Continuing from the success of Season 1 on GOLD, Season 2 of Bridget & Eamon hits UK screens on the Friday 19 May with a double bill from 11pm.
Back in the USA!
The US premiere of Bridget & Eamon Season 2 is now live on Amazon Video US.
Both seasons are free to watch for all of Amazon Prime’s 66 million US subscribers!
Bridget & Eamon hit the States!!
Bridget & Eamon Season 1 is now available to all 12 million subscribers of HULU, the American subscription video on demand service!
We won!
Photo by Michael Chester
We won two IFTAs!
Best Comedy Show and Best Director (Comedy)!
And the winning comedy Bridget and eamon cast and crew thank all the team from the series #congrats #iftagala16 pic.twitter.com/Q38MSxCVFq
— Irish FilmTV Academy (@IFTA) October 7, 2016
Jason Butler accepts his second award for Bridget & Eamon at the #IFTAGala16 Awards @BridgetandEamon https://t.co/pDZuYd475m
— Irish FilmTV Academy (@IFTA) October 21, 2016
Season 1 sold to UKTV Gold
Bridget & Eamon season 1 has been acquired by UKTV to air on the station’s comedy channel GOLD.
The series is the first fully RTÉ funded comedy to air in the UK!
‘Bridget & Eamon’ debuted on RTÉ 2 in February of this year and was renewed for a second season last July.
RTÉ Head of Comedy, Eddie Doyle, said:
“This is a real breakthrough for Irish comedy in Britain. Building on the success of Mrs Browns Boys, Bridget & Eamon shows how Irish writers, performers and producers can compete in one of the biggest, most creative comedy marketplaces in the world.”
The deal was brokered by Edel Edwards, head of international programme sales for RTÉ, and Daniel Thomas, acquisitions executive for UKTV.
Edwards stated: “Bridget & Eamon is just very, very funny. It has great jokes, great characters and has delivered great audiences for RTÉ2. We’re confident that Gold’s viewers will laugh as loudly to Bridget and Eamon’s 1980s-inspired antics as RTÉ2’s — especially anybody who remembers those days of Dallas, Dynasty and massive shoulder pads. And with a second season due to launch in October, the even better news is that there’s more hilarity to come.”
Thomas added: “We’re very excited to bring Bridget and Eamon to British TV screens. The series is absolutely hilarious and is the perfect addition to Gold’s existing slate of high quality comedy. We’re sure our audience will love the witty one liners and brilliantly executed 80s nostalgia as much as RTÉ’s audience did in Ireland.”