Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Striking Out [RTÉ1]

Options
1…181920212224»

Comments

  • Options
    #692
    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 31,854 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    The RTE secret producer account on twitter highlights what a total basket case RTE is so no shock there!


  • Options
    #693
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Christ the Big Bow Wow must have been terrible stuff altogether because Trouble in Paradise was a mess. Ironic thing is that Trouble in Paradise had Lorcan Cranitch, Angeline Ball and Tom Murphy who were all brilliant actors. Tom Murphy was fantastic in Pure Mule. A man who died far too young.

    The Big Bow Wow was beyond bad. RTE actually pulled it halfway through in a rare example of insight into how bad this thing they'd put out actually was.

    This is an entertaining thread.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=52715493


  • Options
    #694
    BuilderPlumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭BuilderPlumber


    Deleted User wrote: »
    There is another problem, its all a clique at Montrose. Because of this, talented writers will never be sought apart from the odd fluke here and there.

    That is precisely the problem. The likes of Harris would get to write a programme before an actual writer would. RTE's closed shop mentality is the reason why all those mediocre to awful dramas, boybands, modern country singers, etc. get the space talented people should be getting instead.

    The concept of a lot of these dramas are actually good. Take The Big Bow Wow: a drama set in the near future in Dublin about a gang of rich professionals and students with problems including drugs. Could be excellent if written properly. Instead, it was a mess that had no identity.

    Sadly, RTE continue to rely on a small set of handpicked cronies for most of its output in all forms of TV. You can bet many a good writer was turned down in favour of drivel like The Big Bow Wow.


  • Options
    #695
    c68zapdsm5i1ru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,709 ✭✭✭c68zapdsm5i1ru


    Well, according to the Sunday Times last weekend, there are no plans to make a third series of Striking Out.


  • Options
    #696
    TheDavester
    Registered Users Posts: 3,209 ✭✭✭TheDavester


    Jordy Mushy Sordidness wrote: »
    Well, according to the Sunday Times last weekend, there are no plans to make a third series of Striking Out.

    I'm sure they'll find something again for talentless Amy, they always do unfortunately


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #697
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users Posts: 19,613 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    TheDavester wrote: »
    I'm sure they'll find something again for talentless Amy, they always do unfortunately


    You certainly got that right
    https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/amy-hubermans-striking-out-looks-to-be-struck-off-with-no-plans-for-new-series-36956575.html
    Legal drama Striking Out could be struck off RTE's schedule.

    The future of the programme looks uncertain after the broadcaster said it has "no immediate plans" to commission a third series. The lack of commitment may surprise viewers, given that the final episode of season two ended with a cliff-hanging storyline.

    The show followed the tumultuous professional and personal life of Dublin-based solicitor Tara Rafferty and her fledgling legal firm. Actress Amy Huberman starred as Tara while Men Behaving Badly's Neil Morrissey took on the role of senior counsel Vincent Pike.

    Earlier this year, Huberman said she had her "fingers crossed" that the show would return to TV screens. However, an RTE spokesperson said yesterday there were "no immediate plans to commission a third series of Striking Out".


    "RTE is developing a number of new drama and comedy series for delivery over the coming two years," the spokesperson added.

    Details of its upcoming commissioning plans will be announced in the coming weeks.

    One of the forthcoming projects is Finding Joy, a six-part comedy written by and starring Huberman and produced by Treasure Films..

    RTE rewards mediocrity, nothing new to see here :rolleyes:


  • Options
    #698
    TheDavester
    Registered Users Posts: 3,209 ✭✭✭TheDavester


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    You certainly got that right
    https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/amy-hubermans-striking-out-looks-to-be-struck-off-with-no-plans-for-new-series-36956575.html


    RTE rewards mediocrity, nothing new to see here :rolleyes:

    another show cancelled for Princess Amy, will they stop giving her work ffs


  • Options
    #699
    Exclamation Marc
    Registered Users Posts: 11,315 ✭✭✭✭Exclamation Marc


    Irrespective of its quality it's a disgraceful production approach to continually shoot a series without resolving ANY of its major storylines within a season and banking on a renewal.

    As I said to my other half, I don't think they had any idea how the major threads were to resolve or finish out and just wrote in these pointless episodic storylines to tide it over.


Advertisement