Brilliant Things about RTE

lostexpectation

reeling in the years
the den


that is all.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

lostexpectation wrote: »

reeling in the years
the den


that is all.

That IS all.

Rondolfus

Bill and the football panelists..... Now thats all

Mr.Nice Guy

Apres Match.

Now THAT'S all.

Posy

lostexpectation wrote: »

reeling in the years

The ONE RTE show I'd actually buy on DVD and it isn't available. :rolleyes:

dango

Em, it is available on DVD :rolleyes:
http://www.essentialirish.com/product.php?intProductID=487

m83

Mary Kennedy

cranky bollix

sharon ni bheolain!!;)

Bondvillain

Posy wrote: »

The ONE RTE show I'd actually buy on DVD and it isn't available. :rolleyes:

Reeling in the 80's has been available on dvd for quite a while.

The rights to the music & foreign footage for the programme are a bitch to clear, so we should be thankful that Rté bothered their arse to get even the one decade out on disc.

Anyway. The Den in the Ian Dempsey/Simon Young/Ray D'arcy eras was pretty good.
(Everyone else was terribly poor, and youth tv in general now is an utter embarrassment. )

Strumpet City, Halls pictorial weekly, Most of their Football coverage, Single Handed wasn't bad. Showbands was ok too. Hands if you're into that sort of thing.

Otherwise it's been 40 odd years of total sh*te.

mikom

Close down.
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They don't even do that anymore.

Michael Collins

They screen some fairly good documentaries, the one about the sinking of the Honeydew II & Pere Charles boats, 'Souls of the Sea' was excellent (if horribly sad to watch). As was the Luke Kelly documentary, 'Luke'. I find them quite good at most of the current affairs shows, Prime Time Investigates has won a few awards if memory serves, Questions and Answers was great too. On the radio Morning Ireland and Today with PK are top notch.

Reeling in the Years is great too. I think the DVD versions are done 'selected highlights' style - basically all the clips they could easily get DVD permission for, it's probably some of the international clips that are left out.

Havermeyer

RTE are really good at doing home grown documentaries, but most of the dramas are shít.

And as for comedies? Well, for a nation of people who are supposed to have a great sense of humour, the comedy shows are a joke. (Pun intended) From what I've seen, it's only getting worse. The shows RTE brand as "homegrown comedy" are an absolute fúcking disgrace.

Victor McDade

Befriend/be related to one of the bigwigs and you can get a cushy, high paid job for life!

No talent necessary

Ed_

Posy wrote: »

The ONE RTE show I'd actually buy on DVD and it isn't available. :rolleyes:

dango wrote: »

Em, it is available on DVD :rolleyes:
http://www.essentialirish.com/product.php?intProductID=487

Oh dear

weepee

savemejebas wrote: »

Befriend/be related to one of the bigwigs and you can get a cushy, high paid job for life!

No talent necessary

Oddly enough, the director of RTE used to live a couple of doors from me as a kid.

Táck

i think its brilliant that people use to call it torture 1 and torture 2

Meeja Ireland

lostexpectation wrote: »

reeling in the years

There was another excellent nostalgia series called On the Street Where You Live. It looked at one street each week, in a different town or city. They interspersed archive footage with interviews with people who had lived or worked there.

It sounds like it could be parochial, but it wasn't at all. It was actually a great way to see the changes in the country over the last fifty years.

afatbollix

i liked that documentary about Lynch last week.. they do documentarys like reeling in the years but that's it..

Saying that its the Irish people i blame as all RTE look at is the ratings and when Fair city is the most watched progam on irish tv [they add up all the viewers for the year and / the amount of programs]
same with the late late show and kilnascully.. all they see is money from add revenue.. so they make more ****e programming

Rondolfus

afatbollix wrote: »

Saying that its the Irish people i blame as all RTE look at is the ratings and when Fair city is the most watched progam on irish tv [they add up all the viewers for the year and / the amount of programs]
same with the late late show and kilnascully.. all they see is money from add revenue.. so they make more ****e programming

RTE will twist any poll to make themselves look good. Fair City is the most watched soap on Irish channels. Why?? Becuase viewers are split when it comes to Corrie and Eastenders as they can be viewed on two channels. They don't take into account the Irish viewers watching the soaps on English channels. Im pretty sure in reality more Irish people watch Corrie than Fairly ****y.

