Fáilte Towers

giftgrub

This does not look good....


http://www.rte.ie/tv/failtetowers/index.html

WHY?WHY?WHY?

Can I send my TV licence back? can i get a refund?

aidan_walsh

Horrible concept, wonderful name.

Thrill

Fáilte Towers :D

I wonder what caliber of "celebrity" will be staffing the hotel.

dulpit

Fáilte Towers is a hotel run entirely by celebrities and this is your one chance to stay in Ireland's only 12-star hotel.

Oh dear god... With wit like that, the show will be amazing...

jor el

All fake reality TV is a terrible idea. It doesn't get much farther from reality than some solicitor* that nobody has ever heard of, or cares about, or Twink**, serving breakfast and bringing bags to your hotel room.

I despise having to pay 160 euro a year for crap like this, though I take solace in the fact that I can't even receive the channels anyway, so no chance I'll accidentally catch any of it.



* Guessing about the caliber of celebrity that will be used.
** You just know Twink will make an appearance.

ejmaztec

Filling it with feuding Limerick families might make it all worth it.

Nolanger

It's not that it's crap but rather RTE can only think of this rubbish after the British channels have done something similar.
There was some TV3 boss complaining about RTE's lack of originality in one of today's newspapers.
RTE are a joke - they even have two young male presenters together on a kids TV show - Ant and Dec clones?

Mossy Monk

Nolanger wrote: »

RTE are a joke - they even have two young male presenters together on a kids TV show - Ant and Dec clones?

Are you ****ing serious? To have two male presenters is copying Ant and Dec?

Mr.Nice Guy

jor el wrote: »

or Twink**, serving breakfast and bringing bags to your hotel room.

There's a mental image and a half!

Basq

Mossy Monk wrote: »

Are you ****ing serious? To have two male presenters is copying Ant and Dec?

Of course it is...

I've always thought of John Giles and Eamon Dunphy as a Oirish Ant & Dec!

JP Liz

The show, presented by RTÉ's Aidan Power and Baz Ashmawy, will see 13 celebrities battling for their respective charities to run a real, fully-functioning hotel.

The 13 "celebrities" are: weather presenter Evelyn Cusack, 'The Apprentice' star Jennifer Maguire, model Claire Tully, former All-Ireland medal winner and match analyst Séan Ó Dómhnaill, politician Patricia McKenna, former Eurovision stars Donna and Joseph McCaul, singer Luke Thomas, broadcaster John Creedon, former 'Big Brother' star and television presenter Brian Dowling, 'You're a Star' judge Michelle Heaton, television presenter Liz O'Kane and singer and actor Don Baker.

The voting public and a panel of expert judges, that includes former presenter and hotelier Bibi Baskin, Sammy Leslie of the renowned Castle Leslie, and Michelin-starred chef Derry Clarke will decide who stays and who pack their bags.

The show begins on Saturday, 2 August and will run for 16 days and 16 nights.

Mr E

Hideous lineup of 'celebs'.
Donna and Joe? Heh. No comment.

TontoMurphy

Any chance we can vote them all off the first week and that'll be the end of it... What a waste of TV license money...

Femelade

My sister and her husband are staying there one of the nights

JP Liz

Has Michelle Heaton become an honorary irish celeb now?????

Someone throw her out and ban her from Ireland please

Blisterman

I have literally not heard of any of those people before.

Mossy Monk

TontoMurphy wrote: »

What a waste of TV license money...

Are you joking? The amount of people that will vote will more than pay for it.

KnifeWRENCH

Blisterman wrote: »

I have literally not heard of any of those people before.

Ah now, surely you've heard of Donna & Joe?? If you haven't.........I envy you.

You'll probably recognise Evelyn Cusack, the weather forecaster.

JaneyMc

JP Liz wrote: »

Has Michelle Heaton become an honorary irish celeb now?????

Someone throw her out and ban her from Ireland please

They dont want her in the UK... so she comes here for jobs cause she's desperate.

I have no idea who any of those people are.

Here's a 30 second clip guaranteed to be more entertaining than the entire series, and the clip isn't even that good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZfrXlVEjNU

Mr E

Mr E wrote: »

Hideous lineup of 'celebs'.
Donna and Joe? Heh. No comment.

Is this not Joe????

Dr. Nick

None of you know who Don Baker is?

Heisenberg.

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Peared

Tragic.

Absolutely tragic.

Total nonentities and crap scheduling.

