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The return of The Den with Ray, Zig zag & Dustin

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  • #52
    [Deleted User]
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    Bosco will be turning around in his little wooden box.


  • #53
    MyPeopleDrankTheSoup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,742 ✭✭✭MyPeopleDrankTheSoup


    Double O Seven wrote: »
    Dustin is as stale as last weeks bread, I cringe when he comes on

    no way, he's as good as ever

    telling bob geldof to wash himself and not his car

    https://youtu.be/iH4dZ8zk3JU?t=679


  • #54
    briany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,233 ✭✭✭✭briany


    Dustin is brilliant when he's not being reigned in. There aren't many people on TV who can insult so many people on a personal level and get away with it, but Dustin is one of them. Part of that is because he isn't really a person as such, but another part of it is that he's been doing it since the late 80s or early 90s, and so the permission to do that has been grandfathered in, so to speak.

    Great to see it'll be without an audience, but what format will it take beyond that? It won't be a strand, will it, where the program lasts for 3 hours but really they're just doing stuff in between the other programs on a Sunday evening, surely? That said, I can't say I wouldn't love to see Dustin tear into Fair City after it ended. So, I expect it'll be a half hour or hour? If you allot time to just let them do whatever they want within reason, that'd be the best thing. Just let them chat and do little skits and bits. Do not use it as a vehicle to have on some no-talent RTE darling, who isn't very funny or interesting, and just takes up valuable space and time. I'll let D'Arcy off with that one since he a presented the show back in the old days, though.


  • #55
    razorblunt
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    KaneToad wrote: »
    Wasn't D'Arcy meant to be marrying her at one stage? Doubt she'll be coming back! #awkward

    Exactly. I’d say he’ll shoehorn the wife into the show somehow anyway to keep a watch out.


  • #56
    paleoperson
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I am not a fan of the idea that today’s kids will get “the Fear” that those adults who’ll be watching The Den this time used to get when they, as kids, heard the start of Glenroe.

    Explain please.


  • #57
    briany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,233 ✭✭✭✭briany


    paleoperson wrote: »
    Explain please.

    The Glenroe theme used to air on a Sunday evening, and the theme essentially became the "Have you done your maths homework yet?" klaxon call to a few generations of Irish kids. Don't want this iteration of The Den and its theme to be the same thing for another generation of Irish kids, but that won't happen because they'll be too busy playing Bouncy Pig Simulator on their iPads.


  • #58
    branie2
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    Zig and Zag were THE stars of the Den


  • #59
    paleoperson
    Registered Users Posts: 3,522 ✭✭✭paleoperson


    briany wrote: »
    The Glenroe theme used to air on a Sunday evening, and the theme essentially became the "Have you done your maths homework yet?" klaxon call to a few generations of Irish kids. Don't want this iteration of The Den and its theme to be the same thing for another generation of Irish kids, but that won't happen because they'll be too busy playing Bouncy Pig Simulator on their iPads.

    But how has that anything to do with this?


  • #60
    Hangdogroad
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    razorblunt wrote: »
    Any chance of Geri Maye coming back?

    Wasnt she let go from Winning Streak for getting bitchy with a female contestant?


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  • #61
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,280 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Dustin: I heard a clip of what can be expected and it sounded really awful, crude, rude, loud, vulgar, cheap and nasty :(

    Would steer well clear of that.


  • #62
    TheValeyard
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    briany wrote: »
    The Glenroe theme used to air on a Sunday evening, and the theme essentially became the "Have you done your maths homework yet?" klaxon call to a few generations of Irish kids. Don't want this iteration of The Den and its theme to be the same thing for another generation of Irish kids, but that won't happen because they'll be too busy playing Bouncy Pig Simulator on their iPads.

    Bouncy Pig Simulator?

    If an evil goose game can make a studio millions, they so could this idea!

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • #63
    paleoperson
    Registered Users Posts: 3,522 ✭✭✭paleoperson


    paleoperson wrote: »
    But how has that anything to do with this?

    Ah... I just noticed that The Den will actually be back on November 8th (Sunday), not November 6th (Friday) as the OP says, so I can see now how it makes sense. I was not trying to be hostile to the comment or anything, I was just genuinely curious on what it had to do with it since I had checked the day of November 6th.

    On the wikipedia it says it will "make its debut" on RTE 1... I wonder is it really true that it has never appeared on RTE 1 in the history of it being on air? Of course they often switch sporting events and the like between 1 and 2.


  • #64
    Double O Seven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 111 ✭✭Double O Seven


    paleoperson wrote: »
    On the wikipedia it says it will "make its debut" on RTE 1... I wonder is it really true that it has never appeared on RTE 1 in the history of it being on air? Of course they often switch sporting events and the like between 1 and 2.

    From 1986 to 1988 it aired on RTE One, weekdays 4 till 6.


  • #65
    _Kaiser_
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    Never really watched it when I was a kid (or RTE generally) except for the 90s Batman Animated series. I was always more into the cartoons themselves than the presenters and their "antics" (plus we had Sky from the mid 80s thanks to a brief stint in Holland and then Cablelink/satellite when we came home and it had all the better cartoons)

    Anytime I saw Zig and Zag though they just struck me as loud and annoying. Dustin is just a mean-spirted pisstake character. I can see how so many idolise the Den though if all they had access to was RTE and maybe BBC/ITV (Knightmare was quite good though), but it never did it for me.


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