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RADIO TELEFÍS ÉIREANN<br />
Operational Review<br />
RTÉ Television (continued)<br />
Most watched TV programmes (000’s of viewers)<br />
TOP 10 PROGRAMMES* IN 2008<br />
Base: National, Individuals aged 4+<br />
Rank Programme Channel Day Date Time TVR 000s Share<br />
1 The Late Late Toy Show RTÉ One Fri 28-Nov 21:36 - 23:46 29.1 1,199 69.9<br />
2 RTÉ News: Nine O’Clock RTÉ One Fri 11-Jan 21:02 - 21:29 18.9 748 49.0<br />
3 Prime Time Investigates RTÉ One Mon 08-Dec 21:35 - 22:32 18.7 773 48.0<br />
4 Killinaskully - The Emergency (Part 1) RTÉ One Thu 25-Dec 20:27 - 20:53 18.4 757 44.9<br />
5 Fair City RTÉ One Fri 04-Jan 20:32 - 20:59 18.1 715 46.7<br />
6 Buyer Beware! RTÉ One Thu 06-Nov 20:33 - 20:57 17.3 714 45.6<br />
7 All Ireland Hurling Final RTÉ Two Sun 07-Sep 15:19 - 17:35 17.2 709 64.3<br />
8= All Ireland Football Final RTÉ Two Sun 21-Sep 15:24 - 17:33 17.0 703 65.2<br />
8= The Rose Of Tralee RTÉ One Tue 26-Aug 21:36 - 23:25 17.0 696 46.7<br />
10 Eurovision Song Contest RTÉ Two Tue 20-May 20:00 - 22:02 16.8 691 45.5<br />
Source: AGB Nielsen Media Research<br />
* Highest ranking programme. Programme ranked on TV Rating (TVR). Universe changes May and September.<br />
Averaging Option: Any Day, Any Time (Best Episode). News programmes are included. Min duration 15 minutes<br />
Clinical Psychologist David Coleman, presenter<br />
of the series 21 st Century Child which charts the<br />
lives of children for the first six years.<br />
RTÉ Television’s Archive Unit<br />
Archive footage tells stories of 20 th century<br />
Ireland through the eyes of ordinary Irish<br />
people and their communities. In 2008 the<br />
Archive Unit had considerable success with<br />
the eight-part series Home, which looked<br />
at how Irish domestic life evolved over the<br />
last half century. A Bit of a Fillum: Ryan’s<br />
Daughter in Dingle and Anew MacMaster<br />
were one-off films of great empathy and<br />
craft while hit series A Little Bit Showband,<br />
Hostage and War Stories showcased the<br />
wealth and variety of the archive. RTÉ’s<br />
dedicated team of archivists and restoration<br />
specialists also restored more of RTÉ<br />
Television’s classic series for air during the<br />
year, including Murphy’s Australia, I Live<br />
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<strong>Here</strong> and Boat Spotting.<br />
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RTÉ Diversity<br />
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The Diversity strand brought major factual<br />
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projects to air alongside sustained Irish <br />
language output. The division diversified <br />
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significantly into prime-time broadcasting <br />
with Des Bishop’s celebrated In the Name <br />
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of the Fada, while in 21 st Century Child <br />
psychologist David Coleman set out on <br />
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stage<br />
<br />
one of his journey to track the development<br />
<br />
of a group of children from before they were<br />
<br />
born through their first six years of life.<br />
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Science Friction looked at four<br />
<br />
contemporary and controversial science <br />
issues. Oileán, Scannal and Léargas all<br />
returned, alongside new adult literacy series<br />
Written Off. Other multicultural strands <br />
What in the World?, No Place Like Home<br />
and Faraway Up Close also returned. <br />
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RTÉ Regional<br />
RTÉ Television’s regional focus continued<br />
with the return of series Consuming<br />
Passions and Ear to the Ground. In<br />
Buyer Beware!, a new consumer affairs<br />
programme, Philip Boucher Hayes attracted<br />
in excess of 700,000 viewers; meanwhile<br />
Death Duties offered first-hand accounts<br />
of some of state coroner Marie Cassidy’s<br />
recent cases. Elsewhere, Customs was a<br />
new regionally-based reality programme that<br />
explored the workings of Ireland’s customs<br />
officials. Broadcast on Sunday evenings, this<br />
show proved a significant hit with viewers.<br />
RTÉ Lifestyle<br />
Among RTÉ Daytime and Lifestyle highlights<br />
for the year was Operation Transformation,<br />
a major project that invited the nation on<br />
a shared health focus via RTÉ Television,<br />
Radio and Online. At Your Service and<br />
Ballet Chancers were among new prime<br />
time shows. Several new formats aired on<br />
RTÉ Two including Hollywood Trials which<br />
followed ten acting hopefuls as they tried<br />
to break into Hollywood, and The Ultimate<br />
Guide to Everything in which Television<br />
newcomer Mairead Farrell took six self-help<br />
books and road-tested them with real people<br />
in real situations.<br />
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Young tractor enthusiast Jason Clarke with<br />
presenter Darragh McCullough, Ear to the<br />
Ground, at the Cavan Machinery Show.<br />
Philip Boucher Hayes, presenter of the<br />
successful series Buyer Beware!<br />
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