How do you rate Irish television?

reddevils10

What do you think about Irish television ?

Wacker The Attacker

pure shyte


0\10

Special Circumstances

How do you rate it? You'd have to start by watching it, or find somebody relatively sane who watches it. Good luck!

exaisle

Given the limited budgets available.....not bad.

ygolometsipe

reddevils10 wrote: »

What do you think about Irish television ?

TG4 and RTE weather is the best.

its always wet in the west

Junkyard Tom

It's fucking brilliant. 11 out of 10.

KungPao

Would be better if the usual suspects weren't paid so much and it wasn't so incestuous.

Good sports coverage though.

MilesMorales1

Good 6/10, not as bad as people say.

Harry Palmr

Never watch it apart from a bit of news and weather and the Champions League. Literally nothing else holds any appeal.

crockholm

Extremes-you had the very well done shows like "One million Dubliners" and "Hands" then opposite that,they seem to latch on to talentless people like vogue W. and gerry ryans kids or some Irish ass clown who starred in some British reality T.V. show and give them time and money to air their vapid thoughts.

KungPao

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Never watch it apart from a bit of news and weather and the Champions League. Literally nothing else holds any appeal.

I remember a couple of years ago my family going mad about Love/Hate, asking me about it and asking if I think so and so will do such and such...the look of confusion on their faces when I told them I hadn't a clue what they were on about was priceless.

A bit of sport, news maybe, and well that's all I can think of that's worth watching on Irish telly.

jimdublin15

Rate 0 . Irish television is simply a waste of time and money.

Rose of Tralee, Fair city .... Wait it will be quicker for me to just list the good programs......... None.

Kermit.de.frog

It's improved dramatically in the last 10 years. I actually think Irish television is quite good now.

MilesMorales1

The rose of tralee is great even while being crap and a giant waste of time.

kneemos

It's almost approaching the level of one of those obscure sattelite channels.
Somebody was on about it on the radio the other morning,apparently they don't really bother during the summer as everyone is doing something else.
Come the Autumn they'll have the same shows with rotated presenters and call it new.

lertsnim

Compared to something like the BBC it will never compete. But compared to other European countries RTE is miles ahead.

KungPao

jimdublin15 wrote: »

Rate 0 . Irish television is simply a waste of time and money.

Rose of Tralee, Fair city .... Wait it quicker for me to list the good programs.........

Xposé, surely you like that? Irish "celebs" talking about Kim Kardashian (why?) and her new look...ffs. Is that what passes for entertainment these days.

RTE is pretty bad but TV3 drag things down to a new horrific level.

DeadHand

Almost all sports coverage, Love/Hate and Reeling In The Years (a brilliant and, afaik, original idea) were/are all world class.

Sadly, the good aspects are far outweighed by the mediocre and downright abysmal. Still seems like the same 6/7 tired, overrated faces get all the gigs. Worrying lack of regeneration.

KungPao

kneemos wrote: »

It's almost approaching the level of one of those obscure sattelite channels.
Somebody was on about it on the radio the other morning,apparently they don't really bother during the summer as everyone is doing something else.
Come the Autumn they'll have the same shows with rotated presenters and call it new.

It's almost as good as True Movies? or maybe, at a push, CBS Reality +1:pac:

KungPao

DeadHand wrote: »

Almost all sports coverage, Love/Hate and Reeling In The Years (a brilliant and, afaik, original idea) were/are all world class.

Sadly, the good aspects are far outweighed by the mediocre and downright abysmal. Still seems like the same 6/7 tired, overrated faces get all the gigs. Worrying lack of regeneration.

That's great in fairness. Love the use of music too.

cornholiooo

In general... it's pretty bad.
Mutilated clones of foreign reality / talent shows from countries with bigger populations.
Over paid, sub par presenters.
No obvious planning or forward thinking.
Needs a bit of a shake up.

jimdublin15

KungPao wrote: »

Xposé, surely you like that? Irish "celebs" talking about Kim Kardashian (why?) and her new look...ffs. Is that what passes for entertainment these days.

RTE is pretty bad but TV3 drag things down to a new horrific level.

The worst is Midday with Elaine Crowley and her pack of airhead panellists. Together they engage in confusing "topic's" and lowering the nations IQ one show at a time.

Ruu

Is this part of your homework or a household survey?

foxy farmer

I thought the arrival of UTV Ireland would stir things up here but their schedule is absolute crap. TV3 seemed to make some bit of an effort when they lost the 2 soaps but seeing as UTV ireland won't last theyll probably go back to their own ways as the competition is no threat.

