| Colm and Jim-Jim's Home Run | |
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| Also known as | Home Run |
| Genre | Game show |
| Country of origin | Ireland |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | RTÉ One |
| Release | 16 November – 21 December 2008 |
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Colm and Jim-Jim's Home Run was a game show broadcast on RTÉ One on Sunday evenings after the Six One News. It was presented by, respectively, Colm Hayes and Jim-Jim Nugent. First aired on Sunday 16 November 2008 at 18:30, it was a creation of Vision Independent Productions. Contestants could win €25,000 without answering a single question.[1] To promote the show the presenters appeared on chat show Tubridy Tonight the night before the first episode was broadcast. [2] [3] The programme received mostly negative reviews from critics. However the format of the show was purchased by Fremantle Media, and is now available for international distribution, with interest from the UK and US, with Colm and Jim-Jim receiving interest to host a UK version[4][5][6][7]
The show was axed due to RTÉ cutbacks in June 2009.[8]
- ^ "Audience Tickets: New RTÉ Entertainment Show". RTÉ. Retrieved 25 October 2008.
- ^ http://www.tribune.ie/news/article/2009/feb/01/the-diary-ken-sweeney-colm-and-jim-jim-score-a-hom/[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Tubridy Tonight, Saturday, 15 November 2008". RTÉ. Retrieved 14 November 2008.
- ^ https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2008/1122/1227276708826.html The Irish Times.
- ^ http://www.tribune.ie/arts/article/2008/nov/30/patrick-freyne-what-a-crowd-of- Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine drama-queen
- ^ entertainment.ie/music/details.asp?ID=2432361
- ^ "Teenagers on the loose".
- ^ RONAN McGREEVY (13 June 2009). "The drama heats up at Montrose". The Irish Times. Retrieved 17 June 2009.
The programmes Seoige, Pobal, Class Act, Colm and Jim Jim's Home Run, The Symphony Sessions, European Dance and Moto GP have all been axed.