Sopranos - final season postponed on RTÉ

hot fuss

I've just heard that the Sopranos won't be starting this Thursday on RTÉ as planned, but has been moved to next Thursday, May 24th..

Ho-Hum

Its true
http://www.rte.ie/tv/strand_drama.html

event

yeah, the election debate it on instead

hot fuss

It's not on instead though. It's on RTÉ One. They've stuck in that **** movie, Road Trip instead..

Rjd2

hot fuss wrote:

It's not on instead though. It's on RTÉ One. They've stuck in that **** movie, Road Trip instead..

Why?

hot fuss

Not sure, but probably because they don't want anything big up against the leader debate.

spatchco

hot fus, if you can listen to what, it says in the papers on, morning ireland why the sopranos is moved to next thursday,very funny

GhostInTheRuins

Yeah I heard about this today, they just went and pissed me right off. Rté just don't want anything good on at the same time as the election debate that could take away from its ratings.

alleepally

Maybe RTE don't care about the license paying public? It's a preposterous thought I know, but that's the only reason I could think they would do something like that.

Mossy Monk

alleepally wrote:

Maybe RTE don't care about the license paying public?

You are waiting a whole week. You'd swear they have decided not to show it completely the way you are going on.

alleepally

Mossy Monk wrote:

You are waiting a whole week. You'd swear they have decided not to show it completely the way you are going on.

Nah, don't even watch the programme. Couldn't give a toss really but felt the need to knock RTE today - k? You'd swear you loved RTE or something the way you're going on there

_feedback_

Rjd2 wrote:

Why?

Unfortunately it doesn't suit the RTE 'brand' to have a pack of gangsters on one of their channels and the sopranos on the other at the same time

hot fuss

spatchco wrote:

hot fus, if you can listen to what, it says in the papers on, morning ireland why the sopranos is moved to next thursday,very funny

Just listened to it online... hilarious!! That Shane Hegarty has a point!

dulpit

I think its a good idea actually.. It serves 2 purposes. Firstly, those who would otherwise watch the Sopranos will be able to watch the debate, thus increasing ratings. Also, those who were gonna watch the debate anyway, but who would like to watch the Sopranos too (my dad included...) will be able to...

hot fuss

Oh I definitely agree. It is a good idea. I just don't understand why they weren't organised enough to decide it earlier. Why have all TV schedules, highlights etc.. promoting three new series on Thursday night and then all three are pushed back a week with 3 or 4 days notice!

Some forward planning wouldn't go amiss!

Fremen

Anyone who's really into the sopranos will have had their cousin in america post videos of the episodes over already...

md99

I'm gutted..... Was awaiting this day for a month. damn. ah well next week will have to do

gucci

elviscostello wrote:

Unfortunately it doesn't suit the RTE 'brand' to have a pack of gangsters on one of their channels and the sopranos on the other at the same time

wacca wacca wacca
what a freaking joke as the man himself would say. The sopranos would be a welcome alternative to listen to waffle about alternative govenment and the likes on one. Maybe bertie likes the sopranos and got them to hold off for a week just for him :rolleyes:

jor el

Fremen wrote:

Anyone who's really into the sopranos will have had their cousin in america post videos of the episodes over already...

A lot of people can't get in touch with their cousin though because the quality of their phone line is so bad.

At the end of the day, it's only another week. Plus, the opening few episodes are a bit slow, it'll take a few weeks to really get going.

cjt156

Pi$$ed off here! How many eps in total; I was under the impression it was going to be a short run?

Dodge

10 in total, have been 6 so far

the1andonly1

Dodge wrote:

10 in total, have been 6 so far

Think its actually only 9 in total, 3 left for the cousins to ship over. 20th of May, 3rd of June, and then the finale on the 10th of June

Dodge

Yeah, you're right. I forget about the "bye week" on May 27th

Heisenberg.

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lodgepole

D.T. Jesus wrote:

Yeah I heard about this today, they just went and pissed me right off. Rté just don't want anything good on at the same time as the election debate that could take away from its ratings.

There is no advertising during the debate. It has nothing to do with ratings and everything to do with the fact that people should be watching the debate with only a week left until the election. The Sopranos is watched by a large amount of people so they pulled it to keep focus on the important programming that night. It's only a week.

Miguel_Sanchez

The Scientist wrote:

Why wait for the post when you can watch it free online.

