[Rdd]

With all respect to VMTV, it’s up to the BBC who they sell their content to.

Unfortunately - and I say this as a sci-fi fan (yes I’m one of the few who love both sports and sci-fi) — Irish TV channels are not interested in science fiction, not since RTE aired Star Trek TNG in prime time in the late 1980s/early 1990s. Some shows got aired late at night after that (including a virtually entire run of Red Dwarf’s first eight series, which was all that had been made at the time) but nothing in prime time. They have no interest in airing Doctor Who even if they were given it for free.

TV3 aired the first two RTD series of Doctor Who and dropped it then. TG4 did a very haphazard run of Pertwee stories in 1999 too (very haphazard, some stories weren’t finish, had episodes aired out of order, confusing the two Peladon stories - it was a total mess).