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Glenroe was an "embarrassment"

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  • #32
    davet82
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    my favourite was blacky connors, he was constantly telling Father Devereux (with his enormous ears) 'i swear father, it wasnt me', :D

    i was hooked on who was pooping in mileys river story :rolleyes:

    what was the story with it being on once a week anyways for a half hour :confused:

    yes the depression brought on by the theme music knowing the weekend had ended got to me too, Where In the World had a similar effect with Thersea Lowe :pac:


  • #33
    LoYL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 235 ✭✭LoYL


    The argument that they cut shows that are an embarrassment doesn't stand up.


  • #34
    Solair
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    While I think it has improved in recent years, RTE has a tendency to see itself as a local TV/Radio station broadcasting to Dublin at times.

    I don't know how many times I've heard presenters referring to "the airport" (Dublin airport), referring to Dublin streets as if everyone knows exactly where they area or giving out local 7-digit phone numbers without area codes.

    There's nothing wrong with the concept of a rural-based soap opera and I'm sure Glenroe could have been brought into the 21st century with a bit of creativity.

    Emmerdale remains one of the most popular shows in the UK.

    I also think RTE needs to perhaps look at making some of these shows ready for an export-market. That might mean perhaps avoiding some of the extreme stage-O'Irish regional accents that they put on and sticking with fairly neutral sounding (and I don't mean posh, just clear) characters.

    The likes of the ultra twee Ballykisangle worked fanatically for BBC and there is really no reason why RTE couldn't do similar.


  • #35
    swimming in a sea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 937 ✭✭✭swimming in a sea


    when i hear long discussions on Glenroe it just reminds me how lucky i was that we had the UK channels in our house so where not forced into watching it.:)


  • #36
    Jesus Shaves
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    geeky wrote: »
    Sorry biddy, your views suit Ireland's own, but facts don't bear this out.

    At its peak, the show was pretty darn popular, with 700,000 viewers. However, the last four years showed consistent decline.

    Ratings
    Season Season Premiere Season Finale TV Season Viewer
    Rank (#) Viewers
    (in '000)
    Season 15 September, 1997 May, 1998 1997–1998 #2[13] 662[13]
    Season 16 September, 1998 May, 1999 1998–1999 #3 638[13]
    Season 17 September, 1999 May, 2000 1999–2000 #3 635[13]
    Season 18 September, 2000 May, 2001 2000–2001 #2 589[13]

    Would have been daft of the suits to continue IMO.

    I'll hear many criticisms of the powers that be in RTE, but Glenroe just wasn't buttering the parsnips like it used to.

    So it still had 600,000 viewers in its last season which still would have been one of the highest rating shows for rte which makes your point invalid
    Fair city averages 400,000 and is the worst kind of tripe television has ever seen


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  • #37
    Boombastic
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    Glenroe Farm is one of Wicklow’s top tourist attractions.


  • #38
    willowthewisp
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    I'll never forget the moment Miley jumped out of the back of Biddy's red van and beat the head of the raiders with a couple of cabbages, there and then he took over from He-Man as my boyhood hero.
    Then as I grew into my teenage years I furthermore admired his lathario like status after his role in the hay shed with Dimpna!


  • #39
    Joey the lips
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    Actually i hate to say it. But i loved the music as a child. I use to enjoy it. I hated when it was over cause i knew it was time to go to bed.


  • #40
    Penny Dreadful
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    Hande hoche! wrote: »
    You missed out. The end music had a damaging effect on the psyche signifying the weekend was over.

    Ah yes the old Sunday night ritual of Where in the World, Glenroe, news, weather and bed because it was suddenly a school night. :eek:


  • #41
    Ash.J.Williams
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    two scandals i remember from bracken! (big ones)

    Man leaves wife........(to go on the missions in Africa)
    Woman goes on the pill (she's married but has enough kids for now)
    the last one caused TOTAL MAYHEM!


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  • #42
    Eggonyerface
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    Bad Panda wrote: »
    Roadend wrote: »
    Sent to bed after Where in the World then

    I used to get a funny feeling in my pants when Theresa Lowe came on air.

    Edit: Intended.
    Me too, but my memories were ruined when they showed her in the audience of the late late at its 50th anniversary show


  • #43
    Dyr
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    Solair wrote: »
    While I think it has improved in recent years, RTE has a tendency to see itself as a local TV/Radio station broadcasting to Dublin at times.

    I don't know how many times I've heard presenters referring to "the airport" (Dublin airport), referring to Dublin streets as if everyone knows exactly where they area or giving out local 7-digit phone numbers without area codes.

    I bet you sit down with a notebook jotting all these incidents down so ya can write a strongly worded letter into mailbag for arthur to read out.

    Everyone know's where Dublin streets are, they're in Dublin. If someone says Parnell street then, in the national context, that's Parnell street in the glorious capital of the nation. If the ballygobackwards bugle refer's to Parnell street, then that's Parnell street in ballygobackwards (or possibly twomilebogger up the road)


  • #44
    mikemac1
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    There was outrage over Miley being caught in the bed with that hussey Fidelma

    Doesn't happen in Catholic Ireland don't you know. Such a grave sin, could never happen

    Gay Byrne talking calls from Holy Joes all week on his radio show

    Fidelma was a minx though, can't blame any man for that!


