coming from news and ireland:am.

Most importantly, how many crime/murders documentaries will they do this year? After Crime Capitals, Aftermath, Gangland Ireland, 24 Hours To Kill, Crime In Mind only been shown last year surely they've run out of these type of programmes.

iseegirls

Coming from Twitter from few people there, so kinda unreliable/ might be untrue:

- Twink given her own advice show :eek::eek:

- TV3 has just announced that Nora Owen will be hosting Mastermind Ireland! :eek::eek::eek:

Ursula Halligan has also done a documentary on the Rise & Fall of Fianna Fail.

And Alan Hughes is presenting Irish Family Fortunes.

Colmo52

iseegirls wrote: »

Coming from Twitter from few people there, so kinda unreliable/ might be untrue:

- Twink given her own advice show :eek::eek:

- TV3 has just announced that Nora Owen will be hosting Mastermind Ireland! :eek::eek::eek:

Ursula Halligan has also done a documentary on the Rise & Fall of Fianna Fail.

And Alan Hughes is presenting Irish Family Fortunes.

Colmo52

Also just announced

Tallafornia - Irish Version of Jersey Shore

Celeb Come Dine with me

Skid

The VinBetweeners - Vincent Browne and a group of 15-18 year olds look at the problems facing young people in 21st Century Ireland.

I made that one up, sorry

JP Liz V1

Colmo52 wrote: »

Also just announced

Tallafornia - Irish Version of Jersey Shore

Celeb Come Dine with me

LOL surely that is a joke

Sir Oxman

just read about that Aunty Twink show - holy fck!:eek::eek:

Colmo52

iseegirls wrote: »

- Twink given her own advice show :eek::eek:

It's going to be called Give Adele a bell

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

LOL surely that is a joke

Sadly its true

mike65

Tallafornia, oh boy.

I just did a google and it seems the name is already widely used to describe the knacker classes in D24

Skid

iseegirls wrote: »

Coming from Twitter from few people there, so kinda unreliable/ might be untrue:

- Twink given her own advice show :eek::eek:

.

How long before she advises someone to zip up Their Mickey? :eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DINu35v3eMU

thecool

Is it true Glenda Gilson got her own Friday night chat show ? :eek:

gazzer

thecool wrote: »

Is it true Glenda Gilson got her own Friday night chat show ? :eek:

Friday night with Mr Ed?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLR4iZJLgc4

gazzer

iseegirls wrote: »

Coming from Twitter from few people there, so kinda unreliable/ might be untrue:

- Twink given her own advice show :eek::eek:

- TV3 has just announced that Nora Owen will be hosting Mastermind Ireland! :eek::eek::eek:

Ursula Halligan has also done a documentary on the Rise & Fall of Fianna Fail.

And Alan Hughes is presenting Irish Family Fortunes.

I hope to god that that fossil Twink is not going to be inflicted on our tv screens.

Family Fortunes with Alan Hughes will be terrible. That guy is a shocking presenter.

Mastermind could be good though .

Colmo52

Heres another one

''Challenging God'', presented by Vincent Browne, challenges the assumptions of religions & the power of religious beliefs & myths.''

iseegirls

A few more programmes coming from Twitter include:

Tearaway Teen To Beauty Queen
Celebrity Salon 3
Southside Housewives
Challenging God (by Vincent Browne)
Strictly Irish Dancing (prob just a doc)

iseegirls

gazzer wrote: »

Family Fortunes with Alan Hughes will be terrible. That guy is a shocking presenter.

Don't know why they're going down this route again of taking UK gameshows and giving an Irish "twist" to them. Haven't they learned from Deal or No Deal and The Weakest Link?

Dman001

iseegirls wrote: »

A few more programmes coming from Twitter include:

Tearaway Teen To Beauty Queen
Celebrity Salon 3
Southside Housewives
Challenging God (by Vincent Browne)
Strictly Irish Dancing (prob just a doc)

This and Tallafornia have to be a joke?? TV3 are turning into MTV. They got lucky remaking The Apprentice and Come Dine With Me for the Irish market, now they are just being ridiculous.

iseegirls

The whole list is here:

http://www.broadsheet.ie/2011/08/18/tv3s-new-schedule-the-television-will-not-be-revolutionised/

JP Liz V1

Sounds like Prime Suspect USA is the only new show

mike65

Slapped on Stripped off (BBC3)
Shopping SOS (ITV2, Living)
De Junk Your Life (C4)
Sex Tips for Girls (E4, BBC3)
The Customer is Always Right (More4)

and so on, you'll notice how nothing on that list could ever pop up on BBC4/Sky Arts!

rovert

I expect Tallafornia to be really fun. What a great idea.

mike65 wrote: »

Tallafornia, oh boy.

I just did a google and it seems the name is already widely used to describe the knacker classes in D24

Go away

giftgrub

gambiaman wrote: »

just read about that Aunty Twink show - holy fck!:eek::eek:

The should have called it "Twink-a-bell"

I'm here all week, try the lamb....

PrettyButch

I just missed something about it on the Telly, and came here to see what the schedule was like..
Maybe just me, but all their new programs seem to be targetting the same kind of audience.. Or most of them anyway.


Not that it really makes a difference, they're just gap-fillers between adverts.

