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Virgin Media Television presenters and stars at the new season launch.

How To Buy A Home, Gogglebox and lots of true crime to feature in Virgin Media's new season

The schedule features a number of new Irish dramas and crime documentaries.

NEW IRISH DRAMAS, original crime documentaries and live sport are among some of the things included in Virgin Media Television’s new autumn schedule.

The broadcaster announced the new lineup of programmes today, including a drama based on Graham Norton’s book Holding and a docu-series that looks at the issue of domestic abuse in Ireland.

Director of content at Virgin Media Television Bill Malone said that 2022 has been “a stand-out year” for the broadcaster, with the station seeing “record streaming figures” for the Virgin Media Player and the launch of new channel Virgin Media Four.

“Our new season schedule promises to continue this success with more Irish drama, more gripping documentaries, more Love Island, the Super Bowl live and a whole host of new series,” he said.

Among the new dramas announced by the broadcaster is Holding, a series based on the best-selling novel by Graham Norton, which will launch on Virgin Media One on 12 September. 

The series was filmed in Cork and stars Oscar-winner Brenda Fricker (My Left Foot) and  Conleth Hill (Game of Thrones). The ITV-made drama was previously shown on Virgin Media More but is now coming to the flagship channel. 

New six-part series The Vanishing Triangle, inspired by the true events of the 1990s that saw a number of women in the east of the country vanish without trace, will also be broadcast.

Faithless, a new comedy drama series co-written by and starring Baz Ashmawy, also features alongside a number of international dramas, including new detective series Ridley, starring Line of Duty’s Adrian Dunbar, and The Suspect, a thriller series starring Aidan Turner (Poldark).

Several new Irish documentaries will be shown on the station this season, including Until Death, a docu-series that investigates the issue of domestic abuse and femicide in Ireland and explores if things are getting worse. 

A Dublin Murder will focus on the killing of Rachel O’Reilly by her husband in 2004, while a new documentary on Graham Dwyer will explore how the Dublin architect was jailed for life for the murder of Elaine O’Hara. 

Six Bullets Fired will also be shown, which examines the death of George Nkencho, who was shot six times by armed Gardaí outside his family home in December 2020.

The Guards will also return this autumn, alongside brand-new series Lucy Investigates, which will see Lucy Kennedy explore some of the country’s subcultures.

A new six-part property show How To Buy A Home, fronted by Liz O’Kane and Michael Fry, will document the realities Irish people face in the search for a home.

As he prepares to end his stadium world tour with five nights in Croke Park this month, Garth Brooks: Coming Home will look at the country star’s special relationship with Ireland.

The Virgin Media News’ trio Richard Chambers, Gavan Reilly and Zara King will front a new series, The Group Chat, where they will discuss the stories making the headlines. This will air every Thursday night on Virgin Media Two starting from tomorrow. 

In sport, Virgin Media will broadcast live coverage of the Super Bowl for the first time as well as the NFL.

The Champions League, Europa League and Europa Conference League will all return, while the Nations League and Euro 2024 qualifiers will also keep football fans entertained. 

Rugby fans can catch the Guinness Six Nations, the TikTok Women’s Six Nations and the Under 20s tournament live across Virgin Media Television. The Cheltenham and Aintree racing festivals will also feature.

A winter and summer series of Love Island will also be back, as well as I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here in November.

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    Sep 1st 2022, 7:26 AM

    Nothing special on Repeat Media TV for the winter so. Maybe we get a few nee episodes of The Chase as well?

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    Sep 1st 2022, 7:47 AM

    Any chance of a full re-run of Neighbours?

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    Sep 1st 2022, 11:48 AM

    Can they give us new adverts too?

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    Sep 1st 2022, 4:17 PM

    @Keth Warsaw:
    Anything but those bloody Quote Devil ads

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    Sep 1st 2022, 4:02 PM

    “International Dramas”

    Also known as the police procedurals from England that ITV shown about 2 years ago and that vast majority of people have actually already seen.

    VMTV really makes RTÉ look professional, and that’s saying something.
    Wonder when the new VMTV channel will start airing Ireland AM and the Chase repeats too.

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    Sep 1st 2022, 9:19 PM

    @Darren Anthony Corr: they already started with repeats of the chase believe it or not! Such lazy scheduling. They have load of old shoes they could easily repeat if they don’t want to pay for new. content

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    Sep 1st 2022, 9:53 PM

    @Luke Ronan:
    The thing is, VMTV could actually be a decent channel if they actually bothered to be better than RTÉ rather than just competing with them, and do their own terrible versions of RTEs already terrible programming.
    There also isn’t any need for like 4 VMTV channels, 1 is clearly enough. The other 3 are just zombie channels on life support, mainly because they bought them off other companies to eliminate the competition but then didn’t actually have any plans for them.
    But the main VMTV just tries to emulate RTÉ shows in ridiculous ways, like having the news at 5:30 rather than RTEs 6-1, or their own version of the Late Late Toy Show.
    They should be trying to outshine RTÉ and it really wouldn’t be difficult to do, but VMTV is ridiculously lazy.

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