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2007 In Irish Television
The following is a list of events relating to television in Ireland from 2007. Events January *January – RTÉ announces plans to launch a channel with the working title of RTÉ International, designed to offer programmes from RTÉ One, RTÉ Two and TG4. *1 January – US comedy drama series ''Ugly Betty'' begins on RTÉ Two. *10 January – Scottish Media Group and Belfast-based UTV agree the details of a merger, including a revised share split between the two. UTV will own 54% of the group, while SMG will take the remaining 46%. However, the deal is once again rejected at the end of February. February *No events March *No events April *1 April – The RTÉ Irish language channel, TG4, becomes a separate entity. Previously it had been operated as a subsidiary of RTÉ under the name Telefís na Gaeilge. *April – The Broadcasting (Amendment) Act 2007 comes into law. The Act gives Irish national public service broadcasters RTÉ and TG4 digital terrestrial television obligati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television In Ireland
Television in the Republic of Ireland is available through a variety of platforms. The digital terrestrial television service is known as Saorview and is the primary source of broadcast television since analogue transmissions ended on 24 October 2012. Digital satellite (from Sky Ireland, Saorsat and other European satellite service providers are available) and digital cable (from Virgin Media Ireland) are also widely used. The Irish satellite fill-in service (Saorsat) is via Ka-Sat using the Irish KA band spot and has been available since June 2011. While many people receive their television via Saorview, which is broadcast by 2RN, more than half subscribe to multichannel television networks. The biggest single multichannel television network in Ireland is Sky Ireland, which broadcasts digital satellite television services. Virgin Media Ireland, Vodafone TV and Eir among others, provide similar digital television services to Irish viewers. History Television was first recei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Class Of The Titans
''Class of the Titans'' is a Television in Canada, Canadian animated television series produced by Studio B Productions and Nelvana, Nelvana Limited. It premiered on December 31, 2005, at 5 pm ET/PT on Teletoon with a special 90-minute presentation of the first three episodes. The series aired in the United States on Qubo from September 19, 2009, to October 24, 2009. On April 1, 2012, the series returned to Qubo as part of its Qubo Night Owl block replacing "Spliced (TV series), Spliced" where it remained until July 25, 2020. The series was released on DVD. The first three episodes were released on February 19, 2008, as ''Chaos'' and includes a behind-the-scenes featurette. The second DVD, ''Trojan Horse'', was released on May 20, 2008, and contains episodes 4–6. "Class of the Titans: Vol. 1 Season 1" was released November 18, 2008 and contains episodes 1–13. No further episodes were released on DVD. In 2016, Amazon has uploaded the show on its video streaming website Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horseland (TV Series)
''Horseland'' is an American animated series produced by DIC Entertainment, DIC Entertainment Corporation. It is a comic mischief program following events in the lives of a group of children riding at Horseland, an equestrianism, equestrian school and stables. Their adventures include riding their horses and entering them in competitions to test their skill and friendships. The show premiered on September 16, 2006, as part of CBS's new Saturday morning cartoon block, ''KOL Secret Slumber Party on CBS'' later ''KEWLopolis'' (now ''Cookie Jar TV''). Concurrent with the series, the online virtual pet game that it was Horseland, based upon was updated to complement the show by launching a new "Junior version" of the game based on the program and featuring its various characters and locations. After three seasons, the show was canceled on CBS on December 6, 2008. Reruns of ''Horseland'' then aired nationwide on the digital subchannel This TV; two episodes aired each weekend until Septem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loonatics Unleashed
''Loonatics Unleashed'' is an American Superhero fiction, superhero animated television series produced by Warner Bros. Animation that ran on Kids' WB for two seasons from 2005 to 2007 in the United States. The series was based/inspired on the ''Looney Tunes'' cartoon characters, with the series described by Warner Bros. as an "action-comedy". ''Loonatics Unleashed'' is meant to be a mixture of the ''Looney Tunes'' shorts' irreverent style of humor and a modern action animated series, with the characters designed in a more action cartoon-inspired style. Unlike previous ''Looney Tunes''-related shows, ''Loonatics Unleashed'' has a darker tone and takes place in a post-apocalyptic setting. It follows multiple minor story arcs. The serial format was a great departure from the original source material. The initial concept designs were met with a huge wave of criticism among fans and there were petitions to have the designs changed. Sam Register, who became WB's executive vice preside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island
''Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island!'' (or merely ''Coconut Fred'' or ''CFFSI'') is a Canadian-American short-lived flash-animated television series created by Sammy Oriti and Don Oriolo that premiered on Kids' WB on September 17, 2005, and ended on May 27, 2006, with a total of 13 episodes and 25 segments. The show was produced by Warner Bros. Animation with animation provided by Dong Yang Animation. ''Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island'' takes place on an island inhabited exclusively by fruit. The residents enjoy their own tropical paradise without a care in the world; they must share their peaceful utopia with the joyfully strange Coconut Fred, a whimsical, blissfully foolish coconut with the special ability to materialize anything he thinks about. The plot revolves around the adventures of Fred and his friends, as his boundless imagination springs to life while his friends struggle to cover up the collateral. Any conflict could range from getting a “fruit canal”, to sailin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Béarla
