SoCo Dublin: New Irish 'Hills' Show

gatorade

Is there any news about whether this show got picked up?

Its an irish take on 'the hills' called SoCo Dublin.

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/the-hills-are-alive

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in-like-south-dublin-1844617.html

Was talking to a girl who is on it (she's stunning, naturally) and she said the pilot was really good.

Its been filming in the likes of Krytal etc

Anyone know its status yet?

humanji

I can only pray it's been dropped.

L31mr0d

humanji wrote: »

I can only pray it's been dropped.

I heard that it miraculously avoided the axe after a mysterious benefactor known only as "RichardD Hills4life" has come forward to bankroll the project :pac:

jor el

Oh dear gods, I hope this isn't real. There's quite enough brain-dead TV out there already.

Heisenberg.

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phasers

This will NEVER work

in America, these braindead losers are worshipped.

In Ireland, they'll just have crap thrown at them and jokes shouted at them

dmcg90

Pass the bucket!

Mike...

RTE are using the TV licence for this FFS.

Fine me all you want, If this airs I will never pay it again*



*unless it's wall to wall shagging

L31mr0d

phasers wrote: »

In Ireland, they'll just have crap thrown at them and jokes shouted at them

Won't matter it'll just be edited out and replaced with aerial views over Grafton St and... the other side of Grafton Street. It will probably be mixed with a backing track of popular, Irish grown, pop music.

Typical Episode:

Finbar: "Yeah, loike, I know roish, totally"
Saoirse: "She was loike oh my gawd and I was loike yaw haw and she was loike oh my gawd"

*cut to aerial panning shot of BT2, blend in music*

lyrics: "Gotta let me in, hey, hey, hey, Let the fun begiiiiin... heeeeeeey, I'm the wolf today, hey, hey, hey... I'll huff... I'll puff... I'll huff I'll puff and blow you away..."

dmcg90

I'd bet a tenner the soundtrack is gonna have a lot of 'The Script' in it.

Tea_Bag

dmcg90 wrote: »

I'd bet a tenner the soundtrack is gonna have a lot of 'The Script' in it.

trust me, im a doctor.. that song.

Mimikyu

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Can it be as bad as some of the drival that RTE has given us in recent years?

K4t

dmcg90 wrote: »

I'd bet a tenner the soundtrack is gonna have a lot of 'The Script' in it.

Nah I'd say they'll go for stuff like this tbh.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOZHwWFjb30

lostexpectation

and they'll claim afterwards they were just putting it on?

JONJO THE MISER

I hope it is Produced so that the entire nation can hate them and that they life will be made hell when they walk down the street.

Namlub

phasers wrote: »

This will NEVER work

in America, these braindead losers are worshipped.

In Ireland, they'll just have crap thrown at them and jokes shouted at them

True, true. The minute this show airs (though I'm hoping it never will), the people won't be able to leave their houses for fear of the public (i.e. me) throwing bricks at them in the street...

lostexpectation

this is is it just me or was lauren a genuinely nice person and be hard to find somebody like her in ireland

jor el

dmcg90 wrote: »

I'd bet a tenner the soundtrack is gonna have a lot of 'The Script' in it.

Or Snow Patrol.

This is the kind of show they should have done 5 years ago, when these kind of people could be tolerated, as could the wasting of money, but now it'll go down like a lead balloon with the viewers. Just look at the backlash RTE took for re-airing the "Young, Irish and Rich" show recently.

macy9

lostexpectation wrote: »

this is is it just me or was lauren a genuinely nice person and be hard to find somebody like her in ireland

The temptation for the producers to pitch the main person as someone to dislike would be too great. I can't imagine a show like this where the producers would have the cop on to do something original and have the lead pitched as likable. We're a nation of begrudges (we like making fun of the D4 people....remember that TV3 Debs docu-soap.)

The show would last longer if the lead was likable with everyone else around her being the opposite.....but like I said, Irish producers can't resist the temptation of taking the p*ss out of their reality tv stars.

