Fade Street (Ireland's answer to 'The Hills')

I think a lot of people will have watched this last night just to take the piss, but the real test will be to see how many go back for seconds next week.

I was following the conversation on twitter about it as it aired and it was a good laugh, but I don't think I could watch it on my own without someone to point and laugh with.

In fairness to Vogue, she seemed OK for what little we saw of her, but the main one, Louise, was a complete pain in the arse. Why they chose to make her the main person is beyond me.

My favourite bit was at the end of her interview when she said congratulations to the magazine woman!! And then when they rang her up and basically said "your interview was the worst interview ever, but RTE said we had to hire you or we wouldn't get all this free advertising, so you're hired!!"

This is just another example of RTE spreading their casting net across the road to the UCD campus. I don't think anybody will relate to this show. Definitely not anyone outside of Dublin, and probably not anyone outside of SoCoDu. I don't know who at RTE approved it, but they should be shot.

The-Rigger wrote: »

Having never watched any of the shows that it is a copy cat of, is it real or scripted or semi scripted? Found it hard to take it at face value. (especially the bit about her fancying her boss).

They claim it's not scripted at all, but I think maybe they're not told what to say, but a lot of the situations and things are set up. Like the two girls who've never met before getting a flat together, and two of them getting the job at the magazine.

At least with The Hills they had some sort of relationship with each other before
the show, but this one they actually cast for it and then threw them all together. Which for me makes it even harder to swallow.