Photograph: CollinsRTÉ is set to wind down its in-house television documentary unit as it continues to find cost savings after the financial and governance crisis that shook the national broadcaster in 2023. “We have spoken to the in-house documentary team about some changes to how we will produce documentaries for RTÉ television and RTÉ Player next year,” the spokesman said. “RTE’s flagship TV documentary unit is just the latest to be earmarked for complete closure. This follows the closure of RTE’s religion department, as well as plans to hand both Fair City and The Late Late Show over to the private, for-profit sector. In May, RTÉ announced plans to switch production of some religious programming, specifically “Christian worship content”, to outside producers.
