The Movie Show (Irish TV series)

The Movie Show was a half-hour weekly Irish television series which served as RTÉ's flagship movie review show. First broadcast in 1993 until September 2001, it was presented by Dave Fanning, who was amongst the many people outraged when the show was axed. Movie companies were also said to be distressed at its axing. Fanning criticised RTÉ's management, who never once consulted with him before making their decision, and said the axing of the show was "ludicrous" and "outrageous". He implied that RTÉ ought to produce a programme that reviews movies as it is seen as cheap and the interviews are paid for by the movie companies themselves. Fanning insisted that it had been "a very cheap programme and we were always under budget".[2]

The Movie Show
GenreMovie review
Presented byDave Fanning
Theme music composerFloyd Cramer
Opening theme"Last Date"
Country of originIreland
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodesAlmost 400[1]
Production
Production locationsRTÉ Television Centre, Donnybrook, Dublin 4, Ireland
Running time25-30 minutes
Release
Original networkNetwork 2
RTÉ 1
Original release7 October 1993 (1993-10-07) –
September 2001 (2001-09)
Related
What?!Movie

The Movie Show was touted as returning in 2002.[3]

The Movie Show was the working title of a new film review series for the 2012–13 season on RTÉ. The series ran for 16 episodes, each of 25 minutes duration.[4]

2012 return

On Thursday 1 November 2012, the show, produced by Animo productions,[5] returned to RTÉ Two at 9.00pm for 30 minutes and ran for 16 weeks.[6] It was presented by Mairead Farrell and Eoghan McDermott with reporters Angela Scanlon, Rob Ross and Daniella Moyles.[7][5] The first episode had interviews with Daniel Craig and Ross Noble and a review of Fun Size.[8]

References
  1. DAVE FANNING @ RTÉ 2fm. Accessed 20 December 2008.
  2. Breslin, John (28 January 2001). "FANNING THE FLAMES; DJ Dave boils over RTÉ decision to pull plug on". BNET. Retrieved 20 December 2008. Originally published in the Sunday Mirror
  3. Conor Keane (3 December 2001). "RTE to axe O'Leary talk show at end of January in attempt to cut costs". Irish Examiner. Archived from the original on 30 December 2004. Retrieved 21 December 2009.
  4. "Archived". www.rte.ie. RTÉ. 2012–2013. Archived from the original on 17 September 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  5. "'We Will Need a Further Hearing' -- Politicians Want RTÉ to Hand over More Files". 22 July 2023.
  6. "Back to the future for Mairead as she's set to host Movie Show". Herald. 17 October 2012. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
    - "Movie Show begins on RTÉ Two tonight". RTÉ. 1 November 2012. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
  7. "About the Show". RTÉ. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
  8. "It's too early to give Movie Show the flick despite critical savaging". Irish Independent. 9 November 2012. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
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