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Covid nation ( Katherine Thomas )

  • 25-03-2020 8:19pm
    #1
    Bobtheman
    Site Banned Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭Bobtheman


    Why oh why won't she leave us alone? Why do these b celebs keep forcing themselves on license payers.
    Is there really people out there who need advice from her ? And her sidekick? The guy who looks like count Dracula from seasame street?


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  • #2
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    RTE need an excuse to pay theses people who only got the job because of friends or family obscene wages.


  • #3
    The Tetrarch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭The Tetrarch


    Wiki:
    Thomas revealed in 2015 that a series of shooting stars inked on the inside of her lower left arm were not tattoos but were in fact transfers.

    That put my mind at rest.


  • #4
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Never seen this.


  • #5
    mikemac2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,972 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    Kathryn Thomas tells the nation how her family nearly got coronavirus

    Much like the time her mother visited Tunisia, flew home and was in Ireland when a gunman in Tunisia launched an attack at a muesum


  • #6
    Sheep Shagger
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 6,543 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sheep Shagger


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Never seen this.

    Starts next month - god help us.


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  • #7
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    Who?


  • #8
    Bio Mech
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,046 ✭✭✭Bio Mech


    BanditLuke wrote: »
    Who?

    You know. Catherin Tomas


  • #9
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,809 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I know. If things weren't bad enough they'll do a show with her yelling at people to exercise at home.


  • #10
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,202 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Name of the show is in poor taste really.

    I know it’s a play on words of the original programme, but it’s not as though they couldn’t have come up with an infinite number of alternative programme titles.

    As for the programme itself, not my cup of tea anyway, but undoubtedly it’s a popular programme and I can imagine it’ll be a ratings topper, if only to point and laugh at the participants so the audience feels better about themselves.


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I thought OP was spoofing with the title of Kathryn’s new tv show, so I googled it. As everyone else knows, he’s not joking. Incredibly poor taste - people are literally dying from this virus

    Also, I don’t personally feel RTE’s own publicity photo is doing Kathryn any favours

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  • #12
    fluke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭fluke


    As per the last couple of posters - really poor show title.

    RTE should just show some comedies similar to a Christmas schedule, but with more inspired movie choices.

    Nobody want to see Catether Thomas, nor another insipid reality show.


  • #13
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,877 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Is this the same Katherine Thomas who told how her mother was close to the attacks at the hotel resort in Egypt in 2016.


    Her same mother who left the area are days before the attacks.


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    RTÉ suddenly have a surplus budget they're incinerating to justify licence fee hike. Hence rushed filler like 'Covid Nation'. Next we'll have Amy Huberman with her doctorate in zumba promoting a line of quirky leggings.


  • #15
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Deleted User wrote: »
    RTÉ suddenly have a surplus budget they're incinerating to justify licence fee hike. Hence rushed filler like 'Covid Nation'. Next we'll have Amy Huberman with her doctorate in zumba promoting a line of quirky leggings.

    Good. I’m more likely to watch that. :D


  • #16
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,865 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Can't wait for Dancing with the SARS.


  • #17
    Bobtheman
    Site Banned Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭Bobtheman


    Thomas has to keep her name our there . So she can get lucrative shop openings etc despite earning huge money. Same for Claire Byrne.
    I know there are no shop openings now but one looks to the Future.
    Im all for keeping fit but don't need these people telling me the bleeding obvious. But lots of wannabe stars out there willing to make fools of themselves


  • #18
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    Sounds like a sketch from brass eye.

    🙈🙉🙊



  • #19
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,755 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Bobtheman wrote: »
    And her sidekick? The guy who looks like count Dracula from seasame street?

    Laughed out loud at this, is that the fitness guy? Karl?


  • #20
    citysights
    Closed Accounts Posts: 288 ✭✭citysights


    I thought the title was a wind up. I am disgusted - it makes it sound like we are all infected, that’s it’s a foregone conclusion. Cop on rte


  • #21
    chrissb8
    Registered Users Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭chrissb8


    Absolute f*****g nonsense. How RTE keep coming up with such bad ideas is remarkable. Obviously the presenters are the point of focus to direct most of the annoyance towards.

