we get it, you just want male soccer players on it
in fairness uncle Gaybo was a fairly condescending hoor to anyone he thought was somehow beneath him while arse licking anyone that he believes was on his level. Tubridy is just an overgrown child, the one thing that does suit him is the toy show as he is dealing with people that are at his own level of mentality.
Where's the variety in that?
I think Made in Chelsea is E4's longest-running original show ever. It's been in production for 11 years, 12 next summer.
That's about twice as long as Skins, its first-ever original show.
Shaun Ryder alone makes Gogglebox worth watching
This.....
and it hasn't even started yet.
Typical RTE, take the presenters if a sh1te radio show that no one listens to and give them a prime time TV slot. Who the fcuk makes these decisions.
The Meaning Of Life
Gaybo was satisfactory as host for all his warts.
Joe is not.
Prime Time and prime time investigates.
Fair City, yes really.
It's just rehashed stuff as usual. No creativity whatsoever.
You know what they say about RTE. It's harder to get out than in.
I don’t even know her but if The Sun are singing the praises of this show….jaysus.
But if there was no angelus the news would start at six.
Doireann Garrihys "fans" opinions are about as relevant as the Oirish Sun.
but it would finish a minute earlier 🙈
The brits love it.
I wonder is that the agenda though to get people that are a bit overweight to start worrying and buying into all the health stuff and services that are being pushed.
if it was really fat people like it used to be well then people could watch it and say ah sure at least I'm not as fat as that man or woman.
It's the same story with alcohol trying to convince people they are alcoholics if they drank 3 glasses of wine in one evening
It's basically a show run by the health fascists
I think it's about 15 years since the first one aired?
Any of the franchise US TV programmes and many of the network TV programmes. I am calling out Grey's Anatomy and NCIS, neither of which were ever all that good, e.g. Scurbs was more medically minded than Grey's!
All most all network TV show follow pretty much the same tropes and characters. The zany side kick who sits behind the computer, I blame CSI for this.
And then the soaps including Coro St, Emmers and EastEnders.
How much potential advertising revenue was lost by RTE this Christmas with them bombarding us with free slots exhorting us to attend "Toy Show, the musical"?
It was wall to wall on RTE in December as the sense of desperation increased
In Gay's day they made a point of keeping secret who would be on that week's show. One literally didn't know what to expect
Gay is much missed.
In Gay's day there was a fairly small world. There wasn't movies being produced for a global audience, so the odd thing that did involve Ireland involved someone showing up. People get nostalgic about him, but they don't remember that, much of the time, it was Maureen Potter, Des Kelly, and Brush Shields saying the same old things.
People just lived a much simpler and poorer type of life.
Yes, there’s all kinds of women and young people not being patronised since he departed.
That's true to an extent but I think his real strength was that he was an actual entertainer and I think had theater experience , therefore he knew how to hold an audience attention.
Another factor was that he was a huge figure in RTE and was well established because he started out at the start of rte television, therefore he could not be pushed around by behind the scenes busy bodies . In contrast Tubridy looks like he is being controlled by the backroom mandarins in the organisation and is not his own man.
Tubridy lacks gravitas and is always overawed when he is interviewing some big star . Gay Byrne was never like that and was well within his comfort zone with the biggest international celebrities of the day
Another thing is that gay Byrne would have eccentrics and oddballs on the show just for the sheer entertainment and unpredictability factor, you never see that with tubridy because he is so afraid of losing control
Yes and no.
There's a lot more programming about now but a lot more fluff, disposable tv. For all his faults, Gaybo was a far better host than Tubbers could ever hope to be.
Tubbers is beige, was never a ground breaker, never the remotest bit controversial. If he left RTE in the morning, who would have him?
RTÉ love “balance”, they don’t want anything controversial. Too many lawsuits, and payouts, and too many nutters just itching to go to court.
Back in the 70's offended people complained to their PP or Bishop, now they run off in tears to their solicitor.
Des Kelly, the carpet man...??
@RoTelly bit shocking that Grey's Anatomy and NCIS are actually still on the go, if you'd asked me to guess I'd have said they finished up 10 or 12 years ago
@leath_dub These days you hear who's on and go "nah, no point". The rot started when Pat Kenny turned the show into an excuse to lech over supermodels.
In fairness to Gay, people did write in and complain (on TLLS and his radio show) and he'd read at least some of them out. Could you imagine Tubridy doing that!?!!?
Fair city is just random people walking around the rte car park , and nothing more. They even seem to have shifts so a group of actors on Monday simply won’t be there on Wednesday 😂😂
Gaybo's comeback did him few favours. He was older then and increasingly out of touch with modern Ireland.
Could you imagine Tubridy doing that!?!!?
No, because writing in to complain is no longer done.
People complain now instantly via social media.
I'm sure in another age Turbidy would have done so.
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