The Afternoon "Show"

Shrimp

I hate this whow with an increasing passion. It is possibly one of the most unprofessinal programme I have ever watched. The lack of tact and smoothness from the hosts, the switching of cameras to people that are not ready, or even to people that aren't on the show (e.g. Backstage). You can hear other people talking when their mic is not supposed to be on. My hate towards this show is endless. This is where tv licence money is going, to these incompetent gobshítes that cant present for fúck.

It's the biggest load of fúcking Bollox on tv at the moment... :mad:

What are your opinions on it?

tk123

You're right Shrimp!!! Not that I get to see daytime tv that often but it's just CRAP - maybe if it wasn't live they'd be able to edit it and make it look a bit more professional?! The other 2 were better - what were their names!? Oh yeah Marty&Mary!

aidan_walsh

The biggest laugh I got was last week when Anna Nolan was talking about the pressure on women during and after pregnancy. She who knows, preaches...

TCamen

Well if it helps, RTE are going to try and add more substance to the show, now that it's clear the airy, vacuous approach isn't attracting much other than angry letters :rolleyes:

Shrimp

It's complete crap. I could direct a show better. And as for the focking ugly birds that present it

The Focking Red Haired Jolly Green Giant.
Some BB Washout.
This oddly dressed MARE.

They could have focking dont alot better. I think they should have stuck with Open House.

Also, all the graphic elements of the show.. e.g. Names on screen, phone numbers, pictures.. etc... are so unprofessinaly done, I could do better in photoshop, or fireworks or something.. Complete ****..

TCamen

You sound surprised that a cheaper alternative to 'Open House' could actually appear cheap.

'Open House' was stagnating, RTE decided to revamp the afternoon schedule -- at least they're trying, even if 'The Afternoon Show' is rubbish in its current form.

And as for saying "I could do better..", go on and submit some suggestions, they might listen to you :rolleyes:

Mossy Monk

but it's keeping the house wives of Ireland happy

tk123

Nah my mum thinks it's a load of crap!

Shrimp

I know people in their 20's tha tlike it.... WTF???

eggshapedfred

I know people in their 20's tha tlike it.... WTF???

post-ironic students, appreciating it for its "lo-fi kitsch" quality.....

RTE are going to try and add more substance to the show,

does this mean a cookery segment?

RTE daytime hasn't been good since derek davis and thelma mansfield were on Live At 3.

solas

I like it! ..then again it is aimed at my genre. mid to late 20 something stay at home kind of people, particularly of a feminine disposition.
For what it's worth I think Anna Nolan is a mad thing, very quirky, I like the fact that its live and therefore anything goes, the girls gigling in the backgrgound can be funny at times, especially when Anna is presenting the fashion item and she be eyeing up the ladies.


besides, you lads should be in school or work or have something better to do.

mike65

solas wrote:

the girls gigling in the backgrgound can be funny at times, especially when Anna is presenting the fashion item and she be eyeing up the ladies.

Goddamn! If I'd known that....!

Mike.

FranknFurter

The thing is an atrocious, cheap and downright pathetic of an attempt to copy an afternoon show that used to be on ITV called "Loose Women", which was hosted by two very funny and capable female comedians, with other female celeb guest presenters.
It was brilliant, kinda like an all-female version of "The Panel".

This however, is just plain cheap and nasty.

D!ve^Bomb!

loose women was really good at times... especially when kerry macfaten or whatever her ****in name is got into arguments with the other hosts.. funny ****

Afternoon Show

yeah it's really badly done... plus the presenters are just complete muppets who really look like they haven't a clue

solas

Its typical Irish afternoon television, anything but marty whelan will do me fine.
I do find myself laughing quiety when watching it at times..must be getting old.

BolBill

Bring back Thelma Mansfield, she was HOOOOOT !!!!!

Mossy Monk

big hit with the owls

ijc

I saw a little bit of this show, this week. They had Eamon Holmes on and they were discussing footballers who shave their chests. They were sort of cajoling Eamon into giving them a quick flash under his shirt to see if he was hirsute or not. Then he asked that Blathnid one, when was the last time she got her chest waxed. It was quite amusing!
The three women do seem to have a chemistry together. I thought Anna Nolan looked comfortable in a presenting role despite her BB background. I also think that that Sheana one is attractive.

simu

I've seen bits of this and I think it's passable enough for afternoon TV. A lot better than Derek and Thelma, at least!

doh.ie

solas wrote:

For what it's worth I think Anna Nolan is a mad thing, very quirky, I like the fact that its live and therefore anything goes, the girls gigling in the backgrgound can be funny at times

I agree - Anna Nolan can be hilarious. They were doing a segment a few weeks ago about radiation in various electronic products. They tested the air - 2.3 rads (or whatever the measurement is), the microwave (55 up close, 7.5 further away), a TV (5.2) and a hoover (1.7), at which Anna Nolan proclamied, "The hoover is positively healthy for you, even better than air!"

They can all be quite funny when they ad lib the stuff from the papers, or just launch into an unscripted discussion of a topic. Blathnaid once decided in a discussion on superstitions that the common rhyme was, "One for sorrow, two for joy - three for bad luck, four you died." When the others mentioned the more common boy/girl rhyme, she just said, "Someone was just telling you the nice version... No, I'm definitely right."

