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Reeling In The Years

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https://twitter.com/RTEPress/status/1372523547445358594

RTE confirm that a new decade of Reeling In The Years will start on April 11th.

Covering 2010-2019.
Always a good watch so interesting to see what they do. Plenty to cover.

Bound to end with discovery of Covid-19 in Wuhan and then fade to credits.

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jhegarty

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43000 'Ghost' housing units in 2010 and just a few years later we are in a fully-fledged housing crisis......how on earth has this happened?? What happened to the ghost estates?

They were/are in places people don't want to live.

[Deleted User]

jhegarty wrote: »

They were/are in places people don't want to live.

It's madness how they got the go-ahead to begin with. If you or I, tried to start a business in the morning, we'd have to have an in-depth Business plan.
Even then we would have to prove that what we weren't doing was lunacy. That it was sound and would see an eventual return on investment. These developers were handed money like giving smarties to a child. It's still mind-boggling all these years later.

ShamNNspace

[Deleted User] wrote: »

They were wrong on the England v Germany score. It was 4-1 Germany. RITY said 5-1. Christ that's a quick google search and yet they managed to release the program without rectifying :rolleyes:

Pretty sloppy that all right

touts

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I genuinely find it disturbing how people find that clip so amusing. That was a nasty, nasty fall. Could have been killed instantly.

Couldn't agree more. And while we're at it.

I think it was disrespectful to show the nasty nasty Haitian earthquake. So many people killed. That might have upset some survivors to make them relive the event.

And that economic collapse was nasty nasty. Lots of people were suicidal at that time. It would have been triggering to relive it.

And the Rubberbandits song. That recalls a nasty nasty time of discrimination for the travelling community. People shouldn't be laughing at that.

And the Chilean miners. That was a nasty nasty accident. They could have all been killed instantly. We shouldn't really force them to watch that again.

And Gerry Ryan passing. Dying alone is a nasty nasty way to go. A lot of people are still very upset over that. It really shouldn't have been shown.

And that icelandic volcano was a nasty nasty situation for the people of iceland. If it was a bigger eruption they could have been killed instantly.

No they shouldn't have shown any of that nasty nasty stuff and instead just focused on the good news stories like John Delaney opening the Aviv.....oh wait.

Would you ever grow up and stop taking things so seriously.

breezy1985

BrianD3 wrote: »

I had only heard two of those songs before and one of those was the Rubber Bandits one. No idea who the other artists were. By 2010, either I had gotten old or mainstream music had become rubbish and far less important in popular culture than it used to be.

The music is critical to the impact of the programme.

Also, it seemed to me (may be wrong) that there was more "talking" in this edition. I presume that all or most of the same team produced this edition as produced the previous editions and will have tried to keep the format as consistent as possible - if possible

Another thought I had was that in the modern era of social media, smartphones, 24 hour news channels and being always on, world events might actually be less memorable than the events from the past as everyone is jumping from one thing to the next

I was watching 1982 for the gazillionth time recently - Falklands War, snow, IRA bombs, elections, GUBU, Seamus Darby and TAR-DELLI - some contrast

One was Rihanna & Eminem who are both huge and definitely important to pop culture. Your one from Paramore was there too who were huge at the time.The 60/70/80sones were full of crap music too like Dana and the Nolans or that "My Irish Molly" crap in 82

I do miss the adverts that the whole country would know cause we only had a few channels

2010 had snow, plenty of politics and Tipp stopping a 5 in a row attept from probably the greatest ever hurling team.

Try watch next week while not simultaneously shouting at clouds

thesandeman

BrentMused wrote: »

Do these go up on RTÈ Player guys?

RITY 2031:

2021 "Somebody actually gets to watch a full episode of RITY 2010 on the RTE Player without the f*cking thing crashing after ten minutes of ads".

Billy Ocean

2011 next week, off the top of my head FF get their ass handed to them in the general election, Amy Winehouse passes away, news of the world winds up after phone hacking scandal, Ireland quality for Euro 2012.

StupidLikeAFox

[Deleted User] wrote: »

43000 'Ghost' housing units in 2010 and just a few years later we are in a fully-fledged housing crisis......how on earth has this happened?? What happened to the ghost estates?

They were mostly finished off i think

[Deleted User]

touts wrote: »

Couldn't agree more. And while we're at it.

I think it was disrespectful to show the nasty nasty Haitian earthquake. So many people killed. That might have upset some survivors to make them relive the event.

And that economic collapse was nasty nasty. Lots of people were suicidal at that time. It would have been triggering to relive it.

