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Frontline Sketches

  • 20-10-2009 12:45pm
    #1
    Meeja Ireland
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    Does anyone like them? I'm not a fan, but it's hard to judge their individual merits given how badly they sit with the rest of the show. I can't imagine the sudience for a serious current affairs show finding them particularly compelling, and they seem unlikely to bring new viewers in.

    My guess is that they will be quietly dumped from the second season, and quietly marginalised during this one. They have already been bumped to the end of the show, and I would expect them to get shorter and shorter and the weeks go by.


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  • #2
    SoupyNorman
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    They are just atrocious.


  • #3
    Elmo
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    It is a show that I flick in and out of so I don't get to see the sketches. However "serious" current affairs has had sketches as part of the format for many years, e.g. The Last Word and Navan Man.


  • #4
    Bondvillain
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    Personally, I think it's a transitional device between items that works far better on a radio show (eg the Navan Man inserts on the Original TLW) than on television.

    The inserts on Frontline arent funny, and come across as a little jarring during a serious discussion. I couldnt ever imagine John Bowman ok-ing a sub-standard Oliver Callan carry on camping style routine about David Norris mid way through questions and answers, so one has to wonder who thought that shoe-horning a comedy sketch into this political affairs programme was a good idea, especially given the relief that most of the nation's tv viewers expressed when Pat Kenny announced that he was leaving light entertainment behind to go back to his more suitable current affairs roots.


  • #5
    Amz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,330 ✭✭✭✭Amz


    Elmo wrote: »
    It is a show that I flick in and out of so I don't get to see the sketches. However "serious" current affairs has had sketches as part of the format for many years, e.g. The Last Word and Navan Man.
    Well, for starters Navan Man and the Drunken Politician were very often entertaining, from what I've seen, these have failed to even slightly amuse.

    There's no need for it on the show. It seems to be just a way to showcase some more RTE "talent", and I use the term very loosely.


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