The Panel was an Australian television talk show broadcast by Network Ten and its affiliates; it was also simulcast on the Triple M radio network. The show was produced by Working Dog Productions and included several members of the former D-Generation and The Late Show casts.

The show featured a panel of five (originally six) people who discuss and joke about items in the news, current affairs, and pop culture. Episodes of The Panel screened at 9.30pm on Wednesday nights. Episodes were scheduled to run one hour but would often finish late, delaying the live news broadcast scheduled for 10.30pm immediately afterwards.

The series premiered in 1998 and was very popular in its first few years. The show is currently considered to be on hiatus; since 2005 the only form of the show broadcast has been the annual Christmas special.

The Panel is a humorous weekly chat show that airs on the Irish television network RTÉ Two, usually on a Monday evening but occasionally on other nights also. Until 2006 it was hosted by Dara Ó Briain, although as of Autumn 2007 there is no longer a single regular host, but is presented by one of Ó'Briain, Neil Delamere, or Colin Murphy. The show used to be recorded in The Helix but has since moved to the Draoicht Theatre in Blanchardstown in 2005. The show, which has run from September 2003 to the present day, has five panellists who change from week to week. They discuss current events, interspersed with celebrity interviews (3 per show originally, and then reduced to 2). It is one of RTÉ's most popular shows, and its sudden apparent cancellation in December 2005 annoyed many of the programme's fans but it returned with a largely unchanged format in October 2006. The format was derived from an Australian show of the same name.

The show features "Waterfall" by The Stone Roses as its theme song.

As of November 2006, it is possible to watch blank">past episodes of The Panel on RTÉ's website. Rogue clips from the unedited version of the show have been known to appear on Youtube, though these appear to have stopped in the wake of intervention by the show's producers. In the 2006-2007 season Dara Ó Briain did not present every episode – four episodes were hosted by _Colin Murphy instead. In the third of these episodes, Dara Ó Briain appeared as a panellist rather than the presenter for the first time, as he only arrived in time for the second half of the recording.

The 2006-2007 season ended on 29 January 2007. Special episodes of the show were aired from 2 May 2007 on Wednesdays at 22:00, under the title The Panel - The People Decide to conside with the 2007 Irish general election. They were presented by Colin Murphy, and ended on 30 May. The programme began its 2007-2008 season blank">http://www.rte.ie/tv/newseason/newseason07.pdf in September 2007.

The show was performed live in the Olympia Theatre, Dublin from 11-13 September 2007 as part of the _ Bulmers Comedy Festival. These shows, following the format of the television show but a longer running time and stronger language, were chaired by Neil Delamere and were not recorded for television.

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