Im also pretty sure that if the Irish boycotted RTE, they'd still release firgures saying they are still the most watched Irish State Broadcaster.

Elmo

Rondolfus wrote: »

RTE will twist any poll to make themselves look good. Fair City is the most watched soap on Irish channels. Why?? Becuase viewers are split when it comes to Corrie and Eastenders as they can be viewed on two channels. They don't take into account the Irish viewers watching the soaps on English channels. Im pretty sure in reality more Irish people watch Corrie than Fairly ****y.

Im also pretty sure that if the Irish boycotted RTE, they'd still release firgures saying they are still the most watched Irish State Broadcaster.

The fact that their soap doesn't go out on other stations. Why they buy EastEnders? (even with BBC they don't get as many viewers as Fair City, I HATE SOAP).

ScumLord

Michael Collins wrote: »

They screen some fairly good documentaries, .

They also do some horrible ports of American ones. The really annoying thing about US shows is the way they keep repeating everything because of all their ad breaks. All RTE seem to do is a direct re-read of the US script with all the repeating which was just annoying.

I don't care what anyone says The Panel and Rodge and Podge were decent shows.

JonathanAnon

When Arsenal are losing badly and George Hamilton has to continue on commentating (like against Manu in the Champions League last year)

Elmo

ScumLord wrote: »

I don't care what anyone says The Panel and Rodge and Podge were decent shows.

They were but as R&P said it themselves they and RTE milked it, when do you stop?

lostexpectation

okay i meant, i when i started this tread to talk about 'things' rte does brilliantly not programmes as such even though i gave examples of programmes myself

so brilliant things about rte?

Meeja Ireland

lostexpectation wrote: »

so brilliant things about rte?

RTE has uniquely intelligent (and critical) sports analysis. The soccer coverage is miles ahead of the cheerleading and blandness of the British channels.

Children's television makes acres of home-made programmes, and involves thousands of Irish children every year. There is a real attempt to make the station open and available to kids outside Dublin too.

Not cutting films. Again, a huge improvement on the British channels, which routinely censor what they show.

RTE seems to provide a lot of support for Irish animation. I'm thinking of things like Langerland and Ballybraddan. I don't know much about this, so maybe some animators will correct me, but there seems to be an attempt to provide a home for animation.

I'll finish with an odd one, because it's one of those qualities that is invisible until it goes wrong:

RTE is honest.

After all the contest-fixing scandals in the UK, I'm sure there was heavy pressure on Irish journalists to find something similar here. Nothing came up. That doesn't happen by accident. Obviously somebody cares about, and enforces, decent ethical guidelines. For all its faults, and it has plenty, this is something to be proud of.

ScumLord

lostexpectation wrote: »

so brilliant things about rte?

Now I'm completely at a loss,

Their scheduling is terrible and their websites are a joke. They can fill all 3 channels with sports, soccer on one channel, and GAA on the other two. The news is like something out of soviet Russia in the 60s. It's unbiased and impartial though.

Meeja Ireland wrote: »

RTE has uniquely intelligent (and critical) sports analysis. The soccer coverage is miles ahead of the cheerleading and blandness of the British channels.

It would want to be with all the practice they get. They start up to an hour before the match and go on for an hour afterwards. Their doing their damnedest to fill up as much time as possible with the ramblings of old men. If your not into listening to old men go on, and on and on, and on about stuff you've absolutely no interest then that evenings a complete loss to you.

Children's television makes acres of home-made programmes, and involves thousands of Irish children every year. There is a real attempt to make the station open and available to kids outside Dublin too.

