Mission Beach USA
2010 Irish TV series or programme
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Mission Beach USA is a reality television series produced for RTÉ Television by Rival Media[4] for RTÉ's youth strand TRTÉ[5] which aired on RTÉ Two.[6] Rival Media had previously produced a series of the same name, for the BBC Switch format, which aired in 2008.[7]
| Mission Beach USA | |
|---|---|
| Presented by | Anna Nolan[1] |
| Country of origin | Ireland |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 2[2] |
| Production | |
| Running time | 26 mins[citation needed] |
| Original release | |
| Network | RTÉ Two[2] / TRTÉ[3] |
| Release | 25 October 2010 – 16 December 2011 |
In the RTÉ series, eight Irish teens, reportedly selected from several thousand appliants,[8] head for Fort Lauderdale in the United States to train as lifeguards.[9] Over the course of 3 weeks they join a group of other teens who are training at the Fort Lauderdale Junior Lifeguard Programme.[10]
A second series was commissioned by RTÉ[11] and was scheduled to film, with 8 new participants, in Fort Lauderdale during mid-2011.[12] Series two was broadcast on RTÉ 2 later in 2011.[citation needed]