Zigmund

Reminded of that dick that was on the irish My Super Sweet 16.

Thanks for that. [/sarc]

4zn76tysfajdxp

gatorade wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/the-hills-are-alive

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Jesus christ, that was a difficult article to read.

Gaeilge-go-deo

Ah no it will b interestin to see whats its like.. People might love it ya just dont know... Sure Americans love irish people.. now they might find out that we're not leprecháns we just a mirror image of themselves..:S

Well i suppose living on the edge was pure ****e.. but thats because all the people were so ugly and their accents drove ya crazy haha

Namlub

Gaeilge-go-deo wrote: »

Ah no it will b interestin to see whats its like.. People might love it ya just dont know... Sure Americans love irish people.. now they might find out that we're not leprecháns we just a mirror image of themselves..:S

It's being made by RTE, the Americans are hardly going to see it.

Well i suppose living on the edge was pure ****e.. but thats because all the people were so ugly and their accents drove ya crazy haha

Thank God no-one in Ireland's like that, so...

macy9

Namlub wrote: »

It's being made by RTE, the Americans are hardly going to see it.

Not sure where you heard that.

David Coffey is producing it and pitching it to the networks, RTE have yet to buy anything.

Mtv are supposedly interested.

macy9

macy9 wrote: »

Not sure where you heard that.

David Coffey is producing it and pitching it to the networks, RTE have yet to buy anything.

Mtv are supposedly interested.

David Coffey, yet another reason not to watch.

Corb

Oh please God no! I dealt with Shireen McDonagh through college. That was fun (not!) so can't imagine what she'd be like on this. Or any of the others for that matter. Let's all pray this never sees the light of day. There must be better things they can make a TV show out of! Like drying paint or something?!

Namlub

macy9 wrote: »

Not sure where you heard that.

David Coffey is producing it and pitching it to the networks, RTE have yet to buy anything.

Mtv are supposedly interested.

MTV America, though?

yurmothrintites

Jesus, I can feel my brain cells dying reading that article.

Mr.Nice Guy

This is going to be some train wreck.

Pace2008

gatorade wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/the-hills-are-alive

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in-like-south-dublin-1844617.html

This is an excellent example of how to construct an unbelievably bad article.

"And every single Valley Girl sentence is punctuated with the word Like, as in "I am soooooo, like, over Chad/Brad/ Brody/Jordan, right now!""

That is possibly the worst sentence I've ever seen in published print.

this is is it just me or was lauren a genuinely nice person and be hard to find somebody like her in ireland

Er... I thought it was old news but you do know The Hills was staged?

cunning-doll

I've spoken to a few people about this, apparently the 'stars' are being offered less than €300 per day which means roughly €7k for the series. (not alot if you consider how the mere mortals may react when we see them out in public throwing curry chips at em' on harcourt st!) They've offered to move those still living with their parents into a city centre apartment so doesn't seem to be very true to life. They haven't finished casting but due to start filming end of September. Personally I cant wait, I know it'll flop and be mortifying but I cant wait to see how they do it!

lostexpectation

Pace2008 wrote: »

This is an excellent example of how to construct an unbelievably bad article.

"And every single Valley Girl sentence is punctuated with the word Like, as in "I am soooooo, like, over Chad/Brad/ Brody/Jordan, right now!""

That is possibly the worst sentence I've ever seen in published print.

Er... I thought it was old news but you do know The Hills was staged?

so you don't lauren is nice and preston is a prick in rl

Pace2008

lostexpectation wrote: »

so you don't lauren is nice and preston is a prick in rl

I have no idea. The characters they play are constructed and may not bear any similarity to their real-life counterparts.

keano_afc

Hang on, I thought The Hills WAS set in South Dublin??

macy9

Pace2008 wrote: »

I have no idea. The characters they play are constructed and may not bear any similarity to their real-life counterparts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66lOE0TinVQ