RTÉ St Patrick’s Day viewing FFS

hurler32

Normally be out and about St Patrick’s day but sitting at home today looking at what’s on RTÉ for the day . Eastenders , Home and Away, the Simpson’s .... thought they might have something Irish on like an Irish film or a bit of Irish music or about the Irish abroad .
Do RTÉ even realise their Irish ?

pgj2015

They are mostly west brits.

valoren

I thought it was pretty tactless that with thousands of people concurrently losing their jobs they decided a re-run of "Irelands Rich List" last night was pertinent.

mloc123

Should have stuck last year's parade on again

The Tetrarch

Darby O'Gill and the Little People is the film for today.

LuasSimon

RTE have abandoned traditional Irishness a number of years ago , thought the same earlier today looking at TV guide.

TnaG do a great job on a shoestring budget showing up the west brit Fat Cats in Donnybrook.

LuasSimon

valoren wrote: »

I thought it was pretty tactless that with thousands of people concurrently losing their jobs they decided a re-run of "Irelands Rich List" last night was pertinent.

Many of RTEs fat cats are totally disconnected from real Ireland. You would be too if you were on 400/500K a year living in a Million plus home in Dun Laoighaire !

That homegrown "talent" ain't cheap. Amy Hoovered up most of the budget. Now RTÉ have to rely on imports for padding. 2+2=5, according to the creative accountant upstairs. "Pay your TV licence" is the Pyongyang party line.

Joe_ Public

Dunno about tv but Moving Hearts been on Radio One live in studio, playing and talking about their 39 years on the go with Fiachra O Braonain. Terrific stuff.

Degag

They don't even have a decent film on later from what i can see. They are obviously treating it like a normal day, which it kinda is now i guess.

SEPT 23 1989

When the Wind Blows is on after the news

Vita nova

The Tetrarch wrote: »

Darby O'Gill and the Little People is the film for today.

Later in the day they'll have:
Outbreak
Contagion
28 Days Later

Bobblehats

It’s a goddamn charade. St. Patrick’s Day Charade is what it is...

Church on Tuesday

No Michael Collins then?

Tuco88

They should have put The Field on.

Gowann the bull...

whisky_galore

Newsflash, it was ever so.

Get Netflix or stream whatever you want. Scheduled tv is a dead duck.

Many "Irish" movies are maudlin crap for the US market. Michael Collins included, although some posters here think it's a documentary.

foxy farmer

Even the film on rte 1 is in black and white. It's a disgrace Joe.

Church on Tuesday

whisky_galore wrote: »

Newsflash, it was ever so.

Get Netflix or stream whatever you want. Scheduled tv is a dead duck.

Many "Irish" movies are maudlin crap for the US market. Michael Collins included, although some posters here think it's a documentary.

For that go watch the excellent The Treaty.

The distinct lack of Julia Roberts alone makes it superior.

Jimbob1977

Stick on 'The Cassandra Crossing' after the 9 o'clock news.

The Princess Bride

Is Flight of The Doves on?
It's not St Patrick's Day without it.

whiskeyman

They should have had The Snapper, Commitments and The Van on back to back.

All filmed during hard times but showed the best of our Irish spirit and humour.

Hurrache

The Tetrarch wrote: »

Darby O'Gill and the Little People is the film for today.

I went looking for it to watch with the kids today

For the evening movie, an absolute bit of misery, especially considering all that's happening in the world.

Greyfox

hurler32 wrote: »

looking at what’s on RTÉ for the day

Big mystake, 95% of what's on rte is garbage.

whisky_galore wrote: »

Michael Collins included, although some posters here think it's a documentary.

Still a great watch though as Liam Neeson is magnificent

Bonzo Delaney

I went down
Intermission
Eat the peach
They missed a beat not showing those today

LuasSimon

Watching the 1977 Dublin v Armagh final on TnaG now , the only Irish station worth watching

Kivaro

LuasSimon wrote: »

Many of RTEs fat cats are totally disconnected from real Ireland. You would be too if you were on 400/500K a year living in a Million plus home in Dun Laoighaire !

