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Viewers in the Republic of Ireland will be able to continue to watch exclusive live TV coverage of UFC fights on Eir Sport – formerly Setanta Sport. BT Sport, which is available as part of the Eir package, has renewed its UFC rights for the Republic of Ireland. The renewal will see BT Sport broadcast over […]

Bill Malone has been confirmed by Virgin Media as TV3’s director of programming in place of Lynda McQuaid who previously held the title of head of content at TV3 Group. Malone will be responsible for programme commissioning, acquisitions and scheduling. Malone was channel controller of RTÈ2 and a member of the national broadcaster’s TV board for […]

Netflix and CBS Studios International has announced a licensing agreement for the new Star Trek TV series. The streaming service will be the exclusive premiere home of Star Trek in 188 countries, with the exception of North America.  Each episode of the new series will be available globally within 24 hours of its US premiere. […]

Sky customers can now get more on demand content with the addition of the RTÉ Player to its catch up TV service. A spokesperson for Sky said the move is part of a long-term partnership between Sky and RTÉ to increase the number of channels and the ways in which content can be accessed on […]

Setanta Sport has rebranded as Eir Sport and has taken the opportunity to confirm it has won the exclusive TV rights to the Rugby World Cup in Japan. The deal also includes the rights to next year’s Women’s Rugby World Cup which Ireland will host. The announcement was made at Eir’s Dublin HQ with former […]

TV3’s award-winning Irish drama Red Rock will make its debut on British TV next week when it airs on BBC One at 1.45pm next Monday. Set around a busy Garda station in a fictional seaside town in north Dublin, the soap follows the Hennessys and the Kielys, two local warring families and the police that come […]

Kids’ favourite Barney will be on 3e’s new 3Kids children’s strand. Barney & Friends will be joined by The Wiggles, Teletubbies, Origanimals, Babar and the Adventures of Badou. 3Kids will air seven days a week from 7am to 10am and front and centre of the channel’s new children’s TV strand are two new faces – presenters Claire Flynn […]

The Republic of Ireland’s first match in Uefa Euro 2016 against Sweden was the highest-rating TV show of the year so far. RTÉ reports that an average of 1.08m viewers watched the group E opener between the Republic of Ireland and Sweden on RTÉ2 as Martin O’Neill’s men got their Euros campaign underway with a 1-1 draw […]

Greed is good and lunch is for wimps. So Michael Douglas told us in Wall Street. Drama returns to New York’s financial district with a mini-series called Billions on Sky Atlantic at 9pm tomorrow. Homeland’s Damian Lewis is lean and mean hedge fund king Bobby ‘Axe’ Axelrod. Paul Giamatti (Sideways) is lawyer Chuck Rhoades set on […]

The new Sky Kids app is available to customers on the Variety bundle. Among the kids TV shows on the app are Nick Jr.’s Paw Patrol, Boomerang’s Scooby Doo, CBeebies’ Octonauts and Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time.  They will be joined by children’s TV ‘veteran’ Morph, who returns later this year in brand new exclusive episodes. The […]

The wait is finally over, one of the the world’s most talked about and highly anticipated TV soaps, season six of Game of Thrones will premiere exclusively on Sky Atlantic in less than two months. The first in the series goes out on Monday, April 25. Seasons one to five will be available to download with Sky Box […]