RTE Cock Up

Haha, how do they always manage things like this? Like the time they put on a movie with loads of swearing and some nudity... at 3pm! They pulled it halfway through.

Richard Dower wrote: »

Are we allowed to say cock on Boards?

No; The non exsistant 8 year olds on this site might get offended and cause another site wide ban of some stupid phrase or other 'thing'.

Though if I mentioned that thing, I would probably get banned and my ISP would terminate my contract.

And I would get fired.

And get divorced.

And then die.

Richard Dower wrote: »

Are we allowed to say cock on Boards?

Should that, under the circumstances, not be 'Le Cocque'?

It was advertised on Aertel & the press as the Paz Vega movie.

Eejits. That's the second time this week they've mucked up something I wanted to watch. On Sunday, they had "Life" advertised for stupid o clock in the morning, so I recorded it, and when I went to watch it later on Monday, I found a completely random episode of CSI NY from 3 years ago had been broadcast instead.

Linku wrote: »

They showed Veronica Mars in the afternoon and there was a whole lotta date rape/murder/other dark stuff that kids shouldn't see in that, I really don't think anyone in RTE (or in Ireland) watched it...

I don't know. I remember a thread full of people practically masturbating over that programme.

Bond-007 wrote: »

Lets add this to the list of RTÉ cock ups.

Lets see:
Putting a film in a slot shorter than the running time of the film. Result last 30 mins of film cut.
They put on a russian film one time with no subtitles.
They put on a blue movie on a Saturday night. Movie was pulled half way through.

I remember one time they cut off an episode of CSI Miami three quarters of the way through (last year).
Putting "The End" at the end of every film (and in some cases, before the end), so we can't see the credits.

mike65 wrote: »

Which one was that?

The best bad scheuling I have seen was a TV cable movie screened on RTE 1 in the late afternoon, it starred Jim Beluishi I think. No end of effing and blinding. It got pulled halfway through.

That was "Dead Solid Perfect" with Randy Quaid. I remember because I was associated with a video company at the time, & a newspaper rang to blag a copy for research. It was a 15 cert with foul language and some lengthy nude shots.

Not really 3p.m. Saturday afternoon summertime material.

Peut-etre ils pensent que les irlandais sont plus culturés que vous etes ... ne comprendez-vous pas la langue de Dieu?

I do, but frankly, Aramaic was bugger all help with the Monkey film.

tintin67 wrote: »

Never seems to be that way in the United Kingdom. BBC/ITV/C4 seem to have strict controls over their transmission output. People would have lost their jobs after RTE's endless cock-ups. Still, it's great we left the Commonwealth all the same and can do our own thing.

You're completely right. I've always felt the attitude was one of "Well, we messed up, but we're a cheapy amateur outfit anyway, so who cares?" Any time there's a medium sized balls-up (I hope this isn't too profane) the people at RTÉ seem to let it go. There's no quality control like you have on the British channels (the big four anyway).

"We put the wrong show on? Too bad."
"The film started half an hour before advertised? Oh well."
"We're still showing the midday schedule on page 180 even though it's five in the afternoon? So what?" (This is happening a lot recently)
"When we returned after the ad break it was a completely different episode to the one before the ads? It happens."*

The worst offender in my mind is the news, be it the Six One or any of the others. They'll show the wrong clip (say, a flock of sheep in place of some argument in the Dáil) but issue no apology. If BBC News, or ITV or Channel 4 did something like that they'd immediately say sorry for the technical fault. RTÉ on the other hand make like it never happened.

The best (or you could say worst) example is the deaf news with the guy doing sign language next to the pretend autocue (Why deaf people would need both - along with someone reading it out - is beyond me). I can now understand why the regular newsreaders flub their lines so much - the spelling on that thing is atrocious! Tune in any time and I guarantee you there'll be at least one typo. Really lazy ones at that, like it was punched up in a hurry ten seconds before it made it to air. It gives us a rare glimpse at the kind of incompetence the newsreaders have to put up with all the time. I used to think their constant fumbling with words was their own fault. Not anymore.

*Actually I don't know if that ever happened, but it's the type of thing they would do.

THat's an impressive set of cock-ups!

Strange scheduling happens deliberately in other countries, last night one of the french channels here was showing Greys Anatomy between six and sever...there's stuff in that I wouldn't want to watch over my dinner!

Richard Dower wrote: »

I sometimes see Clash Of The Titans being broadcast and it has a bare boobie!!!
She's like breastfeeding at the start of the movie...in this context, is it sexual?

Calm down!

schween wrote: »

Why is cross dressing just thrown in there with other criminal acts?
God knows what my child will do if he sees a man in a dress!

My kid couldn't sleep for weeks after he saw that film Mrs. Doubtfire.

Although it may have been just Robin Williams rather than the cross-dressing that traumatised him