    Just because you plaster a smile on your face, overdo it with laughter at literally any opportunity that may arise to have a BIT OF BANTER with the contestant/participant in the show does not make you charismatic. It makes you fake and insincere and many can spot it a mile off.

    To top it all off it would be fine if some of these shows had a point to touch upon. But they don't, and when RTE chucks out a show with a point or an objective to enlighten viewers through "investigative" or "exploratory" pieces, the presenters are so out of their depth and so lacking in preparation they're just passengers on their own shows. Asking inane obvious questions and nodding their heads with searching eyes, which is when you think as a viewer "what the hell are you doing"

    People always think I bang on too much about the state of RTE but it's our national broadcaster and just....what the hell. Honestly. You have Love/Hate and you think Finally! they've copped it a bit annnnnd then Ireland's fittest family pops up.


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  • #22
    CtevenSrowder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,909 ✭✭✭CtevenSrowder


    Deleted User wrote: »
    RTÉ suddenly have a surplus budget they're incinerating to justify licence fee hike. Hence rushed filler like 'Covid Nation'. Next we'll have Amy Huberman with her doctorate in zumba promoting a line of quirky leggings.

    :D:D Quirky leggings brilliant!


  • #23
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,477 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    Name of the show is in poor taste really.

    I know it’s a play on words of the original programme, but it’s not as though they couldn’t have come up with an infinite number of alternative programme titles.

    As for the programme itself, not my cup of tea anyway, but undoubtedly it’s a popular programme and I can imagine it’ll be a ratings topper, if only to point and laugh at the participants so the audience feels better about themselves.

    What was the original programme? I don’t get the reference or the play on words.


  • #24
    BanditLuke
    Registered Users Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭BanditLuke


    Bio Mech wrote: »
    You know. Catherin Tomas

    I do now because of this thread.


  • #25
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Use to think she was good looking but then I came to me senses......


  • #26
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,865 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Deleted User wrote: »
    RTÉ suddenly have a surplus budget they're incinerating to justify licence fee hike. Hence rushed filler like 'Covid Nation'. Next we'll have Amy Huberman with her doctorate in zumba promoting a line of quirky leggings.

    She'll be too busy filming Can't Covid, Won't Covid.


  • #27
    RobertKK
    Registered Users Posts: 33,752 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    I too thought this was a joke.

    It is like lawyers who work as ambulance chasers.


  • #28
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,530 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    I'm waiting for Claire Byrne's Fairly shıtty - My Coronaed Experience.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




  • #29
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,202 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    What was the original programme? I don’t get the reference or the play on words.


    Operation Transformation - Covid Nation


  • #30
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    If I only work myself up enough to give a **** damn about Katherine Thomas


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  • #31
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    Operation Transformation - Covid Nation

    You are covid obese


  • #32
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,202 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    You are covid obese


    I look even more obese in a pair of ill-fitting Spanx :o


  • #33
    Kivaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    fluke wrote: »
    As per the last couple of posters - really poor show title.

    RTE should just show some comedies similar to a Christmas schedule, but with more inspired movie choices.

    Nobody want to see Catether Thomas, nor another insipid reality show.
    It is another 'prime' example of the disdain that RTE has for the majority in this country. They are totally detached from the rest of society in their D4 bubble. The organisation needs to be totally revamped from the top down.

    As I quoted in another thread about RTE:
    "Never was so much owed (€) by so many to so few ...."


  • #34
    Happy4all
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭Happy4all


    Katherine Thomas
    Claire Byrne
    Dr Ciara Kelly

    Is this disease only attacking Irish female celebs?


  • #35
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Kivaro wrote: »
    It is another 'prime' example of the disdain that RTE has for the majority in this country. They are totally detached from the rest of society in their D4 bubble. The organisation needs to be totally revamped from the top down.

    As I quoted in another thread about RTE:
    "Never was so much owed (€) by so many to so few ...."

