Val Falvey TD

Johnny Giles

RTÉ 1 NOW

RABTMOUSE

I didn't laugh out loud, but I will be tuning in again- its difficult to judge the strength of something just by the first episode- perhaps it might develop into a good show... perhaps

Lemondrop kid

Well it's Val time again tonight.
A few of the clips looked like it might improve, but seriously doubt it.
Still, will wait and see (what else my gonna do on a freezing sunday night, with no money in the phoca?)
:rolleyes:

Johnny Giles

Simon Delaney is in this tonight.

Lemondrop kid

Johnny Giles wrote: »

Simon Delaney is in this tonight.

Who he?

MikeC101

Lemondrop kid wrote: »

Who he?

I know him as the guy from Bachelors Walk, some telephone ads (meteor?), and the posters for "Stones in His Pockets".

He's probably featured in other stuff, at a guess some RTE drama, plays, chat shows.

Johnny Giles

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2420679/

MikeC101

Couldn't you have found a bigger photo? :eek:

Lemondrop kid

MikeC101 wrote: »

I know him as the guy from Bachelors Walk, some telephone ads (meteor?), and the posters for "Stones in His Pockets".

He's probably featured in other stuff, at a guess some RTE drama, plays, chat shows.

A 'poster boy' for the naughties so. Hope he brings something it

Johnny Giles

Tesco phone ads

MikeC101

Johnny Giles wrote: »

Tesco phone ads

Ah yeah. Goes to show how much of an effect they had on me - I just remember him eating cake in them, and commenting that any more cream would "go through him like the Luas."

Johnny Giles

Bit better tonight.

twincamman

its very very bad,i havent even been near a laugh yet.very poor considering the good actors in it:(

Reginald P. DuM

I dunno Johnny, I didn't laugh last weerk, and I havent this week yet. Think thats it now with me and the bould Val.

Johnny Giles

Phelim Drew - Son of Ronnie - in this tonight.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Bit better, but not good enough. Done with this show.

Johnny Giles

Johnny Giles wrote: »

Phelim Drew - Son of Ronnie - in this tonight.

Stick with narrating The Apprentice son

Johnny Giles

Best Quote goes to:

Simon Delaney -

"Give us a smile. It's the second best thing a girl can do with her lips"

Creamy Goodness

still awful.

currythis

Meh,slightly funny in parts but the whole storyline is just a bit sh!te really,Matthew's is no Graham Linehan obviously!

Johnny Giles

Yea. Suddenly it's over. No storyline at all. If this series was an essay in the Leaving Cert I'd give it a D

Johnny Giles

Auld men throwing paper balls at one another in the Dáil.

Unfunny sh!t

David McWilliams has his face on this sh!t too. Between the Panel and this he's really doing himself some damage.

Elmo

This got good write ups in the newspaper sorry just the Indo

The Irish Times said

MAYBE IT’S because our politicians have been dishing up the ingredients for comedy gold on a great big platter that my expectations for Val Falvey TD (RTÉ 1, Sunday) were so high. This year alone the comedy gift horse that is Leinster House has produced all kinds of material from the slapstick of limos shuttling between airport terminals to the real meat of satire such as Nama, ministerial expenses and state-funded bankers.
A good satirical comedy would twist the knife and it’s safe to speculate that we’re all in the mood to witness a bit of expert filleting. Then there’s the pedigree of Val Falvey’s writer Arthur Matthews (who co-writes with Paul Woodfull) who was one of the co-creators of Father Ted . The cast, too, which includes Owen Roe, Pat O’Donnell, Enda Oates and Amelia Crowley, is top notch.

So with all that going for it, it seems nearly wilful that they created such an unfunny, irrelevant show. The premise is that Falvey is a reluctant politician from the midlands who inherits the seat from his deceased father. Pat Daly (Roe) is his adviser and fixer. The constituency office is a manky caravan which we’re clearly supposed to find instantly hilarious (and of course the caravan episode was one of the funniest in the Father Ted series), but lightning doesn’t strike twice. Then there are the other characters – mostly slightly mad-looking people, straight out of the dog-eared directory of shouty culchie stereotypes, and without a funny line between them.

Well put.

Even the worst comedies have me smile a little!

Greenman

Rubbish, how did this ever get off the ground?

Lemondrop kid

Johnny Giles wrote: »

Auld men throwing paper balls at one another in the Dáil.

Unfunny sh!t

David McWilliams has his face on this sh!t too. Between the Panel and this he's really doing himself some damage.

Ah well, complete nonsense. It's not only the direction, script is dreadful. Big no no.

In a blinding flash of insight I understand why McWilliams is doing this stuff - he's hopin to host some rte chat show! Has to be it! (note: I don't regard the panel as a show)

Lemondrop kid

Elmo wrote: »

This got good write ups in the newspaper

What???
What newpapers - the Midlands Chronicle? (the one in val falvey)

blackbetty69

this show isnt even funny like, and the writer of father ted is suposed to be over this show?! i think someone from the panel kidnapped him and took over, and is polluting our televisions with this sh*t comedy

Lemondrop kid

Elmo wrote: »

This got good write ups in the newspaper sorry just the Indo

Em do you have the INp article for pasting/ posting?
I cannot believe any even lowly hack could give this the thumbs up

Reginald P. DuM

It's pretty evident Graham Linehan and Dermot Morgan were the creative forces behind the humour in Ted. This is lame, Mathews living off the back of Ted without producing anything remotely funny since.

smcgiff

Greenman wrote: »

Rubbish, how did this ever get off the ground?

*pilot episode just finishes in RTE HQ*

RTE Mandarin #1 - 'Jaysus, that's shíte'
RTE Mandarin #2 - 'Remember what happened when we passed on Fr Ted'
RTE Mandarin #1 - 'Sign that shíte up!'