Some of Ireland’s best-loved celebrities are set to share their personal stories in new documentaries as part of Virgin Media’s new TV schedule.
The Ballymount-based broadcaster is preparing to unveil its full autumn season in the coming weeks, and audiences can get a first look at some of the stories, personalities and conversations set to feature across the schedule.
From the housing crisis and pressures on the education system to women’s health, online abuse and the hidden dangers of life in the digital age, the new season will place real people and lived experiences at the heart of the conversation.
Gogglebox Ireland. Pic: Virgin Media Television
Ireland AM host Eric Roberts is set to host his own show, Crisis in a Classroom, drawing on his former life as a Special Needs Assistant.
Eric explores the growing challenges facing special needs education in Ireland.
Meeting families, principals and SNAs across the country, he examines the impact stretched resources and support services are having on children, schools and families.
Eric Roberts on Crisis in the Classroom. Pic: Virgin Media Television
Meanwhile, in Health Hysteria: Are Women Being Gaslit?, presenter Katja Mia draws on her own experience to investigate why so many women face years of unanswered questions when it comes to their health.
The documentary explores gaps in women’s healthcare research, the search for answers and the increasingly influential role the internet plays in informing, and at times misleading, women about their health.
Health Hysteria: Are Women Being Gaslit? Pic: Virgin Media Television
Gráinne Seoige is set to share her deeply personal experience after a deepfake pornographic image threatened to derail her political ambitions.
In Deepfake Ireland: The Naked Truth, the documentary shares the harrowing experiences of fellow victims, including a 15-year-old girl.
Grainne Seoige will share her deeply personal experience in Deepfake Ireland: The Naked Truth. Pic: Virgin Media Television
And Six O’Clock Show host Brian Dowling draws on his own experiences from being trolled online as he presents Toxic Threads.
Through conversations with people who have experienced harassment firsthand, as well as experts working in the field, he investigates the scale of the problem and what can be done to hold perpetrators accountable.
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