ELEVEN NEW programmes will be introduced this month on RTÉ One and RTÉ Two television, as well as 14 returning home-produced series and documentaries.
These will include a new chat show for Saturday nights on RTÉ One television. Titled The Saturday Night Show, it will be presented by Sunday Independentjournalist and broadcaster Brendan O'Connor.
A new Thursday night satirical programme That's All We Have Time For, on RTÉ One, will be presented by Barry Murphy, with team captains Mario Rosenstock and Kevin Myers. This season's All Ireland Talent Showshow will be shadowed by Dustin and Aidan Power in the All-Ireland Talent Show Backstageon RTÉ Two.
Two new comedy series will also debut this month. Your Bad Self,a sketch-based comedy, will feature recurring characters, played by Amy Huberman, Michael McElhatton, Peter McDonald and Hugh O'Connor.
Katherine Lynch's Single Ladiesfeatures the inimitable one taking part in/presenting a six-part mocumentary series about the life and times of a cross-section of Irish women characters.
The School, explores secondary school life, with cameras following students and teachers at St Peter's College Dunboyne over an academic year. Music Changes Liveslooks at the power of music in two Dublin primary schools.
Anna Nolan is the subject of a Would You Believespecial titled O Sister Where Art Thou?while RTÉ US correspondent Charlie Bird present a two-part series, Charlie Bird's American Year.