TV3 Autumn Schedule

Four nights a week have juggernaut entertainment shows including Alan Hughes’ Family Fortunes; Mastermind Ireland; Come Dine With Me Ireland; Celebrity Come Dine With Me Ireland and Deception with Keith Barry.
Simon Cowell’s new blockbuster Red or Black will be presented live by Ant and Dec across seven nights, and we will see the return of Take Me Out, hosted by Ray Foley. Also, there’s not much longer to wait until the return of The Apprentice and The X Factor, and the launch of The X Factor US.
New Irish reality entertainment is led by four home productions Tallafornia, Tearaway Teen to Beauty Queen, Celebrity Salon 3 and Southside Housewives.
New drama this autumn includes four part series Titanic (which was co-produced by TV3), Prime Suspect, and new series of Downton Abbey, Glee and Spartacus.

TV3’s production unit has undertaken some hard-hitting home-produced documentaries and factual programming which includes The Irish of 9/11, The Hospice, Paul Connelly Investigates, Anatomy of a Car Crash, Challenging God, 24 Hours to Kill and The Day the Germans Bombed Dublin.
The documentary line up is led by the three-part explosive story of The Rise and Fall of Fianna Fáil narrated by Ursula Halligan, and Sex Lives, a series of films that look at sex and the illegal sex industry in Ireland today.
On a lighter note, there’s a fresh line-up of features in the schedule like Hen Parties, Paddies in Paradise, Give Adele a Bell, Strictly Irish Dancing, Ireland’s Disco Kids, Dejunk Your Life and Ireland’s Top Teens.

mike65

Four nights a week have juggernaut entertainment shows

bamboozle

how on earth does twink keep reappearing on our tv screens? just in case i needed another excuse never to watch tv3 they provide yet another!

iseegirls

Ben Frow said US X Factor will be on Friday nights, so I wonder where Take Me Out will go. Maybe Saturday night.

Also that Interview Live! sounds like the worst & cheapest idea ever for a show. They must have thought that one up just before the release yesterday to boost their list of programmes.

Disappointed that 3e got no real mention yesterday. FYI is going well for the station (i presume so since it's been on a year and half), and Uploaded will be back for a third series. Apart from that no mention of any new shows going to be on 3e either from here or US.

Speaking of 3e, I'm liking their lineup at the moment - the comedy block of 3rd Rock and King Of Queens is perfect alternative to other Irish channels at 1pm. Still feel double Jeremy Kyle is too much. Glad XPOSE is gone from 6.30. And I hope that Conan will stay on 3e next year.

Cork

At last a TV station has seen the potential of a quiz show.

Colmo52

iseegirls wrote: »

And I hope that Conan will stay on 3e next year.

Hopefully a bit earlier!

Dman001

3e is a great channel, but it's scheduling is a joke and all over the place. TV3 will end up repeating 90% of the content again for the next year, while maybe deciding to buy one or two shows last minute. TV3 put no effort into making a long term schedule for the channel.

Awful_Bliss

You could start every one of those programme description a la Alan Partridge - "Idea for a programme...."

Skid

Awful_Bliss wrote: »

You could start every one of those programme description a la Alan Partridge - "Idea for a programme...."

Vey true, I fully to see Monkey Tennis with Martin King by 2013.

Rocket_Man

How desperate would you have to be to actually ask Twink for help?
Must say though the Vincent Browne programme sounds interesting.

Oh_Noes

They need more of the Odlums woman.

Maybe a kind of older version of Exposé where the odlums woman just slags off the fashion faux pas of the over-sixties at awards shows and then says "what's that all about?"

PrettyButch

Awful_Bliss wrote: »

You could start every one of those programme description a la Alan Partridge - "Idea for a programme...."

:D LOL Jaysis... It's very true..:eek:

Don't know whether to laugh or be in shock, as, it does seem to be what is happening over on TV3..

Twink as an agony aunt? That would be agony..

"Hello, Twink? My husband has had an affair, what should i do?"

"Ah Jaysis, did you not listen to my self help recording? Great advice for anyone in the same boat.."

How on earth she could be taken seriously as an agony aunt is way beyond me...

hotmail.com

Is the Apprentice coming back?

calex71

This lot seems to be car crash motorway pile up TV at best......... and the fact Twink is been given a chance to get off the dole means that pile up includes a bus load of orphans and a van load of kittens :eek:

Tallafornia is going to be great TV and the highest rated show of the year I predict (I'm being serious, nobody can take an established formula and ruin it with in hysterical fashion quite like Irish TV can !!!!!)

Didn't Twink have a go at RTé in the papers during the week , calling their line up "sh***e" , pot kettle black darling

bodhrandude

Now if only they could procure Breaking Bad.

GavMan

Ad for Tallafornia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frSrSg0dUpk

Anyone know when this kicks off. I'll be watching through my fingers

hotmail.com

GavMan wrote: »

Ad for Tallafornia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frSrSg0dUpk

Anyone know when this kicks off. I'll be watching through my fingers

11 Decemeber!

gazzer

GavMan wrote: »

Ad for Tallafornia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frSrSg0dUpk

Anyone know when this kicks off. I'll be watching through my fingers

That looks like such a classy show:D I am especially looking forward to seeing the yolk who is screaming "Shut the fcuk up" in the car.