And the Rubberbandits song. That recalls a nasty nasty time of discrimination for the travelling community. People shouldn't be laughing at that.

And the Chilean miners. That was a nasty nasty accident. They could have all been killed instantly. We shouldn't really force them to watch that again.

And Gerry Ryan passing. Dying alone is a nasty nasty way to go. A lot of people are still very upset over that. It really shouldn't have been shown.

And that icelandic volcano was a nasty nasty situation for the people of iceland. If it was a bigger eruption they could have been killed instantly.

No they shouldn't have shown any of that nasty nasty stuff and instead just focused on the good news stories like John Delaney opening the Aviv.....oh wait.

Would you ever grow up and stop taking things so seriously.

Ah yes, they are the exact same thing as finding a man slipping on ice funny :rolleyes:

If you or the other poster had actually bothered to read my post, my exact wording is that I could never understand how people found that incident so amusing. To me it looked a nasty enough fall. One that made me grimace rather than laugh. it was expressing a simple point of view. All of those things on your list were absolutely tragic and of course they were going to be mentioned on the program. I've no issue with anything being featured on the program. I never stated such.

You mention triggered and you're getting yourself in knots over what??? Someone saying they didn't find the man slipping on ice funny??? That they had another perspective??? And yet you think you are the one protecting freedom of expression. The irony is hilarious

Buddy Bubs

[Deleted User] wrote: »

That's a member of the Hardy Bucks. It was a joke video.

Definitely him

Buddy Bubs

Faugheen wrote: »

It literally says in the description of the video that he was being played by Kevin McGahern...

No, it's him alright

Buddy Bubs

[Deleted User] wrote: »

No it's not, it's actor Kevin McGahern. He was in Smother tonight and is famous for playing Sim Card in the Hardy Bucks

It's the guy that slipped on ice.

Kunta Kinte

I didn`t see the programme last night. Did the Brian Cowen Garglegate saga in 2010 get a mention? I remember it was a big news story at the time.

[Deleted User]

Kunta Kinte wrote: »

I didn`t see the programme last night. Did the Brian Cowen garglegate saga in 2010 get a mention? I remember it was a big news story at the time.

It did indeed.

Kunta Kinte

Billy Ocean wrote: »

2011 next week, off the top of my head FF get their ass handed to them in the general election, Amy Winehouse passes away, news of the world winds up after phone hacking scandal, Ireland quality for Euro 2012.

I very much doubt that will be featured in RITY.

[Deleted User]

Kunta Kinte wrote: »

I very much doubt that will be featured in RITY.

Cant see why not. The paper was circulated in Ireland and the story was pretty much global

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Cant see why not. The paper was circulated in Ireland and the story was pretty much global

Absolutely agree, it was massive news, it will most definitely get a mention.

The Nal

Say Your Number wrote: »

One thing that could have been mentioned was Guns N Roses shambles in the Three Arena, I remember following this thread on the night and it was pure gold.

That was a great gig. Not the way "great" gigs are supposed to go obviously but so much fun. Chaos.

Kunta Kinte

Deleted User wrote: »

Cant see why not. The paper was circulated in Ireland and the story was pretty much global

2011 was a very busy year from an Irish point of view. A lot of events to fit in a 25 minute programme. I would be very surprised if that is featured.

December2012

Do you think Reeling in the Years would be better as an hour long programme? Like they could break it up with retro ads etc, as if they were a read ad break (or before the actual ad break).

[Deleted User]

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While I did enjoy last nights episode, I can't help but feel that the 2010s is just too recent for a series about it to feature very interesting content. Most of the events featured in last nights episode (which of course is the most distant in time from us) seemed totally familiar to me and nearly contemporary.

I remember in 2010 when the RITY series for the 2000s was broadcast, I felt it was too soon to have created such a series as we were all mired in the depths of the recession at that point and I felt that the series would have too much of a sort of knowing hindsight-biased concern with the economic factors contributing to the recession. That said, by 2010 the world of the early to mid 2000s seemed very different and distant so there was some entertainment value in watching episodes about those times. But then I wonder how much of that is personal because I was a teenager over the 2000s and your subjective experience of the world and in general changes a lot in those years.

