TV3 - Disguising their repeats by renaming them?

DeepBlue · 29-03-2012 11:26PM #1

What's with TV3 repeating their in-house programmes but giving them new names?
Tonight's "The Day the Germans bombed Dublin" is a repeat of their 2010 programme "Dublin's North Strand Bombing".
Last night's "Ireland's Vanished Mothers" was last year's "Ireland's Missing Mums".

Their Paul Connolly "Investigates" series were all renamed.

What's up with that?

mike65 · 29-03-2012 11:30PM

The Day the Germans bombed Dublin" is a repeat of their 2010 programme "Dublin's North Strand Bombing".

Ah that's that mystery explained. TV3 are so cheap.

Chevolution · 29-03-2012 11:32PM

Absolutely no creativity.

29-03-2012 11:33PM

Probably so it looks to the BAI that they're meeting their requirement for home grown content. Wouldn't surprise me with the way TV3 do things.

humanji · 30-03-2012 01:44PM

Would it be a case that they've to show a certain amount of Irish shows and so just renamed old ones to get past that?

DeepBlue · 30-03-2012 02:09PM

humanji wrote: »

Would it be a case that they've to show a certain amount of Irish shows and so just renamed old ones to get past that?

I can see now why they made you Mod of the Conspiracy Theories forum.

My theory is that they were just too stupid to remember what they called them the first time around. :pac:

MungBean · 30-03-2012 04:07PM

I'd say its done to fool viewers into watching the same thing thinking its a new show. Cheap, sneaky and rather sad when ya think about it.

aidan_walsh · 30-03-2012 04:09PM

Original titles weren't red-top enough for them.

Gran Hermano · 31-03-2012 12:36AM

aidan_walsh wrote: »

Original titles weren't red-top enough for them.

I agree the original programme names were most likely seen as too high brow for the typical TV3 viewer.

mike65 · 31-03-2012 10:46AM

Secret Life of a German Bomber?

grey_so_what · 01-04-2012 11:30PM

MungBean wrote: »

I'd say its done to fool viewers into watching the same thing thinking its a new show. Cheap, sneaky and rather sad when ya think about it.

And here's one ejit who got caught doopie!!....:(

calex71 · 02-04-2012 01:05AM

Am I the only one who read "disguising" as "disgusting" in the thread title

iseegirls · 26-04-2012 08:30AM

I've noticed that the documentary they have showed of Lolo Ferrari has now been name-changed 3 times over the past year:
Lolo Ferrari: larger than life
Lolo Ferrari: dying to be beautiful
Lolo Ferrari: death of an icon.

The same can be said for versace's murder show tonight. So pointless and unnecessary.

Cantona's Collars · 14-06-2012 12:39AM

Another repeat on this evening,SOS (save our shops) I think it was called something else before.
The episode they showed was about saving a shop in Wexford- it closed down about a month ago,pity tv3 didn't go the same way.

ScumLord · 14-06-2012 01:26PM

Their copying their parent companies tactics. Although their parent company maybe wouldn't just rename the show but they do reuse the same content over and over again.

TV3 - Disguising their repeats by renaming them?

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