RTE Cock Up

MisterAnarchy

RTE 2 are showing a French Film now and it seems someone forgot to subtitle it .
Amateurs.

tvnutz

Haha! classic RTE.

MisterAnarchy

It is a very strange disturbing film about a man and a chimpanzee .
Alot of male nudity.

sceptre

Carmen isn't a very good movie anyway. Especially for a movie with a monkey in it. There's lots of nudity in it if that's your thing though, not just of the monkey.

The lovely thing about the lack of subtitles in this case is that the movie (which by the way, is Spanish, not French) uses three languages - Spanish, French and Basque. Not a lot of Irish people understand all three.

RKDus

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.

MisterAnarchy

sceptre wrote: »

Carmen isn't a very good movie anyway. Especially for a movie with a monkey in it. There's lots of nudity in it if that's your thing though, not just of the monkey.

The lovely thing about the lack of subtitles in this case is that the movie (which by the way, is Spanish, not French) uses three languages - Spanish, French and Basque. Not a lot of Irish people understand all three.

This is the Carmen RTE are showing ,its not the one you are thinking of,its a French film.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0874873/
Crazy stuff.

sceptre

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

This is the Carmen RTE are showing ,its not the one you are thinking of,its a French film.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0874873/
Crazy stuff.

Ah, thanks for the correction - think I've seen both at some point, hence me getting mixed up with the chimp (I reckon there was a monkey[1] in only one of them, obviously this one:), the other one is the one with all the not necessarily necessary nudity)


[1]Before someone gets on my ass about it, yeah, I know a chimp isn't a monkey, it's not a problem for me until my local library is run by an ape

MementoMori

They haven't a clue what they are doing

Not the first time they've done this - in January they showed the wrong version of a film entitled Hell.

Massive bunch of utter incompetents

Richard Dower

Are we allowed to say cock on Boards?

Richard Dower

RKDus wrote: »

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.

I've seen this happen myself!!!...a few times they showed movies with nudity and swearing before the watershed. I saw one on RTE 1 and another at Xmas time on RTE 2 where a teenage main character said the F word!!

CutzEr

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

^ my sarcasm detector tells me it's OK to say "cock", thanks.

Trouser_Press

Richard Dower wrote: »

Are we allowed to say cock on Boards?

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

Richard Dower

Trouser_Press wrote: »

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

Touche!

Leaderbored

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

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...

Mossy Monk

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.

mike65

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054955585

tvnutz

Mossy Monk wrote: »

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

Could have been over the show,more likely over Kristen Bell.She is definatly spank bank material

Linku

Mossy Monk wrote: »

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

Oh don't get me wrong, it's an incredible programme, one of my favourites. I just doubt anyone watched it on RTÉ One in the afternoon!

ScumLord

I couldn't watch it, that poor chimp subjected to all that french. Did that guy wack off the chimp at one point?

darkdubh

ScumLord wrote: »

I couldn't watch it, that poor chimp subjected to all that french. Did that guy wack off the chimp at one point?

Well he did go to bed naked with it at one point.

Biggins

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

RTE 2 are showing a French Film now and it seems someone forgot to subtitle it .
Amateurs.

What ya expect - it is RTE after all!
Bunch of over paid, over rated amateurs!

Our man in Havana

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.

Nolanger

Bond-007 wrote: »

Lets add this to the list of RTÉ cock ups.

Years ago they showed a movie called Cul De Sac on RTE1 at 9 on a Saturday morning.
Not exactly a kids' movie as it features gangsters, cross dressing, kidnap, and violence - not in a funny way either.
Typical RTE attitude - just because it's a black and white movie it must be suitable for kids.
Loads of complaints over the screening.

akaredtop

Is Daft Dave in that monkey movie?

lt_cmdr_worf

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

Bond-007 wrote: »

Lets add this to the list of RTÉ cock ups.

They put on a blue movie on a Saturday night. Movie was pulled half way through.

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.

Leaderbored

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.

mike65

Ah Cheers, they are easy to mix up in a befuddled memory.

994

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

Our man in Havana

Translated:
Perhaps they think that the Irish are more cultured than you are ... you do not speak the language of God?

Leaderbored

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

tintin67

Apart from Thursday night's 'Prime Time' unfortunateness, my personal favourite was 2 or 3 years ago. It was Christmas Eve. Lunchtime. RTE1. Sunday Mass had just finished and you have a 30 minute gap before the early afternoon kids' movie which was some nonsense about Santa Claus for all the family. So what do you put on? A 30 minute Irish short, chock full of violence and seriously bad language. And obviously nobody in RTE was actually watching their own output, as it was never pulled after a few minutes.

