TWO new sports programmes and a new chat show are among RTE's television programmes for the summer.
Radio sports pundit Des Cahill makes his debut as a television host on a Gaelic games programme Sideline View, while Tom McGurk will present what RTE says is a "a quizzicnl look at sporting matters, both serious and lighthearted".
The new chat show, the Kennedy Show, will be hosted by Mary Kennedy and will go out live on Saturday nights on RTE 1.
Imported drama includes the BBC six part production of Pride and Prejudice which will run on Sunday nights from July 13th.
Also arriving on RTE are the ubiquitous Simpsons. The series will be broadcast on Mondays and Fridays from June 2nd.
The XFiles will be rerun and when the present series of Friends ends in July, Network 2 will run the sitcom again from the first episode.
Other features of the summer schedule include: a four part series on the world's worst air disasters; a seven part BBC series on the first World War; Litreacha Ahhaile, a series of "videoletters" from Irish emigrants; Nash Bridges starring Don Johnson of Miami Vice fame as a San Francisco police inspector with a turbulent personal life.