Dee Forbes banging the RTE TV licence drum again 60m uncollected fee *poll not working - pl ignore*

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Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

The writing in Royle Family was top class. If you don't have a top quality script then just don't bother.

Carroll didn't heed your advice and now he's lying by the swimming pool, a multi millionaire

elperello

Elmo wrote: »

O'Carroll needs an editor, I still think his performances on TLLS with Gay Byrne were well done and the film Agnes Browne works well as a Drama Comedy even if a bit twee.

I agree, BO'C is a talented funny guy and decent skin into the bargain.

Having said that I don't like MBB.

elperello

rightmove wrote: »

Anyone watch the finding Jack programme ?

I know it was on VM but they showed a clip of a kid asking bug jack some hard question in Landsdowne road. He looked awful familiar.....sure I have saw him in fair city at one point. Anyone confirm????

rightmove wrote: »

found it https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer/arid-40253825.html

There’s a cameo from Victor Burke, age 11, who will go on to play Wayne Molloy in Fair City.

Well done an interesting bit of TV history.

Having said that you'll be doing well to find anyone on this thread who will admit to watching Fair City .

rightmove

elperello wrote: »

Well done an interesting bit of TV history.

Having said that you'll be doing well to find anyone on this thread who will admit to watching Fair City .

Wife caught me once. Lunchtime and alone in the house. Told her I was looking for the porn channels but she didnt believe me. Have to live with the shame to this day.

AndyBoBandy

Epic prime time viewing on RTÉ now....

RTÉ 1 - Nationwide
RTÉ 2 - Masterchef: The Professionals - from 2017

RabbleRouser2k

Elmo wrote: »

O'Carroll needs an editor, I still think his performances on TLLS with Gay Byrne were well done and the film Agnes Browne works well as a Drama Comedy even if a bit twee.

He bet heavy on that Agnes Browne movie. Re-mortgaged the house, took out loans etc etc etc.

The film went over budget. Luckily for him, Angelica Huston bought the rights to the movie off of him (he was about 1 million or 2 million in debt at the time. That was in pounds, so we're talking about €2.5 million euros) and covered his losses.
He was able to break even, possibly make a tidy profit too.

The second time tho, he bet heavy with Sparrow's Trap... that pretty much left him debt to too many people. May even have broken up his first marriage.

Elmo

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

He bet heavy on that Agnes Browne movie. Re-mortgaged the house, took out loans etc etc etc.

The film went over budget. Luckily for him, Angelica Huston bought the rights to the movie off of him (he was about 1 million or 2 million in debt at the time. That was in pounds, so we're talking about €2.5 million euros) and covered his losses.
He was able to break even, possibly make a tidy profit too.

The second time tho, he bet heavy with Sparrow's Trap... that pretty much left him debt to too many people. May even have broken up his first marriage.

That's what I mean about having a good editor, when did Angelica Huston take over on the production? Was she involve from the beginning or just on casting? I though Disney distributed it?

RabbleRouser2k

Elmo wrote: »

That's what I mean about having a good editor, when did Angelica Huston take over on the production? Was she involve from the beginning or just on casting? I though Disney distributed it?

She was involved from the beginning. You tend to have to provide funding for any kind of production, upfront, before a studio will get involved in additional funding and distribution (often requires you to repay the funding once the film/ tv production is distributed too. Every cent has to be accounted for). Huston spent a lot of time in Ireland, because of her dad-so she was involved from the get go. She was even producer.

So Brendan put up everything he owned, and it quickly ran out of money. But that was chump change for Huston, so she bought the rights off of him, and took over directing duties as well as starring in it.

IT was distributed by Universal pictures, via their USA films label. That label later became Focus Features after merging with October Films.

NIMAN

I always heard BOC was incredibly wealthy, and made an absolute fortune from MBB and its TV sales.

Surely the cost of making the movie couldn't have been that high, not like its effects and CGI laden.

fritzelly

NIMAN wrote: »

Surely the cost of making the movie couldn't have been that high, not like its effects and CGI laden.

Any even half decent movie is gonna run in to the millions to make, then add in marketing etc to try and make money back...

retalivity

NIMAN wrote: »

I always heard BOC was incredibly wealthy, and made an absolute fortune from MBB and its TV sales.

Surely the cost of making the movie couldn't have been that high, not like its effects and CGI laden.

Agnes brown was made in 1998, well before MBB & BOC becoming 'wealthy'

RabbleRouser2k

NIMAN wrote: »

I always heard BOC was incredibly wealthy, and made an absolute fortune from MBB and its TV sales.

Surely the cost of making the movie couldn't have been that high, not like its effects and CGI laden.

Don't call me Shirley...

What someone else has said, but yeah, BOC wasn't hugely wealthy at the time. He was still married to his first wife. The children were all young.
He'd made some money from his comedy specials, and his books-but he wasn't massively wealthy then. Comfortable, not wealthy. (Remember this was about 22, maybe 23 years ago-BBC didn't know who he was).

€2million to €3 million is not a lot of money when you look at some of the high profile cast involved (Huston was probably earning that much alone from the likes of The Witches). But considering the money it made back (roughly 170 million) she probably made a significant profit due to her also directing the film as well as being the producer.

