Adare Productions is an

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entertainment television production company. It has produced numerous television shows which have been broadcast in Ireland, including ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' Fáilte Towers'' for Radio Telefís Éireann, and ''Glas Vegas'' and ''

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'' for

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. The company is credited with discovering numerous television presenters.

Origin and further details

Adare Productions was established in 1993."Home"
Adare Productions. Accessed 29 April 2009. The company claims to have produced at least fourteen different entertainment series, eleven young peoples' series, four different lifestyle series, more than three hundred hours of live studio programmes and more than forty hours of music programmes."TV Productions"
. Adare Productions. Accessed 29 April 2009. It has discovered presenters such as

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Lucy Kennedy Lucy Kennedy ( ga, Lusaí Ní Chinnéide; born 21 April 1976) is an Irish television and radio presenter. Kennedy first came to public attention from co-hosting ''The Podge and Rodge Show'' on RTÉ Two. She has also presented dating show ''The ...

and

Hector Ó hEochagáin Shane Ó hEochagáin (; born 17 August 1969), known mononymously as Hector, is an Irish television and radio presenter born in Drogheda, County Louth, and raised in Navan, Co. Meath. He currently presents ''The Tommy and Hector Podcast with Laur ...

."Fashion Extravaganza With Caroline Morahan!"
. RTÉ. Accessed 29 April 2009. Lynda McQuaid has been executive producer on ''Fáilte Towers'' and producer and director on ''The Apprentice''.

Recent television credits

''Underdogs'' (2006)

''Underdogs'' was a television programme broadcast on TG4. It featured "underdog" players of

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, focusing on those individuals who had never played senior inter-county

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or received a nomination for a

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, and offering them the chance to compete against teams of high quality. The first series was specifically dedicated to male footballers and hurlers. In June 2008, Adare Productions requested female applications for a follow-up series of ''The Underdogs''.

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managed the winning team which competed against the All-Ireland champions the following December.

''Glas Vegas'' (2007)

''Glas Vegas'', which was first broadcast on TG4 in August 2007, saw the introduction of a new presenter,

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''Fáilte Towers'' (2008)

''Fáilte Towers'' was broadcast on RTÉ One in August 2008, succeeding such shows as ''

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'' and ''

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''. A reality style television programme in a brand new format, it was presented by

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and

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"Presenters"
RTÉ. Accessed 29 April 2009. and the concept involved thirteen celebrities running a hotel for sixteen days and nights in order to win money for their designated charities. It was unpopular with critics but enjoyed by the general public, with the final receiving nearly a million viewers and the entire series regularly receiving between 350,000 and 450,000 viewers throughout its run. The format for the show even attracted interest from overseas buyers, including investors from

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, but RTÉ said at the time that “no agreements

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be reached until the current series has finished”. Nevertheless, the ''

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'' named ''Fáilte Towers'' as one of the six worst television programmes of 2008, describing it as "car crash television".

References

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External links

Official website

List of productions
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