Mattie - Dec 25th 2009

JonathanAnon

Well what you think guys. Bit off the wall so far.

amdublin

Some good lines but nothing laugh out loud as of yet.

Our man in Havana

It has promise.

Reginald P. DuM

I switched over to Once when Mattie and his friend were wrestling while the villans got away.... Think that set the tone and it was enough for me.

Min

Its getting better as it goes along.

bizmark

Id like to head butt the blond one

DeVore

I dont like yer man Shortt's sense of humour but at least its something original and home grown.

DeV.

JonathanAnon

It's not great..

The two guys wrestling was a bit stupid as was said above.

"At least Cagney & Lacey were good looking" - I thought the premise for the joke was that he didn know who Cagney & Lacey were.

Pat is a good actor but sometimes the way he says one word alone can let him down.

Our man in Havana

Are there are any more or is this a one off?

amdublin

It wasn't great tbh.

Pat Shortt is at his best doing his stand up village characters show imo.

JonathanAnon

Bond-007 wrote: »

Are there are any more or is this a one off?

It's a series.

http://www.thurles.info/2009/12/19/pat-shortt-in-tv-series-mattie/

Probably about six episodes I would think.

Our man in Havana

DRAMA: Pat Shortt's Mattie
On: RTÉ 1 (101)
Date: Thursday 31st December 2009 (starting in 5 days)
Time: 20:30 to 21:00 (30 minutes long)

Pilot.
Pat Shortt plays Mattie, a country detective, transferred to a city station-whose recurring ability to get into comic misadventures soon surfaces.
(Repeat)

Starring: Pat Shortt, Lesley Conroy, Joseph Lyle Taylor

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Excerpt taken from DigiGuide - the world's best TV guide available from http://www.getdigiguide.com/?p=1&r=242710

Copyright (c) GipsyMedia Limited.

That would explain that.

dan de man

its a test the water pilot as far as i know and it must be bad if my old fella is laughing at it,he couldnt get killanascully:rolleyes:

JonathanAnon

dan de man wrote: »

its a test the water pilot as far as i know and it must be bad if my old fella is laughing at it,he couldnt get killanascully:rolleyes:

Has he been at the Sherry?

To be fair there were a few good one liners, but most of the comedy fairly juvenile.

dan de man

i wonder sometimes are rte afraid the irish people wont "get it " and over do it with the end product basic comedy s""t like that,it was embarassing to be honest

seclachi

Pat Shortt must be working around the clock with the amount of stuff hes pumping out, this mattie thing, some radio dj thing and I guess all the other usuals. Problem is, he is less funny the more you see him. His stuff is hit and miss, mostly miss these days.

nitrogen

Unoriginal, amateur, dumbed down humour to the point where you wonder what kind of imbecile this was written for.

Syferus

It's as much a test pilot as it is a stuffing sandwich. You could put someone in a a banana suit staring into the lens for 30 minutes at 9PM on Christmas Day and it'd do great in the key demographics.

This, at least unofficially, has been green lit for months.

Agricola

I liked it for the first ten minutes cos it seemed to be doing a Hot Fuzz type take on things. Well the reverse of Hot Fuzz, in this case a small town cop goes to the big smoke. It just went down hill though. Descended into the typical cringey RTE comedy affair, obvious 'i can see this coming a mile away' forced gags etc

I wont be bothering with the series.....

civis_liberalis

Bond-007 wrote: »

It has promise.

Min wrote: »

Its getting better as it goes along.

DeVore wrote: »

at least its something original and home grown.

Agree with all that.

DeVore wrote: »

I dont like yer man Shortt's sense of humour0

I think most people agree with you DeV. I get his sense of humour myself and I like it for the most part, but I can see how it might not grab others in the same way.

I suppose it says something for the programme that I have already warmed to one of the main characters.

dan de man

nitrogen wrote: »

Unoriginal, amateur, dumbed down humour to the point where you wonder what kind of imbecile this was written for.

couldnt have put it better myself

ianrush

So I guess we'll be forced this for the next five or six years then. It's just depressing that this is what gets made in this country. It's basically Chucklevision on primetime, that's the height of its ambition. Pat Shortt has made a lot of money out of scraping the barrell.

reamie

Well he has done it again, another crap comedy. Childish obivious jokes you can see miles away, acting crap, a story a 2 year old would be proud of. Are RTE drunk when they accept material from Pat Short. To sum it up RUBBISH.

mattman

watched first 6 mins...

leave it so...

better off watching the cat chase its tail...

only reason i thought of it. got bored watching pj gallagher on a bike..
more crap...

ah well..back to the internet for entertainment...


do u have a tv licence to watch stuff on the internet? tv is finished. for rte anyway....

m.

rogercar

Would anyone agree or disagree with me that it is high tine that either tv3 or rte devised a new soap opera something along the lines of ros na ruin (in english) or a revamped version of glenroe. These awful mini series and the likes of crap shows that pat short and rte do are expensive and not very entertaining. I know tv3 pretend that they are anxious to make the clinic now that rte have axed it. Would a new quality irish soap opera happen, especially in the current economic climate, with a view to selling it abroad to the wider irish diaspora. And as more and more people are sitting in at night, surely they have a captive audience as most of us want home produced irish drama. What do you think?

Black Magic

This Mattie show was great stuff. Better than Val Falvey.

Bodhidharma

Started off with a fart joke within 30 seconds, then went on to sexist ones and even had a guy dressed up as a woman. Its good to see RTE still cater for people with intellectual disabilities and culchies.

Possible the single worst thing i've ever seen on television.