TV Dumb Down

Jonniealan

Watching the TV the other night it suddenly dawned on me just how bad irish TV has become. Depressing reality TV shows fade street ect... sh*te try to hard comedy panel shows. Using pointless former reality tv people as presenters ( your one from English apprentice who looks like she swollowed a wasp and that former nun/lesbian from big brother who has absolutely nothing of any relevence to say) We seem to have adopted some of the worst things in English culture from the media and TV dumbing down I believe they call it.

In fairness RTE can be good from a current affairs point of view, but i dont think i have the stomach for that anymore.

Biggins

Welcome to tabloid television. Its growing and getting worse.

Gunsfortoys

Seen an ad for a show called young, dumb and living off mum.

Future of Ireland indeed.

Guill

Me watch Tv.
Me no dumb, you dummiest of me and you.

aidan24326

Roll on the day when you can simply download whatever you want to watch whenever you want to watch it. That day is coming. TV in its current format is living on borrowed time. In this country TV3 just show whatever crap ITV are showing, X-Factor, I'm a Celeb etc. As for RTE, well apart from the odd bit of sport and current affairs they don't really do much of anything anymore. Alot of seriously overpaid 'stars' over in Donnybrook.

Dunjohn

TV dumb down not good.

Pace2008

When exactly was the golden age of Irish television?

I agree there’s some retarded **** on the tellybox, which is why I rarely watch it, but I hate this notion that our society is in a persistent state of intellectual decline. People have been harping on about it since the inception of the written word.

tricky D

tl;dr;td

jd007

aidan24326 wrote: »

Roll on the day when you can simply download whatever you want to watch whenever you want to watch it.

I think that day is here tbh for a lot of people

Cookie_Monster

Pace2008 wrote:

but I hate this notion that our society is in a persistent state of intellectual decline. People have been harping on about it since the inception of the written word.

The idiots are just getting louder

Sykk

The only thing I watch TV for is the football. The odd time I'll check the docu's but if there's nothing interesting I don't bother.

I download pretty much everything I want to watch. Because TV is just so bad, 8 mins of whatever your watching followed by 10 mins of adds.

Also, most thrash like "2 and a half men", "Friends" and all the other ridiculous American style crap just turns my stomach...

Down with this sort of thing!

jackiebaron

aidan24326 wrote: »

Roll on the day when you can simply download whatever you want to watch whenever you want to watch it. That day is coming. TV in its current format is living on borrowed time. In this country TV3 just show whatever crap ITV are showing, X-Factor, I'm a Celeb etc. As for RTE, well apart from the odd bit of sport and current affairs they don't really do much of anything anymore. Alot of seriously overpaid 'stars' over in Donnybrook.

Agreed! I just watch blinkx.com

mike65

Just learn to say no! Watch BBC4 for Med Men and Wallander or BBC2 for The Trip, The Thick of It etc. Stay away from "prime time" as its infested with junk designed as background noise between the ad breaks

bonerm

Haven't turned on 'television' (the medium that is as opposed to the device) in 6 months now. Get by just fine without it. Any show worth talking about is out there elsewhere. Plus you get avoid the spirit and mind destroying effects of scheduling, advertising and national propaganda.

Pookah

The only English channels I receive are France24 and Al Jazeera. I couldn't be bothered updating it, or getting in cable, as it forces me to do other stuff, instead of sitting there flicking from one crap channel to the next.

Donkey Oaty

Pace2008 wrote: »

When exactly was the golden age of Irish television?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chft6GVtNWM

ballsymchugh

but loike, OMG you're so totally missing fade street loike?

thirtythirty

Guill wrote: »

Me watch Tv.
Me no dumb, you dummiest of me and you.

That's how I read the thread title too!


edit: I've been "silent-crying-laughing" at that at my desk here in work since I read that! Well done Sir.

Angron

I only rarely watch TV any more. I lost hope for it when the upsurge in "reality" tv started. Singing and talent shows too.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

tricky D wrote: »

tl;dr;td

It's not doing anything for our attention spans either, I see.

FortuneChip

We need to make better television like "16 & Pregnant".
Of course the Irish version could be called
"Young Dumb, 16 Year Old Mum"

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

"Ireland's Got Herpes"

UsernameInUse

What do you mean 'has become'....Irish TV was always sh1te!

Hence why people pay through the nose for British channels...at least those Brits know how to produce something entertaining. Even RTE's 6.1 is the most eye gauging and boring news report man has ever looked at and wondered how the fcuk someone actually thought this was half decent to send out on the airwaves...some half dead rodent reporting in the thickest back arse of nowhere accent about poor Seanie losing his ****ing hat down some rabbit hole in the arsehole of Roscommon...

If I was in charge, Id get rid of the watershed for a start! Those pesky kids gotta grow up sometime!

Tchaikovsky

Sykk wrote: »

The only thing I watch TV for is the football. The odd time I'll check the docu's but if there's nothing interesting I don't bother.

Even football's rubbish now. For dumbing down, see: Redknapp, Jamie.

ESPN Classic is great though.

Venom

Jonniealan wrote: »

Watching the TV the other night it suddenly dawned on me just how bad Irish TV has become.

Was there a time when Irish TV was good?

The Isle of Saints and Scholars my arse.