  • #45
    Cokeistan
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    RTE are massively Dublin oriented, don't give a shít about the rest of the country....wánkers


  • #46
    geeky
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    Jesus Shaves wrote: »
    So it still had 600,000 viewers in its last season which still would have been one of the highest rating shows for rte which makes your point invalid
    Fair city averages 400,000 and is the worst kind of tripe television has ever seen

    It went from 700,000 to under 600,000, with four years of steady decline.

    It may well have been a highly-rated show, but it was clearly quite expensive to make, and advertisers don't want to be linked to a show in decline.

    And yes, Fair City (which actually only gets 200,000 viewers now) is muck. But its launch attracted over a million viewers, and it could pull in 840,000 back in 2001.

    Just because RTE should have cancelled Fair City long ago doesn't mean cancelling Glenroe when they did was the wrong decision.


  • #47
    sh1tstirrer
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    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    two scandals i remember from bracken! (big ones)

    Man leaves wife........(to go on the missions in Africa)
    Woman goes on the pill (she's married but has enough kids for now)
    the last one caused TOTAL MAYHEM!
    You need to re jog your memory that was the Riordans ;)


  • #48
    mikemac1
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    sh1tstirrer wrote: »
    that was the Riordans ;)

    Get up da yard, the smell of benji off ya :pac:


  • #49
    Tombo2001
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    Cokeistan wrote: »
    RTE are massively south Dublin oriented, don't give a shít about the rest of the country....wánkers


    FYP


  • #50
    geeky
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    On a nostalgic note, Miley's affair with a young'un was my first exposure to the theme of marital infidelity.

    It began with the immortal line 'wouldn't it be great to be a bull?'. Still gutted that I can't find it on youtube.


  • #51
    Jesus Shaves
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    geeky wrote: »
    It went from 700,000 to under 600,000, with four years of steady decline.

    It may well have been a highly-rated show, but it was clearly quite expensive to make, and advertisers don't want to be linked to a show in decline.

    And yes, Fair City (which actually only gets 200,000 viewers now) is muck. But its launch attracted over a million viewers, and it could pull in 840,000 back in 2001.

    Just because RTE should have cancelled Fair City long ago doesn't mean cancelling Glenroe when they did was the wrong decision.

    It was still the highest rated show at the time, it lost less than 10% of viewers in 4 years, fair city has lost 80% in ten years, I reckon aul biddy was right about RTE
    Anyway why am I even arguing this, both are/were manure


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  • #52
    FatherLen
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    as i previously said i haven't seen it but i forgot to say that i have been in the pub that apparently some of it was filmed? i was gee eyed.


  • #53
    mikemac1
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    Didn't Dinny get assaulted in his house and everyone, just everyone blamed the travelers

    Poor Blackie Connors, he was an innocent man, went through a few months of hell.

    Travellers raiding rural farmers, controversial storyline RTÉ!


  • #54
    sh1tstirrer
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    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Get up da yard, the smell of benji off ya :pac:
    Did you see Creedon's cities last week? They showed a clip of a GAA match from the 70's I swear about 50% of the spectators were Bengy lookalikes :eek:


  • #55
    Tombo2001
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    geeky wrote: »
    It went from 700,000 to under 600,000, with four years of steady decline.

    It may well have been a highly-rated show, but it was clearly quite expensive to make, and advertisers don't want to be linked to a show in decline.

    And yes, Fair City (which actually only gets 200,000 viewers now) is muck. But its launch attracted over a million viewers, and it could pull in 840,000 back in 2001.

    Just because RTE should have cancelled Fair City long ago doesn't mean cancelling Glenroe when they did was the wrong decision.


    Glenroe was part of the national psyche and national conversation.....I know that sounds kind of bull****ty but its true. There were some storylines that the whole country knew about, Biddy and Miley's wedding, Miley's affair, or smaller plotlines like Biddy being done for drink driving - that was actually much talked about; or Dick Murphy's marriage annulment was another one - I could go on.

    I would struggle to think of a single story line from Fair City that has entered the national conversation in the same way.

    To cancel Glenroe and keep Fair City was in my view, if it was one or the other, the wrong decision.

    PS I know advertising is important.....but viewers are more important, especially when we are talking about a state funded broadcaster.


  • #56
    Grayson
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    billybudd wrote: »
    If by embarrassment you mean the greatest rural show on earth, then yes.

    You forgot a country practice. Or flying doctors.

    I think every child in my school could play the Glenroe theme on a tin whistle.


  • #57
    KKkitty
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    Bit of sour grapes about this really. For my generation Glenroe was a pioneering soap with its storylines. Miley and his infidelity with Fidelma was shocking for its time. Nowadays infidelity in soaps happens so regularly viewers don't bat an eyelid. Maybe Mary didn't clean up money wise with the washing powder ads.


  • #58
    Dyr
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    Cokeistan wrote: »
    RTE are massively Dublin oriented, don't give a shít about the rest of the country....wánkers

    I dunno, the foreign affairs desk gave a lot of coverage to that time when the ESB flooded Cork


  • #59
    RikkFlair
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    Ah good auld Dinny Byrne, rubbing sh1t on his eggs to pass them off as free range. I think he converted a few fields to a golf course too at one stage, with some questionable "fertilizer" being used. And I don't know about anyone else but I was always practicing his limp when I was a kid :p


  • #60
    mikemac1
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    The Bishop of Cork, fastest greyhound in Ireland

    Or maybe the dog got injured

    It was either very fast or very slow, I forget which :o


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  • #61
    Annasopra
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    Would love to see reruns

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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