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New Dublin-based drama among highlights as Virgin Media Television unveils new season schedule

The station is promising "exciting original Irish programming, trusted journalism, premium live sport, international drama and returning audience favourites"

[Ireland AM's Tommy Bowe, Muireann O'Connell and Alan Hughes]

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Ireland AM's Tommy Bowe, Muireann O'Connell and Alan Hughes

Virgin Media Television has unveiled its new season schedule - with plenty on offer for Irish viewers.

The station is promising "exciting original Irish programming, trusted journalism, premium live sport, international drama and returning audience favourites".

Programmes include Home Truths, multiple documentaries featuring familiar faces from Virgin Media Television sharing the stories behind issues that have shaped their own lives.

It will draw on their personal experiences while also offering an honest, authentic and deeply human perspective on topics that matter.

In Crisis in the Classroom, Ireland AM presenter and former Special Needs Assistant Eric Roberts meets families, principals and SNAs across the country to explore the growing pressures facing special needs education in Ireland, and the impact stretched resources and support services are having on children, schools and families.

In Health Hysteria: Are Women Being Gaslit?, broadcaster Katja Mia draws on her personal experience of living with endometriosis as she examines the challenges women face navigating healthcare, misinformation and the search for answers about their health.

The season also examines the impact of life online through two personal documentaries.

In Deepfake Ireland, following her own experience of becoming the target of an AI-generated pornographic image, Grinne Seoige explores the disturbing rise of AI-generated abuse and challenges those in power to act now to protect us and our children.

[Grinne Seoige]

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Grinne Seoige(Image: Virgin Media)

Meanwhile, in Toxic Threads, Brian Dowling Gourounlian explores the realities of online bullying and harassment through the lens of his own experience as the target of online trolling.

Separately, Brain Doctors: Inside Neurosurgery will return. Viewers will be given unprecedented access to Beaumont Hospital's neurosurgery department and the life-changing work carried out every day.

It will follow extraordinary patients, their families and the surgeons entrusted with their care, capturing the skill, courage and compassion behind some of the country's most complex medical procedures while showcasing the cutting-edge technology transforming modern brain surgery in Ireland.

Gogglebox Ireland and Living with Lucy are also set to return.

In addition, a new drama, Complicit, will air. It is set in in a Dublin suburb and will star Claire Goose, Moe Dunford and Jason O'Mara. It centres around an unexpected death as Jen Molloy finds herself trapped by a lie that threatens to unravel her life, forcing her to make impossible choices to protect the people she loves.

VMTV will continue to show fan favourites such as I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, The Voice UK, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, The Graham Norton Show, The Masked Singer UK and The 1% Club. Fans can also stay connected to the much-loved worlds of Coronation Street and Emmerdale.

Anthony Nilan, Director of Programming at Virgin Media Television, said: For all the talk of algorithms and endless choice, audiences still want the same thing, programmes worth stopping for.

"As a national broadcaster, our job is to cut through the doom scrolling and bring together trusted information, unforgettable moments, and brilliant stories that get people talking."

He continued: "This season delivers exactly that. From homegrown Irish productions to major international hits, breaking news and trying to convince your friends you'd definitely make it into The 1% Club, we've built a schedule packed with the shows you'll recommend, the characters you'll become invested in and the kind of telly obsession that keeps you hitting next episode.

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