What program would you axe off RTE from an After Hours prospective?

freshpopcorn

They are a few contenders to be honest.
The Late Late Show. Probably just change the presenter.
The Ray Darcy show. We don't know if it's returning.
Fair City, they'd just replace it with another Dublin soap with the same actors.

I'd be axe Operation Transformation and Ireland's Fittest Families.
Operation Transformation has being around over ten years now and it's the same thing over and over again. Same diets, exercise plans, yelling from the army and more yelling from Katherine Thomas.
I feel similar about Ireland's Fittest Families it's just a bunch of one's yelling and shouting art one another.

What program would you axe off RTE?

kneemos

Ireland's fittest family is hilarious.

odyssey06

As this is After Hours, it would have to be The News, as a sociological experiment.

The News would be replaced with a newsreader saying, "Ireland and the World are still here, good day. And now the sports and weather."

AndrewJRenko

freshpopcorn wrote: »

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I feel similar about Ireland's Fittest Families it's just a bunch of one's yelling and shouting art one another.

What program would you axe off RTE?

Have to disagree - great family viewing in our house since it started, with great role models for teenagers, especially for girls - a rarity in this era of vacuous influencers.

eviltwin

Brendan O'Connors Cutting Edge

Reeling in the Years. Enough already.

Cabin Fever should be reinstated, more wrecks ahoy.

Harry Palmr

The Angelus.

TheValeyard

Dancing with the Stars

TheValeyard

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Reeling in the Years. Enough already

Reeling in the years is legendary, I wont hear a bad word said against it!

kneemos

TheValeyard wrote: »

Reeling in the years is legendary, I wont hear a bad word said against it!

The music track is the best thing about it.

freshpopcorn

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Have to disagree - great family viewing in our house since it started, with great role models for teenagers, especially for girls - a rarity in this era of vacuous influencers.

I suppose I maybe influenced that I know of one of the people involved. I certainly wouldn't want anybody taking after them.

touts

The best of the Late Late Show. Shows a complete lack of any imagination as to what to have on a Friday Night in the summer when the Life show isn't on. But I suppose it costs nothing so fits in the budget.

Yer Da sells Avon

Claire Byrne Live. Terrible presenter. They should get rid of her and give Vincent Browne a weekly current affairs programme where he just sits there sighing and grunting for an hour.

ToddyDoody

Nationwide Probably too expensive to produce anyway.

Church on Tuesday

freshpopcorn wrote: »

They are a few contenders to be honest.
The Late Late Show. Probably just change the presenter.
The Ray Darcy show. We don't know if it's returning.
Fair City, they'd just replace it with another Dublin soap with the same actors.

I'd be axe Operation Transformation and Ireland's Fittest Families.
Operation Transformation has being around over ten years now and it's the same thing over and over again. Same diets, exercise plans, yelling from the army and more yelling from Katherine Thomas.
I feel similar about Ireland's Fittest Families it's just a bunch of one's yelling and shouting art one another.

What program would you axe off RTE?

Nah it's a dated concept now. It was essential viewing, groundbreaking even, in the days were there was no sex in Ireland but it has had it's time now.

The only way the LL can move forward is if it becomes a purely entertainment driven show about 90 mins long with a presenter that actually has a personality and is not secretly full of contempt for half of his guests.

branie2

Any reality tv show

The Tetrarch

Room To Improve.

Pherekydes

Axe RTE.

Your Face

Maybe get rid of some of the presenters.
The next Late Late Show host should be made watch every Johhny Carson show before ever even turning up.

blinding

The Joe fooking Duffy show .

The Brits dumped Jeremy Kyle eventually .

Surely Ireland’s Jeremy Kyle should also be dumped in the Garbage .

fatknacker

All the sports ones. Make a dedicated sports channel and hoosh them over there. Including axing sports slots from the news.

blinding

blinding wrote: »

The Joe fooking Duffy show .

The Brits dumped Jeremy Kyle eventually .

Surely Ireland’s Jeremy Kyle should also be dumped in the Garbage .

Jeremy Kyle was not only a radical postmodern drama, it was an exercise in identifying the farthest extremities and core elements of the human condition. Psychologists will be studying it for years to come.

Joe Duffy'z Liveline is totally different. It's just accidental satire. I'd say scrap it, but what would we give out about on the Radio Forum, then?

Jimmy Garlic

Anything with Kathryn Thomas on it. Insufferable woman.

ToddyDoody

ToddyDoody wrote: »

Nationwide Probably too expensive to produce anyway.

Might not be targeted at your demographic but
Nationwide is hugely loved and watched all over the country. Made for buttons too I'd say.

Woke Hogan

Operation Transformation. I'm no fan of fat people, and I would never promote obesity, but that programme is just exploitative.

BeerWolf

All of it. Get rid of everything. They're obsolete and unnecessary at this point. Why should we be paying a TV license to finance this muck and overpaid presenters?

the.red.baron

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Have to disagree - great family viewing in our house since it started, with great role models for teenagers, especially for girls - a rarity in this era of vacuous influencers.

Who are the role models for girls?


Donnacha?



That granny who could bate anyone out the door at hang tough?


Kathryn?

Hercule Poirot

Winning Streak - or at the very least jazz it up a bit. It's had the same production values since the 90's and is about as modern as chastity belts.

Woke Hogan

Woke Hogan wrote: »

I'm no fan of fat people

*Drops doughnut*

Woke Hogan

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

*Drops doughnut*

Let me rephrase that: I'm no fan of promoting "fat acceptance" or being "healthy at every size." Live and let live otherwise.

KevRossi

Scrap the endless repeats, especially repeats of programmes that are shown 3-4 times in one week.

