RTÉ Television
RTÉ COMMISSIONS SERIES FOUR OF LOVE/HATE
RTÉ is delighted to confirm that Love/Hate has been officially commissioned for a fourth series.
The series will start filming later this spring. The third series is nominated for 11 IFTA awards this Saturday including:
Best Drama Suzanne McAuley and Steve Matthews (producers)
Director TV Drama David Caffrey
Writer TV Drama Stuart Carolan
Actor TV Robert Sheehan
Actor TV Tom Vaughan-Lawlor
Actress TV Charlie Murphy
Supporting Actor TV Peter Coonan
Supporting Actress Susan Loughnane
Editing Film/Drama Dermot Diskin
Production Design Stephen Daly
Original Score Ray Harman
Commissioning Editor for RTÉ Drama Jane Gogan said: “I am very pleased to confirm that contracts for a fourth series of Love/Hate have been signed. In advance of Saturday night’s IFTAs this is a good opportunity to wish the cast and crew the very best of luck at the awards and all good wishes going into the new series.”
Series producer Suzanne McAuley said: “The entire cast and crew are really looking forward to getting back into Love/Hate mode again. We have a fantastic team in place and are so proud to be nominated for 11 IFTAs. It’s so rewarding to be involved in such a successful project that has attracted an incredibly dedicated following and won critical acclaim as well.”
An average audience of 953,000* viewers watched the season finale of the third series on Sunday 16 December 2012, which represented a 56% share of the audience. The reach was over 1.2 million viewers.** A peak of over one million (1,074,440)*** viewers tuned into RTÉ One at 10:27pm that night to watch the gripping series’ climax. Overall, the third series had an average of 748,000 viewers, which represented a 42% share of the audience.
The first and second series of Love/Hate are available to watch in the United States on HULU. ITV Global Entertainment represents Love/Hate on behalf of RTÉ and Octagon Films. To date, the first and second series of Love/Hate have also been broadcast in Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the MiddleEast. Australia and South Korea have confirmed purchase of the third series.
Love/Hate is written and created by Stuart Carolan and produced by Octagon Films for RTÉ. Its cast, now household names, includes Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Robert Sheehan, Peter Coonan, Charlie Murphy, Aoibhinn McGinnity, Susan Loughnane and Jason Barry.
Notes to editor:
All TV audience data quoted live + VOSDAL – source: TAM Ireland Ltd/Nielsen TAM
* 953,000 is the average number of viewers who watched the entire sixth programme.
**1,259,300 is the +1 minute reach figure: the cumulative number of viewers who tuned in for at least one minute during the programme
***peak-minute audience of 1,074,440 viewers recorded at 10:27pm
Love/Hate website: http://www.rte.ie/drama/tv/featured/lovehate/
Date: Thursday February 7th 2013
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For further information please contact:
Rayna Connery, RTÉ Television Acting Senior Press and Publicity Officer Tel: 01 2083169/ 087 9862902 email: rayna.connery@rte.ie