TV3 schedule 2014/2015

JP Liz V1

TV3 launches major new soap, 30 new shows and an array of new faces in its biggest schedule ever.
TV3 today confirms its 2014 Autumn Schedule and 2015 programming plans in a special presentation from Dublin’s Mansion House. TV3 and 3e will deliver a wide variety of new content across a number of key genres from ‘Entertainment and Lifestyle’ to ‘Sport & Events’, ‘News & Factual’, ‘International Acquisitions’ and ‘Soap and Drama’. TV3 Group will invest over 75% of its programming budget on home-produced content next year.
Commenting on the groups programming plans, TV3 Group Director of Content Jeff Ford said: “As we approach autumn 2014 and 2015, advertisers and audiences will experience the best of what TV3 now has to offer. Built on a solid foundation of returning and much-loved shows- ‘Ireland AM’ through to ‘The X Factor’ – I look forward to delivering over 50% of home-produced content next year, even bigger and better international co-productions and above all, a channel our viewers can truly relate to. Through engagement, relevance, ambition and creative drive, the TV3 Group is closing the gap to being Ireland’s Number 1 broadcaster.”
Commenting on the launch today, David McRedmond CEO of TV3, said: “TV3's success in recent years has been based on our own production and special commissions. We invested in Ireland's best TV production facilities and are now ready to share the rewards with our viewers. We are really delighted to launch Red Rock, Ireland's first 21st century soap."
Home-produced Irish content will account for over 50% of TV3’s programming schedule next year. This will include the production of a new soap called Red Rock, TV3’s most ambitious commission to date. Produced by Element and Company Pictures, Red Rock will air in January 2015 and provide a fresh soap alternative to Irish viewers. The soap will also see major investment in the industry and employ between 100-130 people across the entire production. A number of new home-produced shows are also being added to the schedule. These include: Gogglebox, Donal MacIntyre Investigates; A TD In My House; Paramedics; The Lie; The Joy; The Lazy Chef; Ireland’s Oyster Clan; Prison Families; There’s Something About Amanda and Islanders.
With a combination of important acquisitions and a major new home-produced entertainment show, TV3 will be Number 1 for Saturday night television. UK entertainment giants The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent will be EXCLUSIVE on TV3 alongside a brand new original entertainment play-along show called Sitting On A Fortune, co-produced by 3Studios and RDF and presented by Brian Dowling.
Sitting On A Fortune is just one of a number of major new entertainment shows that are being produced in the TV3 Sony HD Studio. Other shows that have been produced or planned to go into production in the state-of-the-art facility and that are making waves internationally, include Keith Barry: Brain Hacker, The Lie, The Algorithm and Jason Byrne’s Snaptastic Show.
The studio is also home to a new permanent Ireland AM set and was also the venue of choice for The Guarantee, a new theatrical film release featuring Peter Coonan and David Murray which will hit selected cinemas in October and TV3 screens in November. Directed by Ian Power, the film recreates the drama surrounding the most significant political decision in modern Irish history when the Irish government decided to guarantee the entire domestic banking system.
Amongst the new plans is a Public Affairs Documentary Unit which will see TV3 produce more investigative documentaries that are relevant and topical and that follow the news agenda closely. Recent examples include A Secret Buried: The Mother and Baby Scandal and Garth Brooks: What went wrong?
Sport will be a huge winner for TV3 in 2015. The channel has secured exclusive Irish rights to air all 48 matches of next year’s Rugby World Cup and will cover the tournament in full HD with great new panellists and a new approach to TV presentation. It will be the biggest TV event of the year and TV3 has exclusive access to all of the Rugby World Cup action.
UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League coverage also returns this year to TV3 and 3e, and there is a new welcome addition to 3e with the group agreeing a broadcast partnership with the UFC. It follows Conor McGregor’s highly successful ‘Fight Night Dublin’ bout which reached over 600,000 viewers on 3e (more than the total viewership to GAA on SKY across all matches in the UK and Ireland), making it the most successful sporting event ever to air on the channel.
TV3 also unveiled a new revamped daytime schedule with a number of changes to Ireland AM and Xposé. Broadcaster Anton Savage will move into presenting his own Primetime show called Get the Numbers Write. Funded by the BAI and produced by ShinAWil Get the Numbers Write will follow five people across a six week accredited course as they improve their literacy skills. Meanwhile the rest of the Ireland AM team Sinead, Mark, Anna, Aidan and Alan settle into their brand new set in the TV3 Sony HD Studio.
In a major coup for the Xposé team, Peter O’Riordan, formally of TMZ will take his place on Ireland’s Number 1 Showbiz programme alongside Karen Koster, Glenda Gilson, Lisa Cannon and Aisling O’Loughlin. Peter brings a wealth of experience to Xposé having risen from a Field Producer to Assignment Manager at TMZ’s LA offices and he has played a part in breaking some of the biggest pop culture news stories in the world including the deaths of Whitney Houston and Paul Walker, and Jay Z and Solange’s elevator fight. Not to mention Peter was running the assignment desk when TMZ.com reached record highs of 60 million unique visitors monthly.
Finally, Lucy Kennedy has landed herself her dream job as the face of Blind Date, based on the globally successful Sony format ‘The Dating Game’. It’ll be a fantastic new and entertaining addition to TV3’s already jam packed programming schedule.