I would definitely have preferred if somehow the production of the 2000s series had been held off until now; the world of the 2000s would seem so distant and interesting if viewed freshly from this point in time. The first series of RITY was broadcast in late 1999 and covered the 1980s. I was too young at the time to have cared to watch it but I can imagine that for adults of the time, it would have been a much more enjoyable programme to watch than the 2010s or 2000s series, for a few reasons. For one, things had never been better economically in this country by late 1999, so viewers looking back to what would have seemed then to be the far-off days of the 1980s could have enjoyed watching it. I imagine viewers would have felt a sense of "look how bad things used to be/ look how different things were" and also there would have been a much stronger nostalgia factor for adults looking back on footage from 10 - 19 years earlier on in their lives. In 1999, people didn't have the kind of internet access we have had since the late 2000s, so they were much less exposed over their lifetimes to footage from the past, and even information from the past, than people have been for the past 15 years or so. Life was much slower and less information-dense back then, despite peoples sense at the time that their world was high-tech, and a look back at footage of the 1980s would have been a stimulating treat.

The second season, covering the 1990s, was broadcast in late 2000. Again, I was too young to be watching it at that time but I imagine that since even in 2000 people weren't yet heavily exposed to media and information about recent history in general, even footage from 1 - 10 years previously would have been enjoyable to watch. If you have ever watched the Irish history series "Seven Ages" which was broadcast in 2000, it has in my opinion a real "end of history" feel to it. By 2000 it seemed for Ireland that the troubles in the North were over, the economy was fixed/the way it should be and we were now a modern and normal country. 1999/2000 is like a sweet spot in history. I really like the 1990s series because it has such a strong sense of optimism from it, a sense of Ireland growing up, and personally that was the decade of my childhood.

The series on the 1970s was broadcast in late 2002 so to many viewers it would have had enormous nostalgia value at the time, showing them footage from 22 to 32 years previously. I remember watching episodes of RITY at the time, in my early teens, and loving the episodes of the 1970s the most! It was long enough ago to me that it seemed like a different planet, a simpler time. I loved the music, the look, the footage of the All-Ireland finals, everything seemed so raw and full of life! In contrast the 80s episodes seemed bleak and poverty-stricken and the fashions looked harsh (mullets and big hard-man looking moustaches), and I think the 90s episodes just seemed too recent but I can't quite remember.

The series of 1962 - 69 was broadcast in late 2004 and would have shown events from 35 - 42 years previous, so would have been either sheer history to many viewers or, for the older viewers, highly nostalgic footage from childhood or youth, and so I imagine it was entertaining viewing to most.

In late 2010, when the 2000s series went out, most people had had access to reasonably fast internet (and therefore information saturation) for maybe 2 - 3 years, and so while the events of the preceding ten years would have seemed more familiar to viewers of the 2000s series than the events of the 1990s series would have seemed to viewers in late 2000, the events of the 2010s are massively more familiar to us adults (ten years older) in 2021 after having lived the whole of that decade absolutely bombarding ourselves with information morning noon and night and in turn being bombarded with information.

The past just doesn't seem as distant or interesting anymore. Every year feels the same to me. Music seems bland and overproduced and soulless. Technology doesn't genuinely impress us anymore. 2015 doesn't feel that different from 2017 or 2019. Fashions and hairstyles don't seem to change much year after year. Every country in the world seems to be homogenising in a sort of shallow globalised instagram culture. Even pre-covid, life just stopped seeming fun or satisfying. Everyone is sated entertainment-wise but not in an enjoyable way. We're having AI forced on us that we don't want. Our phones listen to us and the idea of genuinely having privacy like in the past seems quaint and remote. People meet each other on sterile dating apps instead of organically. Everyone knows too much and is too invested in political stuff, especially stuff only Americans should care about (nobody cared about politics in the 2000s or 90s since we were at "the end of history"). Cocaine use seems to have become casual and not taboo. You can see your social media posts from the late 2000s in some cases and often still retain "friendships" with people you haven't seen in that long, making the past seem unnaturally familiar. Sex has massively lost it's allure as everyone is oversaturated with hyper-sexualised imagery from the internet, music, tv shows, social media, fashions in dress and make-up. The economy supposedly boomed in the second half of the decade and yet it never had the real universal feel of a boom that I remember from the 2000s (and understandably so) and my generation and the one after mine are completely fu'cked for the most part when it comes to buying a house and getting on with their lives. Nobody knows or cares about their neighbours anymore and there is little sense of patriotism or meaning in life for many people. Even pre-covid, many people were unhappy. I could go on but I won't. Maybe it's just in my head but I feel like a lot of things are getting worse and not better! I'm sure the kids of today will look back on the 2010s with nostalgia some day and that my views are possibly very biased.

I will watch the rest of the series though as I did really enjoy the episode nevertheless LOL

Tacitus Kilgore

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Long post warning!...

