Will RTE ever commission comedy of this quality again?

interestingly enough linehan is on the newest episode of the joe rogan podcast. much as i dont like to support either of them i'm tempted to listen just to hear what his latest sob story will be about how hes the one thats right and everyone else is crazy

The Savage Eye was class.

One of my favourite clips.

Bonus points for pissing off Joe Duffy ha.

Savage Eye had it's moments. Not even on the Player,which says it all about RTE.There were several great comedy shows back in the day though.

They're so afraid of even mildly offending anybody these days there's no hope of any kind of comedy,even a satirical show. Had the misfortune of getting a bit of Brendan O Connor,s radio show one Sunday,he bent over backwards several times to apologise if any of the guests said anything even vaguely offensive. Stuff that any other station wouldn't even notice.

Sorry it was Accomplice Television  for batchelor's and Ed Guiney went on to Element Pictures who produced Normal People.

and Ian Fitzgibbon co-wrote Path's, he died of thirst

RTÉ doesn't have a charter, it has the Broadcasting Act of 2009 and the CnaM as the authority. It has to "acheive" certain aims but largely they are very loose and have little to do with programme making or type of programmes it should make.

Ah, interesting. Don't know why I had it in my head that the same creative teams were responsible for both series. I do remember the production values were very similar, they both had that kind of realistic "mockumentary" feel about them although you've said that two different production companies were responsible? Anyway, getting off the point a bit. We can both agree that Paths to Freedom and Bachelor's Walk were rare examples of RTE actually broadcasting home made comic entertainment that wasn't shi*e.

He is very sour in real life, very difficult to talk to, you keep having to ask him the same question five times.

Very odd individual .

As a fellow child of Fianna Fail, I sympathise with him but not to any great extent.

Orignial RTÉ had what was called the RTÉ Authority, it acted as the board and the authority, it was so lacked that it could barely be considered an authority, I don't believe but I am happy to be mistaken that the use of the word charter was ever used in relation to RTÉ, the BBC have a "royal charter" which is reviewed by the UK government and OfCom.

But read that Statement

The first 6 pages is an explainer.

7th we have their guiding principles

Independence, Public Interest, Creativity, Accountability, Universality, Diversity, Excellence, Innovation. (Largely business buzz words).

Your looking at page 10 Creativity, but how does RTÉ achieve any of those things, in 2016 they reduced funding to children's content by 50% and by a further 75% in 2017, Independent drama relies on outside funding (Kin, The Dry, Normal People, Mrs. Brown's Boys) are only just slightly funded by RTÉ. What actual quanities prove that RTÉ have really engaged in this type of programming and how well have they done it?

Great photo of the DG on page 11, she resigned from her position. (Ah here it comedy gold so I have to print screen)

There I am not going to go on about RTÉ public service statement the above makes it clear.

I didn't mind it. Sometimes found it funny but thought Irish Pictorial Weekly was a far better show at the time. Pretty sure pretty plenty of your dreaded lefties and LGBT people watched both at the time too.