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Budget 2025: Increases to Arts Council, Screen Ireland, and extension of Basic Income Scheme |
| 03 Oct 2025 | The Department for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport, and Media has outlined further details of the distribution of the €1,271,989,000 in funding allocated to the Department in Budget 2025, which is said to see increases across all areas with a total 6% rise across the Department. |
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New family mini-series The Unreal to release on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player this October |
| 02 Oct 2024 | The brand new four part family mini-series, which stars Joseph McGucken, Kathryn McKiernan, Ally Ní Chiaráin, Senan Jennings and Kate Brady, will broadcast on RTÉ One this October. |
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Disney+ debuts trailer for Rivals starring Aidan Turner, Victoria Smurfit |
| 27 Sep 2024 | Aidan Turner and Victoria Smurfit star opposite David Tennant in the trailer for Disney+'s Rivals. |
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Chris O'Dowd joins cast of Black Mirror season 7 |
| 23 Sep 2024 | Chris O'Dowd will star in the next season of Netflix's Black Mirror, expected to release in 2025. |
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Culture Night 2024: RTÉ to broadcast collection of performances this Friday night |
| 19 Sep 2024 | RTÉ will celebrate Culture Night this Friday, September 20, with a coverage due to begin on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player from 8pm on Friday evening. |
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RTÉ reports net deficit of €9.1m in 2023; declining TV Licence revenue and increases in operating costs listed as contributing factors |
| 17 Sep 2024 | RTÉ Annual Report for 2023 has confirmed a net deficit of €9.1m for the national broadcaster that named a decline in the TV Licence revenue, increase in operating costs, and the broadcast of several special events as contributing factors to a “challenging year for the organisation”. |
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RTS Northern Ireland announces shortlist for 2024 Television Awards |
| 16 Sep 2024 | The Royal Television Society, Northern Ireland, has announced the shortlist for this year’s RTS NI Awards. The winners will be announced at the 9th RTS NI Awards ceremony which takes place on Thursday 14th November at the Titanic Belfast. |
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TG4 announces Fómhar 24 Autumn schedule |
| 11 Sep 2024 | TG4 have launched its autumn schedule, Fómhar 24, as the channel continues to deliver home-produced documentaries that reflect Irish life, an array of live sports events, entertainment series, excellent music, an selection of drama series, along with original content on the Irish language children’s channel Cúla4. |
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Showrunner Shane Byrne & Emmy winning producer Jamie D’Alton establish new production company, Diffusion Media |
| 11 Sep 2024 | TV executives Jamie D’Alton and Shane Byrne are collaborating to set up a new production company, Diffusion Media, aimed at attracting international productions to Ireland and to capitalise on the country’s growing reputation as a premier location for unscripted content. |
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Creative Arts Emmys: Irish producer wins Emmy for My Next Guest with David Letterman |
| 11 Sep 2024 | Irish producer Seamus Murphy-Mitchell has won a Creative Arts Emmy for his role as executive producer on Netflix’s My Next Guest with David Letterman and John Mulaney. |
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Éanna Hardwicke features in A Very Royal Scandal trailer |
| 10 Sep 2024 | A trailer has been released for A Very Royal Scandal, based on the real-life 2019 interview between BBC journalist Emily Maitlis and Prince Andrew. |
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Brendan Gleeson joins Spider-Man Noir series opposite Nicolas Cage |
| 10 Sep 2024 | Brendan Gleeson has been cast in a major role in Amazon's upcoming Spider-Man Noir live-action series, opposite Nicolas Cage. |
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Coimisiún na Meán awards over €9 million of funding to television projects under latest round of Sound & Vision Scheme |
| 10 Sep 2024 | Coimisiún na Meán has announced the awarding of over €10.1 million of funding across TV and radio under the latest round of the Sound & Vision Scheme. The newly announced Round 53 allocation represents the largest single funding round in the history of the Scheme. |
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SSVFX's Ed Bruce, Nicholas Murphy win Creative Arts Emmy for Shōgun |
| 09 Sep 2024 | Ed Bruce and Nicholas Murphy of SSVFX were among the winners at last night's Creative Arts Emmy Awards for their work on FX's historical drama Shōgun. |
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Virgin Media TV accepting Entertainment and Factual proposals for Sound & Vision Fund |
| 05 Sep 2024 | Virgin Media Television are currently accepting Entertainment and Factual proposals for Round 55 of the Sound & Vision fund. |
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NTA Film & TV/WRAP launch callout for Producers' Mentorship Programme |
| 05 Sep 2024 | The NTA Film & TV, in collaboration with the WRAP Commission, have announced the launch of a new Mentorship Programme for Producers working in Live-action Drama and Documentaries. |
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BAFTA nominee Máiréad Tyers joins Obituary Season 2 |
| 03 Sep 2024 | BAFTA nominated actress Máiréad Tyers (Extraordinary) has joined the second season of cast of RTÉ/Hulu dark comedy Obituary starring Siobhán Cullen. The series is now in production in Co. Donegal. |
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RTÉ announces Autumn 2024 season across TV and streaming |
| 30 Aug 2024 | RTÉ have announced their new season of TV and streaming content across scripted, entertainment, factual and more extensive programming. |
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IMRO Radio Awards announce 2024 shortlist |
| 28 Aug 2024 | IMRO have announced the shortlist for the 2024 edition of their annual Radio Awards, showcasing the best and brightest talents across the Irish radio industry. |
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Fra Fee to star in Netflix series Out Of The Dust |
| 27 Aug 2024 | Irish actor Fra Fee has been cast in a new Netflix series Out Of The Dust, from writer Julie Gearey (Intergalactic). |
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