Don't forget that the million(s) who pay the television license are regarded as serfs to the RTE elite. We are here to serve them, and not the other way round. We just do not have the intelligence to understand the nuances of having grandiose liberal views.

Now if I was an asylum seeker from Georgia with a tale to tell, or a Traveller looking for an "entitled" bigger house near mum, then they will be all ears and push the auld virus story off the headlines for a day or two.

Bobblehats

whisky_galore wrote: »

Newsflash, it was ever so.

Get Netflix or stream whatever you want. Scheduled tv is a dead duck.

Many "Irish" movies are maudlin crap for the US market. Michael Collins included, although some posters here think it's a documentary.

In the wake of on demand scheduled is becoming that but the better programmes are still to be found via the traditional channel’s archives.

I’d really struggle without the discovery channels. BBC4, all that stuff there’s a bit too much fantasy on the streaming platforms for my liking. Half the time I feel like I’m watching blazing saddles with historical accuracy out the window particularly surreal when I see what appears an aborigine with a an irish accent or some such

DrSerious3

Bobblehats wrote: »

In the wake of on demand scheduled is becoming that but the better programmes are still to be found via the traditional channel’s archives.

I’d really struggle without the discovery channels. BBC4, all that stuff there’s a bit too much fantasy on the streaming platforms for my liking. Half the time I feel like I’m watching blazing saddles with historical accuracy out the window particularly surreal when I see what appears an aborigine with a an irish accent or some such

What?

Bobblehats

DrSerious3 wrote: »

What?

I don’t know it’s all quite surreal. Those described might be the most genuine article...

Dank Janniels

Reeling in the Years will be on a 24hour rolling loop for the fore-seeable!

BENDYBINN

valoren wrote: »

I thought it was pretty tactless that with thousands of people concurrently losing their jobs they decided a re-run of "Irelands Rich List" last night was pertinent.

A bit rich alright..

Doctors room ghost

whiskeyman wrote: »

They should have had The Snapper, Commitments and The Van on back to back.

All filmed during hard times but showed the best of our Irish spirit and humour.

And into the west.
GO ON THE TIR NA NOIG

SEPT 23 1989

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

And into the west.
GO ON THE TIR NA NOIG

Produced by Harvey Weinstein

Doubt it will be shown again

fryup

mloc123 wrote: »

Should have stuck last year's parade on again

nobody would have noticed the difference

thesandeman

whiskeyman wrote: »

They should have had The Snapper, Commitments and The Van on back to back.

All filmed during hard times but showed the best of our Irish spirit and humour.

In fairness, they did have a Roddy Doyle film on. Not bad timing either for a serious subject seeing as the had a somewhat captive audience.

dd973

Always found the likes of Mary Kennedy interviewing people attending the parades a bit saccharine and sickly myself, Irish people for some weird reason seem to love to point out the distinction of somebody being a 'tourist' or 'visitor', not 'one of us', the special tribe living here since birth, whom can only truly know our ways, whims and shibboleths.

We can barely speak our own language ffs! We're hardly that esoteric and mysterious.

ILoveYourVibes

hurler32 wrote: »

Normally be out and about St Patrick’s day but sitting at home today looking at what’s on RTÉ for the day . Eastenders , Home and Away, the Simpson’s .... thought they might have something Irish on like an Irish film or a bit of Irish music or about the Irish abroad .
Do RTÉ even realise their Irish ?

Honestly there is nowhere to make irish tv except for RTE and they are not good at it.

Sgt Hartman

They always seem to be showing "Home" themed shows such as Home of the Year and Room to Improve which I think is a bit insensitive and out of touch with the current housing crisis.

JustAThought

It’s insensitive nd out of touch given that most hardworking middle class families don’t have a spare fifty,hundred or two hundred thousand to casually spend on an extra room and extension design with notable architect signing off on concepts and plans.

i never understand how Bannon programmes are
shown - the families are often so clearly upset over the financial run-overs often in tens of thousands despite a surveyer being also employed. RTE must think ordinary people have access to accounts as deep as the governments bottomless spending pits - sure we ran 30k over budget will you just give us top up. Speaks volumes on how they budget and think. Some of theose programmes the homeowners are clearly incandesant with rage, and I remember at least 2 where the working male in the family was livid and not speaking to Bannon.

