Productions
Over a decade of broadcast television. Dozens of commissioned hours. Shows that found their audience and kept them coming back.
Fade Street
Fade Street RTÉ2 | 2 Series | Structured Reality The Irish Hills. Before Instagram, before influencers, Fade Street put four young Dublin women, including a pre-fame Vogue Williams on screen and created a cultural moment. Described by the Irish Times as "awful and brilliant in equal measure," it became the show Ireland loved to hate and couldn't stop watching. The format is proven, the nostalgia is real, and the appetite for a revival is louder than ever.
Celebrity Salon
Celebrity Salon Virgin Media One | Entertainment Format Six celebrities undergo an intensive beauty boot camp before working on real paying customers in a live salon environment. A returnable format with natural casting potential, built-in jeopardy and broad audience appeal.
The 2 Johnnies Do America (S1)
The 2 Johnnies Do America RTÉ2 | Travel Documentary | Series 1 | 4 x 40' Built on the back of Ireland's most popular podcast, over 500,000 listeners per week. The 2 Johnnies Do America sent Johnny B and Johnny Smacks to LA, Miami and Washington to explore what Irishness means in Trump's America. Part travel show, part live comedy, part cultural documentary.
Charleen & Ellie's Football Fever
Charleen & Ellie's Football Fever RTÉ Player | Sports & Entertainment A proven talent pairing with a built-in audience, dropped into the world of sport ahead of the Women's World Cup. Accessible, warm and shareable - a format that works for any major sporting event.
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The 2 Johnnies Take On
The 2 Johnnies Take On RTÉ2 | Comedy Documentary | 4 x 30' Same talent, new territory. The 2 Johnnies go deep into Irish subcultures - gaming, urban art, TikTok, niche sports - meeting the people who live there. A format that scales: new subject, same energy, endlessly repeatable.
Charleen & Ellie Go All In.
Charleen & Ellie Go All In RTÉ Player Original | 4 x 12' Two of Ireland's most followed podcasters, Charleen Murphy and Ellie Kelly of the Hold My Drink podcast, bring their audience from headphones to screen. Friendships, relationships, social media, identity. Unscripted, unfiltered, and built on a pre-existing audience of young Irish women. A digital-first format with clear platform potential.
Exiles
Exiles: Vancouver RTÉ2 | Reality | 8 x 30' Six young Irish people swap home for Vancouver — new city, new lives, new drama. The emigrant experience as a returnable format, with a fresh cast and a new city each series. Strong enough to earn comparisons to Fade Street on its release.
The 2 Johnnies Do America (Again)
The 2 Johnnies Do America (Again) RTÉ2 | Travel Documentary | Series 2 | 4 x 50' The lads were back, this time heading deep into the American South. Bigger characters, wilder challenges, and a completely different America to the one they'd found first time around, encountering quirky characters, taking on challenges, and investigating various subcultures, all while experiencing a mix of lavish and derelict parts of the U.S.. Proof that the format travels - literally and figuratively - and that the audience appetite was strong enough to bring them back for more.
The Trip Back to Tipp.
The Trip Back to Tipp RTÉ | Music Documentary Special A love letter to Féile - Ireland's legendary outdoor music festival at Semple Stadium in Thurles. Nostalgia, music and national identity in a single film. A template for any music heritage documentary.
Nurses
Nurses RTÉ2 | Observational Documentary | 6 x 30' Six trainee nurses. Two of Ireland's busiest hospitals. One final year. An access-led observational series following real people at a real turning point - made with genuine journalistic integrity and human warmth. The series provided a raw look at the transition from student life to the front lines of busy Irish hospitals, Cork University Hospital and University Hospital Waterford.
My Best Sustainable Life
My Best Sustainable Life RTÉ | Factual Entertainment | 4 x 30' Before climate content became appointment television, Straywave was already making it work. My Best Sustainable Life took well-known Irish faces - including The 2 Johnnies - and challenged them to genuinely change how they lived. Covered by the Irish Times, it sparked real conversation and proved that purpose-led entertainment doesn't have to sacrifice audience. A format with legs, and one that still relevant.
Young Dumb and Living off Mum
Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum was a reality TV series about spoiled young adults learning independence,, featuring Irish participants including Riyadh Khalaf. In the show, parents set up challenges for their children, forcing them to cook, clean, and work, with the most "useless" sent home, aiming for one winner to earn a prize and their parents pride.
Who's Building Ireland?
Who's Building Ireland? RTÉ One | Documentary Series Ireland is trying to build 300,000 homes by 2030. This series went behind the sites to meet the people actually doing it, crane operators, migrant workers, apprentices, family trades. The Irish Times credited it for coming at the housing crisis "from a new angle." Timely, human, and a format that works in any country facing a construction challenge.
Love Clinic
Love Clinic RTE Factual / Dating & Relationships | Format Less about matchmaking, more about the psychology of attraction. The Love Clinic went deeper than the average dating show — exploring what women actually want and why finding the right person is rarely straightforward. A format with genuine depth in a crowded genre.All the single ladies, all the single ladies, all the single ladies – now put your hands up!
Dublin Wives
Dublin Wives TV3 | Reality | 2 Series . was call by the media Ireland's answer to The Real Housewives, and it delivered. Dublin Wives peaked at 41% of all Irish adults, making it one of the most watched reality formats in Irish television history. A cast that generated genuine tabloid heat, two returning series, and a format with clear international franchise potential.
Being Sam Holden
Being Sam Holden Documentary | One-off At 22, forensic science student Sam Holden sat down at the World Series of Poker Main Event and walked away with nearly a million dollars. This character documentary followed what happened, and was picked up by Setanta for broadcast across its global network of television stations, proving that the right story travels regardless of scale or budget.
The 2 Johnnies Christmas Spectular
The 2 Johnnies Christmas Spectacular RTÉ2 | Live Entertainment Special High-energy festive variety built around Ireland's most bankable comedy duo. Sketches, music, special guests and live studio audience. A proven template for seasonal specials.. Hosted by Tipperary’s favourite duo, Johnny B and Johnny Smacks, the special featured mix of studio sketches, "Roscrea Santa," Special Guest appearances from singer Una Healy and impressionist Conor Moore, Music & Parodies: Performances including a boyband parody called "Eastlife" and a live studio band.T
National Lottery MoneySpinner Series
National Lottery MoneySpinner National Lottery | Live Event Youtube & RTE . Sixteen live shows. Sixteen towns and cities. Sixteen weeks of live floor television produced from hotels across Ireland, a genuinely demanding logistical and production undertaking that demonstrated Straywave's ability to deliver high-energy live event television at scale, week after week, anywhere in the country. The kind of production experience that very few independent companies in Ireland can match.
Brian & Pippa Get Married
Brian & Pippa Get Married RTÉ | Celebrity Documentary Irish documentary TV show on RTÉ that followed Irish TV presenter Brian Ormond and model/influencer Pippa O'Connor (now Ormond) as they planned their celebrity-filled wedding, focusing on the glamorous lead-up, decisions, and celebrations, including a lavish reception at the Powerscourt Hotel.