The Social

SEPT 23 1989

Anyone else watching this garbage?

Bodhisopha

Yeah... utter tripe

BaZmO*

Surely that App should be called the iBleed?

Sir Gallagher

Yeah, why do they bother. RTE are great at Docs news and serious stuff terrible when it comes to humour though(is this supposed to be humourous).

SEPT 23 1989

Don't see the point of this at all

Skid

Dreadful. Awful. Unfunny. Waste of Money.

BrianJD

Poor Craigy is sweatin up a good un.....

DuckStab

Mairéad Farrell slating men, what a change of pace for her.

Atlantic Dawn

I think Craig Doyle is the NAMA of Irish TV so he has to stay in existance forever regardless of whether he is $hite or not.

Mr.Nice Guy

This show isn't serious, right? Has to be a satire of the D4 stereotype a la Ross O'Carroll Kelly. I mean there's a picture of BOD on the wall. I mean this couldn't be genuine...right?

binxeo

Haven't heard of it...what is it!!!

The Sparrow

Hell of a show going on here.

This is actually an achievement in awfulness.

Sir Gallagher

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

This show isn't serious, right? Has to be a satire of the D4 stereotype a la Ross O'Carroll Kelly. I mean there's a picture of BOD on the wall. I mean this couldn't be genuine...right?

Noticed that myself, cringeworthy.

The aul one in the background would get it.

sparkle_23

What's the point of this? Hate that Mairead one....

SEPT 23 1989

Is it a test pilot?

Dempsey

Its the Afternoon show with booze!

abouttobebanned

I presume it's a Christopher guest vehicle?...

Bodhisopha

binxeo wrote: »

Haven't heard of it...what is it!!!

It's four vacuous cuntz having a conversation.

ChainWhip

I, for one, welcome the shakey camera effect.

It's like I'm almost in the room with them. Almost.

Oh_Noes

RTE have strange categories of demographics. They have a show on at 5pm called "Juice" which is basically the same thing. They seem to think that there's some kind of trendy 21 year old student type audience for this stuff. Really no credit being given to the young people of this country being offered up such half-arsed crude rubbish.

Skid

My TV Guide describes this **** as

Season 1 Episode 1 of 36
New series. Craig Doyle presents this live chat show in which he and three guests discuss the stories making the news, creating the gossip on TV and causing the biggest hits on the 'net. No topic is out of bounds, from the deadly serious to the downright daft, ensuring 30 minutes of lively conversation

http://www.tvnow.ie/default.asp

36 fecking Episodes!!!!!!!!!!! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Time to occupy Montrose - how did this ****e ever get commissioned ?

Sir Gallagher

Ooh a wine feature... how very "hip young proffesional". Utterly naff.

The Sparrow

36 episodes :eek::eek::eek::eek:

God help us all.

Mr.Nice Guy

To the maybe four people who wondered what it would be like to have a drink with these bores...now you know. Pure muck.

SEPT 23 1989

Skid wrote: »

My TV Guide describes this **** as

Season 1 Episode 1 of 36
New series. Craig Doyle presents this live chat show in which he and three guests discuss the stories making the news, creating the gossip on TV and causing the biggest hits on the 'net. No topic is out of bounds, from the deadly serious to the downright daft, ensuring 30 minutes of lively conversation

http://www.tvnow.ie/default.asp

36 fecking Episodes!!!!!!!!!!! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Time to occupy Montrose - how did this ****e ever get commissioned ?

18 hours of this sh1te?:eek:

HazDanz

*Sparkle* wrote: »

What's the point of this? Hate that Mairead one....

She's fair annoying. Tripe that comes out of her mouth.

DuckStab

Nah, can't take it. I just tuned in to see if it would be as atrocious as the promo made it out to be... It aspires to atrocious. Friends list, trending, oh yes RTE has some hip and groovy young cats at the helm.

Sir Gallagher

This gets better and better.

unitedrover

Only good thing about the show is mairead farrell. Hot!!!

HazDanz

unitedrover wrote: »

Only good thing about the show is mairead farrell. Hot!!!

Jesus.

Sir Gallagher

unitedrover wrote: »

Only good thing about the show is mairead farrell. Hot!!!

Nah the aul one in the background is better.

Skid

A ****e talk show loosely based on social media.

Which doesn't know their own Twitter Address.

0/10

SEPT 23 1989

That was atrocious even by RTE's standards:mad:

Mr.Nice Guy

One of the most appalling TV shows RTE have come up with in and that's saying something.

swine

I heard about that CodeRed app months ago, maybe even a year. For a program based around social media and having it's finger on the pulse of what's happening now it seemed quite a dated topic.

unitedrover

Seems like a very poor replica of The Cafe.

