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Can't Cope, Won't Cope is a darkly comic drama about two young women, as one of them starts to spiral out of control. Aisling (Seána Kerslake) used to getting her own way and Danielle (Nika McGuigan), never one to hog the spotlight, is only too happy to go along with it. But things are changing. Reality is about to hit them, and hit them hard.

Bridget & Eamon are the typical unhappily married 80s Irish couple. They live somewhere in the Midlands with their indeterminate number of children. Chain-smoking Bridget has notions. She wants the lifestyle from the pages of Woman's Way but wouldn't want to think about how much it would cost to heat South Fork.

Glow Up Ireland is a competitive factual entertainment series where ten of Ireland's best amateur make-up artists (MUAs) are challenged in a range of assignments where they will show off their technical know-how, skill, artistry and imagination. They will be tasked with creating amazing make-up transformations - all taking place in a dedicated studio space - Glow Up HQ. One of the ten will be crowned Ireland's Next Make-Up Star and will win a fantastic opportunity to further their professional career.

Cupid's arrow hits Irish shores this month when the brand new series of First Dates Ireland airs on RTÉ2. The restaurant doors will swing open bringing singletons from all over the country together in the hope of finding love.

Hardy Bucks is an Irish mockumentary TV show written by Chris Tordoff, Martin Maloney and Mike Cockayne. The Hardy Bucks started out with a series of largely improvised online webisodes directed and edited by Tordoff who had studied Media Production. A six-part webisode series went on to win the 2009 Storyland competition held by Irish national broadcaster RT?. Hardy Bucks is set in a small town in West Ireland, following the mis-adventures of five hapless men down on their luck, trying to leave their backwards rural hometown and attempt to reach Galway and sample modern civilization.

Get ready for betrayal, banter, and behind-the-scenes bombshells with The Traitors Ireland: Uncloaked,

Seasoned NYPD detective Nora Savage take a career break from the NYPD following a traumatic event and moving to her family home. Expecting a change of pace, Nora is unexpectedly pulled into a murder investigation involving a female climate activist. As she goes head-to-head with a ruthless environmental magnate, putting those closest to her at risk, she is forced to confront her personal demons head on.

24 civilian recruits take part in a gruelling Special Forces selection course designed by former members of Ireland's elite Special Forces unit, the Army Ranger Wing (ARW). Welcome to Hell.

Fantasy Ireland is an outrageous post-watershed animated comedy series set in a fantastical version of contemporary Ireland (mixed with a dollop of Irish mythology). We follow three flatmates living in Rathmines who are flung together to form The Shamz - the new unwitting saviors of Ireland sent to save us from ourselves and more importantly a greedy priest hell-bent on setting us back fifty years!

Nowhere Fast is a comedy about women in rural Ireland, and one woman in particular. Fresh from a disaster in her media career in the big smoke, Angela (played by Alison) returns to her family home to lick her wounds and plan her next move. Can she escape the quicksand of small town Ireland and get her life back on track? And in the meantime can she keep her friends and family happy so she can get lifts?

Donal Skehan sets off on a food-filled road trip around Ireland, ticking off some culinary hotspots on his foodie bucket list.

This wildlife series follows the trial the trials of three teams bringing wild birds of prey back to Ireland after an absence of over 100 years. It is the most important Irish wildlife story in decades - the return of some of the largest birds of prey ever to darken Irish skies, the White Tailed Eagle, the Golden Eagle and the Red Kite.From scaling cliffs in the wilds of Norway, Scotland and Wales on the hunt for new chicks, to hiring planes to fly them home, to nursing them through the first crucial months of freedom, the reintroduction involves a vast amount of work for a team of highly trained specialists. It follows their triumphs and tragedies as they track the birds from capture abroad through the first months of their release in Ireland. With radio & satellite tags, the guardians follow the released birds' progress across the country and wait and hope they will survive through their first winter.World-class wildlife photography, unfolding dramatic storylines, strong human & animal interest, important environmental, cultural and heritage themes - all combine to make this a compelling and important series with appeal for a very wide audience.

Young singletons across the country take drastic action and hand over the control of their dating profiles to their parents, for a full make-over to crack the cupid conundrum.

Casting new light on long-lost empires.

Love in the Country is a new dating series that's follows six rural singletons looking for love! Spurring them on is Presenter Anna Geary, who takes the bull by the horns in helping them find the perfect partner. Living and working in the country, these hopefuls say it's tough to find anyone to go out with, never mind someone to settle down with!

Clear History is a new comedy panel show fronted by Kevin McGahern, with team captains Joanne McNally and Colin Murphy, which will rewrite the past in the name of comedy. Weekly guests will be asked to put comically cringey moments from their personal histories on public display. Opposing teams will re-live iconic moments from the nation's history as well as their own personal embarrassments, hoping to make them much funnier the second time around. The teams will also take a hilarious dive into Ireland's colourful past, selecting unforgettable and regrettable moments that could do with being cleared from history. In addition, the series will give members of the public an opportunity to have their own mortifying moments 'cleared from history' as they share hilarious tales with the teams by video.

Featuring performances from some of the country's best comic actors Michael McElhatton, Peter McDonald, Justine Mitchell, Domhnall Gleeson, Hugh O'Conor, and Andrew Bennett, Your Bad Self is a darkly hilarious sketch show, produced by Treasure Entertainment who made I Went Down and Mad About Dog.

From over 1000 applications from across Ireland, just fifty people made it through to the audition stage of the first ever MasterChef Ireland. Out of that 50 the Final 16 MasterChef contestants would be chosen to compete for the coveted title of MasterChef Ireland and a prize of €25,000.

Chef Paul Flynn explores Ireland's thriving street food scene and creates his own food truck favourites. Across Ireland a street food revolution has taken place. While the hospitality trade faced pandemic lockdowns, one area of the industry enjoyed a boom, as the nation turned to a growing band of food trucks.

This observational documentary series, Nurses, will tell the story of modern Irish nursing from the perspective of 8 trainee nurses. Nurse will follow these trainees from a range of backgrounds, as they juggle their final year studies with their often complicated, everyday lives. But that is not the end of their stories as the series continues to follow them as they begin their professional careers putting the theory into practice in the very real and stressful environments where they will become the front-line staff in a health service that is struggling with the vagaries of limited finance, resources and morale.

James Kavanagh and Carl Mullan present the search for Ireland's best takeaway, with judges chef and critic Dylan McGrath and takeaway expert Suzie Lee Arbuthnot.

A new reality series, Meet the McDonaghs, will lay bare the lives of The Voice of Ireland runner up, Kelly McDonagh Mongan and her family.