Eddie Hobbs on Q n A tonight....along with the Rose of Tralee: discuss

dpb7

Defying all the odds Questions and Answers managed to get everyones favourite Corkman ahead of the Late Late. It should be a cracker of a program.... discuss what do you think will happen ( befor 10.30pm monday) and what happened (after 11.30pm) Monday

Quinnsey

That guy’s voice makes me want to pierce my eardrums with sharp, rusty implements.

robo

I heard that supposedly Eddie's former work collague Tony Taylor is going to call up and speak to Eddie tonight on the programme, dunno if it is true :rolleyes:

is_that_so

robo wrote:

I heard that supposedly Eddie's former work collague Tony Taylor is going to call up and speak to Eddie tonight on the programme, dunno if it is true :rolleyes:

He can't. People can only ring in to leave messages.

whiskeyman

Came across very well, as I expected.
Seems as if he had the whole audience, (and the panel too) behind him.
Any more probing or dirt digging will just lead to a backlash to those starting the rumours... i.e. - FF heads...

Spinnaker

Brennan was wisely instructed to be on good behaviour - well paid media handling ever at work.

In the meantime Eddie Hobbs would seem to have won another All-Ireland for Cork. Will there be real government action however ? That is the euro33bn question ........

Dinner

Saint Eddie came across quite well I thought. I still cant get over how awkward the Rose looked whenever she had to speak. Why her? Of all people why? Why did someone put staples in her cheeks?

Mossy Monk

didnt see the show myself but why was the Rose Of Tralee on Q&A

maxpower

I watched a bit of it... Taught de Rose of tralee did quite well for herself.. So She's not just a pretty face...... but i'd still lash her out of it....lol.. I have every admiration for hobbs... if he was to run for de nxt T.D or President i'd vote for him... and i'd say most other ppl would aswell

mickd

Arabel wrote:

Saint Eddie came across quite well I thought. I still cant get over how awkward the Rose looked whenever she had to speak. Why her? Of all people why? Why did someone put staples in her cheeks?

He didn't say much for a start and to quote him 'this debate has moved on'. Thought the rose of tralee acquitted herself well, if a little nervous Made a valid point about students being able to participate in General elections either by postal voting or registering in the city where their institution is located

Telefís

Yeah, but otherwise had little to say and just sat there and giggled. It seems the only reason she was on was because they they had to fill the token female slot on the usually male-dominated panel!


It's been said before, but it really needs to be said again - who the hell 'designed' the Q&A set!!! It is the most ugly, ill-thought out, cheapest of the cheap, shoddiest piece of crap yet to be inflicted Irish viewers in the history of RTÉ Television, and that's saying something!
It is ghastly

The 'timber' panels to the rear of the guests are nothing but shiny sheets of hardboard, the desk nothing more than MDF with an apparent sticky-back roll-on timber covering with the joins covered with nasty strips of cheap metal.
Everything is either falling apart or ill-fitting in the first place - with the desk covering peeling off, the metal strips not joining, screws missing from the edging, scratches galore, creases and sellotaped joins in the Q&A illuminated panel that encircles the front of the desk, cables and wires running all over the floor, and a stuck-back-in panel in the illuminated set where a camera used to be - it's just been pasted over with a bit of left-over scrap.

The background that is presented in the average mid-shot of guests is an abomination - with that ghastly hardboard sheeting filling most of the shot, then the trashy metal trim along the edging that is peeling off and doesn't join properly, and then a bit of illuminated coloured set filling the top part of the shot.

There is no proportion, coherence or the remotest aesthetic quality to this heap of trash they dare call a set, and not the slightest thought was given to the appearance of the mid-shot background, the very first consideration a set designer makes.

And of course the obligatory line of ridiculous poley microphones piling up in every shot :rolleyes:
And as for the lighting, apalling camera framing for 14:9, the usual sleep-inducing RTÉ vision-mixing, and woeful shot choices by director, Questions and Answers is without doubt in the top three of the worst directed and presented RTÉ studio programmes - with Prime Time in there too.

Not making any comment about content - by all accounts Bowman is superb, and in many subtle ways never commented on - but the presentation is quite simply a disgrace.

OFDM

Good production points from Telefís there. The RoT is a fox, I guess they put her on because they finally have a RoT who's doing a PhD, and therefore should have some level of advanced intelligence.

Brennan did his usual "I agree with you that we're crap, but we're doing great at the same time" line, FF always stick him on to diffuse a situation.

Hobbs said nothing too interesting, Enda was a boring as always and the yank kept talking about America because he hadn't a clue about anything happening in Ireland, out of all the guests he was the most useless.

mickd

Nice to see Bowman giving Kenny Lite a good ribbing that he would make a good escort for the Rose of Tralee. Perhaps he telling us the obvious about Kenny that he is just a wallflower.

SprostonGreen

mickd wrote:

Nice to see Bowman giving Kenny Lite a good ribbing that he would make a good escort for the Rose of Tralee. Perhaps he telling us the obvious about Kenny that he is just a wallflower.

Do you think Pat Rabbitte wil take the reigns of that coaltion?

mickd

Good question, i think there is every possibility of Rabbitte being taoiseach, Kenny is no leader. Personally I dont care for either of them Rabbitte's prickly indignant nature i find irritating.Then again John Bruton was the accidental taoiseach so anything is possible