Bachelors Walk [RTE]

Das Kitty

Is it just me or is this a feicin' excellent comedy series? I am thouroghly impressed with it. I started watching it in its second week and it's actually gotten better, it's hard to believe that RTE has a hand in its production.

Red Moose

Only one hand though, there's a credit to BBC or Channel 4 somewhere in the credits.

It is surprisingly entertaining though. Some of the lines are just awful stuff: "Let me give you some advice though. Don't let teh mother breast feed after 18 months", lol It's good to see it's pretty original as well, not trying (and failing really badly) to be like Friends.

The oneliners are just great "Have you come? " "A little. Have you?".

T.G Catter

Yeh Barry and Jenny have to be the best characters, me and my friend r so sad we went to look at the house on Bachelors walk....i know...

eclectichoney

btw does anyone know where i can get the opening music to bachelors walk, or who wrote the music?


cheers

m

Dustaz

John Kearney wrote most of the Original Score from it. He conceptualised the Programme with Tom Hall, he also directed a couple of the programmes. Not sure if you could get it anywhere except form him. Gimme a day or so and ill get you the name and number of the production company.

jes

hey i'm looking for a copy of the episode filmed in planet cyber cafe. if anyone has it, can they please email me. I work there and i think i'm the only person in all of dublin who hasnt seen it.

jessetill@hotmail.com

cheers

Mills

There's no single episode filmed in the Planet, but parts of almost every episode so far since the second one have been filmed there, but judging from the last episode there won't be any more of the planet in the series, so you'd need to get a tape of a previous episode to see it .

jes

damn.

err is anyone taping this show?

Canaboid

Originally posted by Mills
but judging from the last episode there won't be any more of the planet in the series, so you'd need to get a tape of a previous episode to see it .

Yeah Jes, so he owed yis a few quid there was no need to kick them out fs. Poor Devore was nearly crying. Wheres the Boland corporation going to go now. Boo to planet.

Top series alright.

jes

if someone would lend me a tape maybe i'd have some kind of clue as to what the hell you are talking about

sceptre

I'm guessing it'll be on the beeb (prob 2) at some point, it being a co-production.

Best comedy attempt RTE have ever been involved in (not that that's saying much). Find it a bit flakey at times but in general it's quite good. And it's not polished like Friends or those over-budged US comedies (good thing really)

And great one-liners - "a buttplug? it's the size of a frigging door knob"

logic1

It's crap. Worst program I've seen in a long long time.

.logic.

GoneShootin

you have not seen GOLDEN NIGHTS OF TIRE NA NÓG then logic

GoneShootin

i mean, MYSTICS KNIGHTS OF TIRE NA NÓG

damn this brain of mine

azezil

I'd have to agree with logic1 I think it sux ... I'v looked at it a couple of times but i just don't find it funny at all!

At least the mystic knights have superpowers!!!

iFella

Hi all,

I'm not sure if this is the correct section to post this, bit of a newb. Does anyone have Bachelors Walk season 1 on dvd?

I've not been able to find it anywhere on the internets.

StephenHendry

no , i'd love to have a few episodes of it. did you try youtube ?

StephenHendry

sorry OP, just read the last past of your thread about not finding it on the net.

telekon

Can't believe this show is 10 years old now! :eek:


Don't get me wrong I liked the show but one major problem I had with it was the chain smoking by every single one of the main characters. I mean, there MUST have been some backing, financial or otherwise, from the tobacco companies.

I'd say there was some funky aroma from the 3 lads and their flat...

iFella

What's even more shocking than the fact that it's a decade old, is that there isn't a single copy of it anywhere on the web (all I could find was the wedding episode on YouTube). It was a great series, there must be a few copies floating around somewhere....

saa

There's a box sex of season 1 in the IADT library
but it has been a curse more so than a blessing now I
have to see season two, I wouldn't even mind buying it!
I know what a crazy idea..

RTE player should put it up like C4 does with older shows...
get a bitta ad revenue there rte!

eh i dunno

I have it and love it. Pity they never released season 2.

We here at the Boland Corporation :pac:

Miguel_Sanchez

The music on the DVD release of season 1 is changed from the TV broadcast version - they couldn't afford the rights to most of the tracks they originally used apparently.

take everything

Good show. Trying to remember the last time RTE produced anything as good.

iFella

Maybe I should clarify, anyone willing to offload a copy of season 1 for some monetary recompense?

Mr_Spaceman

Any news at all on any DVD release of Bachelors Walk?

Even a repeat on RTE would be great. You know it makes sense.

It was a fantastic series.
Here's hoping...

I_smell_fear

Can't believe it's 10 years old! I'm 22 and remember really liking it back then which seems strange if I was 12 at the time. One of the better RTE produced comedies/drama's as I remember. I actually bought the DVD set for my dad at the time as it was one of the few things he used to laugh at on tv. I must fish it out again and see how it stands the test of time.

Harry Angstrom

Probably the best homegrown comedy that RTE has ever shown, yet tonight they felt the need to broadcast yet another repeat of the execrable Mrs Brown's Boys. :rolleyes:

Go Harvey Go

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Probably the best homegrown comedy that RTE has ever shown, yet tonight they felt the need to broadcast yet another repeat of the execrable Mrs Brown's Boys. :rolleyes:

And one gets the impression that if you try to explain to them why Bachelors Walk was so much better than Mrs Brown's Boys, Anonymous, The Fear et cetera et cetera, they'll just tell you to p155 off. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

(I am aware that Anonymous and The Fear are not the same kind of comedy as Bachelors Walk, but that's not the point.)