Only on Telefis Eireann.

Ghost Train

I think its great that they screw up from time to time. They're only human and you can't expect them to watch everything they broadcast :pac:

tintin67

Ghost Train wrote: »

I think its great that they screw up from time to time. They're only human and you can't expect them to watch everything they broadcast :pac:

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.

An tSaoi

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.

MementoMori

So I emailed them to complain and got the reply below.

An utter comedy of errors.

First - RTE released the wrong version of the film to the press

Second - RTE received a film without subtitles {possibly not RTE's fault}

Third - After realising they had an un-subtitled film, they requested a version with subtitles. However even after receiving a subtitled version, they managed to broadcast the version without subtitles.

Impressive levels of ineptitude all around.

We apologise for the confusion and the mistakes surrounding this transmission. There are quite a number of movies entitled ‘Carmen’ The one we had planned to show was the 2005 French version, involving a young woman fleeing from a linguistics research centre. However, an incorrect version was registered, and before this could be corrected, the information was released to the press, suggesting that the 2003 Spanish version was to be transmitted. The viewers that expected to see the ‘Vincente Aranda’ 2003 movie were misled by this mistake and rightly disappointed.

Unfortunately, there was a further issue. Obviously, we would never wittingly transmit a foreign language programme without English subtitles. When the 2005 French version of the movie was delivered to us, without the appropriate subtitles, we immediately sought a corrected replacement copy. This we received. We viewed it and approved it as appropriate for transmission, but the rejected copy managed to stay in the system, and was delivered to the transmission suite in error. As a consequence, a movie in the French language was transmitted without English subtitles. It should not have happened. We have systems in place to try and make sure it does not happen, but, to our regret, it did happen. We sincerely apologise, and assure you that we are examining our systems to try and make sure it never happens again.

Yours sincerely
Michael Gately,
Senior Programme Viewer."

schween

Nolanger wrote: »

Years ago they showed a movie called Cul De Sac on RTE1 at 9 on a Saturday morning.
Not exactly a kids' movie as it features gangsters, cross dressing, kidnap, and violence - not in a funny way either.
Typical RTE attitude - just because it's a black and white movie it must be suitable for kids.
Loads of complaints over the screening.

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!

redfacedbear

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

RTE 2 are showing a French Film now and it seems someone forgot to subtitle it .
Amateurs.

I would much prefer this to the badly dubbed effort of Kurosawa's 'Ran' that 3e deigned to show at the weekend - it was so jarring that I managed to watch 3 minutes before switching off!

Richard Dower

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?

Richard Dower

MementoMori wrote: »

So I emailed them to complain and got the reply below.

An utter comedy of errors.

First - RTE released the wrong version of the film to the press

Second - RTE received a film without subtitles {possibly not RTE's fault}

Third - After realising they had an un-subtitled film, they requested a version with subtitles. However even after receiving a subtitled version, they managed to broadcast the version without subtitles.

Impressive levels of ineptitude all around.

:eek: you actually bothered to complain?, but if they clean up their act how will we rip them apart and take the p**s outta them? :P

IvyTheTerrible

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!

sceptre

We have systems in place to try and make sure it does not happen

Given that the systems apparently don't work, they could just get rid of them and save the money to buy new ivory back scratchers.

mike65

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!

Michael Winner

mike65 wrote: »

Calm down!

Indeed!

Calm Down Dear! It is only an internet forum!

muffinman

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.

The time that they showed the first half of winning streak, an ad, and then the first half of winning streak again.. Can't find the thread about it though
EDIT: Here it is http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055377358

Jip

Ha Ha, I was watching the 6.1 news last night and I immediately thought of this thread. They were doing their usual round up of stories from around the country but during it the vt jumped from the middle of one story into the taxi strike story already a couple of seconds in. When it went back to the studio there were a couple of dazed looks but no apologies for the cockup.

AnonoBoy

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

Singer73

Michael Gately,
Senior Programme Viewer*

What a job! He must have committed quite a heinous crime to become the Senior Programme Viewer. Or maybe he just watches programmes suitable for seniors?

RINO87

last night on the champions league, they didnt have the penalties for arsenal v roma edited together, and bill and the lads were left to fill a full five minutes in the studio!! It was classic, i was close to tears laughing!

bill even admitted it, "well, we're after flamming our way through the last five minutes there, now the penalties are ready!" brilliant.