Sticky_Fingers

bonerm wrote: »

Haven't turned on 'television' (the medium that is as opposed to the device) in 6 months now. Get by just fine without it. Any show worth talking about is out there elsewhere. Plus you get avoid the spirit and mind destroying effects of scheduling, advertising and national propaganda.

+1 I haven't watched TV in yonks, I get my news from the interweb and my shows on DVD. I prefer to drop 20 notes on something that I know I will enjoy and can watch any time of the day or night, plus no need to wait a week for the next episode. I'm currently waiting for the Walking Dead to finish up and be released on DVD so I can sit down and watch it all in one go.

Krusader

Fúck RTÉ, TG4 is where it's at

Biggins

Venom wrote: »

Was there a time when Irish TV was good?

When they ran the adverts between Fair City!

Nforce

Showing my age here...but....any of you old enough to remember the episode of the hugely popular rural Irish soap Glenroe which featured a horse with thought bubbles appearing above it's head? :o

THAT surely has to be the lowest point in Irish TV????

bonerm

Nforce wrote: »

Showing my age here...but....any of you old enough to remember the episode of the hugely popular rural Irish soap Glenroe which featured a horse with thought bubbles appearing above it's head? :o

I'm pretty sure nothing that interesting would ever happen on Glenroe.

GLaDOS

Only download/stream tv shows for the most part

Nforce

bonerm wrote: »

I'm pretty sure nothing that interesting would ever happen on Glenroe.

Amazing as it seems...but it actually did!

cml387

Bring back Rapid Roulette.

It's a little known fact that Chris Tarrant based WWTBAM on this show.

ascanbe

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chft6GVtNWM

That's more like it; i'm gonna watch that on loop for an hour.

Yakult

Serious lack of creativity in RTE. They cannot come up with anything original or anyway good. Look at Fade Street ffs and the countless of other shows that last 4 episodes..

Then you have Fair City, more like Fairly shitty tbh.

Late Late Show? I would rather go to church than watch that borefest with big ears.

Nothing else worth mentioning from that disgrace of a station with their over payed employees.

pagancornflake

Television is obsolete. I consider it to be a staging platform for pirateable media which I enjoy at my leisure on my laptop.

WesternZulu

UsernameInUse wrote: »

What do you mean 'has become'....Irish TV was always sh1te!

Hence why people pay through the nose for British channels...at least those Brits know how to produce something entertaining. Even RTE's 6.1 is the most eye gauging and boring news report man has ever looked at and wondered how the fcuk someone actually thought this was half decent to send out on the airwaves...some half dead rodent reporting in the thickest back arse of nowhere accent about poor Seanie losing his ****ing hat down some rabbit hole in the arsehole of Roscommon...

If I was in charge, Id get rid of the watershed for a start! Those pesky kids gotta grow up sometime!

Not like the way RTE reported the cold snap last year once Dublin got hit by a few snow flakes as if it was the end of the world.
When parts of the North West were covered in snow for a few days without barely a mention.

Ah sure who wants to hear about Seanie in Roscommon instead of Anto in Dublin :rolleyes:

Sticky_Fingers

WesternZulu wrote: »

Not like the way RTE reported the cold snap last year once Dublin got hit by a few snow flakes as if it was the end of the world.
When parts of the North West were covered in snow for a few days without barely a mention.

Ah sure who wants to hear about Seanie in Roscommon instead of Anto in Dublin :rolleyes:

If Seanie in Roscommon can entertain as much as Anto did in this clip he should be given his own show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nteMp3OQu98

Barna77

If Irish TV is bad, Spanish TV is a pile of crap. Anyttime I go there, it makes me miss the angelus

Ze Fuhrer

Jonniealan wrote: »

Watching the TV the other night it suddenly dawned on me just how bad irish TV has become. Depressing reality TV shows fade street ect... sh*te try to hard comedy panel shows. Using pointless former reality tv people as presenters ( your one from English apprentice who looks like she swollowed a wasp and that former nun/lesbian from big brother who has absolutely nothing of any relevence to say) We seem to have adopted some of the worst things in English culture from the media and TV dumbing down I believe they call it.

In fairness RTE can be good from a current affairs point of view, but i dont think i have the stomach for that anymore.

TV is a device used by the elders of zion to brainwash the sheeple while they create a new world order while we are all too busy focusing on trivial tv stuff. We have to turn the television off and return to purity and say NO to tv brainwashing.

cml387

Ze Fuhrer wrote: »

TV is a device used by the elders of zion to brainwash the sheeple while they create a new world order while we are all too busy focusing on trivial tv stuff. We have to turn the television off and return to purity and say NO to tv brainwashing.

return to purity ?

I googled what you intended to do to your girlfriend this evening Fuhrer.

waxon-waxoff

Why single out the Irish channels for abuse, they just copy what the UK has already done. Seems dumbed down is what gets the big audience, like Jedward on x factor. Even Top Gear has become an entertainment show and the cars are just a prop. Maybe people just want to escape from the recession, politics etc. Theres some good documentaries on RTE though. Mad Men, Entourage, CSI and The Wire were all shown on Irish tv.

The US gives us the best and worst tv, best being the drama series and the worst being MTV shows- Hulk Hogan and sweet 16.