RTE skipped a Third Watch episode?

stevejazzx

has anyone else noticed how badly cut movies are on rte to accomodate ad breaks

once when they were showing 'silence of the lambs' they had an ad right in the middle of hannibals liver chianti speech

and during die hard bruce willis throws a computer down a lift shatf cut immediately to an ad for fairy we come back six minutes later and everything is on fire

Elmo

Yeah RTE do have a bad record with Adds during movies.

IMO Movies should only have one break during them and it should be for 10mins. Two full breaks at the most. Totally off the side of stevejazzx post

But I believe they have got better over the last number of year. I generally don't watch movies on TV unless I really want to see it. BBC for me or cinema or DVD.

Also the worst has to be going to the NEWS during a movie. :mad:

moby2101

slightly off topic also..
Great to see some reaction from RTE. I was sick of contacting them over the years over f**k-ups regarding scheduling of TV progs.

RTE's coverage of Live 8 really annoyed me tho', when Live 8 coverage finished from London, the reporter on RTE 2 (Will Leahy, I think) announced that RTE would be broadcasting to the wee hours of the morning, showing the Philadelphia leg as well as out-takes from the other shows worldwide.
Next thing the coverage is ended and back to their normal scheduling without a word of explanation.
Typical RTE !!!!

OFDM

Anyone remember when RTE first started showing stuff in widescreen? They had white/grey bars top and bottom for over a year.

Seem to be a lot of incompetence goining around RTE.

It's even been affecting RTE radio for at least the last year - you'll be listening to Joe Duffy talking rubbish or 5/7 Live and suddenly a half second burst of music will come in.

DamoKen

Elmo wrote:

Yeah RTE do have a bad record with Adds during movies.

IMO Movies should only have one break during them and it should be for 10mins. Two full breaks at the most. Totally off the side of stevejazzx post

But I believe they have got better over the last number of year. I generally don't watch movies on TV unless I really want to see it. BBC for me or cinema or DVD.

Also the worst has to be going to the NEWS during a movie. :mad:

Have to disagree on that, IMHO think they've got much worse, they show more ads per movie now than sky one, I've timed their ads on and off during movies I've watched as a result of growing frustration with something that seems to have spiraled out of control, most notably their Wednesday films, firstly the placement of the ads, like wtf?, does anyone in there actually have any appreciation of films? They could not possibly choose better moments to destroy any atmosphere/suspense/drama. During the odd paranoid moment sparked by some homegrown I’ve been almost convinced it was a few media students on summer placement doing it for a laugh just to try and really p*ss me off! Anyway, whether they are trying or not they succeed so so well. Second point as to the length of the ad breaks, when a movie starts at 9.35 (5 min late due to 10 min of ad's), then cuts at 9.47, back at 9.55, cut again at 10.10, back at 10.25 etc etc, tends to ruin the whole point of having a film shown in the first place. Those are true times by the way, at the next ad break I gave up and went to bed. I've frankly got a bit sick of RTE's ad policy, they even threw ad's into their coverage of Live8 ffs, in poor taste I thought considering the whole point of it was to highlight global poverty and the need to stop it, not allow stations to take advantage of high ratings and chuck in ads between bands.

End Rant

lostexpectation

i did include the form response from the first email in mine, anyone else get a response?

OFDM

lostexpectation wrote:

Re your complaint about Episode 13 of Third Watch being
shown out of sequence last Thursday, RTÉ has scheduled
a double episode for Thursday 7 July.
Episode 12 - "The L Word" will be shown at 11.55pm
followed by Episode 13 - "The Other L Word".

We regret the disappointment caused to you by last
week's mix up.

Best regards
Mary Byrne byrnema@rte.ie
RTÉ Information Officer

Mary has sent round another email saying now that the double episode WILL NOT be shown because of the bombings in London today.

tvnutz

I guess that makes sense...an extended news 2 program or something?

OFDM

tvnutz wrote:

I guess that makes sense...an extended news 2 program or something?

No, actually the two episodes in question deal with a terrorist attack so they "don't think it would be appropriate" to show it given today's event and that they review the situation to see if it's appropriate to show them next week.

tvnutz

Oh right...ummm i guess...meh,i dont know,sure in the US,didnt they deal with 9/11 in the show?

OFDM

tvnutz wrote:

Oh right...ummm i guess...meh,i dont know,sure in the US,didnt they deal with 9/11 in the show?

But they didn't deal with it on the day itself.

tvnutz

Ye? Ummm i thought it was pretty close,most shows start in september right? anyway,ye id say i cant argue with the decision,not that many people are going to be watching after 12!

CrimE

Yet another example of why I have stayed away from Rté's coverage of third watch. Seeing episodes out of order would have just pissed me off glad I have them all on my pc

Damn all this talk has made me want to watch it again...

*Goes off to watch the last episode*

tvnutz

te crime,im glad i already saw the season,and i have the last ep saved as well

Ludo

Looks like it is deferred again tonight. Bit if a joke really. I can understand them not showing it last week but get a grip people.

lostexpectation

so they showing those double episodes tonight 14th?

went away for a week so thought i would have missed it anyway but seems not?

this is the mail i got

I regret to have to inform you that RTÉ will not be showing the double episode of Third Watch tonight as they contain bomb scenes and terrorists and RTÉ would not be comfortable transmitting them due to the bombing in London today. The situation wil be reviewed to see whether we will be showing it next week or not.
Yours sincerely

Mary Byrne
RTÉ ainformation Officer



btw did anyone notice if, i think it was utv, showed the film siege last thurs or friday?I saw it in the listings and wondered if they'd cancel it, its a film about a bus hostage act gone wrong and then they decalre marshall law in new york and round up all the arabs, dodgy film... did they show it?

PaulMcG

I was looking at Aertel earlier and on both RTE and TV3 tonights Third Watch isn't down on the TV listing.

RobertFoster

It *seems* that the double episode will be shown tonight. According to NTL digial anyway...

OFDM

Aertel agrees with you:
http://www.rte.ie/aertel/p171.htm

tvnutz

about time!

lostexpectation

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tvnutz

i guess you really dont know with RTE!

OFDM

Wouldn't surprise me if they postponed it again. It's a strange coincidence that both attacks occured on the same day as a Third Watch double episode featuring terrorists.

lostexpectation

well its terrible but tell me a day a terrorist incident doens't happen in the world somewhere