RTÉ Call for Ideas | Entertainment | Deadline 29th Jan 2016

Thu 17th December 2015

RTE Entertainment is seeking proposals from suitably experienced production companies for a topical panel show in which Brendan O’Connor and a panel of regular guests take a wry, provocative and thoroughly entertaining look at the week’s news and events.

No of Episodes/ Duration 16 x 52 mins

Transmission: RTÉ One Wednesday , 21.30 May 2016

Budget: Up to €70,000 per hour excluding presenter fee.

The deadline for receipt of submissions is 12 noon Friday January 29th. (Strict Deadline)

The show should harness Brendan’s strengths as a columnist, opinion former and agent provocateur.

A live show, in front of a studio audience, the studio should be a fun, playful space where the rules are different, surprises happen and the audience is guaranteed something different.

Getting away from the “presenter behind a desk” format it might be filmed either in the round, (with audiences surrounding Brendan and the panel), using the green room and back stage areas to create a relaxed, off-the-cuff, cafe/pub vibe.

The key weekly segments might be:

Studio Panel with 2/3 returning guests, (from a panel of 7/8)
1 x Weekly Studio Guest
VT Inserts
A number of Studio Based Items
Weekly Competition
Audience interaction through Facebook/Twitter/Periscope

Proposals should identify the confirmed key production personnel of Producer, Director and writers. We are seeking proposals only from companies with a strong proven track record in making high end studio based programmes.

We ask, in the first instance, that producers submit ideas into the eCommissioning system:

https://e-commissioning.rte.ie/SWIFT.Web/skins/rte/login.aspx

under the programme category "Entertainment Wednesday 21.30 – May 2016"

The deadline for receipt of submissions is 12 noon Friday January 29th. (Strict Deadline)