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

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    #32
    pipelaser
    Registered Users Posts: 570 ✭✭✭pipelaser


    Could be shelved before long because of complaints about inappropriate(albeit good)jokes, because Zigs, Zags and Dustin's humour will sadly be too crude for modern day time TV and in-show interaction with modern kids


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    #33
    magick
    Registered Users Posts: 2,478 ✭✭✭magick


    I want Podge to make a cameo


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    #34
    E mac
    Registered Users Posts: 403 ✭✭E mac


    The guys who created pudge and rodge / zig and zag also did the 'Bronx Bunny Show' not at all aimed at kids, though be great if those characters appeared on the den.


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    #35
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Any chance of Geri Maye coming back?


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    #36
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users Posts: 8,573 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    Shouldn't it be Dustin, Soky, Snotzer,Zuppy, Ted and Podge with D'Arcy? Don Conroy better make an appearance


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    #37
    screamer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,131 ✭✭✭screamer


    Can’t see this working across the generation gap. They’re obviously trying to get kids to watch it, by reeling their parents in to watch it for nostalgia.
    Ray will have the three bears on first to try and convert all the kids to eating porridge, and banning sugar and telling them how bad it is for them. Fun times ahead


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    #38
    BuboBubo
    Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭BuboBubo


    Edgware wrote: »
    Great. So Wanderly Wagon should be next. Or would Pavee Point object?

    Here comes the hiace
    Wanderly Wanderly hiace


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    #39
    Brock Turnpike
    Registered Users Posts: 3,744 ✭✭✭Brock Turnpike


    I'm looking to give this a shot pretty based on the fact it was the only decent thing on "RTE Does Comic Relief". Admittedly that is damning with feint praise, but let's see how it goes.


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    #40
    touts
    Registered Users Posts: 6,433 ✭✭✭touts


    Double O Seven wrote: »
    The den is returning November 6th @ 6:30pm on RTE One.

    Easiest €200k a year anyone will ever make.


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    #41
    It BeeMee
    Registered Users Posts: 748 ✭✭✭It BeeMee


    E mac wrote: »
    The guys who created pudge and rodge / zig and zag also did the 'Bronx Bunny Show' not at all aimed at kids, though be great if those characters appeared on the den.

    Transmission time would have to move to 11pm for Bronx and Teddy to appear...

    If they're doing crossovers, bring back Velcro Girl!


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    #42
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Never watched it when I was younger so have no intention of watching it now. I used to like Ray when he was with Today FM and done the morning show with Will, Mairead and his wife but then he became an old man, moaning and complaining about everything and I soon switched off. He’s had his day, he should leave well enough alone.


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    #43
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Is Vogue Williams or Jennifer Zamparelli going to be on? Other wise I am not watching it. Ray bleedin D'arcy?

    I scored 5 on the psychopath test btw, chuffed now.


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    #44
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    It BeeMee wrote: »
    Transmission time would have to move to 11pm for Bronx and Teddy to appear...

    If they're doing crossovers, bring back Velcro Girl!
    Ring-a ding-ding! :)


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    #45
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    I wont watch it because Ray Darcy is a weevils jizz stain.
    The Den was class - back in the day.


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    #46
    [Deleted User]
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    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.

    Those who know, will know.


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    #47
    KaneToad
    Registered Users Posts: 3,161 ✭✭✭KaneToad


    razorblunt wrote: »
    Any chance of Geri Maye coming back?

    Wasn't D'Arcy meant to be marrying her at one stage? Doubt she'll be coming back! #awkward


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    #48
    KaneToad
    Registered Users Posts: 3,161 ✭✭✭KaneToad


    It BeeMee wrote: »

    If they're doing crossovers, bring back Velcro Girl!

    She's married to Dave of Dermot & Dave "fame".


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    #49
    [Deleted User]
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    paleoperson wrote: »
    And throw Ted in, hopefully he'll finally get the better of Ray.

    Y’know he got a 3 movie & TV series deal? Starred as some lad that sounds like a Tellytubby......po.........


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    #50
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,292 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Great news


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    #51
    MyPeopleDrankTheSoup
    Registered Users Posts: 2,709 ✭✭✭MyPeopleDrankTheSoup


    Agent Coulson wrote: »
    Bring back Emma as well.

    she works with Linkedin now according to her... LinkedIn

    still flaking

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VB3jynSA3g


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


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    #53
    MyPeopleDrankTheSoup
    Registered Users Posts: 2,709 ✭✭✭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


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    #54
    briany
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    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.


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    #55
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    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.


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    #56
    paleoperson
    Registered Users Posts: 3,522 ✭✭✭paleoperson


    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.


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    #57
    briany
    Registered Users Posts: 13,537 ✭✭✭✭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.


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


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    #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?


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    #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: 3,133 ✭✭✭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.


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