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NEW RTÉ DRAMA Rebellion pulled in hundreds of thousands of viewers last night.
The brand-new 1916 television drama drew an average of 619,000 viewers and a 41% share of the available audience watched the hour-long episode.
An additional 45,000 watched the first episode of Rebellion on RTÉ One+1, and 9,200 on RTÉ Player where it remains available to viewers.
The five-part series is a key part of RTÉ’s centenary coverage, and stars Charlie Murphy, Ruth Bradley, Sarah Greene and Brian Gleeson. It depicts the events of Easter 1916 as seen through the eyes of a group of friends – all fictional characters – from Dublin, Belfast and London.
The series is written by Colin Teevan (the man who wrote last year’s Charlie) and directed by Aku Louhimies from Finland.
Viewers
Last night The Voice of Ireland attracted an average audience of 486,900 (share 33%), while Francis Brennan’s brand new series of At Your Service attracted an average audience of 455,500, and Fair City’s storyline featuring Heather (Una Kavanagh) brought in 478,000 viewers.
Glen Killane, Managing Director of RTÉ Television, said: “[Rebellion] is a major part of the RTÉ 1916 output and marks the beginning of a series of programming across television, radio and online that audiences can engage with, understand, commemorate and celebrate 1916.”
Other 1916 television programmes due on RTÉ this centenary year include 1916, a three-part documentary series narrated by Liam Neeson; Joe Duffy’s Children of the Revolution; Michael Portillo’s The Enemy Files, and Bob Geldof on Yeats.
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I taught it was a great show. Looking forward to next week.
You need to be taught a few more things it seems.
“I Tawt I Taw A Puddy Tat”
Taut direction and acting.
The same type of people who support Irish Water were supporters of king and country in 1914
I think the real story here is that there are nearly half a million morons who watch that voice crap.
And it is most certainly crap.
will it be repeated any day this week id like to see it but rte player is out as i have about the same internet speeds as the rebellion leaders had in 1916 :-(
Very good production.
Great production…
Enjoyed it. Built a nice platform to build the series.
That article sums up the taste of a large portion of this country’s viewership. ‘At your service’ and ‘Voice of Ireland’ with huge numbers. I can see ‘Operation Transformation’ pulling in 2m plus at this rate. Good God! Watched Rebellion. The acting was quite good. The production quality itself seems good. Hopefully the action will extend beyond one usage of the F word next week and location might move outside a mocked up room in a tenement house. It looked like every scene was filmed inside the Little Museum of Dublin.
I didn’t but was it as epic looking as the posters?
It was decent, not much action but good story and acting
Are you referring to the over-acting coupled with the poor script? Looks beautiful, but that’s it so far.
Anything RTE usually touches is usually complete and utter garbage, and that includes it’s so called best show ‘Love Hate’. I think I’ll give this show a miss.
600,000 out of over 4million population is quite small…considering it is a huge part of history…Maybe next episode will gather more views
Yeah – the Rebellion was a long time ago. A lot has happened since – going virtually bankrupt for example!
600K is not small out of 4m. These days viewership figures are a whole other kettle of fish compared to what they used to be.
Television audiences aren’t measured the same way as a Census. They’re measured against what’s know as Total TV, the amount of people watching television at the particular time the show is broadcast. This is how the share is calculated. Weird, I know but it’s more accurate for share than always comparing it to the Universe ( 4 million or 3.3 million adults).
The girl, are you really that thick? I’ll give you an example. I’d imagine there are no children in the country under the age of 13 that watched it. That’s a large number of people taken from your 4m.
Their was 6 people watching with me but just say an average of 3 was watching each tv that’s nearly 2 million
No
Like the Rising itself, only a small portion of the population followed it from the first episode.
Sh!t…… I forgot all about it…. Any good ?
y ask us bag…
There is a repeat at 23.00 Saturday I think.
Nice one BW
Should be on the player. It pleasantly surprised me and I look forward to next week.
If you want to know what really happened in 1916 and what was achieved, just take some time out of your day to travel to Number 16 Moore Street and soak up it all up.
Had it not been for the patriots and martyrs who took it upon themselves to pre-empt Home Rule, your No 16 experience would be an altogether different experience.
While you’re there, why not drop into Selfridges, M&S, Tesco or HMV on your way home to watch Premier League Football, Coronation Street or Eastenders.
Which branch of Selfridges is handiest for Moore St?
Arnotts
Football is universally watched and there are more American shows on TV than British ones, in fact the UK is probably more Americanised these days.
Nobody I know follows the Premier League.
Perhaps I’m too much of a West Brit.
The irony.
All Irish men I know have an English football team they support, you guys love our culture accept there’s no pie culture here which is VERY disappointing.
I didn’t know Gordon Ramsay was in it.
I enjoyed the first episode of Deutschland 83.//
Too much swearing which is not historically accurate as was the reference to Sinn Fein
Also having too many charcters was confusing at times.
Sean O Casey covered the rising very well in Plough and the Stars with less than 10 characters and great emotional intensity.
Apart from that it was good
Shinners are experts are rewriting history, we don’t need the national broadcaster repeating SF/IRA propaganda
Only 5 episodes – first one wasted a lot of time then. V high quality though
Storyline looks good so far. Production could be better. The sound was very poor in places and theres too much shaky camera. I’m a fan though.
There was a scene where a British Army Senior officer discussed the situation. He was wearing military ‘bars’ on his chest. I’d swear one of them was an Irish army one replete with a tricolour. Anyone else see this.
Darts, anyone??
Another version of Love/Hate!
How do they know? Presume they take a poll and extrapolate?
…because the people on the telly CAN see you.
Certain households have a box that tracks what they view. Each member of the household has a unique code to sign into this box which registers them as a unique demographic (men aged 16-34, kids under 9). They then take the amount viewing on the boxes and apply it to the rest of the population, for example 41% watched it on the boxes so approximately 41% watched it overall. It’s not perfect but it’s more accurate than a survey.
Learn something new every day, thanks
Didn’t realize Kevin Bacon was in it, who knew!
Does he play the little lad of tricks?
@Mike Moran
The actor holding the rifle is Brian Gleeson, though there is a slight resemblance between him and Kevin Bacon.
Cool
And I am one of those 600,000 people.. lol.
Had to renew my purevpn subscription to get my hands on rte player in my country but it was worth it..
here’s the source that might help anyone: https://www.purevpn.com/unblock-rte-player/
For 10 seconds. It is typical of statistics, massaged to suit. It is the same wth the census form and the Irish language- structured in such a way to suit certain vested interests. The people making the money from grants and funding need to be named and shamed for robbing the taxpayers and wasting their money. Build homes instead.
I didn’t
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