I_smell_fear

Looking at the Series 1 DVD case I see that it was co-produced between the RTE and the BBC, so I guess that might explain a little. Or is that common with a lot of "Irish" TV series?

kitakyushu

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Probably the best homegrown comedy that RTE has ever shown, yet tonight they felt the need to broadcast yet another repeat of the execrable Mrs Brown's Boys. :rolleyes:

I was surprised to see an ad for the dvd of this show claiming it has won a bafta award. :eek:

I can't imagine what for tho? "Best auld fella in a dress" perhaps?

Nikita999

Miguel_Sanchez wrote: »

The music on the DVD release of season 1 is changed from the TV broadcast version - they couldn't afford the rights to most of the tracks they originally used apparently.

Is this really true? So they released a second rate version of it?

Halloween Jack

Amazing show, missed it on release but did manage to get a copy of season one on DVD, never saw the other episodes. The only original programming made by RTE I've ever liked and a high-water mark for television comedy in this country. Baffling that its not available/being repeated ad nauseum.

AnonoBoy

Nikita999 wrote: »

Is this really true? So they released a second rate version of it?

Yes it is. It was a case of release it with different music or not release it at all.

Black_shadow

I wonder how much people would pay to just get season 1 on DVD now days? I picked it up chart busters before they closed and found series 1 second hand for cheap, so glad I got it then as seems extremely rare now days!!

Robarley

Sometimes ya just want to see it again

PeterTheEighth

Good show for it's time. Nice bit of comedy with Keith McErlean and Simon Delaney, and a good love story with the rather fetching Marcella Plunkett and the rather annoying (but good in this) Don Wycherley.

emo72

Was this set in the glory of the Celtic tiger years?

Robarley

I have all 3 seasons and the crimbo edition of vhs

Robarley

Bump

Looper007

Robarley wrote: »

Sometimes ya just want to see it again

Created by John Carney, of Once and Sing Street fame.

I think along with Paths To Freedom, Blizzard of Odd and Love/Hate. One of the few things RTE can be proud of making. Don Wycherley had never been better and Simon Delaney too. But Keith McErlean (who went on to star in the awful RTE series RAW) stole the show as the lay about shag happy friend (plus fancied the school girl character he was dating in season 1). The three guys made the show for me, but Marcella Plunkett as someone said didn't seem out of place and her romance with Wycherley's character was rather sweet. Plus loved Delaney's characters dad who was the great comedy character.

I remember in 2001 this premiered the same night as Paths To Freedom and then Blizzard of Odd on a Monday night. Dublin has never looked as great on camera as it did on Bachelors Walk, plus the soundtrack was great with The Cure's Close to Me and Phil Lynott's Old Town featuring heavily.

I stand by saying Series 1 was it's best season as the following season's became overloaded with characters and other romances and took away from the three guys relationship, saying that I have to rewatch season 2 and 3 if they ever release them on DVD. But I remember been disappointed at the time with season 2 and 3.

Sad that RTE won't repeat this show on TV (I think Music rights is the big reason its held back from other DVD releases ) as I think it's one of the best things they ever done.

eoins23456

Is this available anywhere to buy or stream ? Specifically season 2 and 3 haha

jd83

Looper007 wrote: »

Created by John Carney, of Once and Sing Street fame.

I think along with Paths To Freedom, Blizzard of Odd and Love/Hate. One of the few things RTE can be proud of making. Don Wycherley had never been better and Simon Delaney too. But Keith McErlean (who went on to star in the awful RTE series RAW) stole the show as the lay about shag happy friend (plus fancied the school girl character he was dating in season 1). The three guys made the show for me, but Marcella Plunkett as someone said didn't seem out of place and her romance with Wycherley's character was rather sweet. Plus loved Delaney's characters dad who was the great comedy character.

I remember in 2001 this premiered the same night as Paths To Freedom and then Blizzard of Odd on a Monday night. Dublin has never looked as great on camera as it did on Bachelors Walk, plus the soundtrack was great with The Cure's Close to Me and Phil Lynott's Old Town featuring heavily.

I stand by saying Series 1 was it's best season as the following season's became overloaded with characters and other romances and took away from the three guys relationship, saying that I have to rewatch season 2 and 3 if they ever release them on DVD. But I remember been disappointed at the time with season 2 and 3.

Sad that RTE won't repeat this show on TV (I think Music rights is the big reason its held back from other DVD releases ) as I think it's one of the best things they ever done.

Loved this show, but flick on to rte 2 now and rte would rather spend our hard earned tv licence money on hard hitting masterpieces such as dont tell the bride.

PTH2009

any chance RTE might add the whole Series to the RTE player boxsets section ???

have bad quality of all the episodes except the Xmas 2006 Episode

great sitcom and one of the best RTE productions

JP Liz V1

Bachelors Walk repeats on RTÉ2 next Monday, April 20

NIMAN

Why have RTE never repeated since they were originally on?

dball

something to do with music copyrights

Rodney Bathgate

Fairly sure it has been on RTE player for the last year?

LollipopJimmy

It was on the player recently

ShineOn7

Has it got all of it's original songs and soundtrack on the RTE Player?

Same question for Love/Hate actually. Those music replacements on the DVD versions really took away from the show

LollipopJimmy

ShineOn7 wrote: »

Has it got all of it's original songs and soundtrack on the RTE Player?

Same question for Love/Hate actually. Those music replacements on the DVD versions really took away from the show

Dunno, I didn't cross reference