Eh... yeah. He's actually getting his cousins to post over tapes of the show. :rolleyes:

Clicked on to the Soprano page and read more than I wanted to about the new episodes. I've purposely avoided reading threads so far and then Bam! RTE hit me with some SPOILERS!

Mossy Monk

Jeff_Lebowski wrote:

Eh... yeah. He's actually getting his cousins to post over tapes of the show. :rolleyes:

LOL

gusto

Jeff_Lebowski wrote:

Eh... yeah. He's actually getting his cousins to post over tapes of the show. :rolleyes:

Clicked on to the Soprano page and read more than I wanted to about the new episodes. I've purposely avoided reading threads so far and then Bam! RTE hit me with some SPOILERS!

Same happened to me.

Was really looking forward to this tonight.

Guess I'll have to wait another week.

Fremen

Nine more after the hiatus, according to wikipedia

The Fool

Lodgepole wrote:

There is no advertising during the debate. It has nothing to do with ratings and everything to do with the fact that people should be watching the debate with only a week left until the election. The Sopranos is watched by a large amount of people so they pulled it to keep focus on the important programming that night. It's only a week.

It's RTEs payback for the massive increase in the TV licence a whilw back...:mad: :mad:
If people prefer Tony over Bertie so be it!!!

Just opened my beer and was all set

Running Bing

This is SH1T:mad: A huge proportion of people simply dont give a sh1t about the b0ll0x these politicians spouts. Why shouldnt we have a choice of what we watch?


Its not like watching those gobsh1tes makes a difference anyway. Its just a popularity contest based on personalities, does anyone believe anything these fellas say? Do you really think they will carry out the policies they say? This is nothing more than a vanity contest tonight. At least we would have been entertained with the sopranos. I fvcking despise RTE WITH EVERY OUNCE OF MY BODY.:mad: :mad:

The Fool

Vote for Tony

Mossy Monk

Babybing wrote:

This is SH1T:mad: A huge proportion of people simply dont give a sh1t about the b0ll0x these politicians spouts. Why shouldnt we have a choice of what we watch?


Its not like watching those gobsh1tes makes a difference anyway. Its just a popularity contest based on personalities, does anyone believe anything these fellas say? Do you really think they will carry out the policies they say? This is nothing more than a vanity contest tonight. At least we would have been entertained with the sopranos. I fvcking despise RTE WITH EVERY OUNCE OF MY BODY.:mad: :mad:

That made me laugh. Amazing really.

golfgirl

V peeved about this, 20 minutes of those politicians plenty for me, heard it all before, planned to switch over at 10pm as I've been looking forward to the new season for ages. What kind of police state do we live in when RTE treat us like children, and decide that it would be better for us to watch that boring debate, atleast there's a bit of passion in the Sopranos. <SNIPPITY-SNIP>

MOD EDIT: Oh... no... you... didn't! I'll consider this a warning - please read the charter regarding asking the forbidden questions!

Mossy Monk

golfgirl wrote:

What kind of police state do we live in when RTE treat us like children

Are you for real? It has been delayed by one whole week. Imagine if you were waiting on a UK channel to show it. How long would that be.

lodgepole

The Fool wrote:

If people prefer Tony over Bertie so be it!!!

If it was any other program i'd agree, but the debates are of national importance. The Sopranos has a large viewership, I agree wholeheartedly with RTE delaying it for the benefit of their (excellent) election coverage.

Babybing wrote:

This is SH1T:mad: A huge proportion of people simply dont give a sh1t about the b0ll0x these politicians spouts. Why shouldnt we have a choice of what we watch?
I fvcking despise RTE WITH EVERY OUNCE OF MY BODY.:mad: :mad:

That's irrelevant. The election is more important than The Sopranos. You only have to wait a week to watch it. There's more important things to put your vitriol into. Like, you know, the state of the country.

golfgirl wrote:

What kind of police state do we live in when RTE treat us like children, and decide that it would be better for us to watch that boring debate, atleast there's a bit of passion in the Sopranos. Could someone please tell me where I can download the new episodes?

I presume the police state comment was supposed to be funny. They didn't decide it was better for you to watch anything. The decided not to place two programs with large viewership against each other, gave precedence to the one with the higher importance and replaced the other with a popular film as an alternative.

In seven days time you can go make your vote and then head home to watch The Sopranos. It's only a week, it's not like it's the end of the world.

byte

golfgirl wrote:

V peeved about this, 20 minutes of those politicians plenty for me, heard it all before, planned to switch over at 10pm as I've been looking forward to the new season for ages. What kind of police state do we live in when RTE treat us like children, and decide that it would be better for us to watch that boring debate, atleast there's a bit of passion in the Sopranos. Could someone please tell me where I can download the new episodes?

