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The Movie Show (Irish TV series)

1993–2001 Irish TV series

Summary

1993–2001 Irish TV series

Field	Value
image	RTÉ The Movie Show.jpg
genre	Movie review
presenter	Dave Fanning
country	Ireland
language	English
num_episodes	Almost 400
theme_music_composer	Floyd Cramer
opentheme	"Last Date"
runtime	25-30 minutes
location	RTÉ Television Centre, Donnybrook, Dublin 4, Ireland
network	Network 2
RTÉ 1
first_aired
last_aired
related	What?!Movie

RTÉ 1 The Movie Show is a half-hour weekly program that was broadcast in the Republic of Ireland. The television series 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".

The Movie Show was touted as returning in 2002.

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.

2012 return

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

References

[http://www.aertel.ie/2fm/davefanning/1067343.html DAVE FANNING @ RTÉ 2fm]. Accessed 20 December 2008.
Breslin}} Originally published in the ''[[Daily Mirror#Sunday Mirror, John. (28 January 2001). "FANNING THE FLAMES; DJ Dave boils over RTÉ decision to pull plug on". [[BNET]].
Conor Keane. (3 December 2001). "RTE to axe O'Leary talk show at end of January in attempt to cut costs". [[Irish Examiner]].
(2012{{ndash). "Archived". [[RTÉ]].
(17 October 2012). "Back to the future for Mairead as she's set to host Movie Show". [[The Herald (Ireland).
"About the Show". [[RTÉ]].
(22 July 2023). "'We Will Need a Further Hearing' -- Politicians Want RTÉ to Hand over More Files".
(9 November 2012). "It's too early to give Movie Show the flick despite critical savaging". [[Irish Independent]].

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