''No Béarla'' is a four-part documentary style programme broadcast on Irish language television channel TG4 TG4 ( ga, TG Ceathair, ) is an Irish free-to-air public service television network. The channel launched on 31 October 1996 and is available online and through its on demand service TG4 Player in Ireland and beyond. TG4 was formerly known ... and produced by Dearg Films RTÉ/TG4. It follows presenter Manchán Magan as he journeys throughout Ireland attempting to show that Irish is spoken only by a minority of the population. The title is derived from the English negative "No" and the Irish language, Irish word for the English language, "Béarla". The theme tune is "Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Green Day song), Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day. The first series was originally broadcast on Sunday nights between 21:30 and 22:00 and repeated on Wednesday evenings between 19:30 and 20:00. It aired from 7 January until 28 January 2007. The second series was fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firehouse Tales
''Firehouse Tales'' is an American animated children's television series created by Sidney J. Bailey, produced by Warner Bros. Animation as the only original series for Cartoon Network's now-defunct Tickle-U preschool programming block. The series follows three anthropomorphic fire engines who attend firefighting school. Characters * Red (voiced by Jesse Moss) is a red fire engine and the main character in the show who never gives up. He loves nature and the outdoors but most of all, he loves making new friends. Sometimes, he is the leader of the firetruck team. Red has an orange and yellow siren. The episode "New Truck On The Block" reveals his first day in Green Meadows. His catchphrase is, "The sirens say help's on the way!" * Petrol (voiced by Michael Adamthwaite) is an orange fire engine from Scotland who is sometimes afraid but manages to find the courage inside himself. According to his song "I'm Petrol the Fire Truck", he came before Crabby and Red did. Petrol has two bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonight With Vincent Browne
''Tonight with Vincent Browne'', (formerly ''Nightly News with Vincent Browne''), was a news analysis, current affairs and politics programme which was broadcast on Ireland's TV3 from 2007 to July 2017. Its time on air coincided with the premierships of Brian Cowen and Enda Kenny, bookended by the conclusion of Bertie Ahern's premiership and the initial weeks of Leo Varadkar's. ''The Tonight Show'', hosted by Ivan Yates (initially) and Matt Cooper, replaced it in mid-September 2017. It was moderated by Vincent Browne — a journalist noted for his rather acerbic style, with ''The Guardian'' describing him as "Ireland's Jeremy Paxman". Format It was broadcast on Monday to Thursday nights, usually from 23:05 to 23:55, though it was occasionally extended during referendums and general elections. When Browne was absent, another person presents instead: this was typically one of Ger Colleran, Declan Ganley, Tom McGurk, Mary O'Rourke, Sam Smyth or Ivan Yates. When anyone othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xposé
''Xposé'' is an entertainment, fashion and beauty programme that aired on Irish television from 2007 to 2019. It was broadcast every Friday at 18:00 on Virgin Media One. It ran for a 3-day week at 20:00 on Virgin Media Two (previously known as "3e"). It originally aired weekdays for 30 minutes, with advertising; later it broadcast for 60 minutes, with advertising. History and format The show was first broadcast on 16 April 2007, at 6pm, with an initial budget of €600,000. ''TV3 News @ 6.30'' was axed, in order to make room in the schedule for the show, with ''Hollyoaks'' moving to 6.30 before it was later axed and replaced with ''Friends''. Lorraine Keane's entertainment update on TV3 News broadcasts was also removed. The show's format was similar to that of American celebrity news and gossip programmes, such as ''E! News'' and ''Entertainment Tonight'', covering events and celebrities in the entertainment industry. It was produced in-house by Virgin Media with a team of r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Once A Week Show
''The Once a Week Show with Dustin and Sinéad from Sinéad's House Where Dustin Likes to Hang'' is a television chat/comedy show, broadcast on RTÉ Two in 2007 and 2008. A successor to the more frequently aired ''Dustin's Daily News'', it was presented by Dustin the Turkey of ''The Den'', with his assistant Sinéad Ni Churnain as a co-presenter. More or less exactly the same as the previous show, only with a studio instead of a newsroom, plus the reduced daily to weekly frequency of the show. During the show's run the presenter was selected to represent Ireland at Eurovision Song Contest 2008. Episodes References External links ''The Once a Week Show''at RTÉ Television RTÉ Television is a department of Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), the Republic of Ireland's state controlled national broadcaster. Its first channel was Teilifís Éireann, which began broadcasting on 31 December 1961. Since the 1960s, RT ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Once A Week Show, The 2007 Irish te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prosperity (Irish TV Series)
''Prosperity'' is a series of four one-hour dramas for television from director Lenny Abrahamson and writer Mark O'Halloran. ''Prosperity'' features "four powerful, moving and funny stories set on the same day, with each episode examining the life of a single character." The series first aired on 3 September 2007 on RTÉ, and was produced by Ed Guiney and Catherine Magee for Element Films. The series was nominated for six Irish Film and Television Awards in 2008, and won two, for Directing (Lenny Abrahamson) and Script (Mark O'Halloran). The series was also nominated for Single Drama/Drama Serial, Lead Actress (Siobhan Shanahan), Supporting Actor (Leroy Harris) and Hair/Makeup. Stacey Stacey is a 17-year-old mother of one. Stacey ca ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trump Card
''The Trump Card'' is a game show that was broadcast on RTÉ One during the summer months of 2007 as a seasonal replacement for ''Winning Streak''. Launched as the successor to ''Fame and Fortune'' (1996–2006), ''The Trump Card'' had its prize money funded by the National Lottery and its production costs paid by RTÉ. Laura Woods presented. Although ratings were initially favorable, ''The Trump Card'' quickly became unpopular with viewers. Critics blamed the show's poor audience ratings on its repetitive and complicated format, and on the fact that ''The Trump Card'' was seen as a disappointing replacement for the hugely popular ''Fame and Fortune''.RTÉ Radio 1, ''Liveline'', broadcast 11 June 2007. Cancelled after its first season, ''The Trump Card'' was replaced in 2008 by ''The Big Money Game ''The Big Money Game'' is a game show, broadcast on RTÉ One on Saturday nights during the summer months of June, July and August as a seasonal replacement for ''Winning Streak''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
