This time last year they had Mrs browns boys (🤮) on repeat, nearly every evening.
This year its Killnascully most evenings.
Do they have anything better to show? The licence fee is daylight robbery.
The BBC has gone very downhill in recent years too ... while they have some outstanding drama from time to time the rest of their output leaves a lot to be desired ... they used to be good at comedy ... now they are reduced to Mrs Brown's Boys ...
BBC and RTE have some sort of deal to show it the same time ... for both it is their 'highlight' attempt for Christmas and other bank holiday nights ... it got lucky back in 2011 when people wanted anything ... just anything ... that was not about doom and gloom banking crisis recession ... by 2013 people were sick of it ... it should have finished with the 3rd season back in 2013 ... the Christmas episodes since then have been far worse than the original 3 series .. they cost fa to make .. which reflects what TV stations think of us !!
Break it up so that it becomes a purely commercial outfit. Tubs and that lot can work for this company for whatever they are prepared to pay for as long as there is a market for it.
With the money saved, create a commissioning body commissioning content made available to all channels including online streaming services.
I understand this Dancing With the .. so called .. Stars finishes up after the next one ends ... but like them talent shows it will be just renamed ... something like Strictly Dancing Ireland ... just another 3rd rate Strictly Come Dancing knock-off ...
Same here ... would never watch it ... goes on way too long too ... from January until end of March .. they had to rush end it the first year of Covid ...
Mrs Brown's Boys is woeful ... and if that is the best they can give us Christmas night ... then there is something wrong ... the audience that finds this funny is getting smaller and smaller too ... Mrs Brown was of its time ... it was never good ... but it was an alternative to the doom and gloom of the 2010 era banking crisis and endless TV programmes presented by Pat Kenny and his ilk about it ... and it belongs in 2011 and 2012 ... by 2013 it was losing what appeal it had ...
Exactly ... Tubridy's TV and radio shows and D'Arcy's radio show ... plus whoever gets the Saturday night TV slot .. will all have OT and DWTS people on ... no wonder people are so bored with TV ... meanwhile anything good like Love/Hate or Kin only/will only last a few seasons ...
RTE have a long history of showing great documentaries: Radharc, Hands, even Reeling in the Years. That doesn’t even include Radio 1 which has been providing top-drawer radio documentaries for almost a century. If you call that sycophancy then all I can say is get a fücking grip, man.
Also please don’t send me any more DMs, I’m really not interested.
And the sycophantic praise continues. I really hope you’re getting paid for this.
Gangland Gougers narrated by Paul Williams might be popular, but it's not in the public interest.
To a lot of people the “gangland” would be the extent of the interest they have in current affairs.
RTE have such a rich library of documentaries from virtually the creation of the Irish state. It’s nowhere near the BBC, obviously, but RTE have been a net benefit for Ireland for sure. Without a shadow of a doubt.
A great time of the year for first world problems.
You see that's the problem with RTE,stuck in the past. Dunno if we learned anything new with the Quinn documentary,but the civil war and FF FG rivalry has been dug up and flogged so many times it's time to have them cremated. Wonder how often they get repeated.
There's nothing on RTE to interest the under 70's.
Quinn Country
Two Tribes
The Irish Civil War
Have to agree all 3 of these were good, so Rte are not completely useless
Lol, you were so intimidated that you replied to me via PM and posted a comment about it that was deleted almost instantly by the mod. You completely undermined your own claim. You were no more intimidated than Tubs at a NK Management luncheon.
I mean in the last month we have had:
Each of them were outstanding documentaries serving the public interest, and just the type of thing that the likes of Virgin wouldn't be bothered making. Gangland Gougers narrated by Paul Williams might be popular, but it's not in the public interest.
You don’t have to be a doctor to say that someone engaging in weird behaviour, though I do happen to think your preoccupation with him is weird and worthy of medical intervention.
Defending RTE from their harshest critics isn’t weird, even if I don’t work for them. Some of the users on this site are unjustly obsessed with Tubridy and his salary, and I have every right to comment on that without fear of being intimidated into silence via PM by the likes of you.
Are you in the Algarve? What's the weather like?
I’ve met him and been in his company lots of times but as I said, I only know him “to see”. We are not friends.
If you find my behaviour (commenting on a public figure) weird that’s your opinion, a lot tamer than some of the things you’ve called me in the past to be fair so well done on that. I’d venture you’re not medically qualified to make such a diagnosis but fire away.