More time filling with children that don't seem to have any talent or skill doing some show and tell project. They don't even make the effort to make the poor child look good with any form of editing, just shove the child in front of the camera make them sing a song/do a dance and that's it.
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Aidric

Current Affairs & Sports output.

Cris Jones

The Den gets better and better...:D....I also liked the programme "Get Collins" which was on on Monday night - it may have been a repeat, I don't know, but it was the first time I'd seen it. Also sneaking in a reference to TG4's Cead Seans..

Mr.Nice Guy

Meeja Ireland wrote: »

I'll finish with an odd one, because it's one of those qualities that is invisible until it goes wrong:

RTE is honest.

After all the contest-fixing scandals in the UK, I'm sure there was heavy pressure on Irish journalists to find something similar here. Nothing came up. That doesn't happen by accident. Obviously somebody cares about, and enforces, decent ethical guidelines. For all its faults, and it has plenty, this is something to be proud of.

I dunno that €10,000 slot used to appear far too often on the Winning Streak wheel for my liking.

photogirl

The brilliant thing about RTE is they show Brothers and Sisters. They get or at least used to get the American shows before the English stations. Not so sure now as back in 4 channel land until I put up my sat dish.

Cris Jones

And I agree with "Michael Collins" ...RTE does show some great documentaries (except 'If Lynch had Invaded'...:eek::eek:)...

994

The Blizzard of Odd was pretty good, and the early years of The Panel.

murpho999

I really don't understand what people here on Boards have against RTE.

If a foreigner was to read this forum, then every single program in Ireland is crap but everything that comes out of the UK is fantastic.

If any of you have looked at TV abroad for a reasonable time then you would realise that the quality of TV here is pretty good.

Lived in Australia and Holland for a bit and the TV in both countries is pretty dire.

For example, 4 years ago, Dutch TV was showing 'Allo Allo' as a prime time cutting edge comedy!
They show endless American imports and terrible reality shows (Big Brother came from Holland!).

When in Holland, I also missed Irish sports coverage terribly, analysis was OK but commentaries were woeful and complely biased. In fact when the Dutch didn't qualify for the World Cup in 2002, they didn't even bother showing games with studio analysis. Just showed the game, no half time analysis and back to test card at the final whistle!! Unbelieveable.

Now back in Ireland and I love the documentaries that Ireland has that really show Irish life.

Can't remember them all, but I really enjoyed programmes like Haughey & Bertie.
The Street Where you Live and No Place Like Home were also very good and really give an insight into how immigrants see Ireland!
Hidden Histories series has also been excellent.

Even now I'm really enjoying Gorman, a simple show but it works as it just shows Irish life.

Agree it could do with better comedy and less soaps.

But there have been some good dramas such as Pure Mule & Raw that don't get enough credit.

As for the news coverage, find RTE news to be quite modern and unbiased, found the comparison to Russian news earlier to be ridiculous!
However, as one person said here earlier, they really should update their website,as their news site is terrible, and badly needs modernising and faster updating!

To sum up I think RTE do a good job with the limited resources they have, they just don't have the funds that BBC have, and I think they should get more credit than they do here!

Sam Kade

Mart and Market was great anyone know what happened to Mick Dillon?

ateam

I like the website - slick, simple and lots of information and past programmes going back to 1999.

I also like:

- The news (you always know that RTE will have live coverage of major events)
- Prime Time, Questions and Answers (now the Frontline)
- History documentaries
- Films with far less ads than TV3
- Naked Camera etc
- That doing up the hotels programme! Love that

They're not that bad at all, some like to exaggerate.

Elmo

ScumLord wrote: »

Now I'm completely at a loss,

Their scheduling is terrible and their websites are a joke. They can fill all 3 channels with sports, soccer on one channel, and GAA on the other two. The news is like something out of soviet Russia in the 60s. It's unbiased and impartial though.

It would want to be with all the practice they get. They start up to an hour before the match and go on for an hour afterwards. Their doing their damnedest to fill up as much time as possible with the ramblings of old men. If your not into listening to old men go on, and on and on, and on about stuff you've absolutely no interest then that evenings a complete loss to you.

