Well done RTE

Was watching telly this morning and they stuck on an episode of Casualty between 7 and 8 on RTE 1.

It had cracking stuff, violence (a stabbing and a gory extraction of the knife in surgery), gang violence and drug selling, a conflict between a lesbian paramedic and her insensitive colleague, a running down, and a point blank shooting with a rigged up shotgun.

Good of RTE to send our kids off to school with loads of questions about violence and adult issues. Far better than that namby pamby educational stuff they put on other channels, do they really need spelling programmes and reading programmes and cartoon entertainment? I hope they put on something really good tomorrow, maybe domestic violence or testicular torture or the like.

Shane10

anything wud be better than a repeat of the afternoon show.

Pigman II

I grew up watching the Norn Iron news on ITV every morning before I went to school. More often than not it was knee-cap this and car-bomb that. Far more violent imagery could be conjoured this way that watching some hospital drama created for middle-aged people on a mental vacation.

I suggest if you don't want to risk your kids watching innapropriate stuff then you sell your TV.

LordSutch

I actually agree with Conor74, there is a reason The BIll, Casualty, are kept off the BBC until the evening.

dont forget to vote in the favourite terrestrial TV station thread :-)

Pigman II

Pigman II wrote: »

I suggest if you don't want to risk your kids watching innapropriate stuff then you sell your TV.

I welcome all this stuff.

I hope there is porn on tomorrow so the next generation will find out about sex and perhaps the best positions for maximum penetration and good orgasms, and we won't have to worry about sex education at schools!

Just didn't realise the idea of the watershed had been thrown out the window by RTE. And I don't accept that I should be happy with what is shown or throw out the television. You may, for example, criticise the Lucy Kennedy Show, I wouldn't say tolerate it or dump the tv.

aidan_walsh

Thankfully, RTE provide at least one other channel with all the happy kids stuff you requested.

Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Fair enough.

So, to clarify, do they have no watershed policy across their stations then?

Maddzy

Why didn't you just change the channel?

Mossy Monk

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Fair enough.

So, to clarify, do they have no watershed policy across their stations then?

I believe they don't. If Casualty was so offensive then why did you leave it on? Surely all of that didn't happen in a couple of minutes.

RobertFoster

Complain...g'wan, I dare ya

Mossy Monk

Mossy Monk wrote: »

If Casualty was so offensive then why did you leave it on?

It didn't offend me. I thought it was great!

I must use this 'just turn it off' or 'just throw out your telly' to all other posts here that criticise programming. It should work on pretty much every thread, apart from the ones that say RTE is great of course. And maybe that's how RTE themselves should deal with any complaints. Just turn over.

It's like telling people who moan about the economy or the Government to just go to Poland if it bothers them that much!

dodgyme

Pigman II wrote: »

I suggest if you don't want to risk your kids watching innapropriate stuff then you sell your TV.

was just wondering how long it would take before this usual rubbish reply. Followed on by turn it off etc. People have the right to an opinion, unfortunately on boards the age profile probably encourages replies like above.

MaxFlower

Pigman II wrote: »

I suggest if you don't want to risk your kids watching innapropriate stuff then you sell your TV.

Maddzy wrote: »

Why didn't you just change the channel?

Until RTE stop demanding a license fee I reserve the right to watch and/or criticise them any time I please.

dodgyme

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apart from the ones that say RTE is great of course. And maybe that's how RTE themselves should deal with any complaints. Just turn over.
!

ya if rte is so great why didnt you write a letter to them telling them how great they are or leave your television on 24 - 7 - 365 times a years because it is so good. ?????????????????????????

dodgyme

dodgyme wrote: »

ya if rte is so great why didnt you write a letter to them telling them how great they are or leave your television on 24 - 7 - 365 times a years because it is so good. ?????????????????????????

:D

Oh very droll!

drunk_monk

Why on earth do you have your kids watching tv at that time of the day? How many hours a day do your kids watch tv? It would surely be better to have a family breakfast together rather than relying on the tv to do your parenting for you! And then you have the check to complain when they screen something inappropriate!

Elmo

Deleted User wrote: »

Was watching telly this morning and they stuck on an episode of Casualty between 7 and 8 on RTE 1.

It had cracking stuff, violence (a stabbing and a gory extraction of the knife in surgery), gang violence and drug selling, a conflict between a lesbian paramedic and her insensitive colleague, a running down, and a point blank shooting with a rigged up shotgun.

