RTE comedy - shopping centre

mknotaro · 27-04-2009 12:08pm #1

Heard a bizzare one over the weekend.

RTE doing a comedy series set in a shopping centre starring Colm Meaney, in an effort to get people thinking positive about the economy!

Sounds more like they've been watching too much of Paul Blart Mall Cop and the new Seth Rogen one. :eek:

Syferus · 27-04-2009 7:17pm

Honestly, even in concept alone, this sounds better than 99% of the sort of comedy shows that litter the archives of RTE. It's far from fallow ground for a series, so I guess we'll see.

phasers · 27-04-2009 7:28pm

Hmm, It sounds like a decent idea. Too bad RTE are doing it.

Basq · 27-04-2009 7:41pm

I hope Colm Meaney has more sense than to star in anything RTÉ has their hand in!

ejmaztec · 27-04-2009 7:50pm

Mallprats

120_Minutes · 27-04-2009 9:02pm

ejmaztec wrote: »

Mallprats

more like mallpats.

chamlis · 27-04-2009 9:27pm

Leave Chief O'Brien alone!

Elmo · 27-04-2009 10:38pm

mknotaro wrote: »

Heard a bizzare one over the weekend.

RTE doing a comedy series set in a shopping centre starring Colm Meaney, in an effort to get people thinking positive about the economy!

Sounds more like they've been watching too much of Paul Blart Mall Cop and the new Seth Rogen one. :eek:

How do you know it is RTÉ?

Asmodean · 28-04-2009 11:14am

Ah seriously though if this is true, and pulled off correctly (doesn't look likely with rte at the helm) it could potentially be the best piece of television ever conceived. Probably be average, typical type of comedy though.

AnonoBoy · 28-04-2009 12:35pm

Asmodean wrote: »

Ah seriously though if this is true, and pulled off correctly (doesn't look likely with rte at the helm) it could potentially be the best piece of television ever conceived. Probably be average, typical type of comedy though.

A comedy set in a shopping centre? I fail to see how this one sentence is making you suspect it could be the best piece of television ever conceived.

Could be good, could be bad but it's hardly an in-depth pitch.

mike65 · 28-04-2009 12:44pm

So long as Dougal gets lost in the lingerie department.

Elmo · 28-04-2009 12:45pm

AnonoBoy wrote: »

A comedy set in a shopping centre? I fail to see how this one sentence is making you suspect it could be the best piece of television ever conceived.

Could be good, could be bad but it's hardly an in-depth pitch.

Comedy - Shopping Centre - Lt. O'Brain from Star Trek !

How is this not comedy Gold?

28-04-2009 1:08pm

AnonoBoy wrote: »

A comedy set in a shopping centre? I fail to see how this one sentence is making you suspect it could be the best piece of television ever conceived.

The inclusion of Colm Meaney and swearing would be enough to ensure that it is quality television. Hell you could have Meaney sitting in a dark room simply swearing for an hour and be guaranteed that it was watchable.

iMax · 28-04-2009 1:18pm

I should email them & tell them about a guy I used to know who ran a shoe shop. (big chain).

He used to buy his own stock & had it on a moveable rail toward the front of the store with it's own cash register there. Ended up nearly losing an arm when a disgruntled punter (woman) pulled a machete on him when he wouldn't change a pair of shoes that the heel had broken on.

Bondvillain · 28-04-2009 1:41pm

I have also heard some interesting Rté stories.

Colin Farrell is hosting the replacement for questions and answers. the representatives will know be referred to as 'contestants', and in the bonus round, they have to answer the audience's questions in a variety of accents and dialects, such as Texan, New York and Canadian, as Colin has done so well in his movies. I'm Very much looking forward to Pat Rabbite trying to crack insipid overworked puns in a Babylonian brogue.

Bryan Murray and yer one out of the Nolan sisters are to replace the current crimecall presenters. They will present it in character using the roles they played in "The Bill". Callers to the show will no longer be greeted by a calm, soothing bogger voice saying "Garda confidential line, how may I help you?" but rather with a harsh "San Hill. Watchoo got, eh?"

TTV to be presented by a cartoon ferret with large eyebrows, no discernible talent, and a tenuous grasp of the English language. So no real change there.

Sinead O Connor to helm new religious affairs programme "You're talking sh*te" where she berates representatives of various faiths in the snug of a Leitrim pub.

I heard my rumours from a p*ss stained tramp in an off licence doorway. Where did the OP hear theirs?

mknotaro · 28-04-2009 8:49pm

I heard this from a low-level employee of RTE. And by low-level, I mean grunt.

The same guy who told me last year that Adian Power was going to replace Joe O'Shea on Seoige - so yeah... I am taking it with a pinch of salt. Meaning Bondvillian, he's just one step up from the tramp!

Still seems a bit of the bandwagon (Mall Cop, etc) even if there's a slight hint of truth in it.

I shall not hold my breath to see Colm Meany on the front of the RTE Guide as a security man!

TheBlock · 28-04-2009 8:58pm

Not Happening, Keep your eye out for Boards fav comedian getting a series though, allegedly, according to my piss stained tramp source.

lostexpectation · 29-04-2009 2:27am

its about time rte try another full comedy series, ok you've done the pilots now, time to jump in the water.

Asmodean · 29-04-2009 1:15pm

The inclusion of Colm Meaney and swearing would be enough to ensure that it is quality television. Hell you could have Meaney sitting in a dark room simply swearing for an hour and be guaranteed that it was watchable.

Exactly! Amazed no-one else would be in for such madness. Ye're all too cynical lads.

Elmo · 29-04-2009 1:21pm

Bondvillain wrote: »

I have also heard some interesting Rté stories.

Colin Farrell is hosting the replacement for questions and answers. the representatives will know be referred to as 'contestants', and in the bonus round, they have to answer the audience's questions in a variety of accents and dialects, such as Texan, New York and Canadian, as Colin has done so well in his movies. I'm Very much looking forward to Pat Rabbite trying to crack insipid overworked puns in a Babylonian brogue.

Bryan Murray and yer one out of the Nolan sisters are to replace the current crimecall presenters. They will present it in character using the roles they played in "The Bill". Callers to the show will no longer be greeted by a calm, soothing bogger voice saying "Garda confidential line, how may I help you?" but rather with a harsh "San Hill. Watchoo got, eh?"

TTV to be presented by a cartoon ferret with large eyebrows, no discernible talent, and a tenuous grasp of the English language. So no real change there.

Sinead O Connor to helm new religious affairs programme "You're talking sh*te" where she berates representatives of various faiths in the snug of a Leitrim pub.

I heard my rumours from a p*ss stained tramp in an off licence doorway. Where did the OP hear theirs?

All this and Colm Meaney from star trek! Exciting times. I am looking forward to CrimeCall.

Spon Farmer · 07-05-2009 10:25pm

Is this why Colm Meaney was in Bewley's in Grafton Street today?

Elmo · 07-05-2009 10:30pm

Spon Farmer wrote: »

Is this why Colm Meaney was in Bewley's in Grafton Street today?

Having a coffee?

Or else he is filming a new RTÉ comedy series set in a coffee shop.

Spon Farmer · 07-05-2009 10:38pm

Elmo wrote: »

Having a coffee?

touche, Elmo.:o

I meant to say there was a film crew (and maybe Kerry Condon) there too:p

RTE comedy - shopping centre

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