Real whiff of old man yells at cloud offa that... excellent username

You are as right as you suspect in your closing lines - you've just hit the age where it becomes obvious that every other generation is shite bar yours..

breezy1985

Replying to Onionbelt

Normally I agree especially with music as time needs to be given to weed the crap from the memorable stuff but 2010 was an exception and seeing Cowen, Lenihan and the Troika was pretty emotional and only seeing it back really reminds you what a $h1tshow it was. Despite me not liking the artists the songs picked were big songs that are still around now.

00s looked like someone got a payoff to promote U2 and Westlife and the closest thing to interesting music wise was seeing the state of Jim Corr and his ridey sisters

Your last paragraph is just old man waffling though in fairness

Kunta Kinte

December2012 wrote: »

Do you think Reeling in the Years would be better as an hour long programme? Like they could break it up with retro ads etc, as if they were a read ad break (or before the actual ad break).

IMO 25 minutes running time is too short and an hour would be too long unless it was really padded out. Maybe 45 minutes would be a better choice.

redoctober

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Good post. I agree with a lot in your last paragraph. I wonder if it's age-related as I was a young adult in the 2000s so I suppose my golden age would be the 90s maybe. I do feel like we're over-saturated with entertainment these days and we've lost a lot of the soul that previous generations had. It's a shame because we've finally got technology that other generations dreamed of. Having said all that many generations have the tendency to feel like the world has gone to pot as they reach middle age. Maybe that's it.

breezy1985

Kunta Kinte wrote: »

IMO 25 minutes running time is too short and an hour would be too long unless it was really padded out. Maybe 45 minutes would be a better choice.

"Hour" long shows usually are about 45 mins when all the adds are taken into consideration

ford fiesta

For some reason, last night I thought I was watching the Virgin Media's Aldi version of Reeling in the Years "Don't look back in Anger"

The events/music/clear quality of footage/titles font was just too recent...
I can't put my finger on it...
..far too clinical/predictable or something. as expected no difference in grainy vs quality or b&w vs colour video. no retro adverts or lost nuggets of footage.
That is what made Reeling in the Years from 1960s to 1990s engaging and watchable 20 years ago and still being aired.

[Deleted User]

redoctober wrote: »

Good post. I agree with a lot in your last paragraph. I wonder if it's age-related as I was a young adult in the 2000s so I suppose my golden age would be the 90s maybe. I do feel like we're over-saturated with entertainment these days and we've lost a lot of the soul that previous generations had. It's a shame because we've finally got technology that other generations dreamed of. Having said all that many generations have the tendency to feel like the world has gone to pot as they reach middle age. Maybe that's it.

Well for what it's worth I'm not long in my thirties and I've held those sentiments for the past 5 or 6 years at least with regard to most of them and longer with regard to others. I do believe our world has changed in some irreversible ways which are detrimental and undesirable but again, I suppose that is just my subjective opinion and young people coming up won't know any better (and won't know what they have been deprived of, again in my opinion). But when you are in your early 20s thinking that the way things are in "your day" is objectively worse than things were in the past, and you then continue to hold those opinions for over a decade, I think your opinion can't fully be put down to being old and grumpy and hating the youth of today. I have read statistics that show young people today are "better behaved" than previous generations when it comes to drinking, drugs, underage sex/teen pregnancies, crime etc. so I have no doubt they are more conscientious and hard working than my generation was at their age. They have a much harder time of it than I imagine my generation had and they deserve a lot of sympathy for the challenges they have to face and will have to face.

Kunta Kinte

ford fiesta wrote: »

For some reason, last night I thought I was watching the Virgin Media's Aldi version of Reeling in the Years "Don't look back in Anger"

The events/music/clear quality of footage/titles font was just too recent...
I can't put my finger on it...
..far too clinical/predictable or something. as expected no difference in grainy vs quality or b&w vs colour video. no retro adverts or lost nuggets of footage.
That is what made Reeling in the Years from 1960s to 1990s engaging and watchable 20 years ago and still being aired.

Guaranteed that this 2010s series of RITY, just like all the previous editions, will be repeated indefinitely on RTE for years to come.

jos28

Excellent programme, brilliantly edited. Although I really don't like being reminded of 2010 and the following years. Not exactly our finest hours. I watched last night with the OH and thought I'd have to double his blood pressure meds. He was fuming at the sight of Cowan and Co. His blood was boiling by the time they showed Dempsey and Ahern facing the cameras and denying that the Troika were coming to town. They all ran to hills with their pensions before the sh1t really hit the fan :mad::mad::mad: