Father Ted - Irish or British?

darkman2 · 13-03-2010 1:18pm #1

Irish Cast, Irish Context, Irish Writers, Irish Countryside.. - BUT apparenly British funded. What do you think?

Jesus Wept · 13-03-2010 1:19pm

It's a tv program.

Tomebagel · 13-03-2010 1:21pm

Its irish,gtfo.

Micky Dolenz · 13-03-2010 1:22pm

It would be classed as a British comedy considering it was made by a British production company and commissioned by Channel 4.

Bonito · 13-03-2010 1:22pm

That's a stupid question.

Only the Irish could come up with such sheer genius for a TV programme

/ http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=320404

Jesus Wept · 13-03-2010 1:22pm

Tomebagel wrote: »

Its irish,gtfo.

Why does it matter?

OP, the internal scenes were shot in UK I believe, which would be most of the show.

Rylan · 13-03-2010 1:22pm

It's Irish but RTE wouldn't buy the rights to it so it was bought by channel 4

aphex™ · 13-03-2010 1:22pm

It was also filmed in front of an audience in London

That's English people laughing at the Irish :eek:

Elenxor · 13-03-2010 1:23pm

darkman2 wrote: »

Irish Cast, Irish Context, Irish Writers, Irish Countryside.. - BUT apparenly British funded. What do you think?

Your point being?

Agent J · 13-03-2010 1:24pm

Didnt RTE reject it orignally?

DanGlee · 13-03-2010 1:24pm

Was it not a brit and irish who wrote it and original idea for it?

Also, yes owned by C4

Bonito · 13-03-2010 1:25pm

Elenxor wrote: »

Your point being?

Clearly it's a question and not a point. :rolleyes:

allthedoyles · 13-03-2010 1:25pm

It is funded by UK - Father Jack told Marian Finucane recently that he still gets a monthly cheque of £2,500 .

Nothing wrong with residual income from the UK /.

Bonito · 13-03-2010 1:25pm

allthedoyles wrote: »

It is funded by UK - Father Jack told Marian Finucane recently that he still gets a monthly cheque of £2,500 .

Nothing wrong with residual income from the UK /.

Did you bring the tea?

Elenxor · 13-03-2010 1:26pm

Elenxor wrote: »

Your point being?

Ah just get over yourself!!

El Weirdo · 13-03-2010 1:26pm

Agent J wrote: »

Didnt RTE reject it orignally?

I believe that to be a myth.

ejmaztec · 13-03-2010 1:26pm

Isn't it a myth that it was originally turned down by RTE?

Bonito · 13-03-2010 1:27pm

Elenxor wrote: »

Ah just get over yourself!!

FAIL

TPD · 13-03-2010 1:29pm

El Weirdo wrote: »

I believe that to be a myth.

ejmaztec wrote: »

Isn't it a myth that it was originally turned down by RTE?

So I've heard. They went straight to Channel 4 with it. And lucky too, RTE is dire. Would have ruined the show.

ejmaztec · 13-03-2010 1:30pm

allthedoyles wrote: »

It is funded by UK - Father Jack told Marian Finucane recently that he still gets a monthly cheque of £2,500 .

Nothing wrong with residual income from the UK /.

That must keep him in drink and girls.

Terry79 · 13-03-2010 1:30pm

darkman2 wrote: »

Irish Cast, Irish Context, Irish Writers, Irish Countryside.. - BUT apparenly British funded. What do you think?

Irish all the way!!!!

Agent J · 13-03-2010 1:31pm

Makes sense. C4 used to have a sense of humour.

RTE never had one.

ejmaztec · 13-03-2010 1:32pm

Here's a good aptly named site for Father Ted "anoraks", full of useless information compiled by strange people.

http://www.feck.net/splange/ftfaq.html#location

InKonspikuou2 · 13-03-2010 1:39pm

I'd consider it Irish. Who funded it and where some of it was filmed doesn't change what the writers and the actors brought to the screen. It's just like some big American shows that are funded or partly funded by Canada and shot there. But yet nobody refers to them as Canadian shows.

Schism · 13-03-2010 1:40pm

Why does it even matter if it's Irish or English? From what I can see the vast majority of your threads are designed to stir ****.

BaconZombie · 13-03-2010 1:42pm

They did not even try and sell the idea to RTE because they know they would not take it.

Rylan wrote: »

It's Irish but RTE wouldn't buy the rights to it so it was bought by channel 4

RayM · 13-03-2010 1:43pm

Irish writers, an Irish cast, filmed on location in Ireland, interior scenes shot in London. Thankfully made by a British production company, because if an Irish one had got their hands on it, it would inevitably have been a shambolic, poorly edited, half-arsed affair.

dlofnep · 13-03-2010 1:45pm

BrIrish?

It's Irish in fairness... But it's kind of irrelevant.

