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RTE ripping off british reality tv ...will it end?

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  • 08-11-2009 8:11pm
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    iluvlamp
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭


    Im sick to the tooth of RTE ripping off programs which are hits on the UK channels but always manage to lower it to some mediocre, regional irish crap!! the latest installment is Neil Delemere's ''republic of telly'' complete and unashamed rip off of Harry Hills tv burmp. Anyone who is not familiar with this look it up and laugh at the pitiful attempt! Other rip off's include....''your a star'' (rip off of popstars and later on xfactor) this was turned into counties votin for their crap acts out of a pathetic county loyality! RTE's ''the english class'' (complete rip off of the ricky gervais style comedy ''the office'') and was disasterous. A hit internet/tv show on UK channel called ''sophie's diary'' we have the poor mans aishling's diary. It gets worse... ''the all ireland talent show'' (Britains got talent)...''celebrity jigs and reels'' (strictly come dancing)...''the panel'' (have i got news for you)... ''operation transfomation'' (the slighlty more glamorous The Swan)and not forgetting TV3's midday show or whatever is quite obviously ''loose women'' from the UK...even tv3 are starting to do those drab shows where they count down any random list they can think of and where it shows clips of various ''celebs'' passing comment on each item in the list...i think ch4 sky1 bbc itv have done this to death!!! Im aware that its hard to be completley oringnal there will always be stuf thats been done before...but its the blatent disregard to even change it a little to make it look at all original
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    OnTheBalls
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    Don't forget that we are going to murder deal or no deal too.


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    Papa_Lazarou
    Registered Users Posts: 1,863 ✭✭✭Papa_Lazarou


    OnTheBalls wrote: »
    Don't forget that we are going to murder deal or no deal too.



    To be honest deal or no deal was a load of crap anyway :)


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    robo
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    OnTheBalls wrote: »
    Don't forget that we are going to murder deal or no deal too.

    That is TV3, not RTE..the title says
    RTE ripping..


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    MarkK
    Registered Users Posts: 721 ✭✭✭MarkK


    iluvlamp wrote: »
    Other rip off's include....''your a star'' (rip off of popstars and later on xfactor) this was turned into counties votin for their crap acts out of a pathetic county loyality!
    Talent shows are hardly new.
    RTE's ''the english class'' (complete rip off of the ricky gervais style comedy ''the office'') and was disasterous.
    Was "the office" reality TV?
    It gets worse... ''the all ireland talent show'' (Britains got talent)...
    A rip off of the "Gong Show" from the 1970s US tv.
    ''operation transfomation'' (the slighlty more glamorous The Swan)
    The Swan was American, not British.
    TV3's midday show or whatever is quite obviously ''loose women'' from the UK
    American again "The View" from US TV.

    The alternative to RTE copying others is to come up with new stuff themselves. I'm not sure that's a good idea, I'm still recovering from "The Lyrics Board"


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    Mossy Monk
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    Irish tv takes from UK tv. UK tv takes from American tv. In fact most reality tv has originated in Holland or Belgium and the whole world is copying them.

    Believe it or not OP, not everyone watches the UK equivilants


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    CutzEr
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    Not to hard to press the enter key OP.


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    mikom
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    iluvlamp wrote: »
    Im sick to the tooth of RTE ripping off programs which are hits on the UK channels

    Go see your dentist.


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    lucylu
    Registered Users Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭lucylu


    Off the Rails is now women dressing in their underwear asking them what they don't like about their bodies, putting them in pully-in underwear before transforming their wardrobe... taken right out of What not to Wear..


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    iluvlamp
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭iluvlamp


    tv3 is also mentioned in post twice despite the title...read full post in future!! as regards to talent shows not being new,as i said im aware theres only so much u can be original about..but i would question the intelligence of a person who cant see that an irish ''talent'' show on front of a live audience with three judges 5feet away passing comments on an act and asking the veiwers to text an vote their favourite acts is the same we see on itv every saturday!!!


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    jor el
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    iluvlamp wrote: »
    the latest installment is Neil Delemere's ''republic of telly'' complete and unashamed rip off of Harry Hills tv burmp.

    Which in turn is a rip off of Tarrant on TV, which is probably a rip off of whatever came before that, and whatever came before that, etc. TV is nothing but the same thing over and over, with the odd original idea every couple of years.

    Where's the Jeremy Beadle ripped off Mike Murphy thread? Or what about Celebrity Farm?
    iluvlamp wrote:
    ''the all ireland talent show'' (Britains got talent)

    You probably don't remember the John Player Tops, do you? They went all around Ireland getting people to showcase their talents, and then aired it on TV. But I'm sure that's completely different.
    iluvlamp wrote:
    but i would question the intelligence of a person who cant see that an irish ''talent'' show on front of a live audience with three judges 5feet away passing comments on an act and asking the veiwers to text an vote their favourite acts is the same we see on itv every saturday!

    Many people here watch that on Irish television, TV3, every Saturday. So the Irish produced You're a Star is the same format as just about every other TV talent show that has ever been made, so what? It's not as if X Factor was the first, and it certainly won't be the last, TV talent show. You're a Star came before The X-Factor anyway, and both followed Pop Idol, which was by no means an original format itself.


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    Mossy Monk
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    iluvlamp wrote: »
    is the same we see on itv every saturday!!!

    It can't be worse than TV3 showing the ITV show at the exact same time as ITV. At least the RTÉ version allows for more people from this country to have a go.


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