RTÉ have launched their autumn/winter season of content coming your way and it is an absolute doozy.
We'll have the return of some fan favourites like The Tommy Tiernan Show, Ireland's Fittest Family, DIY SOS and Room to Improve.
On top of that, The Late Late Show will be back on our screens in the very near future, as will Dancing with the Stars - albeit without Nicky Byrne in the hosting role.
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But as well as those eagerly-anticipated returns, the national broadcaster unveiled a whole heap of new shows and stories coming to our screens and airwaves for the autumn and winter seasons.
Here's a comprehensive list of what you can look forward to over the next few months
Drama/Thriller
The Dry
New comedy-drama The Dry , set in Dublin, written by Nancy Harris, and starring Roisin Gallagher, Moe Dunford, and Oscar-nominee Ciaran Hinds, tells a sometimes poignant and often hilarious tale of familial values and the lure of returning home.
North Sea Connection
Perhaps looking to mirror the successes of the likes of Kin and Smother, North Sea Connection is a contemporary thriller set within an isolated and traditional rural Irish fishing community in Connemara, starring Lydia McGuinness, Sinead Cusack, Kerr Logan and Alida Morberg.
Clean Sweep
New thriller Clean Sweep sees Peaky Blinders and Bloodlands star Charlene McKenna appear in the lead role as a housewife married to a Garda detective who kills her former partner in crime when he threatens to expose her dark past.
SisterS
RTÉ aren't giving too much away about SisterS just yet, but we know it is a dark comedy-drama about two women who discover they are half-sisters and embark on a road trip across Ireland.
Storyland
This year Storyland comes to RTÉ television for the first time with brand-new single dramas. Contemporary whodunnit Storyland: Balor Hall by Rioghnach Ni Grioghair, an imaginative story about substance abuse and self-harm in Storyland:Mustard by Eva O'Connor, and Storyland:Every Five Miles by Sinead Collop, which tells a powerful story about people trafficking in Ireland.
Factual
The War at Home captures the experiences and emotions of Ukrainians travelling to Ireland and the Irish response to the crisis.
Stardust examines the Stardust disaster in the context of fresh evidence being presented to the inquest. Arthur Gourounlian and Brian Dowling document their surrogacy journey in Brian and Arthur’s Very Modern Family.
After 20 years, you hardly expected Saipan to be brushed away without a trace - and a special documentary called Saipan-Rebel Without a Ball asks how far the Irish team could have gone had Roy Keane not been sent home by Mick McCarthy.
Our natural history and landscapes are explored as underwater cameraman Ken O’Sullivan delves into the North Atlantic, while The Island is a three-part series celebrating our natural histories and presented by Liz Bonnin.
Build Your Own is a new series following the trials and tribulations of homeowners from across Ireland, while Dermot Bannon travels to Spain and Scotland for more Dermot Bannon’s Incredible Homes.
In Takeaway Titans, Carl Mullan and James Kavanagh are on the hunt for Ireland’s greatest chipper.
Irish Civil War content
This season also contains a diverse array of specialist content on the Irish Civil War and revolutionary Ireland available across television, radio and online.
Highlights include The Irish Civil War, a three-part documentary series narrated by Brendan Gleeson and written and directed by Ruán Magan.
Two Tribes presented by Sean O’Rourke follows the diverging paths taken by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in the post-civil war landscape.
In Communism, Sex, and All That Jazz, Katie Hannon delves into the national archives to discover what we as a nation did once we achieved Statehood.
A Deal with the Devil sees Michael Portillo tell the story of the Civil War from the perspective of the British government.
Entertainment, Music & Comedy
No Worries if Not! brings a host of viral comedy stars including Justine Stafford, Emma Doran, and Michael Fry to RTÉ2.
The Ultimate Irish Playlist, presented by 2FM’s Tracy Clifford, will count down the songs that define Irish music and culture as voted on by over 100,000 2FM listeners.
New genre-bending show Mise FRESHIN’ will creatively combine various strands of Irish music, while Réaltaí na Gaeltachta will see five well-known Irish people go back to the Gaeltacht to relive bunk beds, curfews and the no Béarla rule.
Arts and Culture
A Note for Nature, will explore the country’s most fragile landscapes through music and spoken word, showcasing the wildlife that has managed to survive in these locations- featuring RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Christy Moore, Kíla, Clare Sands & Susan O'Neill, Alannah Thornburgh, Niamh Regan, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Iarla Ó Lionáird, This is How We Fly, Myles O’Reilly & Wilzee and Tolü Makay
Tommy Tiernan’s Epic West takes a contemplative, personal look at the west of Ireland - its culture and landscape, and in Untameable, award-winning author Colm Tóibín seeks to re-open the bog-inspired works of Heaney and other artists. 100 years on from the formation of the Irish State', we look back at our first decade as a new state, with Lady Gregory: Ireland’s First Social Influencer, an around Ireland road trip with Miriam Margolyes and Lynn Ruane and Francis Bacon: The Outsider, a new diary revealing an unrecorded chapter in the legendary painter's life presented by U2’s Adam Clayton.
Irish Language content
An Ré Réabhlóide is a landmark documentary, commissioned as part of the Decade of Centenaries, in which GAA legend Gráinne McElwain explores how the GAA helped to bridge, and sometimes heal, the bitter divisions created by the Civil War 100 years ago. In Ceol na nGael, a new documentary to mark the 50th anniversary of Raidió na Gaeltachta, Altan's Mairéad Ní Mhaoinigh explores the role the station has played in the story of modern traditional music in Ireland.
A new Irish-language documentary series, Mealladh na Mara, explores ordinary people's extraordinary relationships with the sea. In Madraí, a crack team of vets and animal behavioural specialists help stressed-out owners sort out their problem pooches.
News
RTÉ One will be home to brand new eight-part current affairs panel series Monday Night Live this autumn, dealing with the major issues affecting people right across the country, including the cost-of-living crisis, the housing shortage, childcare, and climate change; with more details announced this September.
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