Sgt Mattie

squonk

I ended up catching Sgt. Mattie (With Pat Shortt) over Christmas. God he's one lucky man!

Two years ago I watched the pilot for Mattie and thought that they should have left him as a bungling country cop instead of moving him into the city. The series, Mattie, with him as a city cop was about as funny as cancer but, lo and behold, somewhere along the way they had a Star Trek Alternative Universe moment and it turns out he's not actually moved to the city now but is, infact, a bungling country cop. So, is Sgt Mattie a prequel, sequel or a reboot? He's doing damn well to have had RTE pay for a pilot, a series and commission a new series before he finally got the format right.

I said it before that on BBC he'd have gotten a radio slot to iron out these kinks first and we'd probably have gotten the bungling country cop as the eventual TV series. I suppose at least RTE are trying to develop shows and keep with them til they come right, though Sgt Mattie isn't exactly classic stuff by any standards. Fair play to Pat Shortt. He's a cannier fella than I am. i don't know how he's still getting commissions from RTE.

ricero

i hate pat short tv shows they are made for all people culchie not us dubs

tommy2bad

ricero wrote: »

i hate pat short tv shows they are made for all people culchie not us dubs

Yeah ye people dubs can have Mrs Brown

juan.kerr

I'm a bit confused about this one myself. Not sure RTE would be familiar with the 'reboot' concept.

The boss in Mattie was always anxious to get rid of him, so maybe he succeeded and got him sent back to the sticks, making it a sequel.

Then again it could just be poor scheduling of the first season on RTEs part. They show episodes out of sync, why not seasons?

Technocentral

ricero wrote: »

i hate pat short tv shows they are made for all people culchie not us dubs

Brendan Grace's Swiftian, understated humour may be more to your taste.

Technocentral

juan.kerr wrote: »

I'm a bit confused about this one myself. Not sure RTE would be familiar with the 'reboot' concept.

The boss in Mattie was always anxious to get rid of him, so maybe he succeeded and got him sent back to the sticks, making it a sequel.

Then again it could just be poor scheduling of the first season on RTEs part. They show episodes out of sync, why not seasons?

Please don't tempt fate!

yobr

Dreadful crap, I turned off after ten minutes. That added canned laughter is a new low in TV broadcasting here..reminds me of 70's UK sitcom...

CWone

Mattie and Mrs Brown's Boys are both awful don't know how anyone watches either of them.

JohnP199

ricero wrote: »

i hate pat short tv shows they are made for all people culchie not us dubs

Oh yes because everyone knows while the culchies stay in watching Mattie the Dubs are all out shooting up heroin.

juan.kerr

JohnP199 wrote: »

Oh yes because everyone knows while the culchies stay in watching Mattie the Dubs are all out shooting up heroin.

I thought we were in watching Fair City?

sillo

Pat Short actually makes me angry. What an irrepresible producer of the lowest form of worthless trash, bizarre garbage with no merit or redeeming features whatsoever. Culchie or Dub, ye should hang your head if you encourage our national tv network to waste money on that utter tat.

Skid

juan.kerr wrote: »

I'm a bit confused about this one myself. Not sure RTE would be familiar with the 'reboot' concept.

The boss in Mattie was always anxious to get rid of him, so maybe he succeeded and got him sent back to the sticks, making it a sequel.

Maybe he got promoted to Sergeant through a 'hilarious' sequence of events and transferred to a rural Station?

I'm not going to watch it to find out, brutal programme.

obliviousgrudge

Skid wrote: »

juan.kerr wrote: »

I'm a bit confused about this one myself. Not sure RTE would be familiar with the 'reboot' concept.

The boss in Mattie was always anxious to get rid of him, so maybe he succeeded and got him sent back to the sticks, making it a sequel.

Maybe he got promoted to Sergeant through a 'hilarious' sequence of events and transferred to a rural Station?

I'm not going to watch it to find out, brutal programme.

Didnt the first series end with him being offered a job in the country?

I loved killinaskully but mattie has been terrible from the start. He should just either try something new or go back to killinaskully

enniscorthy

RTE and shortt saw the success of THE GUARD and stuck their hand up and said YEAH ME TOO