Elmo

I see Nadia Forde has been given her own series ....

I see its a scripted comedy ....

I see it is set in the 1980s ....

I see Nadia Forde becoming Jenny Z and Amy H rolled in to one. ....

RTÉ seeing the $$$$$$$$$$$$$

perhaps it will be good who knows.

retalivity

Elmo wrote: »

perhaps it will be good who knows.

I can hazard a guess it will be a crock of sh1te.

Elmo

retalivity wrote: »

I can hazard a guess it will be a crock of sh1te.

Really depends on what your defintion of crock of sh1te is

between Finding Joy and Eamon and Bridget

or between Eamon and Bridget and Finding Joy

or are they all equal amounts of sh1te?

NIMAN

retalivity wrote: »

Agnes brown was made in 1998, well before MBB & BOC becoming 'wealthy'

Sorry got my timescale all wrong.

Gunmonkey

Elmo wrote: »

I see Nadia Forde has been given her own series ....

I see its a scripted comedy ....

I see it is set in the 1980s ....

I see Nadia Forde becoming Jenny Z and Amy H rolled in to one. ....

RTÉ seeing the $$$$$$$$$$$$$

perhaps it will be good who knows.

Best April Fools joke I've seen today

Atlantic Dawn

Elmo wrote: »

I see Nadia Forde has been given her own series ....

I see its a scripted comedy ....

I see it is set in the 1980s ....

I see Nadia Forde becoming Jenny Z and Amy H rolled in to one. ....

RTÉ seeing the $$$$$$$$$$$$$

perhaps it will be good who knows.

Hopefully they have signed it up for a 2nd series before episode 1 is rated by anyone :pac:

fritzelly

Gunmonkey wrote: »

Best April Fools joke I've seen today

If only but RTE take the piss out of us every day

RabbleRouser2k

RTE-always ten years behind what's popular... or ten years behind knowing who's 'past it', you decide.

Aw jesus, this means we'll be getting a TV show with that idiot Cian Twomey next...

No, just No.

Elmo

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

RTE-always ten years behind what's popular... or ten years behind knowing who's 'past it', you decide.

Aw jesus, this means we'll be getting a TV show with that idiot Cian Twomey next...

No, just No.

No, you should be alright I think Tadhg Hickey is next for an RTÉ Player Original and a Christmas Special, Tadhg Hickey's Nativity. :pac:

RabbleRouser2k

Elmo wrote: »

No, you should be alright I think Tadhg Hickey is next for an RTÉ Player Original and a Christmas Special, Tadhg Hickey's Nativity. :pac:

Had to google him... wouldn't even watch his videos, because I just know from the titles I hate 'em.

Elmo

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

Had to google him... wouldn't even watch his videos, because I just know from the titles I hate 'em.

I am being sarcastic about him getting a programme ... though you never know ...

RabbleRouser2k

Elmo wrote: »

I am being sarcastic about him getting a programme ... though you never know ...

It's RTE. They'll do anything cheap as chips if they can.

Case in point, they've essentially taken the Colm and Jim Jim Quiz show (remember that miscarriage of TV- pretty much killed their careers, well, least one of them) and re-branded it as 'Home Advantage' with Jennifer Zamperelli.

Oh, and is it just me-or does the 'title' look like a complete carbon copy of that old Tim Allen sitcom, Home Improvement?

Home Advantage.



Home Improvement.

RabbleRouser2k

Are they going to keep digging up Brendan Grace every year as filler?
6:30 pm, Bank Holiday, people at home with nothing to watch on TV... so they decide to show the 'Brendan Grace Concert' again.

He's been dead for almost 3 years. It's kind of getting ridiculous now.

elperello

Brendan Grace died in July 2019.

He was a show biz trouper and an out and out gentleman.

I never met anyone who had a bad word to say about him.

RabbleRouser2k

elperello wrote: »

Brendan Grace died in July 2019.

He was a show biz trouper and an out and out gentleman.

I never met anyone who had a bad word to say about him.

I got no issue with Grace, outside of him stealing material from other comedians.

What I do have an issue with is how RTE have reshown the tribute show multiple times since he's died, as well as reshowing the concert multiple times.

I know we're in a pandemic right now, but even before the flipping lockdown, the amount of times they showed the tribute to him was overkill.

ohnonotgmail

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

Are they going to keep digging up Brendan Grace every year as filler?
6:30 pm, Bank Holiday, people at home with nothing to watch on TV... so they decide to show the 'Brendan Grace Concert' again.

He's been dead for almost 3 years. It's kind of getting ridiculous now.

It was only recorded 16 months ago. How many times has it been shown already?

RabbleRouser2k

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

It was only recorded 16 months ago. How many times has it been shown already?

I believe the tribute show has been aired about 5 or 6 times, the concert usually goes hand in hand with that too.
I believe the concert has been aired as many times, sometimes late night, other times in the middle of the day.

Gen.Zhukov

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

...the amount of times they showed the tribute to him was overkill.

It's Dee's big '**** you' troll on her 5th anniversary.

Ah well done Dee, well done, brilliant, brilliant, well done, well done.