I’d also ask is it any more weird than constantly defending someone you’ve never met or an organization you don’t work for?
Looks like I missed absolutely nothing in televisual terms by being away in sunny Portugal for Christmas with BBC news and popular American sitcoms dubbed into Portuguese as the available material to watch on the hotel TV. 😁
I cannot remember anything worth watching from RTÉ at New Years either. Mind you they did used to show some good films over the Christmas.
BTW - The Rise and Fall of Bosco: Hookers and Coke Was Only The Beginning is at the post-production stage with many of the X-rated scenes getting heavy cuts in order to pass the film censor’s office.
You post literally hundreds of posts a month online about someone you know personally? That is incredibly weird behaviour.
The same [B] routine.[\B] Radio 1 has the Tape reels running. And hoping that the Tape Reels don't break down.
Sh1te programmes on all day the only thing I watch is the weather forecast which 9 times out of 10 is wrong.
the covid agenda put me off the crap for ever
As I’ve explained to you previously, I’ve been in his company in both personal and professional capacities. He knows me “to see” as the expression goes.
I’ve never been in a physical fight in my entire life and I’ve never struck another person in anger. I wouldn’t be starting at this stage in my life.
RTE1 in particular has just seemed to have given up trying. The same programme's repeated endlessly. I watch the six one occasionally. They can't even provide a full news bulletin during the summer and Christmas, presumably because they have to do holidays. Radio 1 shuts down completely and just plays music, embarrassing.
Yeah that’s what I did. 🙄
RTE is pure tripe.
A public service broadcaster is obliged to create programming for everyone - not just middle-aged dudes who think paying 12.99 for some video game service is great value, but the equivalent amount to fund current affairs, sport, orchestras, radio, archives, independent production is a waste of money.
There will always be shows that one thinks is rubbish - Mrs Browns Boys is dreadful but working class people from Dublin seem to love it. Callan’s Kicks is about as funny as finding a lump on your testicle but obviously people watch and listen to it (assuming people who don’t actually understand satire or humour in general).
Well you send PMs to people trying to intimidate them after they disagree with you over Ryan Tubridy et al, so it certainly wouldn’t surprise me if you “went for” Mr Tubridy if you saw him in the wild.
Do we really need another of these threads?
Probably not but some folk seem to enjoy them.
Where will it all end? 🙂
But that's not unique to RTE.
On BBC "Strictly Come Dancing" used to be a one night a week show.
But it has evolved into the show on Saturday, the results on Sunday, and a five day a week magazine show Monday to Friday.
I'm sure there are radio tie-ins in the UK also.
Same with all the ITV reality rubbish.
I used to defend RTE but I can't anymore. Even their political shows are completely dumbed down now.
RTE's output, especially at Christmas is truly woeful. Endless cooking programmes, think I spotted 3 of them between 6pm and 9 one evening recently. Like I know its Christmas, but that's just taking the piss. Reality TV drivel on nearly every night, the worst offender being that fittest family thing. And then to cap it off, it's Mrs Brown on a loop over the entire Xmas schedule. I won't even get into that Eamon and Bridget thing........or any number of other vehicles for RTE non entities stealing a living in Donnybrook.
Apart from the news and the very odd Irish interest documentary, I give the state broadcaster a wide berth. I record anything decent on the British channels and watch them minus ads in my own time. BBC4 and Channel4 often have something of interest. After that, Youtube has taken over for most of my viewing needs. I've got Premium, so no ads and you are watching content of actual interest to you, often with sky high production values.
I don't expect RTE to compete with heavyweight international media giants but outside of sport and current affairs, lets not pretend they are providing a balanced, good quality service either. So much of it is lowest common denominator rubbish, they are starting to resemble TV3 in the early days.
TLDR;
Ryan Tubridy is employed there. Enough said.
That is truly an epic leap to basically suggest that someone on here would physically attack one of the RTE "stars". Well done.
Rte as a state broadcaster is utterly disgusting. Zero talent, paid astronomical salary, obviously entwined with a political agenda. And forget all of that. Imagine if rte broadcasters had to start again as YouTube broadcaster with zero backing. They'd get 8 views. Rte has to be killed and lit on fire tonight and replaced with shipping forecast. I can't even believe rte exists and rotten old bitches and whatever get paid to talk about nothing. It's completely outrageous and indefensible.
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