Your starter for 10: what, apart from the Late Late Toy Show, is the most-watched programme on Irish television this century? By the metric of average ratings (not the more flattering “peak” numbers), the answer at the time of recording is the first episode of the Irish version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? On October 17th, 2000, the Tuesday night debut of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Indeed, on six occasions that autumn-winter, more than one million viewers tolerated those boring early rounds, putting Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? So in the unlikely event that The Wall ever gets its own Irish version, it will simply have to be on Virgin Media One.

Source: The Irish Times October 15, 2019 04:41 UTC