The Selection Box was a talent search reality TV show produced by Adare Productions

Adare Productions

Adare Productions is an Irish entertainment television production company. It has produced numerous television shows which have been broadcast in Ireland, including Delegation, Livin' with Lucy, Hanging with Hector, The Fame Game, and Fáilte Towers for Radio Telefís Éireann, and Glas Vegas and...

 for RTÉ

Raidió Teilifís Éireann

Raidió Teilifís Éireann is a semi-state company and the public service broadcaster of Ireland. It both produces programmes and broadcasts them on television, radio and the Internet. The radio service began on January 1, 1926, while regular television broadcasts began on December 31, 1961, making...

. It was directed by Brian Reddin and Brian Graham. It was broadcast on Network 2 (now RTÉ Two

RTÉ Two

RTÉ Two is a free-to-air general entertainment channel operated by Irish state broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann. RTÉ Two is available throughout the island of Ireland through digital terrestrial service Saorview, VHF and UHF bands, and is also available via satellite to Irish subscribers of...

) in 2001. It was produced to find a new presenter for a new Network 2 show called The Fame Game

The Fame Game

The Fame Game was a hugely popular television programme broadcast in Ireland on RTÉ Two as recently as 2003. It ran for four seasons from 2001 and was presented by Caroline Morahan as the show that launched her career - she was selected out of an open audition from a crowd of 2000 other people at...

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Caroline Morahan

Caroline Morahan

Caroline Morahan is an Irish actress and television host. She presents TV fashion show Off the Rails on RTÉ One. She has hosted numerous television shows including The Fame Game, Chance to Dance, The Podge and Rodge Show and The IFTA's Red Carpet Show, and has been a celebrity judge on talent shows...

 was the eventual winner who went on to present The Fame Game, while in 2007 the runner up, Karen Koster

Karen Koster

Karen Koster is an Irish-Dutch television presenter. In 2001, she was runner up in Raidió Teilifís Éireann's The Selection Box. She presented her own show on the City Channel before moving to TV3...

, began working on TV3's Xposé

Xposé

Xposé is an Irish entertainment/celebrity gossip programme, broadcast weekday evenings at 6pm on TV3, with a repeat the following day at 12:50pm on TV3 and again at 6.30pm on 3e .-History and format:...

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The Selection Box hosted an open audition in the RDS

Royal Dublin Society

The Royal Dublin Society was founded on 25 June 1731 to "to promote and develop agriculture, arts, industry, and science in Ireland". The RDS is synonymous with its main premises in Ballsbridge in Dublin, Ireland...

 in 2001 in a search for a new TV presenter. A selection of these would-be presenters would then be sent on to a judging panel who would then bring them on to bootcamp.

2001 saw a wide range of reality TV shows in production. This was RTÉ's second talent search show having produced Popstars

Popstars

Popstars is an international reality television franchise and a precursor to the Idol series. The series first began in New Zealand in 1999 when producer Jonathan Dowling formed the five member all-girl group TrueBliss...

one year earlier. It had had success with its other reality task based TV show Treasure Island

Treasure Island (show)

Treasure Island is a popular reality television game show produced in New Zealand by Eyeworks Touchdown as well as in Ireland and Australia. In the show, contestants are isolated on a remote Fijian island and compete for a cash prize...

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