ShagNastii

As it was live I was gutted they didn't "check-in" on the actvity on Twitter and Facebook. It was being torn to shreads on its Twitter hashtag.

I hate ribbing on RTE, but outside of current affairs and sport far too many of their new programmes fall flat on their arses.

mikom

#anotherRTEturd

#nonlicencepayersgotoprisonforshowslikethis

Kerrydude1981

That phone call to Tony Cascarino was possibly the worst bit of TV ive seen in a long time,Craig Doyle talking into a childs phone,why dont thet just get more people in the studio and call it Nighthawks

Miguel_Sanchez

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

why dont thet just get more people in the studio and call it Nighthawks

When they announced this in the summer they were calling it Nighthawks.

Perhaps they decided against using the name because if they had people might have tuned in expecting something decent?

velo.2010

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

That phone call to Tony Cascarino was possibly the worst bit of TV ive seen in a long time,Craig Doyle talking into a childs phone,why dont thet just get more people in the studio and call it Nighthawks

That was a bit mad alright. Reminded me of kids TV in the nineties -Going Live, Live and Kicking with the presenters holding the phone to their ears. Very chidish for an 'adult' talkshow!

What happened to Craig Doyles career? He probably doesn't care as he no doubt made a few bob when things were 'busy'. At 40 though he should be at the height of his powers but finds himself relegated to the early hours on ITV after he was released from his BBC contract a few years ago.

I think he deserves some credit for keeping it going as I'm sure he's well aware of the stick he gets in the media.

The 'live' Panel was the best of the topical/comedy shows.

SEPT 23 1989

velo.2010 wrote: »

That was a bit mad alright. Reminded me of kids TV in the nineties -Going Live, Live and Kicking with the presenters holding the phone to their ears. Very chidish for an 'adult' talkshow!

What happened to Craig Doyles career? He probably doesn't care as he no doubt made a few bob when things were 'busy'. At 40 though he should be at the height of his powers but finds himself relegated to the early hours on ITV after he was released from his BBC contract a few years ago.

I think he deserves some credit for keeping it going as I'm sure he's well aware of the stick he gets in the media.

The 'live' Panel was the best of the topical/comedy shows.

This lad would fit in nicely:D

Skid

velo.2010 wrote: »

What happened to Craig Doyles career? He probably doesn't care as he no doubt made a few bob when things were 'busy'. At 40 though he should be at the height of his powers but finds himself relegated to the early hours on ITV after he was released from his BBC contract a few years ago.

He earns an obscene amount of cash from doing commercials and corporate work both here and in the UK. I think that keeps him ticking over.

And bizarrely, he is one of ITV's main Rugby Anchors.

Skid

Someone set up a fake twitter account for 'The Social' using the name which The Show gave out themselves by mistake.

http://thedailyedge.thejournal.ie/rtes-the-social-hit-by-fake-twitter-account-280798-Nov2011/

RTÉ2′s TV FORAY into social media has already run into a spot of Twitter bother.
An online prankster has set up a Twitter account purporting to be the official account of The Social, hosted by Craig Doyle. The fake account – @rtethesocial – has been tweeting all this morning, asking RTÉ broadcaster Ray Foley and Daithi O Sé to give them a retweet.


The fake account has forced the real official account (still with us?) to respond to confused viewers and insist that they are the real deal. The official account is @rtethesoc.


While there was no account registered on Twitter for @rtethesocial at the time the show aired, some bright spark clearly jumped on the opportunity and had one up and running by this morning.

BaZmO*

Ray Foley isn't an RTE broadcaster.

amacachi

I love the internet sometimes.

EDIT: Fake one is gone it seems

JonnyF

anyone know where you could get one of those Andy Warhol style prints with BOD? Little christmas present from me to me

Seren_

Saw a bit of it last night after the match finished - cringeworthy stuff. Even Dylan McGrath's accent couldn't keep me interested

Giruilla

Horrible horrible horrible

Wertz

36 episodes? that's a rather large turkey.

G_Mbabway

Why would RTE replace "The Panel" with this abomination of a 30 minutes? Granted it hasn't been the same since Dara left and the guest presenter phase was woeful but I did think Craig Doyle did a decent job of it last year. The chemistry of Maxwell, Delamere and Murphy will be sorely missed as the ads indicate that Karl Spain and Eleanor Tiernan (being the cousin of Tommy is not a good enough reason to attempt comedy) will be the closest we'll get to humour. Maybe I am being harsh but this should be scrapped immediately and we can pretend it was all just a bad dream!