Good of RTE to send our kids off to school with loads of questions about violence and adult issues. Far better than that namby pamby educational stuff they put on other channels, do they really need spelling programmes and reading programmes and cartoon entertainment? I hope they put on something really good tomorrow, maybe domestic violence or testicular torture or the like.

Don't they show children's TV on the other side?

Also isn't Casulty a family show shown at 8pm on saturday nights on BBC ONE?

drunk_monk

drunk_monk wrote: »

Why on earth do you have your kids watching tv at that time of the day? How many hours a day do your kids watch tv?

I'll make the point again, because it seems to have completely escaped some people. Unless you are being deliberately obtuse.

I do not think stabbings and gore are proper subjects for television at 8 o'clock in the morning. That has nothing to do with how many kids I have, or whether I eat porridge in the morning, or whether kids should be out playing football at that time, or walking 5 miles to school, or whatever else. I just think there should be such thing as a watershed, whether official or not.

I don't expect hardcore sex on television at that hour, not because people should be kneeling on the floor and praying with their children and they are bad parents if the kids are watching telly, but because I am not sure it is suitable for the television at that hour. That is all.

As for your image of all families eating breakfast together, I reserve the right to laugh out loud at that, but in another thread.

Elmo

Elmo wrote: »

Don't they show children's TV on the other side?

Also isn't Casulty a family show shown at 8pm on saturday nights on BBC ONE?

Yes, they do alright.

And not sure when Casualty is on. In fact never saw it before. I'd recommend it, far more entertaining than Benson or Falcon Crest, or the two scary Seoiges.

drunk_monk

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I'll make the point again, because it seems to have completely escaped some people. Unless you are being deliberately obtuse.

I do not think stabbings and gore are proper subjects for television at 8 o'clock in the morning. That has nothing to do with how many kids I have, or whether I eat porridge in the morning, or whether kids should be out playing football at that time, or walking 5 miles to school, or whatever else. I just think there should be such thing as a watershed, whether official or not.

I don't expect hardcore sex on television at that hour, not because people should be kneeling on the floor and praying with their children and they are bad parents if the kids are watching telly, but because I am not sure it is suitable for the television at that hour. That is all.

As for your image of all families eating breakfast together, I reserve the right to laugh out loud at that, but in another thread.

You, as a responsible parent are in charge of what your kids watch on tv, not the tv stations themselves. Yes I agree RTE should not have shown this but YOU should have turned the tv off. Simply as that! If your kids must watch tv in the mornings cause you have nothing else for them to do then you should be sitting in with them monitoring what they watch. If thats impossible then stick a dvd on. As for your idea of a watershed, it's a good one but only for evenings. Some people come home from work in the mornings and want to watch non kids tv.

drunk_monk

drunk_monk wrote: »

You, as a responsible parent are in charge of what your kids watch on tv, not the tv stations themselves.

Between myself and yourself, I have no kids!

Not sure that that invalidates the point, I was just still surprised at the content of breakfast telly. I usually surf a few channels and this was the furthest I've seen the envelope pushed by an Irish station at that hour of the morning. It's great, but would hate to be a parent explaining lesbianism and knife crime to a 5 year old who wandered downstairs and flicked on the tv.

dodgyme

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Between myself and yourself, I have no kids!
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Oh my god someone in Ireland thinking about issues when it doesnt directly affect them at that moment.

Country would be better off if there were more like you.

I'm just looking out for the common good, dodgyme!

I also care about the banking crisis, even though between you and me I wouldn't be caught dead having breakfast of a latte and danish with some stockbroker at 8 in the morning...;)

Elmo

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I'm just looking out for the common good, dodgyme!

I also care about the banking crisis, even though between you and me I wouldn't be caught dead having breakfast of a latte and danish with some stockbroker at 8 in the morning...;)

Well there is a commission call the Broadcasting Complaints Commission. As tax payers we pay them to hear complaints about broadcasters i.e. RTE, TV3, TG4, City and Setanta

I think it would be a bad idea to complain to them about this issue. They did up hold complaints against TV3 for All Saint and Chicgo Hope.

www.bcc.ie

Tristram

Mistakes happen, stuff slips through the crack. Bring it to the attention of the relevant authorities and perhaps steps will be taken to prevent a repeat.