0byme75341jo28

You'd have to be absolutely painful in the first place to enter Ireland's Fittest Family.

bobbyss

Deleted User wrote:

Reeling in the Years. Enough already.

How often has this bloody thing been repeated? I don't know how many times I've seen Charlie Haughey and the arms trial. It's been done to death. Time to rest it.

Ger Roe

bobbyss wrote: »

How often has this bloody thing been repeated? I don't know how many times I've seen Charlie Haughey and the arms trial. It's been done to death. Time to rest it.

Yet in our house it has new fans in our children aged 22 and 16. They like watching it and asking questions about the black and white days, or events they may of heard about. It's a good opportunity for me to sit back and tell my stories of life in the olden days

Events in 'The North' are of particular interest since they view Belfast as a cool place to visit and are largely unaware of 'The Troubles'. It's interesting to see their reactions to the very recent history of a place just 130 miles up the road from where they live. School doesn't appear to have told them much about it all.

Wanderer78

Why continue to watch programs, if you know you don't like them!

AndrewJRenko

Clara Odd Window wrote: »

You'd have to be absolutely painful in the first place to enter Ireland's Fittest Family.

Painful, as in painfully healthy, fit and competitive?



What's the problem?

the.red.baron wrote: »

Who are the role models for girls?


Donnacha?



That granny who could bate anyone out the door at hang tough?


Kathryn?

The fit and healthy teenage girls who show how they outdo their brothers, their dads and their mams in physical activities.

Woke Hogan wrote: »

Operation Transformation. I'm no fan of fat people, and I would never promote obesity, but that programme is just exploitative.

And worse than that, they still insist on using stones and pounds instead of kgs.

Deleted User wrote: »

Might not be targeted at your demographic but
Nationwide is hugely loved and watched all over the country. Made for buttons too I'd say.

A friend called to her granny's house one evening last week. Granny came to door, said 'Nationwide is on' with a horrified look on her face and shut the door, leaving the visitors outside.

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

Claire Byrne Live. Terrible presenter. They should get rid of her and give Vincent Browne a weekly current affairs programme where he just sits there sighing and grunting for an hour.

You could be onto something there. Vincent was a bit much four nights a week, but once a week could be interesting with the current generation of pols.

RhubarbCrumble

The Rose of Tralee. Hard to believe that it's 2019 and the 'lovely girls' competition is still going strong.

branie2

branie2 wrote: »

Any reality tv show

or a show hosted by Vogue/influencer "star"

But RTE only needs one chat show, no need for D'Arcy, Cutting Edge etc and just use the LLS and have Tommy Tiernan host it in the style/format he does his chat show

If the Late Late Show went back to having truly controversial guests as it did in the past - for example the modern equivalent of Annie Murphy as a guest would be someone who is staunchly anti abortion - that recent UCD president whose name escapes me - and give her a proper grilling. Or have some feminist on and actually argue with something she says nd ask the hard questions - like why are there almost no men anymore on RTE news.

Or have relevant guests on, someone like Tim Ferriss for example. Then it could be a good show. As it stands it's a pile of horse manure.

Emmett Mammoth Rim

Emmett Mammoth Rim wrote: »

or a show hosted by Vogue/influencer "star"

But RTE only needs one chat show, no need for D'Arcy, Cutting Edge etc and just use the LLS and have Tommy Tiernan host it in the style/format he does his chat show

Good suggestion.

fryup

i know its not a program per se....but The Angelas

i mean in this day & age...we're so suppose to be a modern secular country aren't we?

if you want to pray by all means do it in the privacy of your own home or church...but don't have it as a national broadcast (radio included)

Ger Roe

Ger Roe wrote: »

School doesn't appear to have told them much about it all.

School is incredibly dumbed down now. As long as they learn about the 84 genders it's all grand. You should check out some of the questions on the Junior Cert "Science" paper this year. A 5 year old could answer them.

AndrewJRenko

Deleted User wrote: »

School is incredibly dumbed down now. As long as they learn about the 84 genders it's all grand.

What school covers 84 genders?

I think Ireland's Fittest Family is great. It shows how a proper family should work, with each contributing to their strengths instead of all this gender role bull****.

honeybear

Sunday Miscellany ... I can’t even spell it!

AndrewJRenko

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

What school covers 84 genders?

St Joseph's of the 84 genders

AndrewJRenko

Deleted User wrote: »

St Joseph's of the 84 genders

So that didn't happen at all, right? You just threw it in as part of some other agenda that you have going? Is that what's going on here?

ever not always

Scrap the endless repeats, especially repeats of programmes that are shown 3-4 times in one week.

whisky_galore

ever not always wrote: »

Scrap the endless repeats, especially repeats of programmes that are shown 3-4 times in one week.

Typical RTE fodder of repeats...
The Simpsons.
Top Gear.
Big Bang Theory.
Fr Ted (It was good but come on, how old is it now?)

What is the point of RTE +1?
Only applies to RTE1 and only after 6pm.

The Angelus, trying to be a secular country yet we have a call to prayer daily on national tv. What other non theocracy has this?

Winning Streak either needs to be taken off air or have a more interesting format.
Late Late Show needs to be overhauled with less fluff than at present.

DoozerT6

Definitely reality TV in all its guises. Singing, skating, jungling, cooking, islanding, dancing, etc....

It's been done, guys. Over and over and over and over and over and....

Capt'n Midnight

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

The Rose of Tralee. Hard to believe that it's 2019 and the 'lovely girls' competition is still going strong.

TG4 have Mary From Dungloe sewn up so RTE have to follow suit.


https://www.tg4.ie/en/programmes/mary-from-dungloe/
Presented by Daniel O’Donnell and Caitlín Nic Aoidh.