25 Years at TG4
TG4 have announced new programmes for the months ahead as they reach their milestone of 25 years on the air. Documentaries covering Whistleblowers, Dublin Bay, TB in Ireland, Colm Cille and Banknote design. Entertainment see the return of Hector as he meets with newcomers to Ireland, the Underdogs returns to seek out the next best Ladies Football team, Junior Eurovision and Na Slimmers follows six people trying to lose weight. Sport includes GAA, Rugby and Cliff Diving. Four Irish films will get their debuts on the channel Foscadh, Arracht, Doineann and The Queen V Patrick O'Donnell. The Golden Girl, The Wonder Years and Dr. Quinn will air on the channel, while boxsets on line include Scadi-noir The Killing, The Bridge and Borgen.
Alan Esslemont, Director General, TG4 said: “On October 31st this year TG4 will celebrate our 25th birthday and can reflect with some satisfaction that our programmes have brought a genuine ‘súil eile’ to Irish broadcasting and that the station’s brand has been instrumental in bringing about a change of image for the Irish language. I’d especially like to thank and congratulate all of our partners working in the independent audiovisual industry, whose imagination and creativity have underpinned TG4’s success over the last quarter century and whose latest work we are celebrating at our Autumn launch. However, when compared to the way Welsh is supported in Wales, the Irish state continues to display a clear lack of ambition for the Irish-speaking communities and for Irish language media. The present Public Service Media ecosystem in Ireland is monolithic. PSM in Ireland after the pandemic needs to be sustainable but it also needs more diversity and plurality. TG4’s Post-Covid Vision document outlines how all the state-funded audiovisual agencies, RTÉ, TG4, Screen Ireland and BAI, can be supported in a fairer, more balanced way and drive a more diverse and less centralised public media ecosystem.”
Documentry / Cláracha Faisnéise
Misneach - The treatment of whistleblowers
An Cuan - Dublin Bay's Ecosystem discovered
Bádóirí - Na Jimmies - A look at two Galway Hooker racers during COVID
Go mBeirimid Beo - A sly look at pandemics past, present and future
Violet Gibson - An tÉireannach Mná a Lámhach Mussolini - The Irish Woman who Shot Mussolini
Páirteach i nDúnmharú - Hori Morse, H Division Member, and his trail for the Murder of Hilda Emily Hunter, the final victim of the "Auxiliaries"
TB Scéal Eitinn in Éirinn - The story of TB in Ireland
Áille ar Airgead - Irish woman Mary Cunningham the face of American money and Hazel Lavery the American face of Irish Money
Colm Cille An Naomh Dána
Entertainment/Siamsaíocht
Hector - Éire Nua - Hector meets with Newcomers to Ireland
Éadaí SOS - reuse, recycle and reduce
Underdogs - Looking for Ireland's Next Greatest Ladies Footballer
Junior Eurovision
Na Slimmers
Sport/Spórt
Rubgaí Beo - URC
GAA Beo - County Football and Hurling Club Championships, AIB Provincial Club Championships
Rugbaí na mBan - Vodafone IRFU intrepros
Peil na mBan - Live coverage of the Ladies Football Championship
Red Bull Cliff Diving Beo
Ceol/Music
Gradam Ceoil 2021
Opry le Daniel i gConnacht
Sé Mo Laoch
Drámaíocht/Drama
Ros Na Run
Foscadh - Film - Shelter - Trust, Vengeance and romance
Arracht - Film - Set during the Irish Famine
Doineann - Film - Storm - Psychological Thriller
The Queen V Patrick O'Donnell - Historical
Imported Programming
Why Women Kill
Stateless
Small Axe
Keeping Faith
The Golden Girls
The Wonder years
Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman
The Killing, The Bridge and Borgen on their player
News and Current Affairs/Nuacht 's Cúrsaí Reatha
Nuacht TG4
Fíorscéal
7 Lá
TG4 Ar Líne/Online
Molscéal
Bloc
Daoine Óga / Young People's
Na hInnealtóirí - Engineering series
Mo Shaol do Shaol - Comedy
An bhfuil a fhois agat? - How things work
Timpeall Orainn - Nature