More time filling with children that don't seem to have any talent or skill doing some show and tell project. They don't even make the effort to make the poor child look good with any form of editing, just shove the child in front of the camera make them sing a song/do a dance and that's it.

I like the new look RTE TV website, www.rte.ie/tv

TG4 is not an RTE channel it is independent RTÉ provide it with News And Current Affairs and some of their Irish Lanuage programming as repeats. TG4 buy in, commission and sponsor their own sports.

I think your talking about ICE Star or something on the Den, did you see total exposure? (I have to give TV3 a dig)

hatetherain!

They pickd up Neighbours when BBC1 had dropped it!!!!! .... and they also sometimes ahead of UK channels for USA shows!

Sids Not

Reeling in the years..and any of that old telly stuff..love it..

Namlub

hatetherain! wrote: »

and they also sometimes ahead of UK channels for USA shows!

This. I did genuinely like Raw, and the Panel, up until it got crap.
Apres Match.
Their football analysts (well, the A panel, not Ronnie Whelan)

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Good things about RTÉ;

Fair City
Glenroe
Bracken
Bachelor's Walk
Bosco
The days of Zig & Zag with Ray D'Arcy on the Den
Bouli
A Scare At Bedtime With Podge and Rodge
The Panel when Dara O'Briain was still there
The Blizzard of Odd
Apres Match
Naked Camera

Crotchety

What about:

Pure Mule
Raw
Legend
Strumpet City
Reeling in the Years
Haughey, Bertie, Lemass
Hidden History
The View

Stew.

I wish RTÉ would repeat Stew or Bachelors Walk etc. instead of drying the sh¬te out of Naked Camera every week. Show older programs for a change...

A Disgrace

Soupy Norman
Paths to freedom
No Disco
The Restaurant
Six Nations Coverage
Blizzard of Odd
Hands
Murphys America
Other Voices
The View
Questions and Answers
Seven Ages

Cris Jones

CaptainNegative wrote: »

Good things about RTÉ;

Fair City
Glenroe
Bracken
Bachelor's Walk
Bosco
The days of Zig & Zag with Ray D'Arcy on the Den
Bouli
A Scare At Bedtime With Podge and Rodge
The Panel when Dara O'Briain was still there
The Blizzard of Odd
Apres Match
Naked Camera

Dara went on to newer jobs on the back of his work here didn't he...so that was thanks to his getting a leg up (and rightly so) from his native tv channel...and of course there is Gabriel Byrne, film superstar that he is, who first made his name in "Bracken"...! Thanks for these show names, Captain Negative...:D

dubois90

munday nite soccer is awesum

rte has bad points but some good points too

Crotchety

The guys on the trading floor?

Dobson and Kelly?

A Disgrace

Uh-Oh, this thread has the potential to be a positive RTE endorsement.. where's the naysayers?

Cris Jones

A Disgrace wrote: »

Uh-Oh, this thread has the potential to be a positive RTE endorsement.. where's the naysayers?

I think you should read through the thread before asking that...;)

Namlub

A Disgrace wrote: »

Uh-Oh, this thread has the potential to be a positive RTE endorsement.. where's the naysayers?

What I forgot to mention is that I enjoy all the aforementioned brilliant things without a TV licence. As if I'd fund another ivory back scratcher for those incompetents at Montrose, etc.

sarah+1

That "Love is the Drug" show set in Drogheda. I was addicted to that and it just fizzled out one day. I would love a dvd of that!

Elmo

sarah+1 wrote: »

That "Love is the Drug" show set in Drogheda. I was addicted to that and it just fizzled out one day. I would love a dvd of that!

Yeah very underrated RTÉ Drama it was based on a play and was just a 6 parter, they should at least repeat it.

Big Lar

Well in fairness,
I would have to say that the CSI thing on last Monday night about the missing Postman in Stradbally, Co. Waterford was very good.

Pity it was all in Irish thou