''Mission Beach USA'' is a reality television series produced for RTÉ Television by Rival Media for RTÉ's youth strand

TRTÉ ''TRTÉ'' is an Irish children's television program that airs on public service broadcaster RTÉ2. Its target demographic is people between 7 and 15 years of age. On some networks — Virgin Media Ireland, eir Vision and Vodafone TV—TRTÉ is ...

which aired on RTÉ Two. Rival Media had previously produced a series of the same name, for the

BBC Switch BBC Switch was the brand for BBC content aimed at UK teenagers. The brand was launched on Saturday 20 October 2007 on BBC Two and ceased broadcasting on 18 December 2010. It included a block of television programmes on BBC Two, an online portal ...

format, which aired in 2008. In the RTÉ series, eight Irish teens, reportedly selected from several thousand appliants, head for Fort Lauderdale in the United States to train as lifeguards. Over the course of 3 weeks they join a group of other teens who are training at the Fort Lauderdale Junior Lifeguard Programme. A second series was commissioned by RTÉ and was scheduled to film, with 8 new participants, in Fort Lauderdale during mid-2011. Series two was broadcast on RTÉ 2 later in 2011.

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* {{IMDb title, tt1532453
TRTÉ – Mission Beach USA
(archived 2014) 2010 Irish television series debuts 2011 Irish television series endings Irish reality television series Irish television series based on non-Irish television series Irish television series based on British television series RTÉ original programming