Have you read the charter?

I refer you to

Don't ask where you can download/stream TV shows or give any links to them.

Mention it again and it's a ban.

Mossy Monk

golfgirl wrote:

Could someone please tell me where I can download the new episodes?

You should read the charter before asking stupid questions like that :rolleyes:

The Fool

Lodgepole wrote:

I presume the police state comment was supposed to be funny. They didn't decide it was better for you to watch anything. The decided not to place two programs with large viewership against each other, gave precedence to the one with the higher importance and replaced the other with a popular film as an alternative.

The State broadcaster decided to take away peoples choice of watching Sopranos over election debate (muppet show)... Sounds like a Big Brother act to me

golfgirl

Sorry moderators, havn't been on boards since I discovered broadband downloads and honestly did not realise charter. And I stand by my point that RTE should have continued to run the sopranos tonight. I can read all about the debate tomorrow and listen to Morning Ireland, and I may even nip down now to watch the postmortem. RTE did decide that tonight I should not have the choice of watching the debate or the sopranos. Tell me one thing new that we learned from that debate?

The Fool

golfgirl wrote:

Tell me one thing new that we learned from that debate?

Miriam got a new haircut

Mossy Monk

Yawn. Watch it next week, or boycott **** RTÉ and watch it on E4 in a few months. See you do have a choice.

lodgepole

The Fool wrote:

The State broadcaster decided to take away peoples choice of watching Sopranos over election debate (muppet show)... Sounds like a Big Brother act to me

It might sound like it to you, but you'd be wrong. At worst it was a bad scheduling decision by a televsion station. But it wasn't even that... It was a sensible change to their schedule to allow people access to both the election debate (which regardless of your opinion is important) and The Sopranos. Correct me if i'm wrong, but RTE are still the first broadcaster in Europe to show it, even with the seven day delay.

golfgirl wrote:

And I stand by my point that RTE should have continued to run the sopranos tonight. I can read all about the debate tomorrow and listen to Morning Ireland, and I may even nip down now to watch the postmortem. RTE did decide that tonight I should not have the choice of watching the debate or the sopranos. Tell me one thing new that we learned from that debate?

I can't tell you what you learned from the debate, I don't know you. The function it served was to present the leaders of our two main political parties to everybody in the country and to have them lay their party's election promises out and to answer questions put to them. It has massive value, perhaps not to you, perhaps not to me, but it is of national importance. Important enough that it's not worth losing viewers by showing a massive ratings show like The Sopranos.

I'll say again... It's only a week. Why be so upset?

The Fool

As soon as RTE threatened to cut the political coverage they got the huge TV Licence increase. Now, not only are we being ripped off they they bump our show to watch this drivil

GhostInTheRuins

After watching the debate tonight, I'm now actually kind of glad that they postponed it for a week even thought I've been waiting for Sopranos for ages. I suppose it did make sense.

The Fool

Lodgepole wrote:

It has massive value, perhaps not to you, perhaps not to me, but it is of national importance. Important enough that it's not worth losing viewers by showing a massive ratings show like The Sopranos.

I'll say again... It's only a week. Why be so upset?

Can't we decide ourselves if it's important enough to watch??

lodgepole

You might be, I don't know. Maybe you're already well versed in the issues related to the election. I dare say many people aren't, and they're the people I would hope would tune in to watch it. Splitting the audience straight off the bat doesn't make any sense, is that not fairly clear?

And again... a week?

liamdubh

Why don't you download it and watch it?

No ads. HD-TV version available. It's 2007!

Miguel_Sanchez

liamdubh wrote:

Why don't you download it and watch it?

No ads. HD-TV version available. It's 2007!

To paraphrase Walter Sobchak:

This is not Nam! This is Boards, there are rules. Am I the only one who gives a damn about the charter around here?

liamdubh

Jeff_Lebowski wrote:

To paraphrase Walter Sobchak:

This is not Nam! This is Boards, there are rules. Am I the only one who gives a damn about the charter around here?

We're not talking about the nuts and bolts of downloading TV shows. Like "OMFG check out this torrent http://blah.org/torrent12345!!!!!!&quot;

Talking about why you would or wouldn't download illegal movie/tv files is a valid discussion in my view. Maybe the Mods would disagree?

Mossy Monk

Only six days to wait now :rolleyes: