Tag: RTE

Kevin Bakhurst, the new director-general of RTÉ, has replaced the Irish pubcaster's executive board with a temporary team.

Alleycats Films, an award-winning Northern Irish indie, has started 2020 with a string of commissions, including a second-season renewal from RTÉ for the dating format Pulling With My Parents, as well as three new documentary orders from BBC Northern Ireland.

Former Acorn Media Enterprises executive Shane Murphy has been tapped as group head of drama and comedy at Ireland's RTÉ.

Sharon Horgan (Pulling, Catastrophe) is producing and starring in Women on the Verge, a scripted dramedy that will air on UKTV’s entertainment channel W in the U.K. and RTÉ in Ireland.

RTÉ has revealed its plans to develop the next-generation RTÉ Player, with the new service slated for launch before the end of the year.

DUBLIN: ARTE and RTÉ are each planning to contribute a minimum of €250,000 per year for an initial two-year term toward the development of co-productions in 2017 and 2018, focusing on the areas of arts, culture, factual, history and natural history.

DUBLIN: Dee Forbes, currently the president and managing director of Discovery Networks Northern Europe, has been tapped as the new director-general of Ireland's RTÉ.