Frank Spencer · 13-03-2010 1:45pm

There is a prevalent urban myth that RTÉ were initially offered Father Ted, but turned it down either because of timidity in dealing with religious themes in a comedy series, or because of an ongoing feud with Morgan. In fact, the show was always destined for Channel 4 through the independent production company Hat Trick. Apart from the fact that the show was never pitched to RTÉ, there is no evidence that the religious theme would have scared the broadcaster off. It had already produced Leave it to Mrs. O'Brien, a similarly themed sitcom which was hardly Father Ted's equivalent in quality (it has never repeated the series on television, such is its perceived poor quality) but the fact that it made it at all showed that religion was not a 'comedic no go area' as has been claimed. RTÉ had launched Dermot Morgan's Father Trendy and kept him on the air for four years and on the Late Late Show had constantly enraged the Catholic Church with discussions on lesbian nuns, contraception, homosexuality and abortion. The station was generally perceived as liberal and left of centre, with accusations made by conservative Catholics that it had long been anti-Catholic. According to its critics, RTÉ's problem wasn't that it was afraid of the Catholic Church, but that it was afraid of offending anyone, its fear of offending politicians being the reason for the axing of Scrap Saturday. (No evidence has ever been produced that it had been complained to over Scrap Saturday; most politicians were as flabbergasted as the rest of the listening public when it was axed, many missing the way in which their opponents would be slagged off, in particularly its "wickedly funny" treatment of Haughey, in the words of one of Haughey's own ministers.)

Source

Hank_Jones · 13-03-2010 1:45pm

Ted: Once again Dougal, you've made me look like a complete fool in front of real people. Thanks very much.
Dougal: To be honest Ted, I forgot you had the money. I was just going to tell you... your fly's open.

Ruu_Old · 13-03-2010 1:47pm

I wonder will this get over 1,500 replies like the Queen visit thread?

mike65 · 13-03-2010 1:48pm

****ing hell its not often something so trivial should need a sticky but I'd make an exception for this pressing matter. :rolleyes:

ejmaztec · 13-03-2010 1:50pm

Schism wrote: »

Why does it even matter if it's Irish or English? From what I can see the vast majority of your threads are designed to stir ****.

Is this something to do with the Irish writers and cast being occupied by the British, then each programme being partitioned for an ad break?:eek:

barongreen · 13-03-2010 1:51pm

an irish comedy made by the brits is'nt it?. btw it would not have been as good if rte had made it........

Hank_Jones · 13-03-2010 1:56pm

barongreen wrote: »

an irish comedy made by the brits is'nt it?. btw it would not have been as good if rte had made it........

Exactly.

Val Falvey anyone?

brummytom · 13-03-2010 2:11pm

As much as I'd like to say British, I'd class it as Irish - Irish cast, Irish writers, Irish humour. The British imput is quite scarce

df1985 · 13-03-2010 2:20pm

''ride me sideways was another one!''

i got a picture outside the parochial house that its set in. its down the back arse of clare, hard to find but was cool seeing it in the flesh.

whether rte were offered it or not im glad c4 had it. if it was an rte comedy there would have been uproar from the older generations, even when network2 showed it my parents thought it was disgraceful.they had no problems when it was on c4!

RayM · 13-03-2010 2:20pm

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Exactly.

Val Falvey anyone?

Ah, Val Falvey... The show that Father Ted could have been.

Duggy747 · 13-03-2010 2:22pm

Irish produced show sold to the Brits.

End of story!

Who cares who it belongs to, it being still funny is a more interesting thing!

ejmaztec · 13-03-2010 2:25pm

I remember listening to Griff Rhys-Jones when he spoke about lending a London flat to Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews when they were writing scripts. He said that they hardly left the place and lived on pizza deliveries. Each time a lightbulb blew over their workspace, they would nick one from another light-socket until they were almost all used up. When he visited the place after they moved out, he found that all of the cupboards were full of empty pizza boxes.

Kotek Besar · 13-03-2010 2:34pm

dlofnep wrote: »

BrIrish?

Interesting word. Now, would the first "i" in this word be pronounced like the first "i" in the word "Irish", or would it be pronounced like the first "i" in the word "British"?

In the case of the former, the word "Brirish" would sound more closely to the word "Irish", which might upset some Unionists. Otherwise, it would sound more like the word "British". This, naturally, might upset some Nationalists.

Perhaps we should adopt both pronunciations, using each alternately and equally in conversation..

dlofnep · 13-03-2010 2:48pm

Kotek Besar wrote: »

Interesting word. Now, would the first "i" in this word be pronounced like the first "i" in the word "Irish", or would it be pronounced like the first "i" in the word "British"?

In the case of the former, the word "Brirish" would sound more closely to the word "Irish", which might upset some Unionists. Otherwise, it would sound more like the word "British". This, naturally, might upset some Nationalists.

Perhaps we should adopt both pronunciations, using each alternately and equally in conversation..

You're a gas man!

Father Ted - Irish or British?

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