Media Matters: 65 new shows in RTÉ autumn schedule

Broadcaster's launch highlighted investment in drama, writes Colette Sexton

RTÉ celebrities at its autumn launch. Pic: RollingNews.ie

With a red carpet rolled out in front of Dublin’s Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, the token branded cupcakes, and its stars dolled up to the nines, RTÉ kicked off the season of autumn launches yesterday.

Crawling with well-known faces, producers, media buyers and journalists, there was standing room only at the event, namely because there were no seats in the lobby where the event was taking place, despite the fact that there were ...