{"id":293143,"date":"2026-02-11T23:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/293143\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:08:09","slug":"brendan-courtney-to-complete-great-house-revival-filming-after-death-of-hugh-wallace-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/293143\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Courtney to complete Great House Revival filming after death of Hugh Wallace \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/brendan-courtney\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/brendan-courtney\/\">Brendan Courtney<\/a> will complete some remaining filming on the upcoming series of The Great House Revival following the death of host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/hugh-wallace\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/hugh-wallace\/\">Hugh Wallace<\/a>, RT\u00c9 has announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/rte\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/rte\/\">RT\u00c9<\/a> described Courtney as a \u201cdear friend\u201d of the late architect. The Keys to My Life presenter \u201cwill meet some of the homeowners who\u2019ve just completed their restorations and celebrate Hugh\u2019s passion for heritage, homes and the stories behind them,\u201d it said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sharing the news on social media, Courtney said he was \u201chumbled and honoured\u201d and he would do his best to make the late presenter and his widow Martin Corbett proud. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dubliner Wallace died on December 1st last year, days before his 69th birthday in the midst of filming his popular programme The Great House Revival.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/property\/interiors\/2025\/12\/02\/great-house-revival-participants-mourn-loss-of-charming-hugh-wallace\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/property\/interiors\/2025\/12\/02\/great-house-revival-participants-mourn-loss-of-charming-hugh-wallace\/\">Over the past five seasons<\/a>, the programme has followed homeowners as they took on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/tv-radio\/2025\/02\/10\/the-great-house-revival-big-dreams-and-modest-budget-collide-in-a-west-cork-restoration\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/tv-radio\/2025\/02\/10\/the-great-house-revival-big-dreams-and-modest-budget-collide-in-a-west-cork-restoration\/\">the restoration of old houses<\/a> across Ireland. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Hugh Wallace died aged 68. Photograph: Tom Honan\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/KAWOMWXNZRHGZB2R36NFMZDQJE.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"1199\"\/>Hugh Wallace died aged 68. Photograph: Tom Honan <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The national broadcaster confirmed earlier this month that it will proceed with the broadcast of the new series of Home of the Year and The Great House Revival this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The filming of the 12th season of Home of the Year was completed before Wallace\u2019s passing. The series first aired in 2015. Wallace was the only judge who appeared in every season of the popular show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Both series are expected to air this Spring. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/obituaries\/2025\/12\/13\/hugh-wallace-obituary-architect-who-became-a-household-name-in-every-household\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hugh Wallace obituary: Architect who became a household name in every householdOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brendan Courtney will complete some remaining filming on the upcoming series of The Great House Revival following the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[55232,93,94951,61,60,6085],"class_list":{"0":"post-293143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-brendan-courtney","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hugh-wallace","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-rte"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}