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THE NEW SERIES of RTÉ’s ever-popular Reeling in the Years is set to return on 11 April.
The new decade that’s set to be recapped features the years 2010-2019 and will be broadcast each on Sunday on RTÉ One and the RTÉ Player.
The previous series of the show featured the years 2000-2009 and was broadcast in late 2010.
Repeats have been among the most-watched programmes on the national broadcaster and it was previously voted by readers of the RTÉ guide as the “most popular home-produced TV show ever”.
RTÉ confirmed back in the January that the show would be returning in spring 2021 and has now provided further broadcast details.
Reeling in the Years was first made in 1999 and featured the events of the 1980s. It has since spawned a further four series, with episodes now covering each year from 1962 to 2009.
The first year of the new series will be particularly closely watched as 2010 is likely to feature the EU-IMF bailout of Ireland and a budget that was described by The Journal at the time as the “most austere in Ireland’s history”.
RTÉ says the new series of Reeling in the Years will also feature events “from Katie Taylor to Kodaline and from Mrs Brown’s Boys to the marriage referendum”.
Speaking about the return of the programme, producer John O’Regan said the end of the decade is “a natural time to look back”.
“We made the Nineties series in 2000, the Noughties series in 2010, and now we’re adding another 10 years to the collection. We’re pleased to offer viewers this latest selection of music and moments from RTÉ’s archives, starting Sunday 11 April on RTÉ One,” he said.
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Best show RTE ever made IMO
@John Quill: I agree love watching it from 60s to 90s. Watching the last ten years wouldn’t interest me in the same way though
@John Quill: better than Love/Hate?
@John Quill: It was until it was repeated ad nauseam. Then the novelty started to wear off.
@K C: would you believe L/H was on my mind when I made the statement
In 20 years time.. Reeling in the Years for 2020 will be some horror show.
@Rory Murphy: A 90 minute special.
@Rory Murphy: Quite possibly, but 20 years is a short gap. Imagine how/much or little would be said on a Reeling In program covering 1918, 1919, etc with the ‘Spanish’ Flu, even if there was large amounts of film available from the time.
@Rory Murphy: 21 init
@Rory Murphy: Definitely for the horror section.
@James O’Donovan: more like 9mins
Good old RTE, always bringing something from the archives so they don’t have to spend anything whilst making people who refuse to watch them pay for the wages of Tubridy,D’Arcy etc.
@AllyK: Tubridy generates far more revenue for RTE than his own wages.
@Donal McCarthy: so does a McDonald’s worker. They don’t get paid more.
@Mark Reilly: classic
@Donal McCarthy: I should hope so. Wouldn’t be great business model if an employee was getting a bigger wage than the company was taking in.
The only thing I ever watch on RTE. Not worth the licence.
@Jane Alford: 7 radio stations, 3 TV stations, and an orchestra. Not bad for the licence fee.
@sean o’dhubhghaill: Oh please stop. They offer nothing but pure and utter muck.
@David Corrigan: You have obviously never heard the Symphony Orchestra. Try listening to dome of the radio dramas.
@sean o’dhubhghaill: how about we all give €10 a year to keep the orchestra and reeling in the years and axe everything else
@Jane Alford: All the sport alone is worth the fee, current affairs, radio 1, lyric,… you dont know how good we have it
From U2 & Father Ted to Kodaline and Mrs. Brown’s Boys, Jaysus!
So lots of people staring into their phones so.
@ Donal McCarthy but why should I have to contribute to Tubridy wages when I despise watching him?
@AllyK: we despise criminals and murders but we still have to contribute to looking after them in prison, such is life!! It must be tiring being continuous whinger
Great stuff. A superb show looking, forward to it. One thing RTE has bang on.
Gonna say the same showing old clips to music sure a college student could do that,where are the New Gameshows any Gobdaw could buy Family fortunes currently being murdered by Gino d campo .
If you insist on repeats why not Gaybos old interviews and Bracken/ Glenroe.etc
A blatant rip-off of ‘The Rock ‘n Roll Years’ which was on the BBC from 1985-1994! Still enjoyable though…
What’s that decade called?
@Thomas O’ Donnell: noughties & teenies
No thanks
Lovely, just what the country needs right now. A recap.
@Mike Keane:
I’ll be watching it.
Would love to see MTUSA shown again.. Music was brillant on it.. Imo.
Is three or four years really enough perspective to look back at the events of 2016-19 from..?
Shouldn’t Rte have left it another few years, as they did with other decades – I think we’ll have a different objective opinion of controversial people and events from further out.. For example Obama and Joe Biden’s visits to Ireland in 2011 and 2016 will be viewed and covered differently now than they were at the time, and perspective/context surely help Reeling in Years..
@David Willis: the 90′s were done in 2000 and the 00′s in 2010. You could argue they are more of their time than the 60′s, 70′s & 80′s, but they still fit in nicely. No better way to end the 1999 year than with Fatboy Slim-Right Here, Right Now. So they should do it now.
Looking forward to it. The music should be interesting too
Best thing RTE ever did full stop.
The last series 2001-2010 had alot less music then previous series, probably saving on the royalties….I hope they revert to the original….I have the dvd box set and always have it on. Brilliant work by RTE.
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