TomBtheGoat

I haven't rated it since I stopped watching it years ago.

Gwynplaine

Fair City is like watching a car crash, you know it'll be terrible, but you can't take your eyes off it. So bad that it's good.

The Randy Riverbeast

I havent watched it since I moved to a location with decent internet so I probably wouldnt be rating it highly.

fleet_admiral

Rte do some good documentaries and nationwide would be one of my favourite shows

kneemos

Gwynplaine wrote: »

Fair City is like watching a car crash, you know it'll be terrible, but you can't take your eyes off it. So bad that it's good.

It's like a school play with grown ups.

Courtesy Flush

Do people still watch television....... ?
Weird

Dan_Solo

Since I have no fookin' choice except to pay for it, I suppose I should convince myself it's awesome.
Best. TV. Ever.

kneemos

Courtesy Flush wrote: »

Do people still watch television....... ?
Weird

Of course not . Everybody has one but nobody watches it.

fleet_admiral

Ruu wrote: »

Is this part of your homework or a household survey?

Ah come on now, RTE gave you Ann Doyle!

monkeysnapper

Since I got rid of my sky sub and live on the free to air on sky I've not seen tv3 or rte n 2 years and I'm sure I'm all the better for it ......uuughhhh well not in pocket you thieving bastards rte

theteal

Nothing good on it since Paths to Freedom. I watched season 1 of Love/Hate and am still astounded at its popularity. The hurling is the only reason for switching it on.

murpho999

Those criticising RTE have probably never lived abroad. I thought RTE was bad till I lived in Holland for a few years and the TV is pretty bad there. When I was there 10 years ago "Allo Allo" and Benny Hill were still on prime time TV

RTE do a decent job for the budget they have. Good for documentaries of Irish interest.

I don't like Fair City but don't see who it's any worse than Eastenders and Corrie that UK stations don't get criticised for.

Also TG4 can have some interesting programmes as well.

bodhrandude

DeadHand wrote: »

Almost all sports coverage, Love/Hate and Reeling In The Years (a brilliant and, afaik, original idea) were/are all world class.

Sadly, the good aspects are far outweighed by the mediocre and downright abysmal. Still seems like the same 6/7 tired, overrated faces get all the gigs. Worrying lack of regeneration.

Ever heard of the Rock N' Roll Years by BBC, RTE nicked the idea completely with Reeling in the years, although I still enjoy it.

Very Bored

I think its OK, its not as good as British TV but its way out in front of TV in some other countries such as Italy.

Dozen Wicked Words

bodhrandude wrote: »

Ever heard of the Rock N' Roll Years by BBC, RTE nicked the idea completely with Reeling in the years, although I still enjoy it.

Yeah Rock n Roll Years was 15 years ahead of Reeling in the Years, both great programmes though.

TerrorFirmer

Reeling in the Years and Love/Hate are absolutely stellar.

Fair City's not my cup of tea but as someone else pointed out, is it really worse than other soaps? I've watched a quantity of it and to be honest, it's no worse or better than its competitors and I can see the attraction what with it being an Irish soap.

Other than that....

jimdublin15

murpho999 wrote: »

Those criticising RTE have probably never lived abroad. I thought RTE was bad till I lived in Holland for a few years and the TV is pretty bad there. When I was there 10 years ago "Allo Allo" and Benny Hill were still on prime time TV

RTE do a decent job for the budget they have. Good for documentaries of Irish interest.

I don't like Fair City but don't see who it's any worse than Eastenders and Corrie that UK stations don't get criticised for.

Also TG4 can have some interesting programmes as well.

In Holland they might or might not still watch old shows, it's not really relevant as that is Holland and we don't have Dutch TV in Ireland last time I checked. It really is comparing Apples and Oranges. Also it's 10 years later, so a lot may have changed but 1 key difference is they don't have to pay TV licences either, but we do. (kijk- en luistergeld ended in 2000) Edit added link as source: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kijk-_en_luistergeld

RTE BTW have the same habit of still showing old UK and US shows (faulty towers / Allo Allo / Only fools, outdated Dr.Phill and other stuff from the US/UK). I mean the RTE player today still has "Allo Allo" broadcast last Tuesday the 18th of Aug 2015.

LordSutch

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

It's improved dramatically in the last 10 years. I actually think Irish television is quite good now.

If you'd asked me even five years ago I would have said the same thing!

I think it's a lot better now though, although ironically we don't watch much Irish TV anymore, apart from the RTE nine O'Clock news and the odd film or two. The wife enjoyed The Rose of Tralee the other night

Reruns of Top Gear on RTE2 for me . . . .

