RTÉ see their audience share drop 2% month-on-month, with a drop of nearly 4% from May 2016. TV3 saw an increase of 9% month-on-month with the help of Britain's Got Talent, however it was just slight up from this time last year.

UTV Ireland has announced it is to extend its weekly entertainment bulletin from its current 5 minute slot to 30 mins. The new extended version of the show will air each Friday between Coronation Street at 8pm. The series will continue to be sponsored by Diet Coke and presented by Jenny Buckley. The series has constantly earned the channel 200,000 viewers and it expects to replicate this success in its new Friday Night time slot.

Mary Curtis head of UTV Ireland has announced her decision to leave UTV. She will leave in February 2016. On her resignation Mary Curtis said she always intended to consider her position at the end of the first year. UTV Ireland got off to a rocky start during its first year on the air earning the channel an average of 7% share of the audience. A significant increase from 3% that UTV had in 2014.

Sometimes you have to say you miss Pat Kenny from The Late Late Show. That pretender Tubs really has not made that much of an impact. For all the criticisms of Pat Kenny on the Late Late he did do some of this best work on the show, Ireland's most watch chat show. Though unfortunately he did have some major gaffs but in fairness to him his interview with the cast of Jackass shows he's clearly happy to laugh at his mistakes and move on, though perhaps this phone call to the Late Late was the fault of the producers, who without knowing possibly made comedy gold.

UTV Ireland's first chat show is to begin broadcasting in May. The series is produced by COCO television for UTV. Pat Kenny will host the show and his first guest will be Chris Hadfeild, a Canadian Astronaut. The interviews are pre-recorded in the Mansion House's Round Room. This is one of a handful of Irish programmes to be produce by the new channel, reports suggest that the show will run for 5 consecutive weeks before taking a break and will then return in the autumn for a further run of 8 programmes.

UTV Ireland is set to start broadcasting in 2015. In August UTV Ireland set about allaying any fears that the advertisers may have about their content since the announcement that they bought Coronation Street and Emmerdale last November. The channel fleshed out its package of programming from ITV Studios, while also announcing two new presenters for the channel. Alison Comyn launched the channels meet and greet event in Dublin City. A slate of ITV programmes were announced such as Doc Martin, Prime Suspect and Mr. Selfridge. The big announcement that Pat Kenny would revive his TV career in early 2015 on UTV Ireland was left to the end. But confusing messages are being made to Ireland's TV audiences.