What program would you axe off RTE from an After Hours prospective?

freshpopcorn · 28-07-2019 04:22PM #1

They are a few contenders to be honest.
The Late Late Show. Probably just change the presenter.
The Ray Darcy show. We don't know if it's returning.
Fair City, they'd just replace it with another Dublin soap with the same actors.

I'd be axe Operation Transformation and Ireland's Fittest Families.
Operation Transformation has being around over ten years now and it's the same thing over and over again. Same diets, exercise plans, yelling from the army and more yelling from Katherine Thomas.
I feel similar about Ireland's Fittest Families it's just a bunch of one's yelling and shouting art one another.

What program would you axe off RTE?

kneemos · 28-07-2019 04:27PM

Ireland's fittest family is hilarious.

odyssey06 · 28-07-2019 04:37PM

As this is After Hours, it would have to be The News, as a sociological experiment.

The News would be replaced with a newsreader saying, "Ireland and the World are still here, good day. And now the sports and weather."

28-07-2019 04:40PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

They
I feel similar about Ireland's Fittest Families it's just a bunch of one's yelling and shouting art one another.

What program would you axe off RTE?

Have to disagree - great family viewing in our house since it started, with great role models for teenagers, especially for girls - a rarity in this era of vacuous influencers.

eviltwin · 28-07-2019 04:41PM

Brendan O'Connors Cutting Edge

28-07-2019 04:42PM

Reeling in the Years. Enough already.

Cabin Fever should be reinstated, more wrecks ahoy.

Harry Palmr · 28-07-2019 04:43PM

The Angelus.

TheValeyard · 28-07-2019 04:44PM

Dancing with the Stars

TheValeyard · 28-07-2019 04:45PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Reeling in the Years. Enough already

Reeling in the years is legendary, I wont hear a bad word said against it!

kneemos · 28-07-2019 04:49PM

TheValeyard wrote: »

Reeling in the years is legendary, I wont hear a bad word said against it!

The music track is the best thing about it.

freshpopcorn · 28-07-2019 04:50PM

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Have to disagree - great family viewing in our house since it started, with great role models for teenagers, especially for girls - a rarity in this era of vacuous influencers.

I suppose I maybe influenced that I know of one of the people involved. I certainly wouldn't want anybody taking after them.

touts · 28-07-2019 04:52PM

The best of the Late Late Show. Shows a complete lack of any imagination as to what to have on a Friday Night in the summer when the Life show isn't on. But I suppose it costs nothing so fits in the budget.

Yer Da sells Avon · 28-07-2019 04:55PM

Claire Byrne Live. Terrible presenter. They should get rid of her and give Vincent Browne a weekly current affairs programme where he just sits there sighing and grunting for an hour.

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ToddyDoody · 28-07-2019 04:56PM

Nationwide

Probably too expensive to produce anyway.

Church on Tuesday · 28-07-2019 05:01PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

They are a few contenders to be honest.
The Late Late Show. Probably just change the presenter.
The Ray Darcy show. We don't know if it's returning.
Fair City, they'd just replace it with another Dublin soap with the same actors.

I'd be axe Operation Transformation and Ireland's Fittest Families.
Operation Transformation has being around over ten years now and it's the same thing over and over again. Same diets, exercise plans, yelling from the army and more yelling from Katherine Thomas.
I feel similar about Ireland's Fittest Families it's just a bunch of one's yelling and shouting art one another.

What program would you axe off RTE?

Nah it's a dated concept now. It was essential viewing, groundbreaking even, in the days were there was no sex in Ireland but it has had it's time now.

The only way the LL can move forward is if it becomes a purely entertainment driven show about 90 mins long with a presenter that actually has a personality and is not secretly full of contempt for half of his guests.

branie2 · 28-07-2019 05:18PM

Any reality tv show

The Tetrarch · 28-07-2019 05:18PM

Room To Improve.

Pherekydes · 28-07-2019 10:55PM

Axe RTE.

Your Face · 28-07-2019 11:16PM

Maybe get rid of some of the presenters.
The next Late Late Show host should be made watch every Johhny Carson show before ever even turning up.

blinding · 29-07-2019 03:01AM

The Joe fooking Duffy show .

The Brits dumped Jeremy Kyle eventually .

Surely Ireland’s Jeremy Kyle should also be dumped in the Garbage .

fatknacker · 29-07-2019 07:52AM

All the sports ones. Make a dedicated sports channel and hoosh them over there. Including axing sports slots from the news.

29-07-2019 08:14AM

blinding wrote: »

The Joe fooking Duffy show .

The Brits dumped Jeremy Kyle eventually .

Surely Ireland’s Jeremy Kyle should also be dumped in the Garbage .

Jeremy Kyle was not only a radical postmodern drama, it was an exercise in identifying the farthest extremities and core elements of the human condition. Psychologists will be studying it for years to come.

Joe Duffy'z Liveline is totally different. It's just accidental satire. I'd say scrap it, but what would we give out about on the Radio Forum, then?

Jimmy Garlic · 29-07-2019 08:24AM

Anything with Kathryn Thomas on it. Insufferable woman.

29-07-2019 08:27AM

ToddyDoody wrote: »

Nationwide Probably too expensive to produce anyway.

Might not be targeted at your demographic but
Nationwide is hugely loved and watched all over the country. Made for buttons too I'd say.

Woke Hogan · 29-07-2019 08:31AM

Operation Transformation. I'm no fan of fat people, and I would never promote obesity, but that programme is just exploitative.

BeerWolf · 29-07-2019 08:38AM

All of it. Get rid of everything. They're obsolete and unnecessary at this point. Why should we be paying a TV license to finance this muck and overpaid presenters?

the.red.baron · 29-07-2019 08:44AM

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Have to disagree - great family viewing in our house since it started, with great role models for teenagers, especially for girls - a rarity in this era of vacuous influencers.

Who are the role models for girls?

Donnacha?

That granny who could bate anyone out the door at hang tough?

Kathryn?

Hercule Poirot · 29-07-2019 08:48AM

Winning Streak - or at the very least jazz it up a bit. It's had the same production values since the 90's and is about as modern as chastity belts.

29-07-2019 09:18AM

Woke Hogan wrote: »

I'm no fan of fat people

*Drops doughnut*

Woke Hogan · 29-07-2019 09:23AM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

*Drops doughnut*

Let me rephrase that: I'm no fan of promoting "fat acceptance" or being "healthy at every size." Live and let live otherwise.

KevRossi · 29-07-2019 09:28AM

Scrap the endless repeats, especially repeats of programmes that are shown 3-4 times in one week.

What program would you axe off RTE from an After Hours prospective?

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