RTÉ | Lifestyle Development Round 2017 | Deadline 13th March 2016

RTÉ LIFESTYLE DEVELOPMENT ROUND 2017

RTÉ Lifestyle would like to fund the development of a number of series.

The selected series would potentially air in mid-week and Sundays at 20.30h slots.

The deadline for submissions is Friday 13th May at 12pm.

Please see press release below:

"Our recent productions include What Are You Eating,You Should Really See a DoctorandHome of the Year.We are also in production with an Obs doc property series calledFind Me a Homeand a personal finance series calledMy Money and Me. In order to keep refreshing our pipeline and our talent pool, we need formats and talent that speak to a broad mainstream audience and that work at 25 minutes. Recent research conducted by B&A for RTE has shown that Personal Finance, The Future of Our Children and Property remain areas of preoccupation with our audience but the research has also shown that the public are more wary than ever of ‘finger-wagging’ and judgemental presenters.

Other recent trends to take note of is the public’s willingness to embrace pure escapism in programmes likeThe Shelbourneand indeed the reception of nostalgic series likeBack in Time for Dinnerand The Great British Bake-Offon BBC2. We have yet to successfully mine this seam and ideas that tap into it would be very welcome. Humour, nostalgia and glamour are all ingredients that we could take more of.

We need to find new ways of developing our content for the current generation of viewers and of tapping into what really matter to them. To this end we have assigned development finance €2-5k depending on the project and resources to hone and shape a number of ideas which could be produced for early 2017.

We ask, in the first instance, that producers submit ideas into the eCommissioning system under the programme category "Lifestyle Development 2017.

Strict Deadline - Friday 13th May at 12 noon"