Incestuous RTE

strassenwolf

Interesting article in yesterday's Sunday Times about the number of RTE folk being interviewed on RTE chat shows. No big surprise, of course, this has always been the case, but now there are figures out.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article5404248.ece

However, the high point - or should that be low point - of RTE's incestuousness has to be the programme "The Restaurant", where pretty well everyone working in the company got a chance to be a chef. There were certainly precious few from outside the company given an opportunity.:rolleyes:

CDfm

Jeez - just when you thought the couldnt go any lower.

But - it is the public broadcaster paid for by licence fees- I would watch the Late Late our Tubridy if the were interviewing the opposite numbers from independent radio etc. Now theres a thought -do they have an obligation?

BTW - I have always wondered what Orla Barry who used to be on Newstalk looked like - she sounds too georgeous and their newsreader Suzzane Byrne( whose hoarse delivery is awesome and so not Montrose.

I have given up watching RTE or even listening to its radio shows.
I find it hard to believe its viewing and listenership figures TBH.

GerardKeating

strassenwolf wrote: »

Interesting article in yesterday's Sunday Times about the number of RTE folk being interviewed on RTE chat shows. No big surprise, of course, this has always been the case, but now there are figures out.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article5404248.ece

However, the high point - or should that be low point - of RTE's incestuousness has to be the programme "The Restaurant", where pretty well everyone working in the company got a chance to be a chef. There were certainly precious few from outside the company given an opportunity.:rolleyes:

But RTÉ employed a good percentage of the total personalaties in the country....

CDfm

GerardKeating wrote: »

But RTÉ employed a good percentage of the total personalaties in the country....

so its time to redress the balance and show non RTE ones in the public interest

Serenity Now!

GerardKeating wrote: »

But RTÉ employed a good percentage of the total personalaties in the country....

"Personalities" would be a highly debatable descript

strassenwolf

According to the "Restaurant" website on the RTE page, the latest series seems to feature six people who are currently working in various capacities for the company, alongside Ray D'Arcy and a chap formerly in charge of the music on the Late Late. In other words a total of eight with current or previous strong connections to RTE.

Then there are five others from various backgrounds. Presumably they're being wheeled on in the interests of balance.

"The RTEstaurant", perhaps.

Pen1987

Anyone watched TV3 lately?

DMC

I'd like to see a similar study of BBC and ITV chat shows, and see how many guests are plugging upcoming BBC or ITV programmes.

I think you'd find its not too dissimilar.

Just like the Mail on Sunday, about the RTÉ News studio, its a real Christmas-New Year semi-silly season story.

Same station cross promotion has been going on since Moses looked in the mirror and said he didn't need to shave today.

The Restaurant is voiced-over by Sean Moncrieff, a Newstalk presenter, no?

Elmo

This is now happening on TV3, Newstalk and Today FM.

E.G. Top 20 Reality Moments seem to skip RTÉ's Falite Towers, but had The Apprentice in there about 5 times.

It is stupid and petty. In particular when you are a TV station with seemingly only 5 personalities all of whom seem to present the one show.

lostexpectation

same as every station, if you want to see lost people interviewed you watch jimmy kimmel on abc.

gaf1983

Last weekend in her TV review, Hilary Fannin of the Irish Times pointed out the same scourge occurring on RTE's latest offering, The Lucy Kennedy Show, when RTE's latest chat show host, interviewed Ryan Tubridy, you guessed it, another RTE chat show host.

WHAT IS IT with RTÉ and its insistence on giving anyone who turns up with a bit of dog-eared charisma their own chatshow? There are currently enough talkshows on the national broadcaster to silence the screeching Tower of Babel, though, crucially, not enough celebrities roaming our sullen streets to fill the endless vacant studio sofas or grease their starched antimacassars. The Lucy Kennedy Show is a case in point.

Kennedy has carved a solid career as a ladette in lippy: she's confident, she's bright, she's a bawdy billboard-filler. Now, having had the sense to escape the clutches of a pair of papier-mâché puppets, she's been rewarded with her very own expanse of cocktail couch to fill. And guess what: with an incestuous abandon that would make a Greek tragedian blush, the latest RTÉ chatshow hostess's cosy inaugural chat (feet curled up on the velvet) was with none other than an RTÉ chatshow host, Ryan Tubridy. Yep, let's keep it all in the family.

Anodyne would be too strong a word to describe the banter that passed between these two stalwarts of the entertainment industry. The frayed conversation, which ranged from omigod-you're-so-skinny stuff to Tubridy's penchant for aromatic Connemara turf, was reminiscent of eavesdropping over the Formica in the RTÉ canteen. This is one tired format - don't think I'll be back for more.

I can see why the producers of these shows (on all stations) line up in-house guests for their programmes: it's a very convenient and reliable way of putting together a show, and also they are probably looking on it as a form of self-promotion of other areas of the station's output, no harm done. However, I think the viewing/listening public might appreciate it more if the producers of the shows in question looked a bit further than the proverbial station canteen for their shows' guests.

CDfm

gaf1983 wrote: »

Last weekend in her TV review, Hilary Fannin of the Irish Times pointed out the same scourge occurring on RTE's latest offering, The Lucy Kennedy Show, when RTE's latest chat show host, interviewed Ryan Tubridy, you guessed it, another RTE chat show host.



I can see why the producers of these shows (on all stations) line up in-house guests for their programmes: it's a very convenient and reliable way of putting together a show, and also they are probably looking on it as a form of self-promotion of other areas of the station's output, no harm done. However, I think the viewing/listening public might appreciate it more if the producers of the shows in question looked a bit further than the proverbial station canteen for their shows' guests.

I cant agree with Hilary Fannin - confident Lucy maybe but she aint lippy or bawdy or any of the other stuff she is being described as.

In Podge n Rodge she was scripted.

She is too old to be a Childrens TV Presenter - and that Twink can upstage her in Podge and Rodge says loads.