Reeling within the Years is lastly set to return tonight after over a decade with none new episodes.
irst airing in 1999, the present captures iconic moments in yearly since 1963, with the most recent season having completed in 2009.
Now, over 10 years later, the producers at RTÉ have wrapped up modifying on the final decade (2010-2019), with ten new episodes set to air st arting tonight.
Tonight’s episode, which can come out at 8.30pm on RTÉ One and the RTÉ participant, is ready to give attention to the whole lot essential from 2010.
Reeling within the Years producer John O’Regan mentioned on the Ryan Tubridy Present final week what viewers ought to anticipate from this sixth season.
“The kids – I suppose you name them the tough years,” he stated. “We’ll see what individuals make of it, however I imply what we tried to do with the programme is to make the identical kind of programme that we’ve made all alongside.
“We’re aiming for that mix of Irish and international, and upbeat/downbeat music, gradual and quick, and mix of reports and present affair, and music and sport.”
As for what will probably be coated: “In the mean time we’re concentrating on the early years, so prime of the checklist could be Katie Taylor, the London Olympics, the bailout in 2010, the Troika coming in, the referendum on identical intercourse marriage.
“You have received Brexit, Love/Hate on the telly, Mrs Brown’s Boys, the MeToo motion, Black Lives Matter, Garth Brooks coming to play Croke Park, or not.”
Music is likely one of the most essential components of the present, and Mr O’Regan defined that the method of deciding when to plug a sure music is a tough one.
“You at all times need to foreground the Irish soundtracks, and also you at all times need to usher in as many pop chart hits as you may,” he stated.
Mr O’Regan stated he has 15 hardbacks in his properties with hand-written notes detailing every essential second within the decade, making it simpler for him to place the entire image collectively.
One of many choices already made because of this course of has been to play Taylor Swift’s hit 2012 single We Are By no means Ever Getting Again Collectively over clips of the Mahon tribunal, which investigated allegations of corrupt funds to politicians relating to political choices.
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