(Assuming the ad libbing is real, of course - I hear the show is rehearsed twice in full before the actual broadcast. Whether you can tell that from the final product is a different matter.)

Skyuser

I don't like da way when one of da girls r interviewing somebody, after 5 mins or so da two other girls will just walk in front of da camera and place themselves beside them......

solas

"The hoover is positively healthy for you, even better than air!"

haaa

segadreamcast

Does anyone remember the chat show that Homer flicks onto during an episode of the Simpsons?

Presenter: "Men"
Crowd of women: "Boooooo"
*Homer turns off TV* "Cancelled.

That's how this'll work I'd imagine!

[Jackass]

Irish made television in general is appauling! Especially "The Den", set in the studio of some dudes garden shed...the little cramped piece of crap is enough to make it appauling looking to viewers and very unprofessional...but then you have the presenters who are poor (Ray D'Arcy, and one other presenter i cant remember the name were good), and the "characters" are shocking also (Dustin has keeps that programe on the air), they should move it to a "Afternoon Show" type studio (like cbbc) with a few presenters.
(lol, im going on like im 12...im actually 22, but i like cartoons ), plus the likes of RTE turning down a pilot for Fr.Ted, which went on to be one of the most sucsessfull Irish programmes ever.....telly bingo, i wont even start on telly bingo.......the late late is a national emmbarresment, absolutely appauling!!!! The lotto compared to any other national lotto is laughable, from the baldy git who nods, to the state of the machine making a racket, like a local bingo show......Winning streek, with the lighting always shining into the camera and reflecting into it, to the appauling chareography of the show....The studios for the news and sports are always very poor and shoddy looking compared to anything on BBC, commentary on sports is very poor.
So i suppose in context...The afternoon show is one of the finest productions to have ever been made by RTE. (isn't that sad?)
On a positive note, RTE is excellent at getting all the prime-time shows from the states, and showing them over here before brittish channells...the only good thing i can say about the FAI of television........
Irish institutions :rolleyes:..............

Skyuser

RTÉ never turned down Fr. Ted, it was always channel4 dat were makin it.

Skyuser

DubGuy22 wrote:

Irish made television in general is appauling! Especially "The Den", set in the studio of some dudes garden shed...the little cramped piece of crap is enough to make it appauling looking to viewers and very unprofessional...but then you have the presenters who are poor (Ray D'Arcy, and one other presenter i cant remember the name were good), and the "characters" are shocking also (Dustin has keeps that programe on the air), they should move it to a "Afternoon Show" type studio (like cbbc) with a few presenters.
(lol, im going on like im 12...im actually 22, but i like cartoons ), plus the likes of RTE turning down a pilot for Fr.Ted, which went on to be one of the most sucsessfull Irish programmes ever.....telly bingo, i wont even start on telly bingo.......the late late is a national emmbarresment, absolutely appauling!!!! The lotto compared to any other national lotto is laughable, from the baldy git who nods, to the state of the machine making a racket, like a local bingo show......Winning streek, with the lighting always shining into the camera and reflecting into it, to the appauling chareography of the show....The studios for the news and sports are always very poor and shoddy looking compared to anything on BBC, commentary on sports is very poor.
So i suppose in context...The afternoon show is one of the finest productions to have ever been made by RTE. (isn't that sad?)
On a positive note, RTE is excellent at getting all the prime-time shows from the states, and showing them over here before brittish channells...the only good thing i can say about the FAI of television........
Irish institutions :rolleyes:..............

You are exactly wats wrong with this country. A person complaining on the grounds that they are comparing things with what they have in United Kingdom. You need to stop thinking that we should be exactly like UK as we are our own country, you shouldn't be so ashamed of it.
BTW, half of the things you said about RTÉ are not true. Ya maybe the Den has a shabby studio, but there is nothing wrong with the Lotto and the News.

Zhane

he does have a point though, the Den is so behind the times im surprised the cameras still work. I would much prefer something like CITV or CBBC than watch the Den, they have better presenters and better studios, the programming is fine. and Telly Bingo is just plain sh!te. The Late Late Show iv never liked...but i can why the appeal to it for some people.

but your right, the lotto and the news should be left alone.

[Jackass]

Skyuser...i don't think i am what's wrong with this country, in fact, i think people who demand higher standards from the complacent irish is what's right with this country! what's wrong with demanding more? Why settle for these shoddy, second rate standard programmeing when we pay good money for our TV licence...and that's the tripe we get in return listed above! I'm sure if we were to look at EVERY national broadcaster in the EU, we would have one of the worst! Why? If i have a choice (which i do) to watch a higher standard of programmeing from the UK, why wouldn't i? It's not as if RTE are strapped for cash like days of old....yet still since TV license increases over the years, the format of very few irish produced studio based programmes has changed. Fair enough, i take back the news...it's decent, and your right about Father ted..i was wrong about that....but everything else i said is spot on, and i wont settle for it...and neither should you.

RainyDay

Here's a mad suggestion. If you don't like the show, stop watching it. Press the 'off' button on the TV.

[Jackass]

I don't watch it....but i have seen it...and i was giving my opinion about it.....