A whole host of tv stars came together this afternoon for the launch of Virgin Media’s spring schedule.
It’s set to be an exciting season of telly, as some of our favourite dramas, soaps and reality shows return to our screen and we get the chance to sink our teeth into some incredible new documentaries and sport offerings.
The hotly anticipated second series of Blood, starring Adrain Dunbar, Grainne Keenan and Ian Lloyd Anderson is set to air this February.
This season will see Adrian’s character Jim Hogan dealing with the shock arrest of his eldest daughter Fiona for murder as his family crumbles around him.
The most talked about TV show is back as we head to South Africa for the launch of the winter edition of ‘Love Island’ on Virgin Media One on January 12th, with new host Laura Whitmore flying the flag for Ireland.
Virgin Media Sport analyst Kevin Kilbane and former Love Island contestant Maura Higgins take to the rink as ‘Dancing on Ice’ returns on Sundays to Virgin Media One.
“The Late Tackle’, a brand new entertainment show with a focus on rugby will launch at the end of the month presented by Muireann O’Connell and Love Island winner Greg O’Shea.
‘Prison Breaks’ which launches on January 22nd, follows businesswoman Domini Kemp as she trains prisoners in Wheatfield Prison to become entrepreneurs.
For the first time cameras will follow Domini’s prison students in the classroom and around the prison as well as meeting some of her graduates to find out if they stayed on the straight and narrow.
‘The Guards: Inside The K’, a brand new documentary series will launch in March. The series will give viewers unprecedented access to the work carried out by An Garda Síochána in some of the toughest scenarios possible.
From breaking down doors, to the aftermath of shootings, this series provides a no-holds-barred look at what it’s like to be a guard in Ireland today.
‘You, Me & Surrogacy’ explores the increasingly popular phenomenon of surrogacy through the experience of those using this challenging, expensive and unregulated method as a way to try to become parents.
Can you remember your ‘First Love’? In this new show we follow people who yearn to go back and find that first love. We see how they track them down and what happens when they come face to face years after that first flush of romance.
‘Generation Dating’, starting in February, is a brand new Irish dating show where a young person and an older person, both looking for love, meet and run each other’s love lives in a quest to take the leap and find that perfect date. From online dating to dance halls our pair hunt for love for each other while developing a new friendship along the way.
From hanging out with new cubs inside the lion’s cage to tracking monkeys through Madagascar, ‘FOTA: Into The Wild’ starts on the February 2nd and takes animal lovers inside Cork’s Fota Wildlife Park and the incredible work they do all around the world to save animals at risk of extinction.
‘The Uneducatables’ brings viewers inside the Life Centre School in Cork where kids with no school left to go to are encouraged to learn in a less conventional setting. We follow a year in their lives as they battle challenges and demons to stay in education.