Is Norn Iron TV Crap?

mike65

Is anyone else here pi**ed off with UTV and BBC NI
and their crappy programming which knocks good, proper programmes the rest of the Uk watches into a late night
slot or shunts them off entirely.

Kelly, Give My Head Peace, John Daly, McKeever,
not to mention Town Challange (I said don't mention Town
Challange!) and all the rest, dreadful TV in every respect,
yet NTL and Chorus presume we in the republic are interested,
we're not, or at least I'm not.

Sorry for the rant, but I'd sooner be slumped in front of
Have I Got News For You than John Daly and his c-list guests.

Mike.

News Just In - Thanks to arrival of BBC NI Digital sevice you get
another chance to miss John Daly show, bleugh! :mad:

DerekD Goldfish

Bar give my head peice which has some very good moments i would agree with you but the scots have to watch hagis cooking championships and the whelsh have to watch.....whatever it is they watch there also different sections of england have to put up with there own shoddy versions of the shows we see on bbc ni and utv

mike65

Please excuse this thread being revived after 2 years
of slumber but has anyone seen that so called comedy about lawyers on BBC1 "I fought the Law"? its on at 9.30.

Just pityful, the camerawork and editing would not be found beyond first year at any media-arts course. The dialogue is fit for the dead only and performances had that "I'm in a crap show and I'm stuck in it" feel of stilted desperation...

RTE would'nt let this go out its that bad.

Mike.

sceptre

I had the misfortune to watch a report on the licensing hours on FairPlay (Norn Iron beeb one) tonight. Terrible stuff. Camera work during the report was good enough, the rest was awfully presented.

Mossy Monk

i had the horrifying experience of coming across their country music thing a few weeks back :eek: :eek:

thank the lord for the English BBC1 so no need to be watching that miserable crap when all the good stuff is on

Go Figure!

Yes both BBC Northern Ireland and UTV are both appaling stations. I particurlarly loathe BBC Northern Ireland and I am sick to death of them shifting some of my favourite programmes out of their normal slots or just dropping them completely just to make way for the most stupid local crap. I resent having to wait till 11.25 to see Have I Got News For You on Friday nights when the UK gets to see it at 9.30 all so Gerry Anderson can inflate his ego some more in front of the cameras. Why oh why don't NTL take BBC Wales and ITV1 Wales instead? If they don't I will be forced to eventually subscibe to Sky Digital instead.

Originally posted by DerekD Goldfish
Bar give my head peice which has some very good moments i would agree with you but the scots have to watch hagis cooking championships and the whelsh have to watch.....whatever it is they watch there also different sections of england have to put up with there own shoddy versions of the shows we see on bbc ni and utv

Yes viewers in Scotland have to watch some of those programmes but by and large they have very good stations. BBC Scotland have excellent sports programming, they make interesting documentarys and they have a decent soap in River City. Also when they shift English Programming they still show it in another prime-time slot some other time. BBC Wales have little or no regional programming, there or no regional variations for BBC England apart from local news and there are less and less variations between regions on ITV1 in England.

Busy Hands

Derek, no offence, but that Give My Head Peace is the greatest hape of horsesh*t ever. In fairness I haven't tried to watch it in years, but the old ones were appalling & the trailers (which should incorporate their best moments, one would think) for the last couple of series is cringeworthy. That McKeever woman is another one could do with a good punishment beating. Her show basically consists of her putting on a funny hat, screwing up the corner of her mouth and spoutin' seven shades of sh*te in an accent - Arthur Murphy used do that every week on Mailbag, and he wasn't funny then! She did do a chat show for a while and I have to say she was a lot more suited to that kind of scenario. Dave Allen is a very funny Northerner and Paddy Kielty certainly has his moments, but beyond that I can't think of one funny person from the North of this island - well Sammy Wilson, but for different reasons.
In fairness though not all their tv is rubbish, the political programmes are quite good and very well balanced. 2 of their presenters/interviewers, a Mark chap and a Noel chap, are excellent.
The most annoying thing about BBC Norn Iron though is Saturday afternoon/evening when all the English football scores are in, you are waiting for the tables & reports and all of a sudden you are seeing "action" from Cliftonville -v- Ballymena, holy christ! Luckily I've invested in Sky digital recently, so I go into Services and check out BBC1 London or wherever. Sorted.

Elmo

TV3 and UTV should produce some programmes together
and The BBC and RTE should produce some programmes together.

So that all stations have more money to invest in more programming

Go Figure!

Originally posted by Busy Hands
In fairness though not all their tv is rubbish, the political programmes are quite good and very well balanced. 2 of their presenters/interviewers, a Mark chap and a Noel chap, are excellent. Sorted.

Ok I'll give them that I suppose, but I am so sick of Northern Ireland Politics that I don't really watch them anymore.

Originally posted by Busy Hands
The most annoying thing about BBC Norn Iron though is Saturday afternoon/evening when all the English football scores are in, you are waiting for the tables & reports and all of a sudden you are seeing "action" from Cliftonville -v- Ballymena, holy christ! Luckily I've invested in Sky digital recently, so I go into Services and check out BBC1 London or wherever. Sorted.

Yeah I can't stand that and I hate during the summer when Sunday Grandstand is constantly interupted by Gaelic Games when a major sporting event is taking place. I have no problem with Gaelic Games but when BBC Scotland show Scottish Football they put it on BBC1 thereby leaving Sunday Granstand unaffected and giving their viewers a choice of sports.

Go Figure!

Originally posted by Elmo
TV3 and UTV should produce some programmes together
and The BBC and RTE should produce some programmes together.

So that all stations have more money to invest in more programming

The BBC and RTE do produce a number of programmes together particurlarly dramas such as Sinners, Any Time Now, that one about the 1916 rising and its aftermath the other year and of course the new Holy Cross drama which airs tomorrow night on RTE1 and on BBC1 on Monday. RTE also made Servents with BBC Wales and Batchelor's Walk was originally a co-production with the then BBC Choice now BBC Three before they withdraw funding from it. Before anybody else says it BBC Northern Ireland also made Messiah 1 and 2 and Murphy's Law starring James Nesbit and many of their drama's have been watchable but they are a drop in the ocean compared to the quality of their overall output and they are few and far between.

I can't see TV3 doing any business with UTV however, they are far more likely to do business with the new ITV plc formally Granada and Carlton , like they did with their first drama Watermelon this year. ITV plc do own 45% of TV3 afterall.

mike65

The most annoying thing about BBC Norn Iron though is Saturday afternoon/evening when all the English football scores are in, you are waiting for the tables & reports and all of a sudden you are seeing "action" from Cliftonville -v- Ballymena, holy christ!

AGH! And the thing is you know its comming but you just hope they'll have the match report/scores you're interested in before the Circle of NI Football Hell decends....:mad:

Mike.

Oswald Osbourne

The only time the station bothers me is on international football nights when after being tantalised with ad's for England v Brazil (or whatever) I'm subsequently left to make do with 'Northern Ireland Nil' live from glamourous Windsor Park.