I totally will be watching though.

kerry4sam

ah come on! I thought their were actually going to be 'celebrities' on the show

but looking forward to the concept though

KnifeWRENCH

kerry4sam wrote: »

ah come on! I thought their were actually going to be 'celebrities' on the show

You thought that a reality TV show made by RTE would have actual celebrities?

Our man in Havana

square_igloo wrote: »

You thought that a reality TV show made by RTE would have actual celebrities?

QFT!

nicolaonfire

"Celebrities"
^
I love the way we all do that when talking about Irish "celebrities"

Thanks for the warning about that show, I will avoid RTE now!!

FlutterinBantam

Sweet God above in Heaven.

Bunch of nonentities plucked from obscurity,failed careers, and the backwoods of showbiz.
What a load of absolute rubbish.

kerry4sam

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Sweet God above in Heaven.

Bunch of nonentities plucked from obscurity,failed careers, and the backwoods of showbiz.
What a load of absolute rubbish.

+1 ... should be good for an auld laugh though

mike65

I like the promo, which suggests something quick, witty and amusing.





















I wonder can RTE be done under the Trade Descriptions Act?

Mike.

LordSutch

I fully it expect it to be typical RTE amature-ish rubbish, and for that reason alone I will watch it.

Peared

K this is a tragic request but does anybody know if this will be repeated in any form?

phasers

Ireland has no "celebrities". Anybody with any form of talent goes to London and doesn't look back.

Grid.

Absolute muck!!

magnumlady

I'm looking forward to it....but then I think I was the one person who enjoyed The Farm:o

Enii

What hotel is it being filmed in?

iMax

First impression... Love the graphics. Make my mind up about the show as it goes...

Enii wrote: »

What hotel is it being filmed in?

Castle Bellingham in Louth/Meath Which if its part owned by BiBi Baskin, surely means a conflict of interest since she's RTE anyway

Enii

Thanks Imax!

mike65

Jebus middle age has not been kind to John Creedon.

Mike.

iMax

//Comic Book Guy

Worst. End Credits. Ever.

PrivateEye

Patricia McKenna, while always seeming a few fries off a happy meal to me, is one of the more decent politicians in Ireland. When the Greens lost a bit of colour she stood by her politics and I thought she was fantastic during the Lisbon debates. This stinks of 'Oh no! people might actually prefer that feckin' Shinner. I better go on the telly' to me. Terrible move on her part.

John Creedon is a bloke I have quite a bit of time for, love his radio show and he''s just easy to like in general. Surprised he went on it too to be perfectly honest.

As for the two boscos from eurovision :rolleyes:

Mr E

That presenter (Baz?) was trying WAY too hard to be funny.

As for the show, it seemed like any other RTE 'reality' show that they ran on consecutive days, just a different location.

Anyone think that Brian Dowling looked a bit... er.... orange?

magnumlady

That Baz fella was a dreadful presenter, apart from that I liked it!

LordSutch

Dear oh dear, second rate TV at its worst .............

UrbanFox

This is one of the most serious ever escapes of sewerage from RTE.

Thank Christ that they didn't put the ultimate layer of bacteria on it and make the programme in Irish. Maybe that will be the next "celebrity" programme.

Enii

Trout Mouth is one seriously bossy lady.........

mike65

mike65 wrote: »

Jebus middle age has not been kind to John Creedon.

Mike.

Will ye stop. The poor man's only baby granddaughter died, hence the charity he's supporting.

EKRIUQ

OsciiBoscii wrote: »

Will ye stop. The poor man's only baby granddaughter died, hence the charity he's supporting.

People here comment on what they say and feel, and aren't aware of personal circumstances of contestants.Internet forums are not for sensitive celebrities people. Like I'm the real Pat Kenny and the things people have said about me here have made me have tears of sap.

moe_sizlak

PrivateEye wrote: »

Patricia McKenna, while always seeming a few fries off a happy meal to me, is one of the more decent politicians in Ireland. When the Greens lost a bit of colour she stood by her politics and I thought she was fantastic during the Lisbon debates. This stinks of 'Oh no! people might actually prefer that feckin' Shinner. I better go on the telly' to me. Terrible move on her part.

John Creedon is a bloke I have quite a bit of time for, love his radio show and he''s just easy to like in general. Surprised he went on it too to be perfectly honest.

As for the two boscos from eurovision :rolleyes:

patricia mc kenna represents the very worst aspects of the female sex

Enii

Who got voted out and why?