    Not attached at all, they are all for the travellers.... I was totally led to believe by them that cashes way of life is how we all should live and the gubertment is robninging us all blind....

    Fcuk the tax payer....


  • #36
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,034 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    Happy4all wrote: »
    Katherine Thomas
    Claire Byrne
    Dr Ciara Kelly

    Is this disease only attacking Irish female celebs?

    Good chance Tubridy has it by the looks of things.


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  • #37
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Happy4all wrote: »
    Katherine Thomas
    Claire Byrne
    Dr Ciara Kelly

    Is this disease only attacking Irish female celebs?

    No it's the attack of the females, they're here to take over the airwaves.....

    The aliens did warn us


  • #38
    The Tetrarch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭The Tetrarch


    Carnivorous is an anagram of Coronavirus.
    Nor relevant, but hey, neither is the RTE Corona Nation program.


  • #39
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    I honestly thought this was a joke when I seen the thread earlier and then I seen it for real.

    I always roll my eyes a bit when somebody says or does something stupid and everybody starts demanding that they be fired for a mistake. This however is one of those times where multiple people at RTE thought that this would be a good idea. Surely the people who agreed to put this out are not fit for purpose.


  • #40
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Didn’t Alan Partridge pitch this to Tony Hayers?


  • #41
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Doctor Dolittle be on the show as well.


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  • #42
    Flippyfloppy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭Flippyfloppy


    Disgusting title. Thought it was a Waterford Whispers style joke!

    Next up Dermot Bannons new show Hospital Room to Improve


  • #43
    Bobtheman
    Site Banned Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭Bobtheman


    I do believe in public broadcasting. RTE do a good job on elections and national events. News etc but they still over pay their " stars " and peddle this ****. They don't realize that people get tired of the likes of Thomas.


  • #44
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,413 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Flippyfloppy wrote: »
    Disgusting title. Thought it was a Waterford Whispers style joke!

    Next up Dermot Bannons new show Hospital Room to Improve

    And the follow up...
    Grave To Improve.


  • #45
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,741 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Sheep Shagger wrote: »
    Starts next month - god help us.

    April 1st, I hope?


  • #46
    Redlim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 331 ✭✭Redlim


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    And the follow up...
    Grave To Improve.

    Or 'Room to Remove' : Dermot redesigns funeral homes and coffins.
    you'll still end up in a glass box


  • #47
    Jurgen Klopp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭Jurgen Klopp


    To be honest I can't believe how utterly stupid and detached RTE with this one, even for them it's bad.

    If it was maybe say prime time doing some interviews with those who finding the isolation hard, things they are doing to help keep sane etc it wouldn't be bad

    But RTE taking this and making a cringey play on one of their own shows as if it's something trivial along with just sticking cameras into participants homes is just unbelievably crass and disgusting


  • #48
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,512 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    What a wheelbarrow of sh1t, RTE "entertainment".

    Even reruns of Fr Ted or 20 year old episodes of the Simpsons sounds better.


  • #49
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Someone should “call Joe”. :D


  • #50
    Ultrflat
    Registered Users Posts: 1,016 ✭✭✭Ultrflat


    Jurgen Klopp wrote: »
    To be honest I can't believe how utterly stupid and detached RTE with this one, even for them it's bad.

    Of course there detached, looks at there line up of presenters.
    Only one I can remotely relate to is Tommy Tiernan.


    Every single host is so awfully posh and from the south side. Don't get me wrong, it seems like RTE have a internal struggle with employing people who are real life experiences and charm apposed put on accents to much make up and not enough ability to relate to people only of a certain class based on the fact they were and most likely are privately educated.

    Katherine Thomas went to Kings Hospital...


    I rest my case.


  • #51
    AndyBoBandy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,721 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    What a wheelbarrow of sh1t, RTE "entertainment".

    Even reruns of Fr Ted or 20 year old episodes of the Simpsons sounds better.


    even Reeling in the Years would be a better bet, and that's been done to fcuking death and back at this stage...


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