As for St Patricks Day viewing - do we still expect better from them after the daily sludge they drone up - lets face it - they have shown their colours and incompetence so many times - pay per view. That money pit should be shut down.

lertsnim

I don't believe for a second that those Home to Improve overruns are real. Every week it's the same scripted nonsense. Dermot goes over with some crazy idea and Patricia the surveyor cracks the whip.

whisky_galore

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

They always seem to be showing "Home" themed shows such as Home of the Year and Room to Improve which I think is a bit insensitive and out of touch with the current housing crisis.

Panders to the Irish obsession with property and nosiness about what's inside people's homes.

Granadino

hurler32 wrote: »

Normally be out and about St Patrick’s day but sitting at home today looking at what’s on RTÉ for the day . Eastenders , Home and Away, the Simpson’s .... thought they might have something Irish on like an Irish film or a bit of Irish music or about the Irish abroad .
Do RTÉ even realise their Irish ?

Plenty of good quality programmes on TG4 yesterday, from music, to sport, to documentaries, all focusing on Irish topics, with the day that was in it. As Gaeilge as well.

keano_afc

It was a poxy line up. I switched it on in the afternoon hoping Flight of the Doves or any Irish related film would be on. Nope, just the same tripe as always.

Granadino

JustAThought wrote: »

It’s insensitive nd out of touch given that most hardworking middle class families don’t have a spare hundred or two hundred thousand to casually spend on an extra room and extension deaign with notable architect signing off on concepts and plans.

No different to Top Gear really, where they drive around in expensive cars most of can't afford or don't need.

JustAThought

Granadino wrote: »

No different to Top Gear really, where they drive around in expensive cars most of can't afford or don't need.

That’s quite different - they are not spending a customers money and running overbudget by tens of thousands - they are showing cars on loan from car dealership.Nobody gets financially burned in the making of the entertainment.

I remember watching a Bannon about some smallholding farmer with a tiny cottage almost off the grid in Wicklow and a few chicken and sheep - he worked part time and loved minding his kids and being there for them - Bannon went mad and ran about 30k overbudget and the poor man was so upset - he said on air that he had destroyed their lifestyle and home security and that he now had to give up his way of life because of RTE/Bannons carelessness and would not be able to be there for his children anymore as he had to go and take a pitiful minimum wage full time job to pay for Bannons inability to manage a project and his suddenly announced project overruns in tens of thousands. He’s not the only man I’ve seen in that show in a rage about the financial outcome - typical RTE waste - run up a bill and expect someone else to pay it. Bit like their license fee and extortinate salaries and nepotism. So long as they are ok they don’t care what dross they churn out or at what cost to anyone else. Any old high cost mediocre rubbish bought in or not is fine - just so long as they collect their salaries and their permanent jobs and pensions are safe.

fryup

The Princess Bride wrote: »

Is Flight of The Doves on?
It's not St Patrick's Day without it.

♫ you don't have to be irish to be irish ♫

which in itself sounds a bit irish

JustAThought

fryup wrote: »

♫ you don't have to be irish to be irish ♫

which in itself sounds a bit irish

em, no.

valoren

What I don't get is that Bannon seems to go over budget regularly but has done this regularly for multiple seasons ie you sign up for this knowing it's very likely to go well over budget. There must be some incentive to have people go on the show given Bannons form?

Jurgen Klopp

I always assumed by going on there RTE paid X amount of the building costs, same with At Your Service and then likes

Why in blue fcuk would you expose yourself and your family otherwise?

Remember seeing an RTE guide in a shop with Dermot and his interview of "I'm a crap celebrity"

Lad your only a celeb in your and your RTE fanboys minds. Hes a prime example of a useless nobody being pushed by RTE trying to manufacture "stars"