Shenshen

I don't really watch it, to be honest. There just never, ever seems to be anything remotely interesting on.

Occasionally I might watch the news for the weather (I watch BBC, Channel 4 and German news and TV5 to actually hear about what happens in the world).
As for sports coverage, both me and the husband prefer not to watch football on Irish TV - the panel always has this Waldorf and Statler feel about them. Just not as entertaining.

Sam Kade

DeadHand wrote: »

Almost all sports coverage, Love/Hate and Reeling In The Years (a brilliant and, afaik, original idea) were/are all world class.

Sadly, the good aspects are far outweighed by the mediocre and downright abysmal. Still seems like the same 6/7 tired, overrated faces get all the gigs. Worrying lack of regeneration.

Love/hate is hyped up nonsense that the sheeple follow in their droves for fear of being the odd one out :rolleyes:

rubadub

lertsnim wrote: »

Compared to something like the BBC it will never compete. But compared to other European countries RTE is miles ahead.

Yeah, it can only be fairly compared to others with similar incomes. I would like to see the licence scrapped and have an optional subscription service, I think it would improve greatly as they would actually have real competition and have to be a lot wiser with their money.

I remember seeing Ben Dunne on TV3 saying the amount of wasted resources in RTE is shocking compared to how things were behind the scenes on TV3.

If people were legally obliged to have a cooker licence and it was RTE's job to serve up food daily for €15 a pop, they would similarly be sitting back laughing and slopping up cold beans each day, sure why make an effort, the moneys coming in either way.

TerrorFirmer

Sam Kade wrote: »

Love/hate is hyped up nonsense that the sheeple follow in their droves for fear of being the odd one out :rolleyes:

Yes, that's it. We've all one hive mind, our personal taste doesn't come into it at all.

murpho999

jimdublin15 wrote: »

In Holland they might or might not still watch old shows, it's not really relevant as that is Holland and we don't have Dutch TV in Ireland last time I checked. It really is comparing Apples and Oranges. Also it's 10 years later, so a lot may have changed but 1 key difference is they don't have to pay TV licences either, but we do. (kijk- en luistergeld ended in 2000) Edit added link as source: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kijk-_en_luistergeld

RTE BTW have the same habit of still showing old UK and US shows (faulty towers / Allo Allo / Only fools, outdated Dr.Phill and other stuff from the US/UK). I mean the RTE player today still has "Allo Allo" broadcast last Tuesday the 18th of Aug 2015.

Dutch TV licence was scrapped in 2000 but public channels are nowfunded directly out of taxation and taxes were raised to fund it so either way Dutch people are paying for it whether they like it or not.
The comparison is fair as the question is asking about Irish TV and I'm saying it's not as bad as abroad, and believe me it's not.

The old shows that you talk about are not shown on RTE at peak time hours like they were in Holland, that was the difference.

murpho999

Sam Kade wrote: »

Love/hate is hyped up nonsense that the sheeple follow in their droves for fear of being the odd one out :rolleyes:

I hate when people don't like something and then call other people sheep for liking it.

It's all a matter of individual taste.

Combining it with :rolleyes: makes it even more annoying.

swimming in a sea

I hardly have seen it for years, but I remember how xmas movies they always made sure they had their new movie on about an hour before BBC\ITV so they could claim big viewing figures.

Getting into RTE seems to be the ultimate job for life, no matter how crap you are they will just keep rotating you around from program to program like they have with that Grainne Seoige.

jimdublin15

murpho999 wrote: »

Dutch TV licence was scrapped in 2000 but public channels are nowfunded directly out of taxation and taxes were raised to fund it so either way Dutch people are paying for it whether they like it or not.
The comparison is fair as the question is asking about Irish TV and I'm saying it's not as bad as abroad, and believe me it's not.

The old shows that you talk about are not shown on RTE at peak time hours like they were in Holland, that was the difference.

10 years ago (even less) rte also showed them shows during peak hours. Comparing Dutch TV from 10 years ago to RTE today is unfair. The Dutch tax is included in TV subscription nowadays but your not required to have a TV subscription. Again it's all Apples and Oranges to be comparing TV from 10 years ago under a different system and culture to Irish TV today.

I mean if we want to improve it and rate it then rate Irish TV for what it is not for how much better or worse it is then other countries 10+ years ago.

Otherwise we can say that about anything. Example Irish TV is bad but not as bad as Denmark 25 years ago. Relevance no relevance whatsoever to Irish TV

traprunner

Regressive is how I rate it! Every programme has some reference to god in it.