O'Gormans Summer

Pigman II

Anyone ever watch this show? It's basically a guy in a hat and trenchcoat called Paddy O'Gorman traveling around Ireland listening to life-stories of ordinary joe soaps on the streets. He's interviewing some people in BusAras right now but he often interviews ex-cons or junkies and it's usually pretty interesting stuff to hear from people that would otherwise never make it on tv.

Anyway it's hardly groundbreaking tv but it's the perfect antidote to all the other reality crap on tv these days

JoeSchmoe

I like it, he has a very gentle manner that relaxes people and gets a lot of personal information and opinions from people. I enjoy the "ordinariness" of it all.

he's done a few similar shows on TV and has been doing it on the radio for years, i think he used to specialise in dole queues the country over.

DublinWriter

Compared to the typical egocentric comedian-turned-presenter gitwizard RTE mistake for 'talent', Paddy has been and will always be a breath of fresh air.

He's been around about 15 years right now, originally doing the series on RTE Radio 1.

His childlike gentleness always manages to get people to open-up to him.

I'd recommend reading his book if you can still get it.

AnnaStezia

Paddy O'Gorman has been consistently excellent at this type of thing on both radio and TV.

He is possessed of ability, a quality that has been surgically removed from a lot of the gobshi*es that RTE is putting up as front line talent.

O'Gorman finds out more about his interviewees than an MRI scan.

Earthhorse

I think I preferred his show when it was on the radio.

On TV you can see the sometimes shocked or dissapointed expressions on people's faces at some of the questions he asks. He can be quite blunt at times.

Having said that, I did really enjoy the Bus Áras episode you mentioned, which was broadcast this week.

DublinWriter

Earthhorse wrote:

I think I preferred his show when it was on the radio.

...and I loved the Scrap Saturday sketch of same "hello....tell me why you're poor and smell of turnips please?"

mickd

I watched this last Tuesday wasn't bad as summer programming goes.

zuutroy

I find him awful patronising, and he never listens to the bloooy answers people give.

DublinWriter

zuutroy wrote:

I find him awful patronising, and he never listens to the bloooy answers people give.

Which just goes to show that you can't please all of the people all of the time, unless you're Elvis or Jesus, and even then...

Cork

I think at least he talks to people.

We don't get this on chat shows that are absolutely fake.

Ash.J.Williams

i watched this yesterday, he was outside cash converters on Tomas St. Lots of interesting characters around and touching stories from the breadline. Opening myself to ridicule now with this, but it struck me during the show that this is Irelands Luis Thereoux. Usual RTE presenters would just ask lighthearted "easy" questions and have 30 mins of tv filled, but this guy has no fear and gets people talking, he knows when to push things and when to retreat.
I base this on one episode!

Can't wait until he's dispatched to the USA to shoot a 1hr special on midget porn.

TheManWho

When I saw the title I was hoping it was going to be Dave Gorman discovering his irish roots in a GoogleWhack Adventure type slideshow programme. But alas it wasn't.