BBC2 - 2009 Unwrapped with Miranda Hart

A Disgrace

Great to see Barry Murphy and Mark Doherty yet again making a splash in the UK with this show. It's a pretty much carbon copy of last years RTE review of the TV year which Murphy also wrote, and great to see, considering 70% of the members of this forum seem to have a self-destructive inferiority complex when it comes to all things home-grown and RTE. Had it have been the other way round, the masses would be claimed RTE ripped it off.. As it was, it was an idea first tried on RTE and later taken up by the BBC. It also had a high Irish content and was very very funny. Anyone see it?

mikom

A Disgrace wrote: »

considering 70% of the members of this forum seem to have a self-destructive inferiority complex when it comes to all things home-grown and RTE.

Yes you're right, RTE is inferior..........

The Prophet

A Disgrace wrote: »

It's a pretty much carbon copy of last years RTE review of the TV year which Murphy also wrote, and great to see, considering 70% of the members of this forum seem to have a self-destructive inferiority complex when it comes to all things home-grown and RTE. Had it have been the other way round, the masses would be claimed RTE ripped it off.. As it was, it was an idea first tried on RTE and later taken up by the BBC.

Ha. Ho. He. He. A joke post there, surely.

Copy of RTE... my arse.

"Unwrapped" was like a retread of the BBC's "2004, The Stupid Version", what with the jokey talking heads mangling 2009 events for comic effect, to cut-up edits of political tv interviews, all the while interspersed with short sketches here and there.

Black Magic

Barry Murphy was in this. I thought it was just that vile Miranda woman. Didn't watch it at all.

Aidric

Watched this last night. Thought it was pretty weak tbh. Any show using Ed Byrne as a talking head instantly gets my back up.

phasers

I couldn't watch this because of that horrible Miranda woman, but by the sounds of it I didn't miss much.

Aidric

It was my first time seeing this woman on tv. What a profoundly unfunny cretin.

Elmo

A Disgrace wrote: »

Great to see Barry Murphy and Mark Doherty yet again making a splash in the UK with this show. It's a pretty much carbon copy of last years RTE review of the TV year which Murphy also wrote, and great to see, considering 70% of the members of this forum seem to have a self-destructive inferiority complex when it comes to all things home-grown and RTE. Had it have been the other way round, the masses would be claimed RTE ripped it off.. As it was, it was an idea first tried on RTE and later taken up by the BBC. It also had a high Irish content and was very very funny. Anyone see it?

I would have liked to have seen last years review from RTE. I thought "Ten things that went boom in the bust" with Marty Whelan was quite good this year. Unlike like that Craig Doyle ****e.

SeymourHersh

It was hit and miss, which puts it ahead of the combined comedy output of all Irish channels over the holiday period.

The Masterchef spoof was the high point.

SeymourHersh

And BTW, who cares where a format originates?

The Panel is an embarrassment not because it's a rip-off of Have I Got News For You, but because it's as funny herpes.

Our man in Havana

Aidric wrote: »

It was my first time seeing this woman on tv. What a profoundly unfunny cretin.

Ah now. That is very unfair. I find Miranda funny.

Aidric

Bond-007 wrote: »

Ah now. That is very unfair. I find Miranda funny.

What else does she do?

Black Magic

Some thing before MOTD2 on a Sunday night.

Elmo

SeymourHersh wrote: »

The Panel is an embarrassment not because it's a rip-off of Have I Got News For You, but because it's as funny herpes.

It is actually a format from Australia.