http://www.tv3.ie/entertainment_article.php?locID=1.803.813&article=143917

dmcg90

Business as usual so, interesting to see how they're wording it given what their schedules are going to look like come the launch of UTV Ireland.

squonk

They shouldn't be bigging up their current affairs investigative unit like that if Gath Books: What Went Wrong is anything to go by! Trashy documentary making of the highest order!

Also, all this mention of the 'Sony HD Studio'. It smacks of Sony trialling technology really. Sounds like they got an exceptional deal on new kit for being a reference site.

Some guy from TMZ joining as well.... so exciting... NOT!

Go Harvey Go

dmcg90 wrote: »

Business as usual so, interesting to see how they're wording it given what their schedules are going to look like come the launch of UTV Ireland.

"Biggest schedule ever"
"A channel our viewers can truly relate to"
"TV3 is closing the gap to being Ireland's number 1 broadcaster"
"Number 1 for Saturday night television"
"The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent will be EXCLUSIVE on TV3" (very deliberate use of capital letters, there)
"Major coup for Xpose"
"Lucy Kennedy has landed herself her dream job"
"Fantastic addition to TV3's already jam-packed programming schedule"
"One of TV3's strengths is its people"
"Number 1 non-traditional channel in Ireland" (whatever they mean by 'non-traditional')
"Content evolution has reached an exciting stage"


Pretty hard not to detect the desperation and straw-grasping at Ballymount...

Go Harvey Go

Also, they don't seem to realise that most people on *both* sides of the Irish Sea strongly associate Blind Date with Cilla Black:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj_ewz53Frk

This new version with L*cy K*nn*dy isn't the first Irish version, either - that honour goes to TG4's Cleamhnas, which ran for six series between 1999 and 2004 and had the twist that the person looking for the date had a family member or friend make the choice for them.

They also say that The Lie will be back for a second series, and that it's "making waves internationally". AFAIK, the only other version to have been made thus far is that of co-producers STV - and at no point are they mentioned. Hmmm...

Finally, they say that they will exclusively cover the Rugby World Cup "with great new panellists and a new approach to TV presentation".

Well, I can see the host being Matt Cooper (as it was for their coverage of the 2007 tournament - the less said about that, the better) or Anton Savage.

And, for some reason, I can see them making some sort of attempt to poach one or two names from RTE...

Skid X

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

This new version with L*cy K*nn*dy isn't the first Irish version, either - that honour goes to TG4's Cleamhnas, which ran for six series between 1999 and 2004 and had the twist that the person looking for the date had a family member or friend make the choice for them.

And TV3 had their own Dating show, 'Perfect Match' with Adele King aka Twink years ago but that was dropped after one series (like many of their Gameshows).

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/TWINK+EYES+BLIND+DATE+WITH+TV3.-a062079673

jjll

Cant work out if lucy is annoying or just crap

Go Harvey Go

jjll wrote: »

Cant work out if lucy is annoying or just crap

She's both.

madmaggie

It's safe to watch IrelandAM again now that Mark Cagney has returned. The glare from Anton's teeth was painful.

JP Liz V1

Xpose will an hour long live show from next week


Is Come Dine With Me Ireland and Take Me Out Ireland cancelled?

channelsurfer2

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Xpose will an hour long live show from next week


Is Come Dine With Me Ireland and Take Me Out Ireland cancelled?

come dine with me is produced by itv studios, which utv now have the rights to all itv studios programmes so guess it wont be back on tv3.

calex71

They have been going on about their sony HD studio since last year or longer, have they actually ever shown anything in 1080i HD