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Has Ireland got talent? TV3 will be hoping there’s some lingering somewhere as it confirmed that Ireland’s Got Talent, its version of the UK television contest, will be its big Saturday night entertainment show in 2018, the year that marks the 20th anniversary of the channel.
The broadcaster rolled out the purple carpet at the National Concert Hall in Dublin on Wednesday for the launch of its new season of programming, on which it is spending at least €40 million.
Six Nations rugby, to which TV3 has the rights for four years from next spring, should prove the biggest ratings magnet, and TV3 confirmed that Ronan O’Gara will be part of its panel for the tournament.


But the broadcaster, which also owns the channels 3e and Be3, will also be hoping that the Six Nations has a “halo effect” on the rest of its schedule, bringing in more viewers to key peak-time slots in a cut-throat commercial television market where every cent of advertising counts.
Ireland’s Got Talent, derived from Simon Cowell’s Britain’s Got Talent, will be presented by Lucy Kennedy, with Louis Walsh, Denise van Outen, Jason Byrne and Michelle Visage the judges with the buzzers.

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